The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-11-12
NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN
NEW ORLEANS, NOVEMBER IL 1875.
The Links in Big Rings.

s.ra,cb a rascal and you'll be apt to find a
x-;ond relative or confidential official Of the
present ruling power. When, four years ago
a Coppressional Committee went through The
Drodigious thefts and rascallties OF the New
York Custom House, the men most lncui'
pated were the Presidents friends and lhu'
mates, Thomas Murphy and the yoahe
gentlemen Leet and Stocking, members o.
the Presidents staff. When the FRENCH
arms frauds were ventilated, Grant ana NE
friends were again found arm deep IN the
syae. when the Medina sandstone frauds
we're uncovered, Grant, Babcock and kindred
spirits; when the San Domingo business was
proved great attempt on the treasury IL was
found that Gen. Grants friends held all the
KEYS to the anticipated treasure.
When the Black Friday maelstorm SUCKED
in the national prosperity for year. brother,
in-law Corwin and Grant himself were lound
aiding Jim Fisk: when the Indian roboereS
any time during the last eight years has been
urobed Grant in some form brother or
brother n-law-stands uncovered 'the primer
pal criminal In the mountainous gifts ana
yillainies of the last seven years, Grant ana
his friends escape implication IN but one, the
Credit Mobilier the credit, in this case being
diminished when it is remembered thai the
steal was quite ended before Grants day
the revelations now making in st. Louis.
1t has always been mystery to those no.
np'to the game of politics how certain o1n Gals
In petty places grew suddenly rich On salaries
that would barely supply the common heeuS
of life. These officials are generally cohEec.eu
with customs departments. where, 10 lne
average mind. the chances for even dishobes-
Nv are meager. But the ST. Louis business
clears up the mystery Ii Is plain that "neh
money is to be made great company ~
formed whose members, IN the paflance Vi
the street, "pay up" in promises OF secrecy.
The shares enioin loyalty upon the whole
company. and the profits are in proportion,
not TO the stocks invested, but the poLucai
power of each member.
The ST. Louis case shows how great pront
such concern well managed may ulviue.
Just what it has put into the pocket OF Gen.
Grants confidential adviser and secretary,
Babcock, is not yet made known; nor are the
profits accrulng brother Orville known OF
men. but the share of Mckee and his lmme-
date associates are evident in every direction.
Mckee is the principal owner in The ~ LOUIS
Globe, the Republican administration organ.
So strong was the hold Of Mckee on the party
md the whisky interest, that few months
ago he forced the capitulation of the old and
respectable journal, The Democrat, that there
might be no danger to the whisky interest.
With the danger removed it was generally
supposed that the ring was invulnerable, and
il probably would have been had BrstoW
been in any sense negligent in pushing the
reform. Yet the Globe is a "high moral
idea organ, and sings the virtue embodied
in its party with chirruping disregard of It's
own leprosy which has, of course, deceived
hundreds of well-meaning voters. Under
The present blow it is more subdued, though
simultaneously with its announcement OF It's
owners Indictment, it treats its astonished
readers to an essay on The sinfulness OF De-
mocracy and the scandalousness OF opposl-
ton to the Republican party.-Chicdgo Times.
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