The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-02-22

Mac has done. He goes to head quarters,
he keeps posted on affairs, Brooks ana
Hoge are there and we have nothing 70
fear. Can any one doubt that that was
the purpose of that telegram! The Pres
ident had simply through courtesy
taken Mcdonald in his carriage for z
ride. and whisky matters formed no part
of the conversation. Suppose Mcdonald
had ridden with Babcock, and he had
sent such 8 telegram, what mountain OF
evidence would have been made OF 1t by
the prosecution of Babcock. A mouth
would have been closed, but as the cir;
cumstsnces stand fortunately, the Presi.
dents mouth is wide open. Suppose Bah.
book has written to Mcdonald the letter.
which Rogers did ask in personald favofzy
thew are far more inculpstory thaa
anything Babcock has written, and y
Rogers, pure and straight forward as ne
is. were, by the same misfortune, on trial,
the fabric of his reputation would vanish
before the letters. Hoge had been cor
rupted long before, and right here the
letters OF Hoge to Bingham were IN
point.
Mr.. Storrs proceeded TO refer to the
list of letters, the first dating. in March,
1874. He said this note only proved
Hoge, the trusted agent Of
the government, was corrupted
at that time, but that was
not the beginning of his corruption. The
Government had been unable to prove
where the leak of information about rev.
enue affairs at Washington was, and
therefore because they could hot find it,
they asked that Babcock be convicted as
leaky at a venture; but the defense had
found it and here it was. Hoge was the
man who, trusted as pure ty the Govern
ment, had sold himself to infamy. The
defen dant might have been unable TO de.
fend himself against the willing perfumes
of the ring but for this. There was no
perjury that would appal some of these
men. Who could doubt the unblinking.
unwinking Fitzroy if occasion required
would solemnly swear the Missis.
sippi river bed was dry?
The speaker reviewed the letters until
he came to the one giving information
ofthe raid, the discovery of which had
caused such a great degree ofcommotion,
when he said: Could there be any doubt
now where the leak was? There is no
more honorable man than Mr.. Brooks,
We, suppose that he was on trial; that
hoye was brought as witness against
him; that Brooks letter to Rogers, ask
ing that the corrupt Hoge be associated
with him IN these raids, could he escape
conviction2
There is no man in the entire Depart
ment who ever had any correspondence
with the st. Louis district against whom
a stronger case than this against Bah
cock could have been made.
Mr.. Storrs differed with Brodhead as
To the character of that letter of Brooks
TO Rogers. He held that it was very lia-
bile to misconstruction. McDonsld pre-
pared Bsbcock tor constituting it, by de-
claring he would not submit TO having
men of doubtful character sent into his
district to work over his head. Babcock
recognized this feeling as natural, and
showed the letter to the Presi-
dert, and, feeling that Mcdonald
had Just cause for complaint,
be urged not that the raids be abandoned,
but that responsible men be sent TO
make an investigation, as responsible
men were always chosen to make inves-
LEGATIONS IN the army. Was there any
thing wrong in this position of Bah
cocks. Doesn't the proof rs to Brashaer,
Hoge and others show the system Of
sending irresponsible sneaks over the
country was more injurious than no sys-
tenn at all. Was there ANYTHING crim-
nal in Baocock's having that letter in
his possession. If it was guilty pos
session, would it have been so publicly
acknowledged as that Babcock should
show the documents TO both the Presl-
dent and the commissioner. Mr. StorrS
finished the reading of the Hoge letters
with most eloquent denunciation OF that
treacherous scoundrel as the chief OF the
copsp!rators, the head Devil, the key
stone ofthis arch. The moment Rogers
found out that famous plan for raldlng
this district was known to Macdonald,
he abandoned it, and Macdonald sent
his excellent dead dog telegram and Bah
cock discovered several days afterwards
that the plan was abandoned and think
inc he WIS telling some news telegraph
ed to Mcdonald, there never was amore
worthless telegram as II contained lntor-
nation that thing had been Abandoned,
which abandonment had occurred before he
ever knew that it had been contemplated.
Mr.. Slorrs then took up the revocation
Of the order transfer supervisors.
Joyce sent to Babcock on February 5,
1915. about the dispatch which he signs
Svlph, I'VE have official information the
enemy weakens;
Push Things
Babcock received this dispatch at three
o'clock in the afternoon. The speaker
was thus particular as to time because the
prosecution set the example. Bsbcock
did not understand this dispatch,
and did not answer II. The
prosecution had argued that Babcock had
understood this dispatch and had pushed
things. but the Trouble was that at the
time Bsbcock received that dispatch
things had been pushed and the order
had been revoked. The Interview Bah
cock had with the commissioner relative
10 the revocation of this order was not
hari AS a result OF this telegram. but was
had full week before, thus
the prosecution was actually invok.
ing reversion ct the reasons 10
sustain .heir case ana asking the jury 10
believe them. The testimony OF the
President and Mr.. Tuiton shows that the
latter called on the former at o'clock
on the day when Joyce sent that telegram
and that during that interview the Presi-
dent determined TO revoke the order.
Two hours aitsrward Babcock received a
telegram to push things, and the prose Gu
ton advance the theory that Babcock
thereupon proceeded to use his Influence
to induce an a.! which had already been
ccnsunmated.
Counsel then referred TO the opposi.
tion ofthe supervisors all over the coun-
trv 10 the order transferring them; the
nolticsl IN huence " which had been used t.