The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-12-22
THE RING WORMS TRAIL.
It is getting rather Hot for those
High In Authority.
THE NATIoN,s SCANDAL.

AND LOUIS.
The New York Herald OF Wednesday con- !
tains several colamns of special dispatches
from st. Louis, Washington and 9th er
points concerning the national scandal che
whisky ring revelations. The st. .ouis
special, who seems to speak by the, card,
saws: The story was told me-not b Muir
doch, for he lives out in Marble p i'll. Mo.
by an official of high stand
ing. While Murdoch is inclined
to think that the preside, mt never
got this statement, and that iss was inter
cepted by Bsbcock, this officis declares that
be- knows the president did receive it. and
that General Grant Is also indictsble for
conspiracy In falling to a. It upon it aud al
lowing Information as 20 its sender to be
given TO Joyce aud Med onald. Mr.. Dyer, a
very obhging gentlem AN but one who has
q very high ide'I of Official duty,
declines to give q cop Y of Murdoch's state
mention the ground that he will use it as
evidence against b. Ibcoek. Neither he nor
Mr.. Henderson th' INK that IL inculpates the
president, becaus o there Is no evidence that
be received IL, ut few others who know
its existence think 1t does, and say so.
There are eve n those who say that an effort
will be mao @ to procure an indictment
against the president before the new grand
jury, oalleTI ior January, but Mr.. Dyer de-
MES this IL emphatic terms. However. all
InSs0 ste semout5 are Slg0l0caDL as showing
the exc tied state of public feeling in st.
Louis on the subject OF these gigantic
fraud's, when the probable indictment OF
the president of the United States is .cooly
disc Jussed an a contingency not at all i'm
pc ssible to hsppen.
SENATOR MORTON AND THE GRAND JURY.
In connection with the calling of this new
grand jury gentleman who was member
of the last grand Jury told me that an at
tempt will undoubtedly be made to indict
oliver p. Morton, the senator from Indiana
This gentleman says that a letter from Nor
ton wss presented to the last grand Jury, in
which the senator asked the members OF the
st. Louis whisky ring to raise money for the
! cam paign of 1872 from the distillers. and
that other evidence exists to connect Nor
ton with money raised by the crooked
whisky distillers. This, taken with the fact
that Mcclure admits that the Republican
State Central Committee of Missouri were
in debt to the amount OF $4,000 In the
campaign OF 1872, and that the late
Henry T. Blow stated publicly be-
fore the republican state convention
OF 1874 that the deficiency of Sl7 O00 was
made up by the liberality OF federal office
holders OF st. Louis. is certainly very re-
markable, and there are those who say
msliciously that this money weOt to
Indiana, and not to Missouri. At ALI events,
coming from very Trustworthy authority.
This ne " grand Jury will also, probably, in
vestigste the frauds alleged to have been
perpetrated In the building OF the custom
house, and If they at the same time set to
work to indict Grant and Morton as rumor
has it, they will have their bands foil
Luckily, the president, as am informed by
a very eminent lawyer OF st. Louis, can not
be tried during his term OF office, so that the
gre atest scandal and fall that has ever hap
pened in this country would be spared to us.
APRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
At the instance of General Grant, an old
family friend of the Grants, Ex-Governor
Reynolds, who will be remembered as the
confederate governor OF Missouri, was asked
to-day to accept the position of special as.
sistsnt prosecuting counsel for the whisky
fraud cases, but he declined this afternoon
| without stating reasons. 1t was immedi-
ately surmised that Governor Reynolds was
too strongly in sympathy with Henderson
to accept such position, but the old gentle
mon especially requested me to say that
this was not true, and said violently: ST
not only am not in sympathy with Hender-
son, but think he has acted like perfect
| blackguard, and IL old Jackson had been
president know he would have come down
and thrashed him" This is interesting as
showing how an intimate friend OF
the Grant family feels on the SUBJ
| ject. Reynolds appointment at the
direct instance OF the president, and unasked
as 1t was by Dyer, who wanted no addi-
| tionsl help, has caused here much surprise
and has been commented upon in a tone
very unfavorable to the president. It Is
generally understood that Reynolds Is not
only q most intimate friend of Grant, but
also Of Bsbcock, and that the president
after Henderson's successor has been duly
| installed, and when the prosecution re-
quired no additional assistance, should have
gone out of lis way to add to 1t most in
innate friend of Bsbcock Is generally re-
gsrded ss a most unfortunate exhibition OF
his desire to shield his private secretary.
Reynolds, who is a high-toned, honorable
man, would not be forced into so unpIeas-
ant position of duplicity, and as be would
have done his duty IL he had accepted the
retainer of the government, he. very dis
creetly and hoDorsbly declined It.
TWO MANY LAWYERS.
Bat even from a purely economical point
OF view this interference Of the president
looks strange. District Attorney Dyer had
asked for no additional aid, and why spend
more Of the peoples money than there Is
any need for7 Mr.. Dyer has three able as
sistants, Eaton, Bliss and Peddrick, all
three energetic and bright lawyers: and he
has also Brodhe ad, who has a retainer of
81 000 already in his pocket. This makes
nve lawyers, wnlcn ought certainly TO suffice
for the prosecution of these case s. and IL
| does In their own opinion, and nevertheless
| the president goes 70 work and appoints one
Of Babcock's very best friends rs an addi-
| tional special counsel. Certainly the WAYS
OF the president in this Bsbcock business are
queer TO say the least.
THE FEELING IN wAsHINaroN-Mc,g RON IN
MISERY.
The developments in the whisk .risls at
Indianapolis begin to attract attention here,
and 1t appears that number of local polti-
clans and several old hsngers-on OF the In
| ternal revenue office when Mr.. Delano was
commissioner are deeply concerned lest ell
4 the facts in connection with the operations
of the two BiDghams should be developed
Some OF the parties In these Indianapolis
trials have made comics slons and statements
which are now In possession of the govern
i u aud w hich rarnua To ha If 1xraat