Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-29

own high sense Of honor and official pro-
priesy. For, when frat approached by the
attorneys of the rival companies and urged
BY them to commence suit IN the name
Of the government to test the validity OF
the Bell patent, be promptly declined to ex-
press any opinion upon the eubject and
referred them to the Solicitor Genersl
frankly stating at the time
that il would be mauifestly
improper for him TO move in the matter,
because of an interest acquired some years
before while in the Senate and still owned
By him in the capital stock of the Pan.
Electric Company. In addition to this,
We now know, from the evidence OF Dr.
Rogers, father of the Pan Electric inventor,
ven before the House special lnvestigst.
jig Committee, upon the 18th day o.
March, 1886, that Mr.. Garland had excited
the eumiEy of the inventor and bis pomp-
Gus father by refusing to prostitute his OH
cisl influence to further their greedy search
after government patronage.
The Bell monopoly, quickly awaiting
itself of as we'll the frank information fur
nished By the Attorney General as the
treacherous enmity of Rogers and his
father, opened cruel and merCiless cam
paign. Wherever possible, the press was
subsidized; correspondents we're bought up
and parliamentary lobbJ lists (ss the internal
bummers and political beggsrs that infest
Washington, are pleased TO term them
selves) put TO work to smirch the character
OF a great lawyer and pure statesman.
The object, as we have seen, was to pre- |
vent judicial investigation of the ongi. |
nal procurement of the Bell patent 10
attain this, every low and mean device was
resorted 10 to inlimidats the chief OF the
law department. or, failing in this, TO de-
stroy the Presidents confidence in his At
torney General The corresp ondents of
Leading journals. who could not be sp-
preached BY direct bribery, were cunninsly
supplied With sensational items calculated
TO impose IS well upon editorial enterprise
as upon the creduli y of the public.
Fortunately, for Mr. Garland, and still
mere fortunately for the country, these in.
siduous influences were from the start met
with a firm and manly opposition. The
President OF the United States was pos
sessed with Jacksonisn frmness and, what
wes more ID the purpose an earnest and
sense OF justice.
Having absolute and unwsvering conf
ience in the integrity OF his Attorney Cen
-rsl, he turned deaf ear to the journal
site cries Of Cruelty him! cruelty him!
md thereby save thyseltP
Realizing in the outset, what the whole
country has since realized, namely, that
he iusiduous attacks upon the character
If Mr.. Garland had as we'll their origin as
heir continuance in monopolistic indu-
,uces the President refused to sacrifice, or
resist in sacrificing that noble gentleman
md manly statesman upon the altar OF
uspicion.
And, now, the country knows that the
investigation, ordered by the
House OF Representatives and already sut.
iciently advanced to foreshsdow the end, {
will more than yiulicste toe course, az we'll
Il The Attorney General in Withholding an
,fier of resignation as of. President Cleve'
and in refusing to request him to resign.
The evidence sdduced in the progress OF ,
he investigation has convinced, as we'll it
night. every lover OF truth and fair deal
ng that Mr.. Garlands connection with
be Pan EIectri, Company, entered into
eyeral gears before bis appointment to
Cabinet Office, was purely business ven
no resemblance, either in
orm, matter or intent, TO the purchases Of
took made by Senators and Representa-
ives few years back in then famous and
,oz infamous Credit Mobilier.