The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-06-27
President Grant Still More Auda-
cious Lying:

II
The unscrapulous enemies of the
President have recently made still
another-about the twelfth-delib-
crate attempt to fasten upon him the
charge of drunkenness. In the lat
est instance, the scene of the lie was
laid in Chicago, and the occasion
chat of his recent visit to that city.
The indianapolis Sentinel had this
editorial statement of the case:
Ir Chicago the President attempted to re-
ceiYe the guests at reception given him at
the Pullmans He was SO laden with liquor
that he could not recognize friend, and his
condition was so plainly understood by the
guests that the ladies were forced to keep
away from him, This is no hearsay. The
disgracefnl humiliating fact can be and is at
tested by hundreds of the best citizens of Chi
cago, and even Mayor Medill, who has always
championed the President, was forced 10 ad-
nit his gross misconduct.
"This," the editor of the Sentinel
asserts, lis no hearsay"-meaning,
of course, that the writer states only
whereof he had personal knowledge,
which knowledge, extended to what
is asserted of Mayor Medill. With
this understanding ofthe case, let US
hear what the Seatiners witness has
to say in the case. In a note to the
Indianapolis Journal, he says:
MAYORS OFFICE, Chicago, June I3, 1873
To the Editor of the Journal
DEAR SIR: have your letter of the 18th
inst, calling my attention to several charges
made in the Sentinel against President Grant
while he was in Chicago, and asking me
whether 1 have personal knowledge of the
same being true? In reply, 1 would state
that the charges, so far as l know, are untrue.
saw the President every day he was in our
city, alone, or in company with other citizens,
and can certify that he was not intoxicated, or
under the influence of liquor, to my knowl-
edge. The statement that was "forced TO
admit his gross misconduct" is grossly false.
If the President had been in the condition al
legged, 1 should be apt to know it, and if 1 did,
should certainly neither deny nor conceal the
fact. JOSEPH MEDILL.
On the appearance of this fiat and
unqualified reputation and denial
by Mr.. Merrill of the story he was
called to corroborate, did the Senti-
mel have the manliness to retract or |
even the common decency to aban-
don, its fabrication? Not at all; but
on the contrary, with brazen efTron-
terry, which would have added fresh
laurels to the brow of the "father of
lies" that paper proceeded to con
coct, with even more deliberation
and circumstantiality of detail, new
phase of same falsehood, as follows:
President Grant while in Chicago this time,
was the guest Of the Hon. John B. Drake, of
the fremont House. His condition was plain
70 the public, and happily for the truth OF his
tory the facts do not depend on Mr.. MediIPs
VIGOROUSLY warped partiZanship. Concurrent
IN the best circles of Chicago, fur
nish the indubitable evidence of his condition
On the public streets. The morning that he
was TO visit the Board Of Trade Rooms, his
brother, Orville L. Grant came 70 the desk of
the fremont House about noon and asked the
clerk II the President was Hout yet" The
clerk responded, "No; he was out with Sheri-
Ian last night and didn't get back until nearly
morning" Mr.. Orville stood minute, unde-
'ided, and then bending over the desk, said
quite audibly; "Say, Sam, was ULYSSES high
Rhen he got in?" The clerk, laughing signif-
'antly, made answer: "Chock full, both the
PRESIDENT and Sheridan, and they have been
% for week."
In response to this bold averment
We have the detailed statement of ,
dr. Medill, covering the entire Pc :