The daily gazette., 1878-07-17
Kellogg, Packard, weber & Co.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph (Re-
publcan)

| puDHcan.D
1t is only by continued sitting and sift-
ing and turning over and over that the
true inwardness of things can be got at
1t would be difficult to say what matters
were not suspected against the integrity
of the above firm while their headauart-
ers were at New Orleans, and their busi.
ness was fiourishing, but they indignant.
ly "denied the allegations and spurned
the allegators There was suspicion
enough against them, and if nobody else
believed them political saints and mar
tyrs, the select and powerful clique at
Washington who hung around President
Grant and used and abused him to the top
OF their bent. pretended they did, and in
the fulness of their confidence gave them
all the troops they wanted to keep the
machinery Of the firm going to grind grist
for the Republican mil. II is fair to say
that the country was always dissa isfied
with the firm and the way of doing bllsi-
ness, but the proofs of wrong-doing were
not easy to get at while the firm held
everything in their own hands. Now,
however, that it has dissolved, and the
people whom they trod upon and plum
dered have come to their own, the truth
is coming to the surface through the
siftings of Mr.. Potter's committee.
1t will not be forgotten that William
Pitt Kellogg is Senator of the United
States, opposed politically to the admin
istration of President Hayes, or that Mr..
Packard is Consul to the Port of Liver
pool, one of the best-paying Offices in the
gift OF the Government, and consequent
ly not opposed to the administration. One
can no more forget these things than one
can forget the noble sentiment that "Vir-
tue is its own Reward" or that "Honesty
is the best Policy" When the rising
generation read the history of Louisiana
as written by Kellogg, Packard, Weber
& Co., and then contemplate Mr.. Kel-
logg in the character of an honorable
Senator, Mr.. Packard as a Consul, and
Mr.. Weber with fat berth in the place
of Customs, they at once perceive how
fine athing IL is to be virtuous and honest
Kellogg, political trickster and cheat, his
very certificate of election fraud; Pack
ard, another of the same sort, Consul to
| the first port in Europe; and Weber,
| 'ther more than less the same sort, ,haLd d.
| ling the money of the Treasury. Honors
and wealth for them, as rewards for theiI
| dishonesty. One paid by the Conklings
| of the Senate who demanded he should
have seat there, the others paid by the
President for their devotion to theiI
principles. The cant of civil service re-
form never before sounded so much like
cant even when Grant renominated Shep.
| pard for District Commissioner aftef
Congress had kicked him out for being
| rogue. Kellogg Senator Packard q
Consul! The thing is less infamous than
disgraceful to those responsible for it and
to the country.
Kellogg, in his examination on Friday
and Saturday of last week, admitted tha,
on the face of the returns Nichols was
elected Governor, and that the returns OF
several parishes had to be thrown out in
order TO make it appear that Packard bad
been elected. Kellogg assisted in this
work; was, in fact, prime mover in it
and be sure Packard did his share of It
But Kellogg testifies, in answer to ques
ton by Mr.. Butler -"The Packrd ad
ministration could have maintained itsell
had it been recognized by the Fedora
Government. The people of Louisians
would have been content to make the
best terms they could, and Packard would
have been maintained" "You mean,
said Mr.. Hiscock, member of the com
mittee, chad it been understood that the
Federal Government was willing to sus
| tain Packard by military force, then i
could have maintained?. eyes, sir =
replied the ingenious Mr.. Kellogg, wht
had just virtually admitted that Packard
had been counted in by throwing out tn,
| votes of entire parishes.
Mr.. e. l.. Weber, brother of the mnr
| dered statesman, in his testimony throw
additional light on the varied transac
| tons of the firm. There were nineteeI
members of Governor Packard's Senat,
interested in scheme to pass an appro
priation bill of $500,000, out of which ap
preparation Mr. Weber was to get $40, 900
| and which pretty sum he did get. "Gov
ernor Packard" says Mr.. Weber, "prom
ised that the bill, when passed, should
become a law" The Governor Packard
here referred to is the gentleman whom
| the United States have the honor to bt
represented by at Liverpool. Presiden
Hayes, when he discovered the real char
acter of Mr.. Anderson, recalled com
mission he had issued to him making
him Consul at some insignificant port O
China, and now that he is learning some
thing of the real character of Mr.. Pack
ard, late Governor of Louisiana by fraud
would it not be only consistent with hi
action in the Anderson case, and will
his civil service reform policy, to revoke
as he can no longer recall, the nomina
ton of Mr.. Packard? His talents ma.
be admitted, but there are several gentle
men in the country, possibly they nigh
be found in Ohio, equally talented, VIII
would be willing to accept the place, gen
tlemen upon whose character there Is NJ
manner of stain or suspicion, and the ap
pointment of any one of whom woul'
not bear the appearance of carrying ou
bargain. AS for Mr.. Kellogg, the ma
Ijority of the Senate, headed by his in
dorser and advocate, Mr.. Conkling, is re
sponsible for that adventurer and trick
ster and if the Senate likes that sort o
person as a member, it is rather bad TO
the Senate, just as tits bad for the admin
Istration to be represented, or to permi
the country to be represented, abroad b.
Mr.. Packard, or by anybody else who's
appointment bears the slightest appear
ance to part of bad bargain.