Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-02
HOW THEY VIEWED IT THEN.
Criticisms of the Leading Phila-
deIphia Journals on Credit
MObiIier in 1873.

ALL GUILTY-DIFFERING ONLY IN
DEGREE.
Public Ledger und.l. February 20. 1871
If 0akes Ames is guilty of bribing
or otherwise corrupting his fellow.
members land the evidence shows that
he isl then some Of them must have
been bribed or corrupted. There is
not one of them who made a public
denial of his alleged connection with
the Credit Mobilier'' who did not
falsify the real facts by prevarication
or by suppressing essential truth, or
by false suggestion, or by direct false.
hood-proved to be a falsehood by the
record evidence. y = If these
members did not feel that their Credit
Mobilier transactions were dishonor-
able why did they resort to prevarica-
ton and concealment in their first
denials.
THEIR MEAN, TRICKY, FALSE DE-
MAILS.
Public Ledger Qndl February IS, 1881
y Then came their mean,
tricky, false denials, shifts, evasions
and fast following explanation of their
explanations, every change in which
showed more and more their own sense
of their culpability. There never
was an instance in which men hold.
ing a public trust we're more thor
oughly covered with proof of NAL
f~easance in Office. The guilty knowl-
edge of all these men was as visible as
the plumber of the government moneys
was stupenduous. Andcongress pun
ishes all this by passing its partial
resolutions of censure, letting the
guilty go free upon the false p~retense
Of having no jurisdiction. This is so
transparent a sham that it will com
mand the belief of no one possessing
the commonest intelligence.
NOT ONE FIT TO SIT AS A LAw-MAKER.
Evening Telegraph Rep) Feb. IS, 1873.
= = 4 There is not one man
whom the testimony of Cakes Anne
has connected with the Credit No
bilier who is fit to sit in the seat of
the law-maker. If Cakes Ames was
the bribe-giver, they must have been
the bribe-takers.
DELIBERATE AND wILLFUL LYING.
Evening Telegraph tRep.l Feb. 26. 1873.
The bribe-takeri is as guilty
as the bribe-giYer, and Mr.. Ames de-
cidedly objects to being made a scape-
goat for the sins Of other people.
For him to work corruption with his
Credit Mobilier stock there must have
been corrupt material for him to
work with, and admitting that the ac-
cused parties, from the vice-president
down, were ignorant Of Ames' mo-
tives in the first place, what can be
said in extenuation Of the deliberate
and willful lying they have INDUCED
in frOm.the time an exposure Of this
infamous business was first limited at,
through the whole progress OF the in
yestlgation up to the present moment
CAKES AMEs' BRIBE-TAKERs AND
LIARS.
Evening Telegraph (Rep.) Feb. 26, 1871
= Andrew johnson,
whatever might have been said of his
sins Of commission or omission, was
an angel of light in comparison with
Cakes Ames aud his sneaking crew
Of bride takers and liars, from the
yice-president down to the member
from Ohio, who spits his venom at
the press, because the press has done
its duty in exposing a gigantic wrong.
DESTROYED SOME OF THE PEOPLES
IDOLS.
Press Rep) Feb. 10. 1881
Its revelations
shocked the moral sense of men of all
parties and destroyed some Of the
peoples idols.