Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-10-03
4 GOntcllIpaibi Trick.

NtIDsS, Inc tJItStllO I'll
Governor Of Louisiana, has just been
caught in most contemplate bit of
triakcry, which will stand out in bold
relief among his other acts of selfish
meanness. When a demgoguic hypo-
critic undertakes to purchase the good
opinion of the people by ostentatious
acts Of goodness and charity, lie might
ut least have the decency to use his
own and not their money for the pur-
pose. Then, at least, there might be
some objection to calling his motives
in question, and people would have Il
right to differ but Kellogg has at
tempted to steal the better opinions of
the Conservative people of Louisiana,
and well nigh succeeded. Meanncss,
rs we'll rs vilainy, however, generally
oyerrcachcs itself, and is sooner or
later discovered, as was the case in
This instance. Selling the sacred oc-
caSion of the suffering at Shreveport,
he made a grand display of donating
Il thousand dollars out of his own
pocket t. the relief fund, and people
were beginning to say there was
''somcthing good about the fellow,
after all, when the New Orleans
Herald stepped in and established be-
yonl all doubt the fact that while pre-
tending to have paid the money out of
his own private funds, he had really
taken it from the State treasury The
Herald made this discovery and very
properly exposed the contemplate
trick to public scorn and execration,
by publishing two kilograms from the
absent GOvernOr-One of which was
intended for the public, and appeared
i'll all the papers with remarks cO1npli-
mentary to his bcnevolence, and the
other as n private instruction for the
guidance of his secretary. The fol-
lowing was the dispatch intended to
mislcad the public and rob them Of
their sympathy:
chicago, I'LL, Sept. 1G, 1878.
/. CDnY"r>t CIurAr, Governors Pri-
waite Secretary:
Pay for me 81 900 for the relief of
the sick at Shreveport. Advise with
the President of the Howard Associa-
ton. Just arrived here. Leave for
New York Tonight. Back us soon as
possible. VIM. 2. KELLOGG.
The next day, however, without say
ing how it was obtained but asseverat-
ing its gcnuinencss and declaring their
ability to furnish satisfactory proofs,
the Herald Published the following as
the substance of the Governors pri-
waite dispatch to his secretary, not in
tended, of course, for the public
Make out IL warrant on the contin-
gent fund; get Clinton to admit it,
and Johnson, at Foiger's office, to cash
it; pay to the Towards. Tell the
newspapers.
The New Orleans Herald, inreferring
to the two dispatches, says:
On its face the first looked very
handsome, and even his enemies We're
heard to say, "Wcll, that is not bad
for Kellogg; the fellow has some feel
ing anyhow" 1T was SO entirely I'M
like Kellogg, however-it is SO entirely
contradicted and gave the lie to all
his previous actions-that those who
knew the man best found it extremely
difficult to understand, until the
Herald, by the publication of the
second telegram, turned calcium
light upon the matter yesterday, when
There was a general gutfaw, succeeded
by Il universal disgust for the ineffable
meanness ana hypocrisy of the man
who Is pInned to unfortunate Louisiana,
for some time ut least, as fast as bayo-
nets can pm him.
From what we have learned about
the matter, it is quite certain that
Kellogg sent two dispatches-onef for
to throw dust in the eyes
of what he has found to be an easily
guided public, and another for the
private information add guidance of
his secretary. How essentially like
Kellogg was this. How perfectly in
keeping with his deceitful and crooked
character. Not a man that knew him
we'll but recognized him in the Shiny
action.
We have no special admiration for
Mir. Kellogg; we have never laid claim
to any, but we would not willingly or
knowingly malign him. This is simply
L matter of .fuct. as Mr.. Gadgrind
wonld say, and we have no desile to
romance about it, or to embellish it in
any way whatever. 1t is an act which
stands out i'll it's repulsive nakedness
to shock the sensibiiities of all honor
able and decent 1nen-an act which,
for low cunning and deceit, has never
been suppressed, if equaled.
TO he caught in SO mean an action
would be fatal to the standing of any
one claiming responsibility almost any
where; but of course it can do no
harm to n man like Kellogg, who has
40 standing to lose, who has forfeited |
Ill claims to decency and bid farewell |
forever to self-respect. -RichanO1ad