Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-02-20
Why should BabeOek, Occupying the
Position he Does, have Busted Him.
self with Joyce s. Co.!
He Cannot Claim TO be ''The Innocent
Babe Of Washington" How
ever, Thinks DIfterently-Etc.

! represent Is not the congress, the PTesi
Cent, nor the Judiciary, but IL Is the laS
OF the land. The strict enforcement c
tbs law Is vital to national existence.
Is for you simply to Inquire if In lRV
has been violated by this defendant;
II has, it is for you TO take cognizance O
IL, and the punishment Ia in your hands
Toe grand Jury found au irdietmen
against this man, bat you are to pass OF
| the evidence submitted to you, and
you believe the defendant is guilty vol
are not to be Influenced by former gooC
character. Men as good SIS he hRvI
fallen bsf0Te temptation. A conspiracy
may exist by solemn agreement or by 8
tacit understanding, and one who con
hives az the purpose Of guilty combi
nation or to snield It Is himself guilty IL
the eye OF the law" Colonel BroadhesC
then reviewed at great length the evi,
! dence, not combining himself to the tes-
| timOny for the movement, bat usiDg q
he went along the letters, and kilograms
and witnesses OF the dsfsGss. will show
y0u b fore / get through, gentle.
men, he said, tbat their tracks ali lead il
the same direction; every one Of them
There is not q single one turned the
other way. At nearly every point the
! Presidents deposition was quoted and
the construction put on 1t which carrisd
GU. the theory Of the prosecution. After
reading the kilograms bstween Joyce
and Babcock about g successor to Ford,
in 1873. Colonel BroRdhesd said: Il
seems from the Presidents deposition
that Babcock came to him to see what
he could do for Joyce as q candidate for
the vacancy. The President said, "No.
let the bOndsmen OF Ford recommend
somebody" Bsbcock teIegrsphed 10
Joyce: "See that Ford's bOndsmen re.
commend yOu." Joyce understood that,
when be sent back q message, IAN ex-
preston from the President will secure
everything" Joyce knew Bsbcock un-
derstood II. What could have
been meant other than that this
conspiracy was to go on? and then Joyce
sent the message recommending M
CURE, and with it one to BsbcOck, In
which he uses the word "mum;n the
defense say that this meant that Bsb-
Geek was not to mention that Joyce had
been q candidate. Can any man accept
this as q sensible conclusion? This
mum" means that there was some
thing secret understanding between
joyce and this defendant, which they
did not wish TO have known. They
have introduced ct this point in their
defense 8 long series OF letters which
passed between Joyce and Babcock,
commencing formally aud then grow
ing familiar, with such an address as
/" NY Dear Colonel" and 81 My Dear
Joyce" but these letters stop IN 1873
Why don't they produce letters in 1874
and 1875, when the distilleries wtra run
ming out the crooked st their fullest ca.
pacity? These letters commence in 1870
and run down through 1871 and 1872,
but In 1873 there Is only one, and after
that not one Where are the Others, OF
1874 and 1875? Colonel Broadcast
passed to the kilograms OF March, 1874
when Joyce was ordered to California,
and Avery notified him that the agents
we're going to 81. Louis. Avery fur
nished the Information, but he could not
atop the agents. So Joyce sent the tele-
gram 10 Bsbcock:
make Douglass call of his scandal
hounds. BUSINESS
That means something. The scandal
hounds were called Cff-DOuglass re-
members that. Babcock saw him about
this time, and asked him about this
matter, and he told him that no charges
against Ford were being investigated.
colonel Bcoadhead then sketched the
dispatches through the fall OF 1874, when
Efforts were being made to get of q raid
on st Louis. He noted the various de,
lays for the elections, and sarcAstically
said that these revenue agencies we're po-
litical machines-the election Of those
distinguished individuals we've of more
consequences than the detection of frauds
on the revenue. These delays dated
down to the fourteenth of December,
when Brooks, with his men waiting Ia
Philadelphia, was notified that the raid
was off. 1t was on the thirteenth of De-
cember, thst Babcock having seen the
commissioners, teiegrsphed M'Donald
the "Sylpb" dispatch:
81 succeeded: they will not CO."
The ring knew of the defeat the day
before the raiding party did. When
Rogers told M'Donald on the eighth of
December that the agents had not gone,
that was not enough to satisfy MiDon-
aid and make him feel so good
that he sent his Telegram to Joyce:
"Desd dog; the goose hangs altidIdilum.
Sun shines" No, M'Donsld had put
something else in motion and on which
be relied. A letter from Brooks had
been stolen from R0geIs's dssk, and
wrong construction had been put upon
that letter, and it had bsen put In Bah
cocks hand, who before the fifteenth OF
December, as Douglass testified, showed
this to Douglass, and gave 1t q black
mailing construction. Why should
BabcoeK, with all the manifold duties
which he Is credited With, have busted
himself in this secret ana hidden man.
ner, bidding Douglass not to tell Rogers
who had shown him the letter? Bah
cock worked fer five days in a manner
which would have bsen remarkably dis
had he been an innocent
man, in behalf of the ring, appealing
not only to Douglass, but to the Presi-
dent, and telling the later that he had
told Douglass that officers out here
ought not to be treated a. thieves. Now,
was there anything in this letter to war
Taut the assertion that officers wers be-
ing treated as spies2 Most assuredly
not. And Babcock did not speak by
that letter, but by knowledge indepen-
dent OF it, Taking up the revocation
order Cfthe President, Colonel Broad
head said the President had declared
that Babcock did not influence him In
the revocation Of the order transferring
supervisors, but that did not prove thai
BabcOck bsd not worked elsewhere TO
that end. The testimony shows that he
went TO Douglas, who had the power to
revoke the order. 1t shows that by
warning that gentleman Of the dis
astrous effect which this order must
nave in his prospects for preferment,
ne tried 70 induce action on
his part. II shows that Joyce, on re-
ceiSing Information that the order had
beea reduced 70 temporary arrange
ment, telegrsphet 10 Bsbcock to "push
things" aud they were pushed. The sx-
plara'ions which the PrssIdent:aud Su-
psrvisor Fulton gave for the revocation
OF that ORDER were not at sill adequate to
the act. Sensation.l They explained
that because the supervisors all over the
country had learned OF tie order some
days before, they had time to straigbten
up affairs II Roytbing was wrong, snd
then the whole scheme would be de-
feated. But such was not at all the case.
The order IS suggested originally, and
the President himsef claims the credit
# II, was intended not to discover frauds
already committed, but to secure future
benefits. Ii Wss held that distilleIs had
gotten into such iu.s with the oil 1 super
visois that new ones would resdlly catch
them mapping. The colonel repeated
hat the Isssons given by President
Grant aud Mr.. Fdlton were not ct all
s0mcienf, as they amounted TO really no
At all. There were other and
more u0WoFf1l -iufuAuoaa hrauWhf IN