Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-08-01
SANDERS on the .President--The $40, 900
Bet.

From the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin, July 90
Some time since, the Long Branch
correspondent of the New York World,
wrote very ingenious story about a
$40, 600 bet made at Long Branch, be-
tween George Wilkes, of the Spirit of
the Times, and Collector Murphy, of
New York. The correspondent dis
tinctly averred that President Grant
had advised Mr. Murphy to make this
bet. and that he, the President, had
advanced the 80, 600 to Mr. Murphy
for this purpose. The wager was that
GRANT would be elected over HORACE
GREELEY. The spectacle of the Presi
dent of great nation betting on his
own election was so shockingly base
that it would be regar ed as a speci-
men of political depravity unusual IN
our annals. OF course the New York
Tribune, the personal organ of 'the
honest Horace Greeley" greedily copied
this charge and since then, this SEN
sational article has been going the
rounds of all the Greeley and Demo
cratic papers throughout the United
States and no doubt thousands of
voters have believed this new and in
genious lie.
1t seemed to us one of those plausi-
BILE inventions cooked up for political
purposes, and which might seriously
depreciate the President in the estima
ton of the millions of the temperate,
the moral, and the law abiding mem
bers of the Republican party. As a
whole that party embraces a much
higher class of men than are arrayed
under the old Democratic banner of
rum, slavery and rebellion, and therefore
demands higher standard of purity
on the part Of its officials Considering
this charge which required notice, on
the 14th we addressed letter to Presi-
dent Grant at Long Branch, enclosing
to him this Leaf from the volume of
SANDERS circulated to prejudice his
good name, to malign his motives, and
distort his acts. ON the 18th we re-
ceived reply from General Porter, the
Presidents Private Secretary, from
which we copy:
The President directs me 70 say in regard
to that charge, that he has never IN his NE
made bet upon the result otan election. nor
has he author zed or advised any one 70 DO So.
He had ue knowledge that any one had ma ie
a bet with Mr. Wilkes until he read an account
of it in the newspapers.
The New York World ana the New
York Tribune and the other Democrat
lie papers which have done their utmost
to circulate this false charge about the
so, bet, would show their manhood
and their decencv by calling attention
to this denial from an authoritative
source. We may properly remark that
this sensational article III the World Is
a fair sample OF, we may say literally,
the ten thousand tories set atloat 10
injure the President and to aid in the
election of that sham reform candidate
Horace Greeley.
PoIrrIc1ANs arriving from New England
activity for The goytruorship il true. aud Lor-
ing is q be quoted by Butler leaving the F.
Sex Congr. s. oual dis. rict onen TIN cunte :
for Wilson's place Butler thinks. Will engage
the attention OF moss uf the other prominent
competitors. But his friends say that II he
succeeds in securing the govtr12r>hIp he
may then enter the list for the seuat0rsh}p
$50.
4 GRANT AND WILSON rautcat an NEE ting
Was held 81 Erie, Pa, on Wednesday evening
which IN point Of numbers tNc tati tile
Greeley meeting Il Saturday night, six IL one.
4 u>.dcrab, number 81 those Nh1 taok part
IN ia, 0reetey meeting have since declared
far Crz3t The onlS Democratic pa per Eli the
county has uot Net noissgd Creel# aame Ii
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