The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-03-25
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THE GREAT CONSPIRACY,
Conclusive Proof That the Panic OF
1893, Which Cost Thousands
Their Liyes and Millions
Their Fortunes,
Was Created by the Joint Action of the Ma
tional Bankers of New York. and Grover
Cleveland and John G. Carlisle.
CONTINUED from last aUeeE.)

What Is criminal consniracvo

Criminal conspiracy is a corrupt
com binatiOn of two or more persons.
by concerted action, to commit a
criminal or unlawful act. or an act
not in itself criminal or unlawful, by
criminal or unlawful means, or an act
which would tend to prejudice the
public in general, to subvert justice,
disturb the peace, injure public trade.
affect public health or Violate publ
policy: or any act, however innocent,
Dy means neither criminal nor unlaw-
full, where the tendency of the object
would be to wrongfully coerce or OF
press either the public or an individ.
ual.
There can be no doubt, that by the
common law, all such confederacies as
those described are highly criminals:
and it is sufficient, to constitute the
offenSe, IT two or more persons, in any
manner, through any contrivance-
positively or tacitly-come to NUT
ual understanding to accomplish
criminal or unlawful design; the giSt
of the offense being the fraudulent
and corrupt combination with the in
tent that injury shall result. The
agreement may be express or implied;
the conspirators need not even be ac-
Quainted with each other, and it is
conSpiratOr shall know the exact part
which each is to perform. The COM
mon design is the essence of the
crime of conspiracy, land it is not neces-
sary to prove that the persons charged
came together and actually agreed in
terms to that design, and to pursue it
by common means. II they pursued
by their acts the same object often
by the same means, one performing
one part and another another part Of
the same, so as to, complete it with
view to the attainment of that same
object, the jury will be justified in the
conclusion that they were engaged in
a cons piracy to effect that object. All
cOnfederates in common design, of
which the offense of conspiracy is
part, are principals; and all concerned
in the execution of the common pur-
pose are alike guilty.
An accessory before the act is one
who, being absent at the time the
crime is committed, yet procures,
counselS. encourages, inciteS or COM
mendS another to commit the crime.
Conspiracy is substantive offense,
complete in itself, and is punishab BILE
at common law, although nothing has
been done in execution of it's purpose.
The offense is completed when the
cOnfederacy is made; if overt acts are
charged in the Indictment, and are
sustained by proof, such acts are mat
ters of aggravatiOn, or evidences of
crime; for an overt act, wherever COM
mitted, is renewal OF the original
conspiracy by all the conspirators
The proof Of conspiracy may be di-
rect or circumStantial; the joint as
sent Of minds, like all other parts of
a criminal case, may be esta blished by
an inference of the jury from the 9TH
er facts proved. AS matter of fact,
criminal cOnspiracies are mostly con-
federacies in which the parties are
pledged or sworn to secrecy; and in
such cases proof can only be made bv
the Greachery of participants or by
circumstant:al evidence; whence it is
that there is no occasion to prove the
actual fact OF the conspiracy; it may
be collected from all the collateral cir
cumstances of the case.
(See English and American Ency-
clopedia OF Law; Tomlin's and Bou-
vier's Law Dictionaries.)
XVI.
On the 11th of April, 1898, Grover
Cleveland appointed Conrad n. Jor-
dan to be Assistant Treasurer of the
United States. vice E. H. Roberts, re-
signed.
The sub-treasury at New York is a
highly important office, 1t is the
great business establishment of the
federal government-it is one of the
Associated Banks of New York; and
the Importance of its functions may
be estimated when it is known that
it's aggregate receipts and disburse-
ments in the three fiscal years, 1891,
nd h0
and half thousands of millions OF
dollars.
Jordan's appointment was con-
spicuous departure from Grover Cleve-
lands publicly announced purpose,
that he would not reappoint ex-office-
holders Of his former administration.
OF these Conrad n. Jordan was one
He had been United States Treasurer
from June, 1885, to May, 1887, when he
resigned to become President of the
Western National Bank uf New York,
an institution organized principally
by himself and Secretary Dan Man
ming, and of which Manning was presi-
dent at the time of his death.
But if Jordan's appointment to be
sub-Treasurer was in violation of one
of Grover Cleveland's principles of Of
fetal action, it was strictly in line
with another-that of his intended
use of the federal patronage to force
the repeal Of the silver law. Jordan
became-under his second appoint
ment-one of the most active and ef-
ficient of the federal agents of that
repeal. He became-under his second
appointment-the confidential inter-
mediary between Grover Cleveland
and the New York National Bank
presidents in their joint operations
for National Bank war upon the ma
tional industries, commerce and prop
erty; and doubtless. mis- selection was
made. in part at least, with this func-
tion in view. He was well-known to