National Republican., 1881-09-17
The Grand Jury and the star-Route
Calumnies.

Calumnics.
The grand jury was TO have indicted
sundry persons last June, who had been
selected by some newspaper-made states
man to be butchered TO make an Ameri-
can holiday, and for weeks the despera-
does engaged in the work loudly boosted
that they were in possession of the evil
dence William A. Cook, A. NJ. Gibson,
and what's-his-name Woodward were the
witness and jury brokers who were to
deliver the victims for the glorilication
of james and MacVeagh. The grand
jury waited in vain for the work TO begin.
When it was given out that it would be
allowed to adjourn without hearing the
cases of the men who had been
bounded and abused in the press
General Brady's counsel protested against
the injustice, and demanded that the spe-
cial counsel for the Government should
proceed to produce before the grand jury
the evidence he pretended to have. Upon
this Special Counsel William A. Cook SOL
emnly declared to the court that his pre-
tense of being ready had all the time
been false, and he begged that the grand
jury be adjourned over till September.
More than two months have gone on.
Again the grand jury meets. Meanwhile
the New York Times has been great
reservoir of filth, supplied from
the clodco which has its source
in the Post-Oflice Department. Swift
destruction was to be dealt out rs
soon as the grand jury should meet. On
Monday last they met, purSuditto adjourn
men. The District Attorney, Mr.. Cork
hill, has nothing to do with the star-route
cases. William A. Cook is the special
attorney for that business; A. NJ. Gibson
is procurer-general; Woodward is spy
Kinds is the resurrection man, and Others
there are of lesser note. Ever since March
last superhuman efforts have been goinl
on to induce men to testify a
| req,Gred, in consideration of pecuniary
and other favors to be done then
at the expense of the Government. Tht
conspirators have compassed sea and lane
to manufacture false and periured testi
mOny. The day came. and eitherthey haC
secured none or it was so tainted they
dared not offer it. What did they do
They did the only thing they could do
They skunk away from Washington
every one of them. From James down
| to Woodward, and from MacN Neagh dowT
to Gibson-all were gone. The grea
Reformers and the little Reformer
had vanished. The Republic which
they found tottering to its base with tn,
crimes they were to unearth stagger
along without them. The evidenc,
they pretended to have to surely
convict sundry persons of posta
frauds is not forthcoming. The burn
ing deck was there, but Casabianct
James had fled. The wicked flourish
and MacVeagh cssaysnot TO hinder then,
Gibson, the traflicker in testimony, anC
Cook, the manipulation ofjuries, fled from
Washington just Us the grand jury was
TO assemble, and, after two days waiting
to hear from them, the District-Attorney
who has no knowledge of their business
was constrained to heed the importunitie
of some of the jurors and consent to III
adjournment to October 3.
1t is not to be supposed that Distric
Attorney Corkhill took any responsi
bility in this matter. Who can doub
that he had his instructions from the At
torney-General? The latter gentleman
is already badly damaged in public esti
nation by calling around him such tim
Der us Gibson, Cook, Kinds q Co. to &C
for him in great public prosecution; bu
he may at the last moment have ha,
grace enough to shrink from the pit int
which trial based solely on suborne,
testimony, corruptly bought by Govern
ment favors, would inevitably land him
The scurrlous dispatch from Washing
ton to the New York Sun of yesterday, il
which Judge Macarthur and the Suprem
Court of the District, as n whole, is ira
duced in terms tit only to be applied to
banditti, was doubtless inspired by tn
Gibson-Cook bureau of defamation
They are perhaps preparing excuses for
failure to indict in the absence of test
mony: