, 1876-07-02
felt his bail and take up his permanent abca,
in foreign country.

felt his bail and take up his permansnt sbca,
in foreign country.
This was the case as presented to the rnh
lie. The case as presented to Secretary B,,z
TOW was that Of lot of unfaithful ppb1;,
officers, stepped in perjury and all mapnp,
Of knavery, who were to be brought to ius.
tice if possible. The Secretary did not kno.
JACOB REHM from JOHN Smith. From h;e
standpoint an outside conspirator was Of Ser.
ondary consequence: sven though his inan.
ence in procuring appointments and remov.
ais Of officers was the very pivot upon which
the whole conspiracy turned. Whether .Mr
BR1sTow was aware how important spoka
REIN really was in the wheel, is not din.
closed by the speeches Of the Governmen,
counsel but whether he was or not the Gov.
| ernment counsel took the responsibility of
telling him, as they now tell the public. TINT
| REm's statements were true. The presumn,
| ton is that they advised the Secretary that
they could make an impartial jury belisya
| that they we're true, for it is impossible to
suppose that he would have consented to lat
REHM off with tziaing penalty il there we.e
any reasonable doubt upon this point.
The responsibility of the Government
| COUNSEL, therefore, is TINT they pledged their
regulations as lawyers that, with REHM for
witness, they could catch some high Guyero.
ment officials. Whether this pledge was nut
in the form of words or not makes no differ
ence. The fact that they managed the case
in this way is itself a pledge. They lost ths
stake, and they must suffer the. consequences
in public estimation Of course one side
has to be beaten in every lawsuit, civil Q.
criminal; but in measuring the responsibility
Of counsel regard will always be had to thu
special circumstances Of the case.
The Government counsel tell US that
REHM;s statement was true. Twelve good
and lawful men, acting under oath, wers
unable to believe him. By abandoning tht
cases against WARD and WADswoRrH The
Government counsel acknowledged that they
had no hope of getting even one man in The
Northern District of Illinois in the mode md
manner in which juries are drawn who
would ever say on his oath that REHMs state
ment was true. If there is one disinterested
man, woman, or child in Chicago, outside Of
the Government counsel, who believes tha!
RzuM's statement was true, TINT person hss
not been heard from, and, We venture to say,
cannot be found. If there were some graina
of truth in REHafs statement they were So
mixed up with lies, gross aud mountainous,
that 10 juryman could conscientiously say
which was which.
Now, the Government counsel, with the ez.
ccption of Judge BANGS, mad known REIN
for years. They Enew him By reputation,
and they knew him personally. They knew
the full measure Of his guilt in the whisky
conspiracy. Upon the sum total Of this
knowledge they sta1zed their professional
astuteness, and the Governments case that
REHA;s story WIS true, and that they could
make an impartial jury believe it. They
have lost the wager, and they must pocket
the loss.
The consequences Of the fasco are likely
to be disastrous in the extreme. If the pen
atty imposed upon REHM is less than that
imposed upon HEsn7a, who at least observed
the maxim Of honor among thieves" while
REIN not only violated this maxim, but sent
his own victims and dupes to jail, petition
will be sent on to Washington for the un-
conditional pardon of every other person un-
der sentence,-a petition large enough and
respectable enough to haye great weight
with the President. IF the President really
desires to pardon the st. Louis culprits, he
will pardon the Chicago batch first, and
make that the occasion for turning JOYCE,
AVERY, MCDONALD, and MCKEE loose again
upon the community. And in the end it
will appear that whisky conspiracies are NOT
criminal, or ct all events not dangerously so.