Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-11-26
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FRIDAY MORNING, NOV. 2e. 1876.
THE FOLKS At WASHING TON"


1.-THE FOLKS AT WASHINGTON"
The reader who will peruse the ST.
Louis whiskey frauds exposure published
in another column, will find matter that
will astonish him with its audacity; fasci-
nate him with its recklessness, and hui
initiate him with the evidence of corrup-
ton in the high places in this government.
AS every Witness-after the first one who
exposes the purchase of newspaper Or
gan, always the first step to corrupting the
people, comes to the stand and proceeds to
relate his observation of the thefts, or his
share in their proceeds, the stream is ira
ced more clearly back to the fountain at
Washington. Thes'folks at Washington"
seem to have been regularly per-centing
the storekeepers and distlllers. When
Hogue, special agent, was sent from
Washington ''to investigate" it was sup
posed he collected $4,000 from the ringers,
and returning to Washington made a good
report sBab" appears often in the evil
dence. A letter was shown, signed "Bab,"
to assure distiller that he was under the
protection of headquarters, and Joyce, the
unlucky collector, who got a sentence to
the penitentiary, collected from the thieves
in order to stake care of Babcock, Avery
and others at Washington" All this
would look suspicious about "Bab' if we
didn't see published a certificate by tele-
'aph of Con. Megrue, one of the ring,
- she desires to say" that Gen. Bah
Orville Grant Ia brother of the Presi-
y, Col. Casey "a brother-in-law of the
ident), Commissioner Douglas, Col.
Col. Luckey, cor any other official
zen Of Washington" have not been
ted in any way with the operations
of the ring ''except W. o. Avery" The
high character of the certifier will give
weight to the certificate, and the public
will believe it. But why should the ''de-
sire'' to say it? The brothers-n-law of
the President have always stood high above
impeachment. It is true that venal and
corrupt opposition press connected brother
in-law Dent with receiving commissions
on procuring offices, and brother-in-law
Collector Casey with some custom house
operations in New Orleans, al d brother-in-
law Corbin with the Black Friday gold
business in New York, but the charge was
promptly demo unced by such pure and high
toned administration journals as Col. Nc
KEGS paper, at St. Louis. and the voice Of
SANDER was stiaed. 1t is also true that
s'my friend Babcock," who is quoted as
writing with such vigor from Washington,
that s'there is hell to pay here" has been
charged by the detective" press with be-
ing manager and participation in the per-
petuation of the Boss Shepherd ring in that
city, but the pure and undefled admins
tration press has as promptly indicated
him. Why should Mr.. Con Megrue be so
officious, and desire to say things before he
is asked? Can it be possible that that hor-
rible spectre, Public Opinion. has been
stalking through the country and making
free with the good names of "Bab" and
''all of u.s." and that the pure and unde-
filed administration press begins to find
that the country has lost confidence in its
vindications, and that written certificates
have become necessary. Can it be possible
that '.Galileo" Joyce, whose ''blood of in
nocence flows free and unruffled through
the life channels Of his frame within the
bars of the Missouri penitentiary, predicts
truly when he says, that the epidemic
era of reform" is likely to suffocate the
ssgood and the bad!'' Is 1t possible that
the good 'sBab'' and the good Orville are
to be swallowed up with the bad Avery.
Alas! it would seem SO and, as from the
evidence the frauds seem to have been 60
ing on for seven years, it is to be feared
that other good men among "the folks at
Washington are to share the same fate.
The bad Democratic congress that is COM
ing next month will, we apprehend, pro-
long the epidemical era from which the
imprisoned Calico has so unjustly suffer- d..
Poor Gallileo The Republican party Of
this country has much to answer form the
way Of crime, but that it should have Sc
duced into it's ''crooked" ways man like
ssGallileo. Columbus, Tasso and Napoleon y
all at once, just on the eve of Pfesi-
Dental election, when the counsel of such
Il man would have been Of inestimab'e
value, is Just too bad. His address to the
court will be handed down to posterity as
the last words of prisoner convicted Of
theft who talks about everything else but
stealing. He has been a soldier, and when
he remembers his services on the battle
field and finds himself in the penitentiary
for prigging few thousands no wonder his
martial mind wonders whether ''patriotism
were but name," and the gratitude of
nations mockery and sham to lure the
brave to destruction" And this is the
treatment of the man who had to stake
care of Babcock, Avery and others,'' and
also got letters from ''Bab'' and assessed
storekeepers for an occasional $lOO'' for
ssthe folks at Washington" 1t is not in
the heart of the President, who, of course,
has never known of this wickedness going
on under his very nose, to pardon a man
who in taking care Of others has lost him.
self, and who, if not equal to 'Galileo'
Columbus, Tasso and Napoleon; in all re-
spects, at least exceeds them in that
great cardinal principle Of Republicanism
cheek"
REMOVAL OF THE SUPERINTENDENT
OF The EASIEhN ACNA1IC AS1LUM.~
A few weeks ago the Richmond cores
podent of the Petersburg News" wrote
that ssthe new Board of Directors of the
Eastern Lunatic Asylum would meet to
GUST tie present Superintendent, DR..
Brower' Sure enough the Board met on
Friday and elected DR.. Harvey Black of
the Agricultural College, Superintendent
DR.. Brewer receiving but one vote. If he
does not accept, the same correspondent
saws DR.. w. J. Christian of Middlesex will