| Show OLD TIME corruption it will take a generation to all alio dark mysteries of grants administration and bome of them will never be torn from their rity especially as long as the lopue lican party holds tho balance of thero is little prospect for an unearthing of the hidden things except now and then some occasional glimpses by an old accomplice in the machinations whenever such i disappointed member of the corra tion gang tells a tale the republicans ruhh forward with sacred ire to deny all his allegations and brand him as a liar such is the case with gen Mc Donalds allegations concerning grants complicity in the frauds of the st louis whiskey ring it will bo remembered that john mcdonald WAS sentence to years penitentiary tent iary for his felonies in connection with the tar of several S louis distillers ue was after wards pardoned out ly grant and he now manifests the gratitude of his noble soul by a lengthy publication in which gen grant is placed in an light mcdonaad McDo makes very direct charges of bribery against G rant he asserts that he sent the ex president 1000 in a box of figara whose flavor grant found very exquisite another time h sold him a team and for of course mcdonald can show no receipts for all this and everybody is at liberty to believe or disbelieve these statements those however who arc acquainted with grants complicity with the whiskey ring as appeared incontrovertible broin the joyce A very and mckee may lo 10 inclined to believe tho statements as they did at the first publication of alio st louis crookedness it was then hushed because evey decent american could not but blush at the idea of seeing a president of the united states publicly exposed as an accomplice of such a corrupt ring the people would rather believe grant to have been a dupe than a companion of those felons hid it not been ba the enthusiastic reception of grant after his trip around the world and the strenuous efforts to nate him for blont would agree little with the common sense or honor of the american people we doubt whether me book will chance the disposition of tho american people to believe grant as personally immaculate in these crooked affairs but still the revelations of his book may serve to illustrate the arelen pr elen of the republican party for the purity of their history during the chicago convention it is said certain opponents of the third term were trying to arrange terms with mcdonald to obtain some of his acts to use against grant on the other ido it is alleged that prominent republican party leaders were particularly active in their attempts to suppress tho dreaded publication by intimidating printers and pub ushers As far is the present republican candidate for the presidential office 13 concerned as far as its contents have been made known is silent aal gen garfield appears not to have had hie skirts soiled by the st louis whiskey ring afo author of the book elates ahai he does not want to die as n goat for the real criminals of the whisky ring lie explains that this ring bad been formed for the pur pose of furnishing means for the campaign fund of tho republican party which had abea on grants and ro in 1872 the administration had been perfectly informed of tha purposes md nouns of abo ring when Bristo ir camo into the cabinet a of the treasury and went for tho ring the latter invoked grants aid and protection and received il in a certain measure if icso statements of mcdonald are true thera is no need of tho allega aloni that Graut had received money from tho to render him to general contempt and disgust it i a act akst there are palpable indications of grants to hield hii friends his celebrated dispatch lot no guilty uan escape especially babcock his secretary was to bo rescued ni all hazards from alio meshes of the law and when took too dangerous a turn acorn arodine was fiade with mcdoneld McDo by which the latter or destroyed the most damaging proofs babcock receiving a iio of being pardoned out of the con which be himself had to incur for all these assertions we want evidence evid enco from other besides mcdonald still hi book contains enough evidence confirmed by abo experience past to disgust the people with tho republican administration and to create a healthy and strong beaire for better than i fraud and republican corruption |
