The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1876-03-03

FROM TIE 81 Louis kepeOlican.
Ex-Attorney-Gcn Williams was
forced 10 make humiliating confession
in his address Ia the jury in favor Of his
unfortunate friend Gen. BabcOck--a
confession whose object was to lift a
part Of the opprobrium Of dishonest
associations from the speakers friend
10 the speakers party. The prisoners
intimacy with the two convicted felons,
Joyce and Mcdonald, required an ex-
PLANTATION, and the x-Attorney-teneral
went back TO the Missouri Liberal move
ment Of 1870 % find il. "The defec-
ton Of distinguished leader in the
Administration party" in Missouri
which means Schurz-strengthened the
+ opposition that President Grants Adj
ministration was encOuntering, and
made il willing 10 accept the service Of
all sorts of friends. :. Under these cir
cumstances, says the ex-Attorney-Gen-
eral, "if it did not need, il was in a
condition 10 appreciate its friends -
an acknowledgment whose frankness
is equaled only by ex-CommissiOner
Douglass's statement that .'internal
revenue supervisors are political ma
chimes a. well as official ones" IL was
about that time, said the speaker, that
Mcdonald and Joyce made them
selves very conspicuous here, as the
champions Of the Administration and
professedly the friends of President
Grant" joyce, it seems, went so far
a. 10 attempt Ia work up San Domin-
90 feeling in Missouri by writing edito-
rials for the 1t. Joseph Herald; and that
his brilliant services in this behalf
might not 20 unrewa-ded, he was ac-
customed TO cut out the editorials and
send them 20 Gen. BabcOck with the
question: allow do you like the ring
of that article?" San Domingo was a
tender spot with the President and his
diplomatic private secretary about that
time; and when Joyce wrote that
through the efforts of Mcdonald and
himself "these daily papers have come
out in favor Of the san Domingo gues-
ton" that "the people Of Missouri are
with the President and that "for the
/ first time sumner and >ckurz are shown
up in their true light''-it Is hardly To
be wondered at, the neutrality-suspicious.
al reasons, that Babcock should give his
heart to the embryo conyicts. Ii is a
little strange indeed that so accom-
plished a gentleman should be caught
by such coarse means a this-that the
VANITY and vulgarity" Of Joyce and
\ McDonald's overtures should have cap
tivated him so completely; but this is
what Mr.. Williams tells ~. They sue
ceeded in making BabcOck believe ..they
were the devoted friends Of the Admin
istration and the President" and thus
made him ready 10 10 for them such
favors as he might, not inconsistent
with his official duty. Every thing said
and done by Babcock in this connection,
said the speaker, us explainable on
I that theory"
If this b. true. y hat are we 20 think
Of the Administration and the Admins
tration party? If two vulgar knaves
were able 10 impose on the Presidents
private secretary through the Admins
tration's poverty Of friends; if the Adj
ministration had SD estraneed itself
from the country that the coarse fiat
teries Of a brace of scoundrels We're
gratefully received al the White House,
and editorials written by members Of
the Whisky Ring and published in one
of the Whisky Rings organs were the
easy passport TO the confidence Of the
President and his private secretary, then
Republication j. sadly deficient in hon
or and morals. The inside view Of the
Administration. given Us by two high
ex-members of il, shows it to he sordid,
vulgar and partisan to degree that the
people were not prepared TO expect.
Ex-Commissioner Douglass tells Us il is
its habit to postpone important duties
that il might devote its energies 10 the
carrying Of State elections. and exit
torney Williams attempts To- make Us
believe that any scamp can secure lis
confidence and favor by declaring him
self its friend