, 1875-12-26

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revenue frauds end brought every guilty mar
to punishment. The Inter Ocean says thai
Gen. BADcocK proposes to aid this infamous
| partisan project with his own testimony
after having satisfied himself by legal advice
| that his testimony will not criminate himself
in the criminal proceeding now pending
against him at st. Louis
The Inter-Ocenn also charges that BAB-
COCKS proposed testimony before the Demo-
cratic Committee will imp1cate Secretary
Bn1sTow, and show, to quote from the Inter
Ocean article, that he (BR1srow) has from
the start been as deep in the mud as JouN Il.
JoycE ia now in the Penitentiary." Standing
alone, this assertion is confronted with the
strong improbability that man occupying
Secretary BR1sTows position should, Of his
own motion, proceed to the exposure of
frauds in which he was himself implicated,
IN exposure which he could have suppressed
as well as not. But-parturiun:: n,ontes.
nascltur Tidieulus mus-here is the startling
revelation against Bn1srow which BAncocK
is said to be about to make:
BAncocK has for long time hunted up Bn7srow's
attorney aud counsel for whiaky en in Louisville and
Cincinnati; that Its brother-tn-law, WELLER, In \
brother Of WELLER, the Louisville whisky man; and
TINT whenever DR1sr visits Louisville he makes his
home at tho residence Of his brothcriu-law BApcoc1
has hunted up the farther fact that when BRrsrow
goes to Cincinnati he makes the residence OF HouAnr
his home while in that town. HOBART IL connected
With one OF the argost whisky houses tn Cincinnati
Now suppose Ill this true, admit TINT Gen.
BAncooK and the Inter-Ocean can prove be-
yond any question every allegation in the
above paragraph, what OF it? Was there
anything wrong or unusual about Secretary
BR1sTow, as lawyer. being attorney for
whisky -distuers in Louisville before he be-
came Secretary of the Treasury or even
dreamt Of succeeding to that position ? Is
not that, if it be fact, taken in connection
with his official prosecution Of the Ring since
he has become Secretary of the Treasury, an
additional credit to hin :? Is it anything
startling or drendful that Secretary BR1s1ow
should stop at his brother-in-law's house
when he visits Louisville, or at friends
house when he visits Cincinnati These
things are simply puerile; and, while they
may be SO or may not, if the Inter-Ocean has
nothing else on which to base its grave
charge, it would have been better for its own
reputation had it remained silelt.
The Inter- Ocean has thus forced upon pub
lie conviction the strong probability that one
or more Of its editors are implicated in some
way in the whisky frauds which Secretary
Bn1srow is prosecuting at this point The
mere fact that Secretary Ba1srow found it
for the public interests to dis
charge from the Office Of Appraiser at this
port one Of the principal editors Of the Inter
Ocean is not, Of itself, sufficient to account
for this reckless assaul. on his official integ-
ity. There must be something deeper than
this, and the conclusion is inevitable that
either the InteT-0cean IS interested in defeat
ng the prosecut. .ns Of the whisky thieves
here by policy Of threat and intimidation,
,r that some Of its editors have determined
% turn States evidence- The present indi-
cation is, that it is not GHo1sEN or RUSSELL.
gho is going to ''squea1," but some Inter-
Ocean man.