The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-08-05
THE SHADOW OF 1884.

ST. LOUIS, July 2S.-The following is a
copy of the preface to the forthcoming book
by Gen. Mcdonald The book is entitled:
Secrets OF the Great Whisky Ring. Con-
tanning complete exposure of the illicit
whisky frauds eliminating IN 1875, and the
connection of Grant, Babcock, Douglas, Ches-
ter II. Krum, and other administration Off
GERS established by positive ard unequivo-
cal documentary proofs, comprising conf
Dental letters and kilograms emanating
from the White House, directing the man
agement of thering. To which is added
the missing links in the chain of evidence
of James A. Garfeld's implication.with the
District of Columbia ring and DeGolyer
bribery. By Gen. John Mcdonald, form
erly Supervisor of internal revenue for the
district comprising Missouri, Arkansas,
Texas, Kansas, Indian Territory and New
Mexico" In this book Gen. Mcdonald
does not spare himself, but frankly &C.
knowledges his instrumentality in the or
ganization and conduct of the ring and, ap-
preciating his position, he is careful to
make only such statements as ms letters
and kilograms with Grant Babcock, ETC.,
substantiate. Nothing is taken for grant
ed all is proven.
NEARLY FIVE YEARS HAVE ELAPSED
since my conviction as member of the
great whisky ring of 1875, or, more prop
erly, Of the ring exposure Of which occur
red during that year. Five years Is but
short while to those whose current Of life
flows with the melody Of prosperity and
contentment, but to him whose memory is
scared by the basest ingratitude man ever
showed to man; whose sacrifices for those
in power above him have ruined life, in
the debris of which his eyes can never I'M
bend their fixed gaze at his own bitter hu-
mility, it is ages.
In this introduction to my thorough ex-
posure of the whisky frauds eliminating in
1875, it's my desire to qualify most I'M
enviable position, one which have no de-
sire to shrink from, however false appear
ing those seuth hounds fresh from a glut-
tonous feast Of public blood those abusers
of trust who cry thief" loudest in order to
defect the gaze OF justice from their own
villainies, seek to make it. do not ap-
proach the bar of public opinion at this day,
laying bare the hideous deformities Of rec
reant high place officials, for the purpose
of vindicating myself. Far from It. De
nying or affirming nothing as to my own
guilt, the law has spent It's force upon me :;
have paid the penalty, and further claims
against me no man has; | am therefore en-
titled to a considerable hearing in what
have to say.
Thoroughly approaching how prone the
public will be to throw dlscredit upon my
statements, have determined to omit much
that is unsupported by written or other cor
roborative evidence and Confne myself to
charges which can prove by overwhelming
testimony. Every step, therefore is eau
tiously made, and if there is a single libel
contained in this book | am amenable to
the law, the burden of which few men have
felt more heavily. Each declaration is
made as if were under oath, and in order
that the true story shall appear unabridged,
nave dealt literally only with the facts in
which have been as equally unsparing of
myself as all Of the others implicated with
me.
During the rigid examination Of the
United States grand jury, when nearly
every man in the nation believed that many
OF the highest officials in Washington were
benefciaries Of the whisky fund, | was