Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1873 — Bogy Whitewashed. [ARTICLE]

Bogy Whitewashed.

We hope that in these days, when the virtuous Democratic newspapers are so excessively indignant concerning what they term the looseness of official investigations into the alleged corruptions of Republican Congressmen, notice win be taken of the fact that the Democratic* majority of the Missouri Legislature have applied a double coat of whitewash to Colonel Bogy, Senator-elect from that State. The Investigating Committee were hot in a search for some way to ex onerate him from the charges of having purchased his Seat, and not finding any other means to achieve that desirable object, they stopped short in their labors when they struck ‘’important testimony. In spite of them, however, the fact was established that money, and a great deal of it, too, was used in the election. The committee became frightened when they reached that point, and failed to trouble themselves as to in whose pockets the greenbacks found a final resting place. One witness joked in Jim Fisk style with the committee, and excused himself for not giving a straightforward reply to its question oy saying that if he answered it thoroughly “ there would be twenty fights before night.” The committee apparently considered that the prospect of damaged Missouri noses and closed up Missouri eyes was too appalling to nak for such a small matter as tracing up the recipients of Bogy’s money, and so they did not press the question. The St. Louis ReputtUcan, a Democratic newspaper which had some conscience, made a strong fight to have the committee cease its farce and go into an investigation in earnest, but it was a party necessity that Bogy should be sent to Washington with a clean bill of health, and accordingly it has been furnished him. We have not remarked any extraordinary denunciation of this proceeding in the columns of the opposition press.— Baltimore American. Advbwuty -brings one into strange company. The truth of this somewhat anpient saw received new proof at Jersey City where affiong the lodgers at the police station, were two Winnebago Indians from Wisconsin on their way to Washington, and two women who claimed io be, one OS and the other 160 years old.