Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-02-12
The Bell Telephone Company
Charged With Paying for
Assaults Printed in New
York Papers, and
Paying Much.
An Anti-ChineSe Demonstration
Occurs at Olympia.
The President has Ordered
Troops to Seattle.
The Telephone Unhapplness


WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The pub
llssed statement that the president
snd the attorney general are indiffer-
ent 10 the attacks made upon the latter
regarding his CONNIE elton with the Pan
Electric Telephone company and that
neither of them reads what appears in
the newspapers upon the subject is
false. But the president and Mr.. Gar
land have seen nearly everything that
has been published in New York and
elsewhere, and the publications have
been discussed not only by them in
private but with other members of the
cabinet. The president has no hesits.
ton and has felt no dehcacy in talking
the matter over with Mr.. Garland, and
the lstter has bsen equally candid.
The subject is alluded TO nearly every
time Mr.. Garland goes to the white
house. and is well understood by the
entire official family of the president,
Every new point brought out is given
attention, and it is said that ali that
is published is clipped out and pre-
served for future use. The president
has, however, expressed his wish that
the members of the cabinet should at
present take no part in the contro-
versy, nor say anything for pubhcs-
ton whatever. This policy of silence
is adopted because the president feels
that the future will vindicate Mr..
Garland, and because the source. the
motives and the purposes of the
war upon the attorney general
are fully understood. When the
New York World and the Sun
took up the agkt the Tribune had
been making, and commenced a
broadside fire that silenced the Tri-
bune's shotgun, the president at once
took steps to ascertain the cause of
the war upon his cabinet. Il quiet
but thorough inv, stigstion was made,
and the president has received almost
daily reports of the movements and
purposes Of the ring that has been
directing and paying FOR the publica-
tions. lie has kept Mr. Garland in
formed of all the discsve lies and at
his request the latter has not concern
ed himself in the matter. The presi-
dent has as much confidence in and
respect for Mr.. Garland as he had the
day the cabinet was sworn, and the
efforts that have been made to drive
the attorney general out of the cabi-
net have only served TO strengthen
him in his seat. While Mr.. Garland
has frequently expressed his will
ingness TO relieve the administration
from embarrassment by rendering his
resignation, the president has refused
to listen TO any such suggestion, and
there is no more probability of va
cancy in the Office of attorney general
than IN the war or navy departments.
The president will not ask Mr.. Gar
land to resign, nor would he accept
his resignation if it was rendered. If
Mr.. Cleveland has one characteristic
more strongly developed than an
other, it is obStinacy, and, as au init
mate friend remarked today, every
shot that is fired against Mr.. Garland
increases the presidents determination
to keep his cabinet as it stands now.
SPEAKING FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.
The gentleman just quoted says
The president has information, the
truth of which he believes, that the
New York newspapers, with a few ex-
ceptions, have been subsidized by the
Bell Telephone company, which
operates through firm of prominent
democratic lawyers who have intimate
relation with the Western Unien
Telegraph company as well that the
price paid for the use of the columns
OF the newspapers is very large, as
much as S., 600 have been paid for the
publication of a single article. The
object OF what Gen. Butler in his
interview with the Herald called the
confluence and ffiueBce of newspaper
opinion, is to- prevent the govern
ment from carrying out the pro
gramme with regard 10 the suits TO
test the validity of the Bell patent. By
keeping up the war on Mr.. Garland,
the Bell company hopes to discourage
the prosecution of the suit, and init
nations have been received by those
high In authority that the attacks
would cease when the prosecution was
abandoned. When these intims tions
were conveyed to the president he
sent for Solicitor General Goode, and
directed him TO make as great haste as
was consisteat with the proper appre-
citation OF the case, and TO employ
| whatever assistance was necessary TO
do it thoroughly and rapidly. He
said he would select the attorneys TO
assist Mr.. Goode in conducting the
case on behalf of the government and
! they will be men OF eminent ability
and character The president will
also, after proper inquiry, determine
! for himself where the suit shall be
| brought. These two matters he has
| taken entirely out of the hands of the
department of justice, and will not
even consult Mr.. Garland in making
a selection. Mr.. Garland has not ex-
changed a word with Nc. Goode upon
the subject of the suits. He has in
strucled the chief clerk of the depart
ment 10 hand Mr.. Goode at once every
letter that is received on the subject,
and knows no more about the prepara-
tion of the case or the plans OF the
| government than a child does. All
| the information Mr.. Garland has re-
ceived has come from the president
himself. AS soon as the telephone
company becomes convinced that the
| president is in earnest, as soon
| as it discovers that Mr.. Garland's pc
sition will not be disturbed by any
tEipg that can be said against him on
| this subject, and when the suits arc
| brought, you will see sudden change
on the part of the New York newspa-
pers. They will then commence TO
Fl after persons whom they have abus-
ed and to coax those they have ma
ligned. But this policy of first bully
| ing and then cabling will accomplish
nothing. Garland cannot be driven
| out of the cabinet and the suits can
nos be prevented. The managers Of
that company should have had NOSE
sense than to attempt such thing by
the methods they have used.