The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1876-09-20

The crooke,lness of the Radical Pres
iien;ial candidate has been revealed,
not only in the matter Of his false
rendering of his taxable list, but
even in more disreputable way.
In the one case he is charged with swind-
ding rich and powerful government,
bat in the other with appropriating the
funds of deserter to his own uses in-
stead of paying them over to his family.
The particulars are thus stated in the |
| Chicago Times Il:
The facts are presenter to the public by |
| W. w. Harper, chaplain of the 18th Union |
Volunteers of West Virginia. which was. in |
! lS64 in Hayes command. As chaplain, the |
circumstances Involving Gov. Hayes came |
under Harper's observation. A deserter,
Isaac b whitlow, was ordered executed by
Gov Hayes He had the proceeds of bounty
Jumping, amounting to 800, on his person,
and before the execution, in the presence
of the chaplain, deposited it with the brigade
commander, Col. r. B. Hayes With the
500 he gave also two watches to Gov. Hayes,
and of this money and watches no one
has ever heard since. The chaplain adver-
tised for the relatives of the dead man, but
no response was ever made. The governor
and his friends assert that the money was
used TO procure another recruit, but do not
account for the watches in any way HsS-
per maintains that the responsibility Gor
the money and the watches rests with Gov
2 HAYES, but does not know what may have
: been done with the drserter's possessions
after the war. The explanation of Gov.
Hayes, which everybody would have been
inclined to credit without doubt before the
: tax exposure, is not now satisfactory. So
= careful business man as he would never
a have omitted record of transaction in
volving the diversion from its owner OF
$500 in money and two watches. Gov. Hayes
says, in substance:
+ Twelve years have passed, important
h papers are lost, witnesses are dead or scat
# tered. In that year, the closing year oft the
:, war, it was the hard lot of our soldiers to
fight ore day ard march the next, hol,
court-martials, condemn or abandon prop
erty, and then lose all in advance or re
g treat. Whole cargoes of important paper.
RS were lost in a single raid; account-boo ks
N vouchers, and receipts vanished in smoke
witnesses testified one day and were shot
dead the next. Are we, on such state o
~ facts, to reverse the rules of common Law
Or and common sense, and hold a man guilt,
1T till he proves himself innocent by documen
ot tary evidence? II the testimony of all tn
IL h.. oc
to be rejected as to the events of the wa
u because they cannot present the papers
who is there that can stand? What on
" officer who served in the Union army froI
ht '6l to 65 can escape the penitentary ?"
- In this charge against Mr.. Hayes there
no political malice as base. Chaplain HaI
" per was the official associate of Col Have
'e He would have been most likely to kno
ls, rne oisr'0siUio~ of the deserter's funds, if
NJ public use had been made of them But L
~ visits Gov. Hayes to confer with him With
three weeks, and to remind him that, unle
Vi accounted for, the loss will be an ineffacei
'ss BILE stain upon the governors record. He
D, there is none of the inherent improbable
nd which tue source and tone of the Bliss in
- putations bear from the outset. The chal
lain is simply anxious that his own recOr
shall not be confused. He details ever
lis event of the transfer of the money to Haye
ne and with such Particularly that NJ deni
nd has been made as to the general statemer
he mere general denial of the retention
the money. Concerning the chaplain
i" narrative, a statement coming from Colun
bus, evidently inspired by the governo
lg says:
Ie- "GOv. Hayes inclines to the belief til;
-. Harper honestly intends to state the exa
truth, and that it was the judge advocate
~ the court martial who was present, an
whom he mistook for Gen Comfy. Whe
in Harper was here, few days since, his a
no tention was called to this, but he persist
bo in his statement that it was Comfy. s
we are obliged to leave that point as a que
ton of veraelty, or power of recollectio
TO- between the two"
ar 1t is unnecessary to point out the curiou
he shutting in this stateme ct, resembling f
70 tally in its confused insuficiency the ia,
list explanation, All that is incumbent c
W the governor to answer Is this: What b.
no came of the 500 handed him by the char
e- lain on the evening of the 9Th of Angus
he 1864, at Frederick, West Virginia? w
that $500 paid to the deserter's heirs? w
it paid into the government? Was it cree
'pl tied to the regimental fund? If so, sho
he the vouchers, and the scandal is at an en-
as