The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-04-27
How One Of the Democratic In.
QUESTION Committees Did IL.

was only few DAYS ago ina. SS&4I'
mitses permitted the false and maj,
icious statement to be tesegrapaei
throughout Cbris5endom that the
President had been detected ia tax
En- money from the Treasury 10 pur-
chase his election, but il was left toE
Committee CT Expenditures u the
. Interior Department today to sur
pass al others in the attempt TO catch
Grant. The Democrats on the Gem
mittee had caused al the R=pa5A-
cans 70 be notified that
AN IMPORTANT WITNESS
Vas to be examined, and that all
should be present. Nd hin: was
given OF the nature Of the expected
evidence. but the fact escaped from
some Of the less careful Democrats,
,ha. the Committee held President
Grant in the hollow Of its hand
| The Committee had been sitting with
| open doors, bu. the mysterious wit
ness was produced, AM the doors
| were barred for two hours. The wit
ness upon whose lips the fate Of the
President Of the United States hung
was an orIinarylooktng business
man. TIE Democratic members
were on tiptoe with expedition
The Republicans were interested, but
| ignorant of the forthcoming results
The witness was almost Indifferent.
HIS MARVELLOUS STORY
was this: Some time ago 4 person
in high station did him great irjarr,
1t became important TO the peace Of
mind Of that great parsonage that
witness should DO harm ess. Hired
| detectives soon hurried him 20 the
Government. mad-house. He was
kept there, friendIess AMI p3wer.ess.
for months, when one day agents OF
this great parsonage approached him
giving him his choice between life
Imprisonment with lunatics or a life
of exile in Euro pc. He chose the
latter. The detectives accompanied
him to the steamer, and he left for
Europe. Becoming weary Of Europe
he returned and appeared before the
Committee to-day to tell the story.-
The Committee seemed paralszad
in part with astonishment, in part
with diabolical JOY. ''Who was that
great parsonage that wronged YOU"
asked the Chairman. "The Presi-
dent Of the United States" was the
reply. What wrong did he DO YOU"
There the witness paused. lie
would die before he holll tell. II
was a delicate subjsct and should
not be mentioned. For an holr the
Committee piled him with questions.
They threatened him with imprison-
ment, with a severe punishment, and
with terrors Of eontamscv,-the wit
ness yielded. He said the President
of the United States has
DONE HIM MORTAL WRONG
that he had ruined his (the witncss')
betrothed, and since that time witness
has been prescribed and prosecuted
man. Hence those detectives, hence
those mad house bars. The President
had frequently come to the house OF
witness about it at the dead Of night,
and had importuned him at his bed
side not to ruin his great fame
"But," interfered a REPUBLICAN mem
: Der, how did the President get t.
your bedside at that time Of night:
Did he riRg the ben?" The clima'
had coma. The Democrats were ell
&, thusiastic in their sarloaic Joy, AM
were just ready to render their viz
dict against the President, when Ii,
witness added earnestly: Il wan
you to understand, gentlemen, tina
"President Grant in the body never
"did me or mine harm. He has only
: "done me that great wrong as a spjr,
"it.'
, The collapse came; the witness
was mad man. The Committee in
stan,ly discharged him, Immediately
ordered the s;enographer to suppress
his notes, and begged the Republi,
can members to keep the matter ST.
lent. One OF the latter, with a good
deal Of indignation, said that he hop
ed he might be as mad as the witness
if he kept still. In this way tho
Democrats of the Committee on Ex-
pendlture in the Interior Department,
caught the President.