Nebraska advertiser., 1876-06-15
The Bee and the U. S. Grand Jury.

s. courts, from which we extract tn,
following:
And now let US briefly review tht
sham investigation conducted in th'
interest of Yost, Cunningham
Wiltse by the late U. S. grand jury
That august body, as we all remem ber
was made up for the most part 0
partizans of Hitchcock, Yost d. Gun
ningham. Beech Hinman, Demo
cratic attorney who is notoriously in
cOllusion with the Hitchcock Barton
Yost ring, was its foreman. Thi
model grand juror made it his specia
business to condnct the investigation
so that no testimony should be elliott
ed against the ring.
The Republican, with characters
tic veracity, says: Every man who
| professed TO know, or was said or ru
mored to know anything about the
acts alleged against Yost, Wiltse, anC
Cunningham, was brought before the
! jury.H This is false, and nobody
knows this better than Yost, Gun
ningham & Co. A sham, show of in
vestigation was made by sending fol
| three or four witnesses who did no
have personal knowledge about the
frauds, but the men who did know
were never subppnaed. For instance
the editor of the Bee was cited to tel
what he knew about Yost's japanese
smuggling operations. He furnished
the grand jury the names of the mer'
chants who bought the japanese
goods from Yost, and the names o1
the parties who had direct informa-
ton concerning the intention of Yost
and Farr to defraud the government.
Not one of these witnesses was cit
ed, and the whole case was incontin-
emily dropped. So much for the vim
dication of that wbitewashing grand
jury. If the organ of the public
plunderers desires further eXplana-
tion why the u. s. Courts are corrupt
we-are prepared to produce facts that
will convince even the most skepti'
cal.
Mr.. Hinman, the foreman of that
jury, to whom the Bee alludes as be-
ing "noteriously In collusion with
the Hitchcock ring" in answer to the
above publishes the following in the
Omaha Herald of the 9th inst:
To the Editor of the Omaha Bee:
In your issue Of June Sd, you say
Now in the first place, Judge Dill
Ion, in his capacity as United States
circuit judge, has nothing whatever
to do with the United States grand
juries, which are organized for the in
vestigation of crimes against the Uni
ted States.
The circuit court records show that
Judge Dillon empaneled the United
States grand jury at Omaha in May
last. Your ignorance and falsehood
in the above statementar only equal
ed by your barefaced falsehoods in the
balance of your article Of the above
heading, which every one knows
having any knowledge in the prem
ises.
You know there is no political col
lusion between myself and Senator
Hitchcock or Casper e. Yost, nor be-
tween myself and any political ring
to. which they may belong. You
know that / am all the time in favor
of democrat to succeed Senator
Hitchcock. and that he would not be
my choice as among republicans.
You know that your statements are
false as to what transpired in the
grand jury room. You know that
the grand jurors are bound by their
oaths not to disclose the counsels of
their fellows or of the United States
attorneys; hence yo1r stab in the
back.
But excuse me, / do not wish to
buy you. A five cent nickel would
De a poor Investment used in your
purchase. BEACH !. HINMAN.
We refer to this matter from the
fact that we were one of those u. s.
grand jurors, and know of every
thing done in the premises. We en-
dorse what Mr.. Hinman says above,
so far as reference is made to the ac-
ton of the jury, and are we'll satisfied
hat the Bee man knew he was writ
ng tissue Of barefaced lies about the
ury. And coward that he is, he
wrote and published, knowing that
hone of the slandered jurors could |
defend themselves by pub
ishing in detail matters that trans
bred in the grand jury room.
We are not for Hitchcock nor
Igainst him. nor for or against any
'ther man, to that extent that we
could oppose the administration of
nstiee, whether it should lead to the
veal or woe of the individual interest
ID. Standing as We did unprejudiced,
IN nbiased-not one particle Interested
n seeing any man either acquitted or
Condemned, owing allegiance to mo
nan or ring, and thinking of nothing
'ut to properly acquit ourself as
worn q. S. grand juror, we consider
d ourself qualified to criticise the ac-
ion of our fellow jurors, and we de-
lare that We are satisfied that one
!alf the jurors did not know whether
he other half were for Hitchcock or
ot. The jury was composed of Re-
ublicans and Democrats, and it did
Is duty well and thoroughly.
All the Bee has to say about "Yo ost's 8
apanese smuggling operations" are /
ialicious lies, and all his insinua-
ons, charges and assertions, and the {
rticle collectively and in detail, are :
Malicious and vindictive lies. .
Heretofore we have occasionally s
lit soma sympathy for Rosewater, q
nd thought that he might be in the I
lain right in his warefare on the q. :
officials, bat now we have personal G
nowiedge of his unprincipled dispo. I
tion, and that he does not scruple s
or hesitate to concoct, make up out :
whole cloth, any contemplate, e
IEty, .cowardly lie that suits his pur- =