Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-01-09

he reads can read the testimony Of
that investigation and not conclude
that E. W. Reyes is as nearly con.
nccted with the Wisconsin whiskey
frauds as Sammy Tilden il with the
famous cipher dispatches. Before the
Potter committee attempt to make
Tilden appear to be entitled to the
Presidency most people thought the
charges against him were only parti.
san clap trap. A few persons knew
better. The New York Tribune
brought TO light the facts and now all
the world admits and believes in Til
den's connection with the cipher dis
patches. Before this exposure the
McCrarys Of the Democratic party.
such as the editors of the ~. Y. World.
Philadelphia Times or Peck's Sun. in
response to the request of friends
would have given Tilden ssvindica.
tlon," but who would do so now? IF
Reyes with all his "complicitie," il
imposed upon the people those who
are trying 20 put on the disgrace do
not know The load their party will
have to car.y-cdn't carry.
The other letters, by Mckinney
Dixon and Cate are fresh Certificates
of character" asked for as answers to
exposures made by this paper, to help
him to the Office Of u. S. Senator. It
appears to us that man offered for
such place should have a character
too well fixed IN the knowledge Of the
people to need such certificate. Mr..
Rublee needs no such certificate. Mr..
Fairchild needs none, Mr.. Howe needs
none. They would not have such
certificates circulated through the pa
pers for Senatorship. Do they not
as much as anything we have pre-.
sented show the character of the man.
and wouldn't it belittle Wisconsin and
Wisconsin people to send to the u. S.
Senate a man with these certificates
pinned to his back This is the look
it has to us even if those certificates
came from the highest and purest
men of the State. But who is G. w.
Gate? -Four years ago he ran for
Congress. The honest votes of his
district we're against him by about
200 majority. In one county he found
pair OF rascals who gave him a
fraudulent count and thus elected him
by one or two majority. These ras.
Gals were prosecuted, convicted and
punished by heavy fine and, if we
remember correctly, imprisonment.
On this ground Mr.. Gates seat was
contested, and be unblushingly held
on to it. He was Chairman of the
Investigating Committee in whose re-
port Mr.. Reyes figured so conspicu
ously and hard as that report is on
our would.be Senator it does not
show brilliant effort or desperate at
tempt on the part of the Chairman to
connect Mr. Reyes with fraud. The
political record of Wisconsin does
not show that Democrats or Republi.
cans of the class of Mr.. Cate ever
wanted to hurt Mr.. Reyes. They
were always jovial clan and consti-
tuted ring party, who studied how
to use other parties and the people
for individual plumber. A man who
gets a certificate of character from
MIR. Cate is not man for Republic
cans to choose as U. S. Senator. As
to Mr.. McKinney's certificate we
think he over-does the business. "No
simple fact or circumstance was ever
developed rejecting in the least upon
your honor or integrity" And then
he says that the only way Mr.. Keyes's
name was linked with frauds was by
statements OF one or tloo persons, which
were conolusively shown to be mali. |
cious and deliberate falsehoods and 80
admitted by their authors. The name
may not be "linked with fraud" There
was Sam Rindskopf who testified that
his distillery paid $4,000 to SIS, 900
to U. S. Officials, and that the money
paid was assessed by Reyes and
Others" That is one person and it is
"link" to something. 1t will hardly
be denied that Mr.. Keyes did all be
could to shield Mr.. Rindskopf from
punishment Leopold Wirth testified
that he and others collected whiskey
fraud money $500. They put it in
an envelope and he saw Conklin give
the envelope to Reyes. That makes
tho persons and it is another ''lnk"to
something. David Griffiths testified
that he paid sum ofthis fraud money
to Nunemacher, on Keyes's call and
that no walked to Keyes's room and
saw him go in, saw Reyes there, and
when he came out be searched Nune.
macher and found that he (N.) did
not have the money nor the list OF
contributors. This makes three per.
sons and another "link." And "dear
Conk" is fourth person and another
"link"-Oh, achat link Then J. f.
Fitzgerald s'links' the matter with
Conklin or Reyes. VIM. L. Hoag's
testimony sinks" Reyes with the
"fraud" Conklin, about getting bail,
going to Canada and easy punish.
ment. This is JfUe persons. Mr.. Nc
Kenney's one or two persons, there
fore, are at least foe. And the men
who gave the sinks" did not in the
investigation or since, admit them to
be false. Mr.. McKenney "certifies'
too strong. HIS partiality gets away
with his senses. Judge Dixon's GER
tificate is in the same fix. "There
never was the slightest evidence which
came to my knowledge duplicating
you in the smallest Degree" and as
sociating his name with them was the
offspring of BIPARTISAN" malice. That
Smallest degree" is saying too much,
as the 'links" we have given clearly
show. So is the word bipartisan.
Mr.. Reyes has never been, in that in.
vestigation or at any other time,
troubled by BIPARTISAN" malice. His
enemies have always been the very
best Republicans. He has driven
away more of this class than the num-
Der of ConL.ins, Griffiths, Wirths.
Bulls and Bunkers be has brought to
it, which is the cause Of its present
weakness. As Judge Dixon says,
Gates whitewashing evidence in that
investigation did not in legal view
connect Mr.. Reyes with the frauds.
The HERALD, we repeat, has SO as.
sumed all along. Suppose that Smith,
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