Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-29
CAMERON AND BOWEN.


 The Washington correspondent oi the Chicago Tribune gives the follow.
 ipy measure of the two luminaries oi tl. Department of Justice who for a brief period occasioned such dis t.-bance among the official planets of ArIEons:
 Bowen's agency was not one con rectsd with the Star Route case, but one which required him to investigate charges relating to the selling of liquor to Indians in Arizona. He had DO authority to watch the jury or do any other thing Tn connection with the Star Goute case. The day after his appoint meut be had the conversation with Dickson. and on the following day he went to Ariz0ns. He Was dismissed a s-w 4a, after Ala arrival The Depart u5ut 5t Justice usC ally accepts the War Departments recr nmendations as to sppolntm 7uts ID s"cvice closely con- uectea with the War Department, and !. Is sand that, after Bowen had pre- stIted d letter ill which Secretary Lin calu spoke of him as a personal friend and asked for favorable consideration of what he would say, commission was gIyeu to him without hesitation. His trus character was soon discovered, and be WAS removed on September II. Mir Lincoln unquestionably has been made the victim of some designing per SOD. While the department was con sllarluE the high inducements of Bowen, he was, on the statement of two business men here, trying to negotiate drafts on a bank m New York in which be had no money. One Of these at .smpts, the victim has publicly said, Vas successful; the other was checked by the prudent steps of the intended victim, who telegraphed to the bank and found that Bowen had no account ruere ln this case Bowen narrowly escaped arrest. Brewster Cameron. D1set Special Agent, while a pompous and gulllUle sort of a man, IS undues- ti0uaDly al honest man. But his peculiar notions as to methods, and evident lack Of knowledge of men, has caused the Department of Justice great embarrassment. The Attorney General Iu.1as;sd much of the executive busi- l 1ess uf the department to him. | The guIckbraIned Star Route defend | ants. with their cunning lawyers. measured the breadth and depth | 0i Brewster CamerOn's pOmposity. l mystery, and official m8nnerlsms. The 1 result Is that ID the skirmishing that | LAS been carried on between the Gov l rrument and the defendants since the l miscarriage of the trial, the defendants 1 have been able to put the GovEnment | io very serious disadvantage, and to | buH- home the charge of criminal in- | tent on the part of the Government to l influence the verdict of the jury. No l body believes that the Government au- :L4r=ei any such approaches to the l jury as are now sworn to have been 1 made. but It stands beyond question | that such approaches were made by men 1 EL1 represented the Attorney General | and were ln the pay of the department. | They are now as grim in the depart l menl as the statue of Justice which l trowns on them, for they are mortified. | Nu one believes that either Cameron or l those higher than he ever dreamed that 1 any approaches were being made to the 4 .ury by the agents of the prosecution. | The keen wit of Bob Ingersol and the | oilar counsel suggested that the dis closures of the Government agents
 
 evidence the Government might have | respecting bribery on the part of the defense, but the strategem has over reached % far as public opinion here IS concerned. People do believe that that ! part of the Government represented by Brewster Cameron bungled, botched aLI fell su easy prey to the subtle ma utuverInE of the defense, but they do ] uat believe that the Government intend el crime Limitations come from the department that they expect to show that whatever attempts at bribery were made were made m the interest of the defendants. The Government, com p-l.ed Co admit the guilt of its own agents, wlil defend itself by proving, or attempting tn prove, that the approach es were made Tn the interest of the de- iense. The animation is that, so far as these approaches were made by the Government agents, they were made for the purpose ot covering up another and successful bribery.
 The public here will recognize the pictures drawn in the above. The ad- mlnistration will suffer largely in pub hc estimstion from Cameron's imcom- potency, and officials generally will sui Ter from Bowen's deadbeatism. By the way, We are informed that at least two members Of tha legal profession in this rlty have occasion to remember Bow r,.'s visit and his qualifications as a dead beat.