Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1875-12-22
% WAos the WoRLos
GRANTIsM IN PERFECTION.
The Gigantic Operations Of the Chicago
whisky Ring.
A PRINCE oopaLINo a slLyKa MIxr.

New York San tells tho story Of the
whisky ring in that section and brings
charges OF corruption very close TO the
White House door, He says: R
The connection of the White House
with the northwestern branch Of the
whisky ring is infinitely closer than
that which united it with the 81. Louis
combination. The Federal officials at
Chicngo have since 1860 been appoint
ed at the dictation Of the Galona ring,
tho head and front Of which are ], Rus
sci Jones, Grants particular crony,
now collector OF customs, and Ben. n.
Campbell, Babcock's father.in-lnw, and
marshal Of the northern district OF iii.
NOS, Jones was appointed marshal OF
this district BY Lincoln, but he devulv-
ed the duties OF his Office on his depu-
ties, md spent n considerable portion
of his time az Grants hcadouarters In
Tennessee and af,erward in Mississippi,
where, il is believed, he drove a large
and very profitable business as n trader
in captured Confederate cotton. In
one transaction, as he afterward ad-
mittcd, he cleared sl3 1000, and on his
return nom one of his visits South he
purchased for himself as well as for
Gen. Grant a large interest in tho Chi.
cago West side street railway. and got
himself made president of the com
pany.
Some time after this Jones induced
one of his deputies who had purchased
Gity.two acres of land adjoining Cen.
tral Park here to let him have a onc.
half interest in the property for him.
self and Grant at tho original cost,
which was only sl4l per acre. The
ground was worth much more than
the first cost ut the time, but the depu.
ty was promised the marsbal's office
us an inducement to him to take IN
Jones and Grant on the ground floor.
The property is now worth nearly a..
900 per acre and, as tho marshalship
went to Babcock's iathcr-in.law, OF
course the disappointed deputy con.
sidcrcd that he was swinded out Of
S6,I46, the difference between tho pres.
ent value of the twentv.six acres and
the price ut which he sold tho same to
Jones and Grant.
Ben Ii. Campbell had acquired o
bare competence IN legitimate business
before he left Galena. He was not by
any means rich man. The marshals
Office by law nets the incumbent only
$4,000 per annum; vet within less
than six years Campbell has acquired
q vast fortune, variously estimated a,
from $4,000 to $1,000 900. He is
now one of the largest stockholders in
the West Side street railway, having
purchased at ono time $4,000 of stock
from Jones.
The collector of internal revenue
was the creature Of Campbell, but us
he has been gathered to his fathers
shall not dwell upon either his sins Of
omission or commission. But of the
supervisor, Dan Mum. | shall have
something to say. lie eame from
southern Illinois originally. and was
the pet of Senator John A. Logan
Ho is now under Indictment for par
ticipation in tho frauds at st. Louis,
and but few days since he was in.
dicted by the United States grand
Jury Sitting at Springfield for compiled.
W il whisky frauds in that district but,
singular to say, he has escaped indict.
ment both here and at Milwaukee.
There was abundant evidence to Sc.
cure Munn's indictment here, but it
was not placed before the grand jury
by the district attorney, Jasper b,
Ward, the champion OF Grants Ar
kansas job in the last Congress. For
the omission Ward gives two excuses
The evidence was, in bis opinion, not
sufficient to secure Munn's conviction,
and the grand jury would not have
found an indictment on it if it had
been. This may be true, because il
unaucstionably requires a great deal
more evidence to indict whisky ring
rogue in Chicago than il docs in 81
Louis. and unless clean swecp Is
made of all the officers of the United
States court the conviction of the con.
spirators who arc indicted is by nc
means assured.
Charley Farewell, who has a prima
facic rirht TO scat in tho Forty fourth
Congress from the Third district Of
this State came within two votes Of
heinz indicted for consniriny 10 ,l,l,nud
the government by the manufacture
of scrookedv whisky. IL was proven
,hnt bo had advised certain distiIlers
to knock in tho heads of whisky bar.
rcls 10 order to prevent The govern.
ment from obtaining proof of its being
illicit. There was also pretty conclu.
sive evidence sdduccd 10 establish tho
lact that he was silent PARTNER in Tho