The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-01-06
PROOF AGAINST BASCOCk.
Things that Connect Him with
the Whiskey Frauds.
The Telegraphic Messages Be-
tween Grants Private Secretary
and the ST. Louis Ring
Strength of the Incul-
patory Evidence
t,hic-.o Tims- correspondence

81. LoUt.. Dec. ~. ~ doubt il people
really understand said Gen. John ID.
Henderson, the late special counsel Tor
the government in the whisky cases, last
week, talking with little party VI
| friends, chow strong this ease l. against
| Babcock." Acting upon Gen. llehder-
sons implied suggestion. your CORES
| pondent has ionted together "the case
| against Babcock. Ii l. not asserted that
this il all the evidence against the Dri-
vatc secretary, but ii embrace, such
evidence " was drawn out in the
trial of Avery, and such az the govern
ment counsel have felt al liberty 10 make
public. From the middle of 1913 10 the
10th vi last May was the harvest time OF
the ring. In one period OF fourteen
month. there was turned out in st. Louis
the enormous quantity Of 100000 gallons
OF crooked whisky. n clear fraud on the
revenue OF S120,0OO. As to minor detail,
respectin. the movements OF revenue
agents and spies, the ring relied Oh
Avery. For more important crisis the
powerful influence of Babcock was called
up. Times almost innumerable the dis
tillers aud rectiiicrs were shown letters
aud kilograms bearing the signatures OF
Babcock and Avery TO reassure them.ln
October, 1913. wncn the N,-,,.,-rics We're
being crowded to their utmost. Ford, the
collector, died suddenly of pneumonia, it
was reported, in Chicago. lie had been
to Cleveland, had met the president, and
had been offered the sccrctaryship Of The
Interior. Joyce, kcenly alive to the
| emergency, telcsraphcl a. follows:
ST. LOUIS, Oct. %. lS13.--Gen. .. T..
| Babcock. Executive Mansion. care OF
| President Grant: Poor Ford is dead /:
Nal lnnull l. NSifI fh. hnly I ut tho
dent act cautiously on his successorship.
JomN A. JoYCE.
Two days passed, and scarcely were
poor ford's bones under ground when
Joyce telegraphcd again:
ST. LouIs, Oct. "a, ls13.-Gen. o. l..
Babcock, Executive Mansion, care of
| President Grant: The bondsmcn prefer
the man they have recommended. An
expression from the president to his
| friends here will secure everything. Let
| the president do for the best. Depend
upon Mcdonald and myself to stand by
his action, TO the last.
| JOHN A. JoYCE.
| The promptitudc with which the ring
acted is evidence enough Of the omer-
| gency. "A single day later the following
telegram, all but the signatures being in
Joyce's handwriting, was sent.
ol' LOUIS, oct' ~, 5000 Ills EX-
ceilehcy IS. Grant; We have the honor
10 Recommend C0l. Constantine Mcguire
LOT coiiector OF internal revenue of the
fist dlslrlct OF Missouri.
| - a. NEwcoMB, JOHN \. JorCE,
| JohN MCDONALD, WM' PATRICK,
| lhe same day babcOck was posted by
tcIc%raph as follows:
| - 81 LOUIS, Oct. y, ls7J.-Gen. .. T..
naDcoch' Executive Mansion: See de-
| ,,Patch sent |" PRESIDENT. We mean it.
MUM JOYCE.
| Mcguire was appointed. The ring had
| Information that Ia" would be, almost I'M
mcdatcly but the appointment was held
back II scemly period. All this winter oi
1871 the ring chopped ii up." As they
were fond OF expressing it. and there wos
not a sign oi coming disaster. Toword
sprin. Douglas, weak -kuccl at hest, J,.
tcrmilcd To have an Investigation Il,
his testimony lic said:
! sent Joyce to Calilorni, IA orde, ~
get him oui of the way while an iuvoyt
CATION was being made Wien hn w.
cciycd instructions Ia un ia C,iitnr,i, ia
lricd hard TO get ln W,shin",nn ha, n ,'
starting West. Eut | aid uni v'',,, iJ
there, a. had my ,u,nirions q, T"'t ill.,,
and McDnn,td IVY '"'l''''"S ~ p''u nm
On the 0,h of March IS-, n,,,,,
sent Il. A. IIop,' r",cnn. nn,,,, 'TnS'"hs
,In ", Nj NJ u '",','' 'sr,iis'l1h 10 20 out