National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-08-26
YOUNG BENNETT TRYING TO SHAKE
nv THE CABINET.


tire Cabinet to resign because Mr.. Secretary
Delano has been charged With the COM
mission of frauds by Professor Marsh, Viii
liam Welsh, Esq, and eI-clerk Walker.
In the opinion Of the Herald these three
persons are honorable" men, whose
privilege it is to raise suspicion against
public officer that should be followed by
his immediate disgrace, and the disgrace of
those who may be associated with him in
official capacities. But let US see if they
are honorable men.
Professor Marsh is, perhaps, entitled to
some consideration as q man who would
not Intentionally commit fraud upon the
public, butt is to be feared that he has been
made the tool of others in exactly that kind
of q transaction. At anyrste nothing more
than "hearsay evidence" has been adduced
thus far to sustain the rather indefinite
charges that have been given to the public
over his signature.
Mr.. Welsh is certainly not entitled to that
consideration. He is not unknown to the
public, and what is known of him in con-
nection with Indian affairs is not to his
credit. Once before he appeared as q
prosecuting witness in case similar to the
one now under consideration, but confined
his prosecution to persecution of his in
tended victims in the newspapers. When
the opportunity was afforded to him to Off
cially verify his charges, he refused to
appear on the witness stand, and backed
out of his position Of prosecutor like a
whipped and whining cur. But his true
character is developed by the fact that he
stands convicted Of q crime against the
laws Of his country, the laws of humanity,
and the very spirit OF the civilization
Of the age. Under the sanity garb of
christian meekness and patriotic love of
country, this fervid reformer wears the
lock-in short, of q man who lends money
upon store property and, whose wealth is
constantly increasing through the pay
ment Of interest upon mortgages which he
holds upon the bodies of his fellov-men.
The bloody sweat Of Cuban slaves is coined
into greedy wealth for his Golfers. His
capital is loaned to the slaveholding mon
archists of Havana for use in perpetuating
their power and keeping in subsection the
Patriot insurgents who are struggling for
the independence of Republican principles
on the island. Certainly he cannot be
ranked as an Honorable man, nor as one
whose unsupported assertions are entitled
to the faintest shadow of consideration by
the public.
As for Mr.. ex-clerk Walker, the Herald
must have been ignorant of his character,
or it would have ranked him along with
those infamous perurers, Loader and Price,
the after-the-trial witnesses in the Tilton-
Beecher case. The following undenied
and undenisble charges against him by the
reliable Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, will suffice to give
the public all the information that is ne
cessary regarding his character
"Your correspondent. can prove by the re-
cords of the War Department that Walker
was found guilty Of disgraceful conduct, when
an officer of the army, by q regular court mar
tial, reduced to the ranks, and sentenced to
imprisonment at hard labor. The records of
the Washington Police Court show that Wal
ker bias been arrested in this city for obscene
conduct A prominent army officer now in
Washington win state, If called upon, that the
terrible Disagreement of Walkers face was
caused, not by wounds received while In the
when he got his position under the Indian
commission, but by his own hand while In q
fit Of delirfum tremens." i
We submit that the HerGEd'S Witnesses
are incompetent An enthusiastic fossil
hunter who has been made the dupe of
discontented contractors or malicious poll
ticians: recresnt witness who is also q
Cuban slaLe-trader, and discharged clerk,
who Is also disgrsced and dismissed army |
officer, not to mention the long list Of mis-
demeanors of which he is notoriously |,
guilty--a fine array Of honorable" wit |
nesses this presents. But the Opposition is |
driven to such extremities that it is com. |
PEELED to rely upon them for testimony. 4
p! The object of the combined effort Just
now being made to. force the statements Of |
of these so-called witnesses upon public at. |
tention is plain. The gentlemen desig- |
mated by the Government TO make an in. |
vestigation into the charges, based upon
this testimony are now engaged in that |
labor. The evidence they have taken thus
far is entirely Of the 'fhearsay" kind, by |
which Professor Marsh was misled, while |
no proof to sustain the positive assertions
of Welsh and Walker, has, 90 far
as we are informed, been adduc-
ed. The probability is, therefore,
that the report of the investigating COM
mission will exonerate the officials against
whom these charges have been made. and
the design of the combined effort to which
we allude, is the result Of desire to dis
count the influence of that exoneration.
We say 1t is probable that the report viii be