Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-12-08

tions soon brought forward a lantern,
and we alao had lights at hand in the
gallery"
Were the men tried, aunty and
what was their punishment
Eyes; they were conveyed TO the
county prison, and on their conviction
were sentenced to transportation
The butler, as you may imagine. was
handsomely rewarded"
The Milwaukee whisky Ring.
From the Chiacgo Tribune
1t was u truly model Whisky-Ring
that organized here for running the
crooked and robbing tho revenue.
The ease with which they stole, and
stole, and stole; the strong grip with
which, when the inevitable exposure
came. it half-suppresscd them: the
! vigorous defense it has made and is
making through the press of this city,
owned and controlled by the Ring
| the audacity with which it has muzzled
public sentiment here, and so manip-
/ ulated it as to array 4 share Of it, at
! least, in support of the thieves /;
and. finally, Its success IN tampering
with justice,-all go to show that it
was truly model Ring. How far
back its operations extend has not
been developed, nor how it was or
ganizcd, further Than this, That du-
ring the Senatorial canvass, when
/ Matt Carpenter was q candidate for
reelection, Burpee, who did not give
| Carpenter the political support de-
sired. and who besides had d.larreled
with Boss Keyes. was removed and
/ Conkling appointed in his stead, as
Revenue Agent for this district. The
story generally credited, and which l
get upon excellent authority, is that
Keyes peremptorily demanded of
! Carpenter Burpee's removal and
j Conkling's appointment upon penalty
OF Keyes turning his whole political
influence against Carpenter in the
Senatorial contest, and that thereon
the change was made through Car
penter's influence.
I coNKLING's IRREGULARITIES.
= Conkling had been Supervisor for
the New Orleans District. from which
he was removed for Irregularities
and his irregularities here began TO
be manifest to those who had oppor-
tunity for seeing, almost immediately
after he entered upon his office as
Revenue Agent.
The conditions were wOndr0usly
favorable for any and every thievery
Mum was Supervisor. and the devel.
opments as to Mum have been SC
voluminous that the full significance
OF that fact will be duly appreciated
10, 80, 81
Supervisor. Hubbell. the District.
Attorney was child-like and bland
innocent. whose boast it was thai
there was no crooked" run in tho
, district, and that no distiller or recti
fer had been found guilty during hi
term; and his faith in the purity ant
rectangular integrity and true good
ness Of the Ring distillers was only
. equaled by the faith of the devout il
the Great Author of all good. Whel
. the seizures were made it was Hub
bell who patronizingly observed I,
Supervisor Hcdrick. Young man
|. don't go into a battle in the middle
! of it. You have gone into this thin.
yourself without consulting me, an,
l advise YOU to get out of it. Yol
: had better stop where you are. Bris
! tow is damning the party by il. AM
Q these indiscriminate attacks upor
: leading citizens and patriotic sup
g portcrs of the Administration won
q do" 1T is almost unnecessary 10 ad'
!; the Administration found that
HuBREId. WOULDN'T Do.
), The Ring is bold. defiant. reckless
1t represents, directly and indirectly
!. the wealthiest interests in Milwaukee,
owns or controls the press. with III
:. significant exception. and so SUI
q presses the real enormity of the fraud
: disclosed. attacks the witnesses fo
the prosecution and Government oi
ticers to an extraordinary cNten
muzzles public sentiment and actnall
has gotten mp and is getting up
! show of public sympathy by petition
numerously signed, addressed to til
!. Department. and requesting that th
:. members of the Ring be lei of on pa,
ment of the tax on the unstanpe
= whisky they have run of. Such
the power of the Ring even now ih;
= !. business men of wealth and standin
- - have felt compelled to sign such p'
- titions and excuse themselves on II
Z, score that the whisky prosecutions al
y destroying an immense business il
AZ terest and undermining the charact,
" of leading philosophical citizens,
~ they style the Ring thieves.
80 RUINoTs RAPACITY.
ly But the enormous Matchmaking
10 which the manufacturers and deale
a. in the crooked were subjected by Il
O. rapacity of the official Ring thieys
d. the expense of their defenses, ,condut
ia cd as these have to be without rcgal
Id to the cost involved, and the rcsol,l
id manner in which the prosecutions a
to being pushed by District Attorn,
re Mckinney and his associate couns,
10 ex-Supreme Judge Dixon, Superyis
'st Hedrick, and the other officials
I'd charge of these cases, are having the
be effect. A number of the smaller di
it. tillers, seeing before them only ban
ly ruptcy, with a prospect of the PEI
co tentiary besides, are weakening, a,
a making oyertnres to be allowed
,ct turn States evidence. Even Sa
n. Rindskopf's princely fortune is mc
he ing away rapidly, and Sam, the 9th
he Sday, is reported 10 have dropped t
IL significant remark that he had be
he blackmailed out Of $4,000 alread
,r- and he couldn't stand it much long,
cAnALIsTIc TELL-TALEs.
cd Among Louis Rindskopf's pape
ID. recently seized by Revenue Age
I'D Brown, under Supervisor Hcdricl
or, direction, were found the stubs OF
20. cheek-book. On examination. thu
~ showed that checks for 500 each h
nd been drawn monthly. The name
he the payee was omitted. but the stu
be-. were marked in German with |
Ell word sMacher,' which. translated
The "Master,s or, more literally, II
OF Boss" Each Of thcse@tMbs was a
aot marked in Hebrew characters, W
words signifying ''for Conklin
-, Rindskopfrefused to answer bef,
an Supervisor Hedrick as to what tn
nj checks were drawn for, or to VIII,
q. paid. His confidential book keep
In however, testified that the che
ia were drawn for the monthly asst
I ,iv ment OF 5000 levied by the Off,
~ Ring on each distiller and rectif
NJ and collected with commcnda
-. punctuality by them. Revenue .Ag
nsa COnklin, who was knowna among til
Nc as THE Boss Conklin, filled the pl
IA IA in the official Ring that Con Magu
did at St Louis, and could his st,
= . be told il would indeed make M,
,ad in the air about this burg.
Nv. waiver of a preliminary examinat
s" and giving bond postponed inqu
\ n as TO who shared in this plunder.
ices PROBABLE INDIVIDUAL. INSTANCE
A.