The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1879-07-29
The Glover Committee.
Expert Wilcox-How the Argus Got those
Questions-The Way Democrats Manu-
facture Campaign Material

To the Editor Of the Press:
Doubtless your good readers will be surprised
to learn that the Glover Committee preceded
Secretary Sherman to Maine and furnished the
Argus with that list of questions, after leaving
is, Professor Wilcox who conducted the So.
called investigation that is dubbed Glover and
who wrote that document called the Glover re-
port, went from New York to Portland for the
purpose of securing the publication of that
wonderful list of questions.
The Professor is a martyr-a man expelled
from the public service, doubtless because he
could not be made to earn his salary. He boasts
blood, education, etc., and is an inyesti-
gator. 1 had few hours interview with this
investigator, or rather vindictive prosecutor,
during which | obtained the following infor-
nation which possibly the Argus will not re-
peat The publication of the Glover report
was defeated by Col Adams, the clerk of the
National House or Representatives who was
doubtless bought up by the Treasury Depart
ment; Speaker Randall is a monumental
fraud of the leaders of the Treasury rob-
bing ring; Mr.. Tilden is a scoundrel; every Sec
retary of the Treasury since 1860 knew of the
frauds of his Department, and if the real facts
were known respecting Chief Justice Chase he
would be the blacklist character in American
history; Col. Bristow when Secretary of
the Treasury was a dishonest schemer; nine
tenths of the public men in both parties
are either knaves or consent to the robbing of
the Treasury; that if Mr.. Sherman is Secreta-
ry of the Treasury in 1880 he will insure the
election of a Republican President, if money
can do it, by issuing counterfeit legal-tenders
to any amount which he can do without being
detected; that ninc-tcnths OF the corrcspon-
dents in Washington are blackmailers and
bribe-takers.
Such is sample of the matter which is pass
ing through the mind of Professor Wilcox,
expert-in-chief and manager of the Glover in
vestigation-an investigation conducted in Sc
cret by the examination of ex-employes of the
Treasury Department who have been dis
charged for ineficiency dishonesty or drunk
enness. Just now he is devoting the most of
his time to filling the columns of the New
York Star with Glover Committee matter and
squibs aimed at Mr.. Sherman. One gets as
idea of the bitter animus of the man when it in
known that he went from New York to Port
land for the sole purpose of putting his ques-
tions in the Argus which he might have pro
pounded to the Secretary of the Glover Com
mittee. This know because the Professor
told me that such was the case, and he seemed
specially delighted at his success. He is actu-
ated by revenge. He is just as bitter against
any one who stands in his way as he now is
against Mr. Sherman. He has been so long
brooding over this matter that his mind like
that of Mr.. Glover is unsettled and withal he
has become bitter and malicious, as his trip to
Maine shows.l
Most Democratic papers are giving him a
wide berth as they know that however we'll
meaning he may be he cannot be relied on, be-
cause he discovers fraud in the plainest
transaction. S.