Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-01-02
"Contempribly Mean"

/ - wiz Dc iCtn-HDtEeQ tuaL Judge Gate
while III. Y from this district, believing that
NJ. Reyes was connected with these fraud,
alleged to have been perpetrated upon the
government, caused the matter TO be inyesti-
gated IN Congress BY committee of which he
was chairman, and after full aud fair inyesti.
CATION, Mr.. Keyes was acquitted of all COM
piicity With the transaction, and now this ras-
cally editor, protesting to be Republican,
coliates portion of the very evidence SUBJ
mitted to this committee of Congress, ma
lority OF which was composed OF Keyes's poit-
ical enemies, biased against him, and upon
which. after fair investigation, he was hon.
orably acquitted and publishes it to the world
a. evidence to prove Mr.. Keyes unworthy to
oe elected U. S Senator We have no words
adequate to express our contempt for that
man calling himself Republican who would
publish to the world phat he kyso,cs is utterly
false and malicious for the purpose of defeat.
ing prominent citizen and menber of bis
own party Tor the position of q. 8. Senator,
ana II Mr.. Carpenter is party to this outrage
j. ought to be known, and Mr.. C. should suffer
the sure condemnation that could not help
but follow such contemplate trickery. In
conclusion we would like to ask the Grant
County HERALD man from whom he obtained
.ne letters, &e, which he publishes. Second.
we challenge him to publish the report of the
committee who investigated the matter, which
ne VIII do Il be is fair man. Waus1u Wa
The above is fair sample Of the
editorial intelligence at work in the
interest of Mr.. Reyes. 1t undertakes
to confate our presentation of facts
given in the HERALD of December
10, which it calls ssreview of the old
scandal ventilated in Congress. Yet
at the conclusion the editor asks"from
whom we obtained the letters pub
lished." fit was an sold scandal
ventilated in Congress" the editor
might have guessed that we found
the letters, DC. In Congressional doc
uments. As it is plain the editor did
not know what he was talking about
and as we know that Reyes and his
friends will labor to impress upon the
minds of the weak brethren of the
Legislature the belief that Reyes was
actually Investigated and acquitted,
we repeat here that the letters copied
were never before any investigating
committee, nor were they even sub
mitted to the Keyes whitewash bee
held in Madison by the ringsters OF
both parties in 1870. Those letters
were produced in Court at the Mid
dieton distillery trial held at Madison
last Janei Note the date, Mr.. Wau.
sau man and you members of the Leg
islature--June, 1878-long after the
Congressional and white washing bee
two years after. These letters were
produced there in Madison, and
though their authenticity and their
truthfulness cannot be questioned, the
Madison Journal. from which Repub.
licaus expect to get all the
news from the capital and the
Madison Democrat, from which
Democrats expect to get all the cap.
ital news, neither of them, told their
readers of the letters. Mr.. Keyes
had them both muzzled. As they
were not produced in the Madison
daily papers the probability is that
other Wisconsin papers knew nothing
of them. The man of tho Wausou
paper evidently never heard OF them
until he saw them in the Grant County
HERALD, and under the circumstan.
ces be is hardly censurable for his ig-
norance. One of those letters is. dated
April 90, 1874. Let US analyze cir
cumstances. This date is before Mr..
Reyes secured the appointment of
"dear Conk" to succeed Burpee. Mr..
Reyes produced a letter of his own,
dated May 10, 1874, at the Congress
sional investig ation, to show that he
had tried 10 expose the whiskey s'ma
RAIDERS" This letter begins thus
"It is charged that Charles H. Bunker
y shipped to defraud the reve-
nue." &c. This he follows by submit.
ting Sin all candor" that the defiance
of law has only been done by the
gross carelessness and neglect of said
Burpee." He was after Burpee who
has never to this day been weighed
in the Investigation" balance and
found wanting, and wanted in his
place "dear Conk" who soon proved
himself of great value to Mr.. Reyes
and q "marauder" who saved his ba-
con by fleeing to Canada. lie wrote
this letter after the Department at
Washington were already on the track
of the frauds and must have known
they would be smelling around him.
But before he wrote it, this letter of
mis- other friend was written (Chas. III.
Bunker's, probably he would call
him "dear Bunk to another Canada
exile. Bunker was one OF the "ma-
rauders" after wards convicted-and
in this letter he tells how for a while
"blue smoke" was cleared away and
how "E w. Reyes did it; bless bis
Old heart" How he "comprehended
the situation instantly" and told Char
ley he did not want lawyers but
friends. "How that man did work.
says Charley.
"He set to work dozen of the most promi.
nent and influential men of Madison to hunt
up other influential men and manufacture pub
lie sentiment in our favor and against Capron
men who went singly and in squads" etc.
How accurately this convict crony
of Mr.. Reyes pictures his methods
the methods he is using and expects
to use with the members Of the Legis-
lature to get himself elected U. S.
Senator! But the point is this: MIR.
keyes was engaged in this Herculean
undertaking of shielding these guilty
sooundrels /; he was getting all the
"prominent and influential men to
hunt up other influential men" TO clear
these men who scere guilty, and as
soon as he found a breathing spell
wrote severe letter to get Burpee
removed who was not guilty, and get
: fellow in his place who soon proved
himself the most capable scoundrel of
the "marauding" ring. Does it not
look as if Mr.. Keyes's object was to
get a man In who would hide the