The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-04-21
The investigations Into Radical Rot
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Editorial Correspondence 81. Louis Times.l
WASHINGTON, April alt would do YOU
good 10 hear some 81 the traly loyal. who
have just been ehoked OF from a full tsat,
denOunce the Confederate House, a.
they call T.. IL j. hard, they think, 70 be
prevented from r0bbing the Government
they saved, and that, too by the very men
they saved II from: but somehow or other
they o Z get much y mpaihy. They stand
around hotel bar-roOms and swear feebly,
accept an invitation To drink. sadly, aud
then contemplate the ruin u their hopes for
the remainder 81 their stay. II didn't use
~ be that way fifteen YEAR, ago II anr body
tOok occasion 20 doubt the purity ~ any body
connected with the Government then, he
was Immediately damned for a Cooper
head and pounded like a dog. There were
no arrests in those days for any thing ~ that
sort. Just after the Belknap exposure these
chartered, and in many eases uniformed,
DULLES. attempted 10 play the same game.
For a iay or two II was like issuing an insi-
tatioH for a fight 10 say any thing appropri-
ate concerning Beiknap publicly, a. there
were sure 10 be one or two Of This gang
standing around 10 defend him IN The mo-:
uemOnstr1tlyc way, but they are gone now.
The backbone Of the su,len' and post-trad-
err rebellion = broken. II won't be long
.-efOre the procession l. swelled by many a
rptund patriot who ha- gone IN FOR the old
nag and an appropriation wherever he could
see sdOllar that wasn't riyeted down.
We get nothing, hardly, Of the work ~
the nVcstigating committees through the
regular channels Of information. Occasion
ally We hear from Congressman Ciark's
committee which j. looking into POst-Office
frauds. but not one-tenth OF what he has
brought out. The great problem will be
how 70 boil down and make available the
mass u evidence which proves the POST
Office Department 10 have been a. corrupt
49,. EHarra 4" Fratu LH-.unH MA..s.
10 che lowest clerk. IL j. already shown that
the pretended examination 81 that DEPART
meut in 1873 was simply 10 extOrt a fresh
amount Of black mail. Two firms alone had
% ..give up nearly $4,000 u prevent dis
closures. although no disclosures were in
tended IL was only a new set u buzzards
demanding 4 fresh carcass.
livery inquiry into every department
shows the same state Of facts. A man has
reason TO doubt II such a thing A. an honest
official exists here IN Washington. Stone
has discovered that a balance Of nearly two
Millions which was credited as being on
hand To the credit u the Po<t-Ofice fund In
ISIS. was dropped from the books when the
accounts were brought forward in 1870. His
Investigations will MAKE another sensation
when they are made public. a the fact /
have mentioned j. ONLY one out u fifty facts
equally disgraceful.
The testimony Of Detective Bell before
1lymer's Committee was crushing in it,
weight. OF curse Babc0c Says il i an a
lie. but Bell unfortunately had a good many
documents 70 pin his statements together
with. Over partly and Henderson quite ex-
ten-ively ~e0rrObOrate- him.. Last night he
got '.wnaled' by a Frenchman named Mo-
laire. There are those who say hat be
hasn't begun 10 tell all he knows, and that il
was very unwise for Babcock 20 set his bull
lie> on him 20 early. How kind il was in
Secretary Chandler 10 lose the card which
the President gave him 20 aid him in getting
a place a. special detective.
There hasn't been n more crushing dOcu-
ment published than the report II the sub
Judiciary Committee on Pierrepont's letter
90 the attorneys. which the Tunes exposed
on the fth Of February and CHARGED the At
torney-General with having issued il 10
frighten OF the Government witnesses.
scott Lord, the Chairman. fairly eyiscerates
the rnical AttOrney General. and plainly
shows. by copious references 20 the books.
that be doesn't know the commonest princi-
pie q law. or hat II he doe he falsely vio-
lares them for purpose. If Pierrepont had
any manhood be would resign after such an
expression II a want OF confidence in his
ability or integrity. OF both. but he hasn't.
He i no more a man than A Jelly fish l..
The committee take precisely the same view
II the letter that the TINES did. and recon-
mend that IL be az once revoked. They
don't >eem 10 know how eeli-h Mr.. Pierre
pOnt L. He revoked that letter over a
month ago, a. Dir. Over can tell YOU. IL he
wants 10. Just a. soon a. the Tines made
the matter too hot for the Attorney General
be took hack every word 81 the letter. which
he az nrst defended. by declaring il was all
right. and nexratfempted 10 excuse by stat
ing be wrote IL NJ the urgent request Of the
President. He isa slippery fellow. j. Ed
wards PierrepOnt, but he needs a new men,
DRY worse than any thing else in the world.
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