Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1880-01-14

having expired ne having oeen up
pointed TO fill the vacancy, another
tool OF Stewards, named Bailey, was
appointed by Mr. Evarts to tho Con.
sui Generalshlp.o ratryrfrq
While Bailey's nomination wasrend.
ing Gen. Mosby, who had been ap-
pointed Consul to Hong Kong filed
charges in the State Department
against him Of being a deiaultcr 10 the
extent of $4,000.
These charges were on file at the
State Department and within the
Knowledge og NJ. Evarts at tho time
Of the appointment, yet all iniorma-
tion of them was withhold from the
Senate, He was consequently con
frmed.
Neither would these facts ever have
been known, in oil probability, had
not Gen. Mosby dispatched apriyate
letter inclosrng copy Of the charges
against Bailey, which information was
made public through The Washington
Post.
Then Mr.. Evarts was forced to I'D.
nit their existence and his conceal
ment of them from the Senate at the
time Balleys nomination was under
consideration.
Bailey's first act when he reached
Shanghai was to remove from Office
two Of the Consular clerks who had,
by order of Congress, testified before
tho Committee against Seward.
They were thus left dcs titute and
apparently in disgrace, aud were
obliged to work their way home before
the mast
Mr.. Eyarts' next act was to allow
Bradford his salary during the time he
was in Jail serving out his sentence for
robbing the mails and while suspended
and awaiting his sentence on the con-
iessed crime of embezzlement, down
to tho 9th of last September long
after Congress had adjourned and
adopted articlesofimpeachmentag against
him.
Not only this he returned to him
out of tho contingent fund of the State
Department the fine of $3.50, which
he had paid upon conviction Of pur-
Joining letters.
After the adi iournment Of Congress,
and Mr.. Seward'sescape from impeach-
ment through the revolutionary tactics
of his party friends, and by pleading
in bar his constitutional immunity from
being obliged to criminate himself by
the eproducton of his books and papers,
Mr., Evarts again dispatched him TO
China as the representative Of the
Government to country where his
extortions were well known.
These facts we have stated concisey
and as nearly as We are able in chrono-
logical order. They are each and all
susceptible of proof They show con
clusively not only Stewards guilt and
Bradford's iniamy, but in manner
not to be evaded or explained away by
Mr.. Evarts' protecting hand and guilty
collusion from first to last. There can
be no question in the mind Of any can.
did man who reads these declarations
that we have either grossly slandercd
Mr.. Evarts or that he has rendered
himself liable to impeachment as being
q guilty accessory to the crimes OF
both Seward and Bradford. II Con.
gress is possessed ofonc title of the in
dependence and moral courage it is
popularity supposed to possess, it will
first satisfy itself of the probable truth
of these charges, and, having done so,
order Mr.. Evarts upon his trial in con.
nection with his guilty copartners i'm.
mediately.
If the half of what we have stated
is true, or one. quarter of it, Mr.. Eyarts,
in order to shield the guilty nephew Of
his great friend, William II. Seward,
from q just punishment OF his crimes,
has disgraced himself, and brought the
high office he occupies into degrada-
tion and contempt.
The question is What willtho pco-
PIES representatives do about itY