National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-25
The Next Sten.

Inc great state IrlalS Wnlcn Cne AT
torney-General promised the public, at
which an ex-senator and an ex-Assistant
| POstmaster-Generalw were to be offered up
to appease the anger of an offended
Nation, will utterly fail if the sleuth-
hounds employed by him are not put on
new scents. He has kept up an incessant
| din in the press for two months, telling
the reading public that he had cloud
of witnesses and mountain of evidence
upon which to indict and convict Gen
eral Brady. He and the Postmaster-G Gen
eral, with their spies and detectives,
have rummaged. the files Of the Post
Office Department for the information
which General Brady laid before Con-
gress in splendid order a year and half
ago, and which is all in a printed docu-
ment, and have cudgeled their small
brains TO establish unfavorable differences
from perfectly lawful and proper acts,
upon which TO base indictments. They
have discovered nothiag and have no eUi-
deHce upon which a decent man would
hang an enemy's dog They know they
cannot make good a single charge of
wrongdoing which they have been
braying to the country since April. At
one time, chagrined at their failure to find
evidence, they intended to arrest promi-
nent men on accusations to be made by
their creatures and have them degraded by
the mere fact of the arrest. This, for some
cause best knowntoth themselves, they aban-
doned. Perhaps men could not be easily
found bold enough to perjure themselves
by swearing to complaints as the basis for
warrants of arrest. Their passion for
notoriety and for revenge on those who
were notinclinedto tamely submit to their
practices found vent in further noisy out
pourings through the press. Cook, Gibson,
and Woodward sat in Room No. 50 at the
Post-Ofice Department, like the witches
in Macbeth, making their hell-broth and
feeding it out to the people through the
agency Of favored newspaper correspond
ents Mr.. Root, a correspondent of the
New York Times, which paper has been
the leading organ of the defamers, seems
to have been taken into the charmed
circle, according to the testimony of Con-
gresham Money, of Mississippi, so that
he could get his ladle in frequently and
feed it out piping hot. The Erening Critic,
alluding to Mr.. Moneys call upon Mr.
Root, says:
Yesterday the Colonel proceeded to Room So
which he was referred to as the most likely place
to find Mr.. Root, the correspondent of the Times
whose agile pen had written the offensive words.
He found the Star Chamber in high session. In
one part of the room were Gibson and Woodward.
Seated at desk in another quarter of the den,
with pile of United States records and lot of
manuscript as an assistant, sat Mr. Root
We learn from other sources that this
Times correspondent has from the begin
ming been thus accommodated at the
Post-OffiCe Department, as the the Adj
vertiser-Generalo of the concern. Gibson
wields ready pen, and no one can mis-
take his ear-marks in many of the dis
patches which daily go out to poison and
deceive the public mind.
The Postmaster-General seems to have
wellnigh dropped out of sight. He is
the "poor boy of the frolic," the limp and
feeble Jacques Srop to the bold and
aggressive Robert Mdcaire of the Depart
ment Of Justice. The latter, having made
a retreat from his startling scheme of
arresting reputable citizens upon the ac
cusation of knaves before indictment,
made up his mind that he would have a
few hundreds of indictments Just prior to
the summer recess of the court. One
paper reported him as clustering about
putting men in the penitentiary
and stating the number of indictments to
be found against General Brady alone as
high as ninety three But not with that
grand jury. On, no! We were told to
await the empanneling of the new grand
Jury if we wanted to see victims. The
time arrived, and with it the exposure of
the fraud upon the President. the court,
and the country, of which Mac
Neagh and James had been the
and Gibson, Cook, Woodward
& Co. the promoters One single out
spoken demand by one strong man for
the speedy trial which murderer or
horse thief might claim as a constitu-
tionaI right extorted from the Attorney
Generals double, William A. Cook, the |
disgraceful confession that the Govern
ment had no case against General Brady |
or anybody else. This is the situation
after all the turmoil and outcry.
Now. Mr.. Attorney-General,i is the time |
for your man Gibson. You must have |
evidence. You know-none know better |
than you-of his exploits at New Orleans. |
He procured testimony there, and his
witnesses testified to his rot
tenness in dealing with them. Nothing
will save your case now but subornation |
of perjury. Set Gibson at work at once,
if you have not done so already, and |
from the cutters and the jails he can
give you that which now you do not |
possess-evidence upon which to try and
indict somebody.
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