Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-01
SHERMAN'S SQUEAL.

Correspond ent's ReDly to Shermau,s
Syndicate Tsansacst0ns.
Washington Special aug. 2S) to Cincinnati
Enquirer.I
When it was charged in this correspond
ence that Secretary Sherman was endeavor-
ing to capture the votes of the Southern
delegations in the interest of his Presidential
nomination, and roster was printed of the
rebels to whom he had given places in the
treasury department, it very naturally threw
his friends into the deepest CONSERVATION.
literary bureau was at once formed in the
treasury department. to break the force of
the EnQui1'e,'s charges. 1t consisted of
Assistant Secretary Hawley and Appoint
ment Clerk Lamphere. The latter was d.
rected to get w. a rejoinder of some kind,
| and not to pay very strict attention to facts.
| Accordingly, a weak denial was mailed to
newspaper in Cincinnati published six times
week, but one SO truly good that it il
matter Cf much surprise here that he should
have been deceived into making defense of
or becoming the apologist for disloyalty, in
asmuch as his loyalty had never before been
questioned. 10 the lame defense set up by
this literary bureau the Enquirer replies as
follows:
In the statement with reference to the ap-
pointment under Sherman of the ex con
federate brigadier brother-in-law of Senator
Gordon, Allan Wood, 10 a first class clerk
| snip In the treasury, il was stated that Major
Dickinson, formerly of the Eighth Illinois
cavalry, was removed to make place for
Wood-thet he who wore the blue had to
surrender to the gray. This the literary bu
reau denies in sickiy way by Implication.
Being sensitive on the accuracy of my dis.
patches, even in irrelevant matters Of this
kind, I have examined the records, and find
the treatment of Ma j,'r Dickinson by Sec,e
tary Sherman to be, il possible, greater
outrage upon the Union soldiers than the ap-
| pointment of ex rebels. The records of tho
treasury show that Major Di ,kinson was dis
charged from the first comptroller's Office By
Secretary Sherman, and Gordon's brother
in-law was appointed upon the recommends
ton of Charles Foster and Others. ..s =,
| Major Dickinson, beside his services in the
army, has a paralyzed daughter on whom he
has expended every cent of his savings in
efforts to cure her. The hardship of his re-
moval, aud the double affection of having
been Union soldier and having an invalid
child, SO wrought upon the sympathies OF his
comrades that they united in such pressure
that Sherman was compelled to reappoint
Dickinson, and he assigned him to the office
| of the register of the treasury. But this
concession to the Union soldiers, it appears,
was only to allay clamor, and the major was
not forgiven for his use of the soldier influ-
ence to effect his reappointment. .... .
The very next confederate brigadier to ap-
| ply for Office was the brother of Senator
Withers, of Virginia, and Dickinson was
again removed and Wlthers Was appointed to
his place by Secretary Sherman, on the re-
commendation of Gen. W. T. Sherman, who
was class mate with Withers at West Point,
and knew how good Conf. derate he was. A
few days ago, when the damaging exp, sures
in these dispatches, of the preference shown
the Confederates in appointments by this
administration were made public, Dickinson
was again appointed to a temporary place by
Mr. Sherman, tut the N 'meut the universal
protest of the Union soldier element csases
predict some reason will be trumped up
for the removal Of Ma jor Dickinson aud his
comrades.
| The denial that the Confederate Col.
Moore is not now in the department. in any
capacity is another mistake.'' This rebel
remained in Sherman's office until he was
promoted to higher and more lucrative
office in the postot1ice department., under his
Confederate comrade, Gen. Key, where he is
now drawing handsome salary.
The statement that Neligah, the Union
soldier, was removed, and Massey, the rebel,
! appointed his successor during the Grant
administration, simply confirms previous as
sertions. The charge that Massey was a
rebel guerrilla, and had been indicted on q
charge of stealing mules, was made to Seq
rotary Sherman III person by the ex-Conted
crate Surgeon Henry, and who has Just been
appointed surgeon in tho Indian service by
President Hayes. ..
| The Yerger family are still in the depart
me- hts this morning, and the agitation of the
| subject does not seem to have influenced the
administration to any action. 1t is not a
matter of wonder here that the friends of the
murdered Colonel Crane in Dayton are in
dignant.
! NJ. D. Ball, just appointed collector of GUS
toms at Alexandria, by Secretary Sherman,
was an original rebel, and was captured at
the beginning of the war by ELLSWORTH
troops, when the latter was assasslnsted on
entering the sacred soil of Virginia in 1861.
Boil gained his freedom and served through
the war to destroy the Union.
w. Chapman, a Mostly guerrilla, is in the
treasury department. Here, again, the bu
| reau makes 'mistake.'' To-day I called
| upon Acting Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Rogers, with wnom the following col
| !oquy took place:
The EnqUlrer-It has been denied in the
public prints that J. w. Chapman, who was
In MOsby's command, is in the employ of
tue treasury department under Secretary
Sherman. Now, Az q matter of fact, Mr..
Rogers, is not Chapman special revenue
agent? t.sa
Mr.. Rogers-He is; but he is capable
officer. a.
The Elquirer-I make no point on his
efficiency. ALI want to know is whether or
no he is a revenue agent?
Mr.. Roges-Yes sir, he is.
SECRETARY sHBRMAN's PLEA OF GUILTY
to the indictment of the Enquirer in con-
nection with his transaction with the First
national bank of New York was, after all, the
only manly course which was left him. His
attempt, though, to plead in justification of
his act that different course would have
made strihgency in the money market,
leads to the very serious inquiry: What right
has secretary of the treasury to lend the
money of the people to avert such a calam-
ity? Again, Secretary Sherman must admit
that, after the confession he made to the
Cincinnati merchants yesterday, that he has
deceived the people whom he addressed
when he attempted to leave them uuder the
conviction that he had closed refunding
operations. It would have come with
much better grace, and would have smacked
more of genuine honesty, if Secretary Sner-
man had made his confession When be ad-
dressed the people of Maine. His plea of
guilty, entered yesterday, carries with it
necessarily the pies of guilty to the charge
that he deliberately deceived the M 4ine vot-
ers, and led them to believe that he had re-
funded the 6 per cent. loan, when in fact be
had not.
The opinion is almost universal here that
but for the persistent cause of the Enquirer
in pressing Secretary Sherman to explain his
operations with the syndicate the people of
this country you'd never have known how
1.-THE greatest American fnancier" intulged a
New York bank with capital of $5OO,O0O
by practically loaniDg it without security,