The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-02-22

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: the leak at a venture, but the defense hi
found il and here it was. Hoge was Il
man who, trusted as pure BY the go
. crnment, had sold himself TO imam
The defendant might have been unab
to defend himself against the willing pe
: juries Of the ring, for there wi
no perjury that would appall some {
these men. Who could doubt the NJ
blinking, unWinking Fitzroy, who, il o,
casiOn required, would swear the Missi.
: sippi river bed was dry.
The speaker reviewed the letters unit
he came TO the one giving information
the very raid the discovery Of which ha
caused such a degree Of commotior
Could there, said he, be any doubt no.
where the leak was There was no NOR
honorable man than Mr.. Brooks, vet SUI
pose that he was on trial; that llOge wa
brought as witness against him; tha
Brooks letter to Rogers asking that I'll
corrupt llOgc be associated with him i
these raids; could he escape conviction
There is no man in the entire department
who ever had any correspondence wit
the St. Louis district against whom
stronger case than this against Babcocl
could not have been made.
Mr.. Storrs differed with BrOdhcad a
TO the character Of that letter OF Brook
10 Rogers. lie held that it was very liza
bic 10 misconstruction. Mcdonald pre-
pared Babcock for miscOnstruing it b,
declaring that he would not submit Il
having men OF doubtful character sen
into his district TO work over his head
BabCOck, recognizing this feeling as nat
ural, showed the letter to the President
and feeling that Mcdonald had Just causl
for complaint, urged, not that the ruid
be abandoned, but that responsible mel
be sent to make them, just as responsible
men were always chosen 10 make investi
cations in the army. Was there anything
wrong in this position OF BabcOck? Doe
not the proof US to Brashear, uOgc and
others show that the system OF sending
irresponsible sneaks over the country wa,
more injurious than no system at ALI
Was there anything criminal in Bah
cocks having that letter in his posses.
sion? II it were guilty possession,
would il have been so publicly ucknowl-
edged a. that Babcock should show the
document 10 both the President aud the
Commissioner?
Mr.. Storrs finished the reading OF the
HIOgc letters with most eloquent denun.
citation Of that treacherous scOundrel Us
the chief Of the conspiratOrs-the head
devil, the keystone Of this infamous arch.
The moment that Rogers found out that
the famous plan for raiding this district
was known 10 Mcdonald he Immediately
abandoned it, and Mcdonald sent his ex.
ultant dead dog" telegram, and BabcOck
discovered several days afterwards that
the plan was abandoned, and, thinking he
was telling some news, telegraphed to
Mcdonald. Never was a more worthless
dispatch sent, as it conveyed the inform.
alton that thing had been abandoned
which abandonment had occurred before
he knew that it was contemplated.
Mr.. Storrs took up the revocation oi the
order transferring the supervisors. Joyce
sent to Babcock, on February 81, 1915,
the dispatch. which he signed "Sylph,'
ave have official information that the
enemy weakens. Push things" Babcock
received this dispatch at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon. The speaker was thus partic.
ular US to time because the prosecution
act the example. BabcoCk did not under
stand this dispatch, and did not answer il.
The prosecution argued that BabCock had
this dispatch and had pushed
things, but the trouble was that at the
time BabcocE received that dispatch
things had been pushed and the order had
been revoked. The interview Babcock
had with the Commissioner relative TO
the revelation OF this order, was not had
"a n result OF this telegram but was had
full week before, thus the prosecution
was actually invoking a reversiOn Of the
10 sustain their case, and asking
The Jury to believe that an act on the
10Th Of January was an effect OF cause,
namely the telegram which lie did not
receive till February Sd. The testimony
oi the President and Mr.. Tuition shows
hat the latter called on the former at |
o'clock on the day when joyce sent that
telegram and that during that interview |
he President decided TO revoke the or
Ter. Two hours aiterward Babcock re-
,eived a telegram 10 push things, and the |
advanced the theory that
Babcock thereupon proceeded to use his
TO induce an act which had al
'eady been consummated.
Counsel then referred 10 the opposition
II the Supervisors all over the country
o the order transferring them; the polit-
cal influence which had been used To
fleet revocation Of the order; the visit
II Supervisor Tuition to Commissioner
Douglass. Secretary BristOw and finally
o the President. lie then said: Was il
lot something for Americans TO be proud
4, that the chief executive officer OF the
government could thus remain obstinate
ga:nst political influences, but yielded
0 the logic Of plain and practical citi-
en-? Can anybody deny the force Of
'utton's argument? Hardly so. The
rider was not only revoked, but the very
Ian suggested by Tuition was adopted,
nd the whole conspiracy was exposed
nd the cOnspirators were brought To jus.
ce. Babcock had no part whatever in
recurring this revocation, as all the evi.
encc conclusivcly shows, and the Prcsi.
cnt's deposition places it beyond doubt.
10 power OF rhetoric or argument could
lnvincc any honest man that the order .
as not revoked By the President with the
urest Of motives. Yet for months that
igh official had been subjected to the at.
ICks and calumny Of the press for his
purse. The facts show most clearly that
lc revocation was not a proceeding on
lc part Of the President 10 thwart the
ipiratiOns and plans Of the Secretary,
r the Secretary had, before the Prc.i.
mt was spoken to, acknowledged and de.
ared that the revocation wOuld serve the
,st interests Of the Government. There
~ no disagreement whatever, and yet
y counsel for the prosecution charge )
e President with interfering with the $
'crctary in his plans. Satisfied that the d
me arguments that had convinced his 7
Vn mind would convince the President, {
q Secretary had sent Tuition TO the
resident To lay the case before him, h
ID secure the revocation. No party II
rs eau enable man 10 see any spot or c
ain in the revocation OF that order. I,
lc President, who has remained silent
'wn TO the last moment, and who only l.
okc in obCdicncc TO the law, whose o
ljesty he recognizes, now stands fully f
indicated. There are no more flowers G.