The Evening critic. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1881-1885, 1881-06-24

against Thomas J Brady or any one else in
connection with the Star-routes.' If this
be true what did Wayne MacVcagh mean
when he told the correspondent of the Phila-
dclpha Record that he was "rcady to bring
cighty-nine indictments against ex-senator
Dorsey" and nearly, If not quite as many
against Thomas J. Brady"
If Cook told the truth in open court, Mac
Veagh lied to the correspondent of the Phila-
delphia Record.
If MacVeagh told the truth to the corre-
spondent of the Philadelphia Record, Cook
lied in open court.
Both statements cannot be true.
If MacVcagh told the truth when he said
to the correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Record that he "was ready to bring eighty
odd indictments" why did Cook, who is his
duly-cmployed assistant and deputy, say in
open court that there is now no case against
any one in connection with the Star-routes?''
These are questions worth pondcring.
1t is too much to expect that Newspaper
Row can ever be pcrvadcd by a gleam of
fair play 1t is not to be hoped that the
public will ever have an opportunity to read
from the pens of Gibson and MacVcagh's
syndicate of professional libclcrs any fair
account or honest Interpretation Of the pro-
ceedings in the Criminal Court yesterday !;
the other side of the Star-routc imbroglio
becomes the fashionable and popular side.
find its way to the popular mind And
when the truth does find its way to the
has bocn the head and Gibson, Cook & Co.,
the miserable hired tools of the bascst and
fidencc of a trusting President and usurp
the powers of his Administration to further
and perhaps extort private blackmail, that
was ever conceived in the brains of Williams
or Matched in the conclavcs of .iail-birds.
This thing has now reached a point at
which the truth will rapidly begin to be
fashionable. We may as well set the ball of
truth rolling by saying that, from the in
ception of this deviish plot to the igno-
minious beginning of its dastardly end yes
terday, Wayne Macycagh has Systematically
played the part for which his earlier career as
a jury packer for Pennsylvania railroads SO
eminently fitted him. He has, from begin.
ming to end, been the presiding genius of a
scheme ofinfamy, involving injustice to bet.
ter men than himself, and treachcry, lying
and systematic deceit to the President who
trusted him and gave him the power that
he has abused and disgraced.
With the smirk of the professional traitor
on his mean face-in which is mirrored alike
the atra-bilc of disordered liver and the
gangrenc of II scoundrel's heart-he has foi
three months deceived, misled and lied tc
the President about these matters and now
at last, when brought face to face with the
long suffering wrath ofhis victim turned al
bay, the poltroon wretch snealls out of town
leaving his miserable hired tool Cook
better known as Fifty-do Billy-to linn
the lame excuse that there is now no cas-,
against Thomas j. Brady or any one els
in connection with the Star-routcs!!"
We have not done with MacVeagh. On
the contrary, as Paul Jones said, ave hav,
just begun to fight" BY the time we &c
through with him the country will b
amply satisfied that we have done. As fo
the wrctchcd hired tools of his baseness,
paragraph or Il line suliiccs. They are o
little account He is of somc account no
so much because of any real worth of hi
own rs because he has, with the ingcnuit,
of the sneak thief and the malignity of tn,
devil, insinuated himself into the conf
dence Of u President whose only fault /
that his confidence in human nature i
rather that of child of ten than that of
man of fifty years And has then abuse,
that confidence for the ends of the bases
selfishncss of ambition, if not, indeed, 70
those of II deeper and more criminal trea
son
In REPLY to Judge Wilson's assertion
that General Brady was being deliberatel