, 1881-06-26
GATH ON GIBSON.
How the Venerable Uncle Samuel
Was Taken In Finan-
ciaiIy.
The People WHO Are After the
Star-Route Thieves.


the claim that liz had seen letter written b.
John Sherman promising offices to certali
malefactors it they would suppress their us
closures. Gibson had gone to Louisiana
and, as is generally believed. had become TIL
dupe of 4 set of knayes down there who say
him having plenty Of money, and exffcmei!
anxious to find scandal, even if he had II
buy it. They got some of his money. AIT
made = foot botl. OF him and AR. Tildcn
A distinguished Democratic correspondent
of the press was telling ine only two or thfes
days ago that when The question was ralsct
iii the Inner Democratic circle whether
they had better omen the Presidential dis
pute again, Mr.. Ctarkson Potter said: ," 1t
Is against my Judgment Our candidate Is
now in the position Of nlan Injured. IT we
investigate his claims and find nothing new,
we invite attack from the other side. and put
Mr, Tilden III the altitude of 4 tiistnrber OF
the peace" Several gentlemen i'll this cOutl-
eli agreed with Potter: Only Speaker ll;tll-
dali insisted that Gibson was i responsible
person, and that he had unnucstlunably seen
tue Sherman letter. They called in the news
paper correspondent As1 referring t", lnan
celebrated fur his cool Judgment, and lle
said: 'Gentlenle1l. with all respect 70 Mr..
Gibson, let linn produce that letter before
sou pass your resolution: II there Is such
letter ile can get it now just as well rs after
va, have thrown the country into excitement
&gain."
IN informant says that Randall and Gibson
operated OH Tilden. and that the Old gentle
man put OUT considerable sum OF nancy Tor
Mr. Gibson to spend in Louisiana. have nu
feeling on the subject. and it there is any
mistake about these facts | AM ready to
rpc1ify them, The Investigation did not
bring out any such letter. 1t brought out a
Sherman:s that The Committee had to drop it,
Then Mrs. jerks was plt on the stand, alld
size muuc a fool OF the Committee, of the de-
tectiye. and of Mr.. TiIdril. Mr.. Sherman
says TINT he has no doubt but that Mrs.
.Ieuks wrote tie letter herself and dropped it
in tie br,siness-l,ouse OF Secessonist. The
Investigation reacted against Mr. Tildcn,
brought out the cipher dispatches, and when
they wure unravelel there was counter
New York City, before which Mr.
1'iltlen Ind To aptp.:,r, to Ills great loss OF
dignity and reposs- Tie understanding III
New York is that Mr.. Ti!len then llatt this
detective discharged froln the newspaper Of
which he had been The life, and III. has not
since had anythn. to do with the press.
Willie on the press, however, he had started
the star-route investigation and published
n0st OF the matter now coming out But
the appetite Of Congress for scandals had
oropriatiol.s as usual. When t;:rtield's Atl-
miliistratiou came into power his new Post
mastcl- General resolved that he would clean
out The old set Of harpies aud confidential
clerks around the PostOt'ice Dcpartment.
lie did not expect to develop any scandal,
but his friends advised him if he expected
to accomplish, anything i'll the post-Oilice to
make removals and start with Il clean slate.
4 man by tile name Ut Woodward. sort
of SPECIAL agent or detective around the Post
nlaster-G General sufficient evidence for him
to demand Brady's resignation forthwith,
The PostN,aster-General sent the evidence to
the President who lost no time IL, tleIil;.1,t-
iug ,BI<ldy's resignation also. 1t WAS this
alone Which gave dignity to I, revival OF the
star-route. scandal. Brady had passed
Democratic Congress successfully, and here
he was condemned by Republican rres1-
dent. The hue and cry bec;,me general. and
had % been pubiisied ] 4y witout M ut atracting ] g9 any
attention. was now marketable, lucky
thing for him, because lie was out Of employ
snelit- Certain gentlemen i'll Washington
City say that more than one year ago Mr.
ter either to 1lte persons affected by il or to
the Journals, but it was heavy stuff, inyoly-
fng figures, localities. and names.
IeiIallts in the Corcoran Building at Wash
neton, where Glbsun's Office was, say that
William +. Chandler came down OF nights
ject being 10 spite President Hayes. who had
refused him foreign mission. Lawyers say
that Gibson brought the star-route figures To
them and offered to retain them, but they
suspected that he wanted to get money out
of the mail contractors, and We're afraid to
touch the case lest it might throw them over
tfe Bar. One Of the mail contractors by the
name IF Salisbury tes1i1ied under oath tha
Mr, Gibson demanded $4,000 rs tile price ot
his silence. 4 friend OF the Stur-rOutc men
once told me that if Gibson had not beeu 50
exorbita1,t i'll his demands he could have svt
fair figure to shut up, perl,i,ts rs high :,s
Ss1, ,O0o, but the sum ot SaN, ,0;N, the gentle
man said, was ZOO preposteruus.
heAttor1ey-{;elleral had to lake c11arge0
the post-U1ce after tile Postmaster had ,lune
his part lie put the matter i'll tile hands Of
thu special agent fWouIWard) above re-
ferred to,-a man not wholly free from sus-
picion himself, IT has been sail that lie was
once removed from the PuStUt1ict. Drpart-
u,entx Woodward. as | hear. went to the
and said: s:'rnis il y yery
tedious jnyrs1iwaf,0n. and il will takr: Inn,
time 10 complete The figures and details.
There Is 4 man here by the name Of {;ji,3ou.
from PENNSYLVANIA, WHO ha, all tie matter
preDarrd, Is there any reason why / should
not employ ni1n3" MucVrayI,, being uewiu
did not kuow that the same
man tGibsoll} had been q furious assailant IF |
the President hi,usclf. lie fold him fo 20
ahead and hire the man. t;ihson. thrref,,rI
found himself lifted from tIlt, Status of MI
lie calls Assistant Attorney i&l,eral. lir is
really all expert called in hy the Govern
1nent. When Garfield heard of the elMplny-