Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-18

Ssse man or the Chicago Custom House
HoW the Indictments against Tie Off
GERS OF the architects Department Here
Procured.
Washington Letter to Cincinnati Fropirer.
| don't see how Mr.. Hayes, whose love OF
1.-THE best people is almost weakness, picks
out such slop-shop set of favorites. There
Is the apple Of his eye, little Smith, of Chi
cage, who is playing the role of Simon Tap
pertit with serious results, having distant
people indicted by his grand inries on
antique and baseless pretexts, and sending
newspaper reporter named Thomson, lately
graduated In the law. on to Washington To
ACHE suspensions of modest officers John
Sherman IS dlsregarded by Hayes; the find
lngs OF old officials like Assistant Secretary
french are put aside; Hayes raises Smith to
his level, as the King of the Sandwich
Islands made Yankee Sullivan prime minis
ter.
THE DISMISSAL OF THE ARCHITECT
came to Washington last Wednesday.
| and the first day I walked into the architects
office. Mills was sitting there, and one of
the indicted. He said, as reached out NV
hand, "Iou are not afraid to sp4ak to me?''
In few minutes heard the lnerriest Deals
OF laughter from the next room, aud looking
! IN, there sat several of the young men indict1
ed by Smiths grand jury, cear-hearted as
school-boys l said to myself mentally,
There IS no remorse where that laugh comes
from. Smith cannot laugh like that, he Is
| already past 1t. There is nothing in history
to show that the image of Janus ever
laughed.
said to Mills, once in this office under
Muliett: "What are you indicted for?''
FOR sasslng William Henry Smith" said
he. Il left this Office in Mullett's time, and
and was employed IN private business in
New York for year, when one day Mueller
of Cincinnati, the contractor for the stone
for Chicago. came 10 me and said: Mr..
Mills, you know how to talk with Govern
ment officials They are going to take my
contract away. Potter recommends repudi-
| atiDg it and tearing out the foundations of
| the buildings. [ want to employ you to pro
| tect me- told Mueller | couIdnt leave my
permanent employment. He then gave me
| position with a long tenure of Office ]
found VIM. Henry Smith carrying on pri-
vate war against my boss, and went after
| him the same way he attacked-in the news
papers. am now indicted as an
| alleged parter' with Mueller, with whom
| iISFSi Ldi SLlCti al Interest. was merely
an empioye. My true offense is opposing
Smith. I never had any relations with Mi.
Potter, but can say that indictng him was
an outrage. He fought Mueller hard, and
nearly rnined him, and as MHeIer's agent ]
attacked Potter as hard as | could. Mr.. Smith
| Is the most mendGcious person [ ever saw.
| even III Chicago. The real offender. if any.
in this business, was A. B. MulIett. He gave
| the contract ont; Potter tried to cancel it;
| Hill found It, ss it stands, on his hands The
motive OF the prosecution Is to capture the
patronage on the new building. which Hill
would not let Smith have for his political
objects. Hill could not be indicted without
including Potter, who preceded him; so they
arrest Potter at his quiet ayocation in New
| York: Mullett is used and let OF. under tho
excuse of the statnte of Limitations. Tie
witnesses before the grand jury were all paid
to testify-that is, they were Hills and Pot
ter's discharged workmen, taken back and
put on pay for the purpose of swearing TO
charges which would procure an indict-
ment.'
MORE or SHUT.
Fir. Hill said: "E5mith is attempting to
sneak out OF the responsibility for this in
dictment. He published card 10 that effect
| in the New York Hesoid. We know. how
| ever, beyond the shadow of doubt, that his
hand is behind it all. His word is worth
nothing. We possess his newspaper dis
patches on this question, full of malicious
insinnation. His habit was FIRST to write in
the Chicago newspapers articles of SANDER
Gus character and then telegraph them 10
all the newspapers in the country as home
public opinion. lie has made the QUERY
and erected the rulnors under which ms
| jury finds jndictnents.''
| MIR. j. @. Howard, of New York. vino
wrote the life OF Rutherford j. Hayes said
that Smith, Of Chicago, is a regular bath
erer. He has two fellows with him, named
Hines and Hamm. Hamm is his appraiser
He wrote in my Office lying report, putting
| himself which Hines signed. Chicago is
| full OF rascals of that kind
Smith and Charley Farwell, the greatest
| poker player among statesmen, not except
ing Schenck, had Thomson, the assistant
district attorney who pressed these indict-
ments, appointed. He was once Law reporter
on the Chicago I'ft5ute. Thomson IS rep
resented as saying last night, in the dutiful
and loyal tone adopted 10y ths Chicago ring.
that John Sherman WIS ''doing all IN bis
power to shield Hill" Is this Mr.. HAYES,
| idea OF civil service toner Thomson went
into the grand jury room, and, having &C.
was sent by Smith to Washington to get Hill
suspended over Sherman's head. The Presi-
dent tamely acquiesccd. What ought to be
done with man VINO uses the United States
grand jury room for political iutri9ues, and
arrests citizens thousand miles distant be
cause they stand in his employers way? Is
| this the time of Henry VIII? Mr. William
Henry Smith had better be . thief and rob
his government than stretch authority Sc.
These little scabs in Office dare much on ac-
count of their size, like rabid spaniols that
bite mems legs in crowds.
Mr. Curtis, Of the Chicago Inter-Ocsan.
said the following Of Smith:
! TAPPERTIT.
'The present one Of Smiths excitemeuts
| is due to mig ambition to control the politics
of Illinois. Ee desires to elect Charles Y.
Farwell to the United States Senate in place
| Gen. Oglesbv. 10 d. go he wants to control
| the large laboring force and expenditure on
| the Chicago federal building. Hill, tbs
architect here, stood in his way, and an at
| tempt was first made to raise newspaper
outery and have Secretary Sherman dismiss
Hill. Articles we're written by Smith in the
| Chicago Times, n which he is a etockhold-
| err
"Stop, Mr.. Curtis A civil service reform
er one of the owners Of the Chicago T1n7es?"
| "These articles continued the relator,
| ':were expected to excite somebody. But
| what excites Chicago, does not necessarily
| get any other circulation. The secretary Of
the treasury referred all the charges to tho
assistant secretary, II. f. French, chose
conclusions we're tri9o calm, compared to
| Smiths expectations.