Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1896-07-03

and the right. and Henderson,
having his spiritual stength re-
uewed, decided to take hol and
prosecute with vengeance.
Henderson had been an appli-
cant for a foreign mission in 1872,
and President Grant, having been
informed Of a personal attack
made by Henderson on him, retns
ed to appoint the general. 1t Is
said by one who knew Grant well,
that he never overlooked person.
al attack. On being appointed to
prosecute the whiskey ring, Hen
derSon could not resist the temp
tation to vent his spleen on the
president, and he declared that
the whiskey frauds were ring
that extended to the White House.
lIShtlCl sui WdS dU OuCC lCihoNOt,
and Hon. James o. Broadhead, an
eminent lawyer and Democratic
statesman, was appointed in his
place. General Grant, in making
this appointment, gave utterance
to the famous order:
"Let no guilty man escape.'
November 4, 1875, Mckee and
Mcguire were indicted for "con-
spiracy to defraud the govern
ment." In September, j .hn A.
Joyce was indicted in the western
district court of Jefferson City for
failure to report official investiga
ton. On November 13, Joyce was
sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary and $4,000 fine. Nc
Donald was convicted in the same
month. w. o. Avery, a clerk in
the commissioners s Office, was tried
at st. Louis and convicted Decem-
ber Sd. In February, 1876, Bah
cock was acquitted by Jury. On
February 1st, William Mckee was
convicted. The same day collec-
tor of internal revenue Con. Ma
guire plead guilty. Mckee was
fined ten thousand dollars and
sentenced to two years in the
county Jail. Mcguire was sent
enced to six months in the county
Jail. In st. Joseph, John L Bit
finger was, on April Is, 1876,
sentenced to two years in the State
penitentiary, and to pay fine of
one thousand dollars. Other mem
! bers of the ring were more or less
punished; but there is no doubt
that many of the guilty escaped.
SO many prominent politicians,
newspaper men and men wealthy
and occupying high places in soci-
ETY., were herhaps never before
convicted by their own political
friends.
The Republican party in Mis-
souri, has never yet gotr'a over
the blighting effect of th.. "hiskey
ring. Ever since, the state has
been Dem, cratic. Chauncey |.
Filley, the great Republican or
ganizer and leader, refused to
sign petition or write a letter fol-
the pardon of William Mckee OF
the st. Louis Globe Democrat, and
has ever since been the object of
that papers hate. Mr.. Filley
gives the following reason for de-
clining to sign petition, or write
a letter to President Grant for the
pardon of William Mckee:
~ declined to sign letter OF
petition for the pardon of Mckee,
not upon any personal grounds,
but because he, as an intelligent
man and publ .sher of great
newspaper, whose duty it was to
be faithful to the public as pub
lie educator, had been false to his
public nd individual duty, and
the means of snborning and con-
taminating so many young men,
aud so many public officers, feder
al, State and city, that he had no
claims for consideration, and
. should be made to suffer for his
own acts, and to atone for the
homes he had destroyed, as well
as the lives of so many who fell
under his blight"
Filley has never ceased to fee
the effects 0 his refusal. William
Mckee died in 1879, and a state
ment published in many of the
leading papers and never to our
, knowledge denied, is to the effect
that he call, | his wife, Joseph Nc
Cnllagh. editor of the st. Louis
Globe Democrat, and D. NJ. Hous-
er. its manager, to his death bed