Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-03-08
uH. WARD HEARD TRom-urs ASswER.

II because, In the first place, we always pub
llsh what can he said on both sldcs Of every
controversy that originates In our columns,
and because, In the second place, we are anx-
ious to have all the light possible on this par
tlcular subject
| To the Editor oCfhe Ndiionai RrpubiicaR!
SIR You do me great honor 6y associating
/ my name with that Of Horace ureeley, sam,
others, wizard gun contract men" and Wizard
| mon, ,"In your late frequent references 70 the
claims you sntltls "The nystsrious Wizard Gun
| those you suspect TO have been ohsatsd-if there
| has been any one delrauded-when you refor to
one cot counsel for N. WIZARD" who, II lS 70.
sr isrty thousand dollars that had been RAISED
/ By the Wizard gun contract men, which Is not n
matter Of public interest until the suindled par
and Of no eoncstn 10 you untn they ask your
being q ycur personal friends, though ] do not
know that any OF them bear you III Will on that
account OF care what you do about IT,
think you do Gen. Dyer in1ustice when you
say he rs the pIlnelpel bureAu oIiicial who y
friends, knowing he has never given testimony
openly before any court or eommittee Of inquiry
booking into the validity OF these claims, viii
| army, haVinE especial charge Of gun contracts,
BY virtue Of his position as chief Of ordinance,
,ould prefer 70 ,sorstly oppose them q oppose
| the indIVlJaal who is the unfortunate olaimAntj
neither would he deputlze you TO do Il Tor him
Ssrs Ss Ut sS sSy q .sa' any S G'hst re-
possd | that % ss would Be refused @ a an DS oppoS. s
Ss, suss q ss s"sSs. AS soua 4 s ne RS
mot IL IL, on the contrary, too well known that
in the absence Of all legal testimony Of fraud
pissS N 1ss %Suy ~ m1Ss q pI5o uSSEr,s. s 70 tSs
defeat Of Justice Neither will the people VI
the United states belloye that Horace urseley,
sam Sinclair, Whitelaw Reid and James r.
name, could be associated together and Joined
with such as 10 ring for the prosecution Of a
Uaitsd states. III could have orSsoiIsd such
| riDg would have become one Of the most
poHsrful lobbyists at the Capitol and every
me to secure my good ofhees am afraid that,
notwithstanding my religious scruplss, should
have boon tempted to nrst get my own clai IN
cure eSss q Piper Hold sick, and 20 in Tor
blackmAillng Others who had axes 10 grind.
But alas, the statements you have made Ars
altogether too prspo'tsroas for belief or grave
You assert that "sInolAir and Wizard Rave
bothered tho departments In wAshington," and
luding to Mr.. Red aud the TrfbuntJ ''lntO their
corrupt partnership" Possibly the departments
have been bothsred faifreiy, but surely not by |
the departments together or separately on joint |
buRinsss, never have Communicated BY messen.
ger OF letter on such stiairs, neither have We |
Jointly or seVerally, In relation 10 these claims.
So faI as remember have not either visited |
any department. wrots 20 any, or heard from
nVs years neither has there been any part. |
nership OF any kind In which had In /
terest even in the most remote degree |
with Mt. Sinclair or Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, and |
u AR. Reid has ever taken the slightest inter |
est 10 my Affairs At any time, except pc rhAps ~
matter Of news, shall be as much s1rp rised as
To be utterly indifferent to my interests, aud all
that related 10 me on every occasion when |
had any intsryleN with him OF had IN oppOr.
tunity 70 know his sentiments.
AS 70 Mr.. Greeley, do not believe he knows /
to-day whether have . eaim against the Uni.
ted states OF not. The last time yentured TO
four years AgO,l ne kindly advised me to "pur.
chase an axe and 60 out 70 tho woods and earn /
my living BY chopping cord wood" Yet Ia true /
ters % promins1t SENATORS and RsprssontStlvss |
IN Oongress, asking their kindly sonsideration /
70 my statsmonts Relating 10 my elAimIi bat he
thing Ike this; THAT Il was on account Of my |
persistent hostility TO lobbery In the Depart
mens that he felt friendly TO me, and because
skilliul mechanic"
You say at is significant In more ways than
one that the Senate and House have again and
Pike A. having boon made In succession In
hyOr Of these claims BY Senator Frsllnghuyssn,
the Hon. Robert u. Behenck, and by Mr. Cobb, |
The Military Committee Of the House, the
COMMITTEES of Claims Of the Sauats, the Joint
Committee on Ordnance, and the House Oom.
mittee on Claims have, In succession, reported
In favor OF these claims, never, In . single In.
stance or ease, against them. Every time a vote
has been had on them In CongTesa the bill has
Houss by tWo-thlrds majority; another bill
for over rs 900 passed the House too late In the
session, however, for the action Of the Senate,
and failed only on that account.
II any money Ia due TO me now, II was a. aiso due
to me ten years slnce, when claim To have
earned It. All tho offical parties opposed to me,
the REPUBLICAN alone objects 70 my having an
Immediate settlement. have become so used
TO waiting that can bear It II do not receive
payment. Your suggestion that the Dyer court
of inquiry, with all rs attendant expenses, grow
out OF tho Wizard gun contracts Ia not strictly
yet, indirectly, Il Is true. This Joint committee |
gAniEAtion by the REPUBLICAN, as wizards
eOmmittee," was dirsst result Of the refusal |
20 pay me. The Dyer court Of inquiry resulted |
from one of tho reports OF that committees, made
willis was absent from Washington, and With |
which had no interest. l was named as one |
Of tins aeousers Of Gen. Dyer, probably on &C.
count Of my having been witness before the /
COMMITTEES 10 relation TO other matters Of ord |
nance,
ALI the publie money that has been IuIudl.
printing In relation to my eialms aud ing utries /
lnstlEatsd by the wrongs done me had bsen
paid 70 me Instead Of being wasted, as II hss
been, could have accepted II as full payment |
Of what Is due To me and been satisfied, but II
has not My personal aud other proper eK. |
Pe9seS incurred during the prosecution o. these
claims foot up TO another equal amount. The
capital placed At interest when Il became due 10 /
me would have been doubled by this time, and |
the Government pays no lutsrest even II 1t does |
oondescend 10 eventually pay tbs principal; |
while for guns I made In 1891, for which |
was promised about 5000 each-guns
delivered ut the Brooklyn navy yard, amer |
proper oricial inspection and proof, under my |
contract the same guns which were Afterwards |
sold by ths Boysrnment at suction, without my |
consent, or noties to me, aud for which the |
money received has bseR mapy years In the |
United States Preasury-I hare meyer been |
paid one cent II q merchant should dsfrand |
me In this outrageous manner should have |
quick redress In the courts. But what eau ! |
do against the great military power OF the |
United states, never having been recognized |
as a belllsetent BY any Power or potentate on |
the face Of the earth.
l have meyer knowingly wrOnged any one,
never peFse0utsd or prosecuted any one secretly.
All my statements and opinions, when pub
lished, are to reach over ths full signature Of
NoRAAH WIZARD.