The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1884-05-29
GEN. GRANTS TROUBLE.
STATUS or TH- ~ ANclAL SCANDAL.
Ex-senator C0nlSing Says No Statement
WIN lie Made by Grant--Dlfforencs OF
Opinion Regarding the Lntter'a
Completely with Ward.
TnE LnrrEns MUST surrIon.

/ 'h'f aff#A 'AflN' hiNHi Nifiihis
NEW YoRR, May s,--Ex.Senator Conk-
ling, counsel for General Grant, said yester-
day; "Iho only statement that Is TO be
made on tho part of General Grant was
published yesterday morning In all the
papers OF this city, and also through the
agency Of tho Associated Press, In those of
other parts of tie United States In that
statement tho letters alluded 10 In tho 70.
! ported interview with Fish were given In
full, and | sec no reason for a further
statement on tho part OF General Grant"
Tho correspondence between General
Grant and James d. Fish was eagerly read
by every man In Wall street, and was the
principal topic OF discussion. The general
has not yet been told and the defense OF
General Grant which has been put forward
By his friends IL not quito so satisfactory 40
should bo wished, In View OF his own letters.
Wall-slreet men were unusually dnldent
ablul giving On opinion OF the monumental
swlnde Of the age.
81 AM sick at heart" said q prominent
oank president ~ am staunch Democrat
and have often denounced General Grants
conduct Of public affairs and the system OF
politics which no once represented; but /
believed In General Grants personal lntog-
rIty as believed In my own father. Since
the exposure OF the Grants Ward swlndles,
have tried 10 believe, until / reid this
mornings papers, that General Grant
had been guilty Of nothing more serious
than the old fault which made him
bad Presdent-a blind dependence In
bad men who took advantage OF his friend
ship, had persuaded myself that the gen.
eral did not know of Wards confidence
game, and when read the letter this morn.
Ing II came TO me like shock, for unless
General Grant has stronger defense 1 can
not zee how he can DO guIltlesa" And TO
this purport, but In different language spoke
other men OF note and finance, but who posi-
lively refused 10 allow their names TO DO
printed
Mr.. Jesse Sellgman, tho banker, who Is q
friend OF General Grant said that no did
not like 10 be dragged into publicity, but
that no had no hesitation In saying ~ pub
llcly Nc possible that ho believed that Gen-
orol Grant TO be entirely innocent OF any
wrongful knowledge or intent Look.
Ing 0t tho matter from com.
mon sense standpoint" no said, ~
do not SEQ how any ono can believe
otherwise, In vlow OF the undlsputed fact
that tho chief losers by this failure are Gen.
eral Grant and his family even the lady
members They have lost their all, How
can u be possible that General Grant knew
OF the sort OF business that was being done
by tho man 10 whom hG lntlusted his fort
uneY | don't tulnk tho lettera bear tho
meaning that General Grants enemies seek
TO put upon them"
President Baldwin, OF the Fourth Nation.
al bank, was lOath TO give his Interpretation
OF General Grants letters ~ think Mr.
Fish has been more signed against thnn sin.
niUgl' ho said. The letters from General
Grant In answer 10 his sou, lnQuIrng as 10
HE Government contracts though they
were short, would certainly have do.
oelyed man, In the ordinary line of
business, into the belief that everything
was all right But don't believe General
Grant knew the full purport OF tho letters.
Ward was sort OF Alfred Jingle, or q
Montague Tlgg but believe he was put
INTO jail through colluslon between Tappan
and Warner TO got him out OF tho way OF
tho Grand Jury"
United States Dlstrlct Attorney Root
lodged u warrant for the arrest Of Ferd.
nOnd Ward IN Ludlow Street Jail
last night on complaint OF Bank
Examiner Serbia, who charges that
Ward aided and abetted President James
ID. Fish In mlsappropriallng the funds OF
The Marine Bank. Tho affidavit rcoitos tho
same facts as In tho case OF Fish, giving tho
amount drawn out of tho bank by Grant n
Ward as S376,000 and concludes with
charging Ward wlthhoylng "aldod, abottod,
counseled and procured said james d. Fish
10 commit the olIenses with Intent 10 inJuro
and defroud tho Marine Bank for his own
benefit and advantage"
Tho United States commissioner has held
for trial, In their own recognlzanco, Thomas
W. Evans, Cornelius H. Simpson and John
Il. Dickson, bank officers for violation OF
the law preventing oertIllcaton OF checks
for greater amount thnn Is on deposit at
one time The bank claimed tho checks
were "Ncceptod,n not certified.
Colonel Fred Grant sold his family team,
carriages and harness few days ago for
81, 200 and dismissed his coaohman and all
his house help, His wife, when informed
Of the failure Of her husband and the necos.
slty for economy In her domestic relations,
lNlllllhNNi nNNO lNNu VII NTIn1 TkIlOnA
once aud can do II again.
Mira u. 5, Grant has sold the house 1880
CorcorNn street, Washington, which was In
her name, to John r. Mclean, OF tho Gin
clnnOtl Enquirer, for $4,000,
George |. Sonoy, lOt0 President OF tho
Metropolitan Bank Of New York, to-day
assigned all the valuable paintings In his fA-
nous picture gallery nj his residence In
Brooklyn 10 the Metropolitan National
Bank The pictures are lBJ In number,
and th0r total value is S850,O00
CmCAdo May ga mortgage from
Gon0ral u, :. Grant 10 w. II. Vanderbilt
on IN undivided fourth palt Of 1855 acres Of
land adjoining Chicago hna been put on
record In this city, Tho land was conveyed
10 General Grant by Joseph h Jones May
90, 1850. The mortgage ~ given 10 secure
payment of check drawn by General
Grant on account OF Grant n Ward, dated
Mny ., 1884, for the sum of $3.50, 900, IN
payment OF money advanced by Vanderbilt
to Grant " Ward. Tho mortgage was exc
cuted In New York. and bears dnte May IL.
NEW yonH, May ~, Ferdinand Ward
was taken out OF jail yesterday aud given
four hours' recreation. About fifty foot
northwest Of the main door Is carriages
way, which was understood 10 DO discon.
nocicd from the jail Through this gate tho
prisoner and hls escorts passed about 1850,
and, unattended entering carriage NJ tho
corner Of BroomO and Ludlow street, drove
10 Vleischman's restaurant, whore thoy In.
duged In refreshments, after which tho
party drove IN westerly direction, II was
learned that they drove 10 house whore
they met Genorol Grant and had long In.
tUrylew with him.