The story of the Sun, New York: 1833-1928 / by Frank M. O'Brien ; with an introduction by Edward Page Mitchell ...

CHAPTER XI
DANA AND POLITICS
High fight against the Whisky Ring, Credit Mobilier,
"Addition, Division, and Silence." —The "Sun's" Opposition to President Cleveland.
IHE first ten years of Dana's service on the Sun
were marked by the uprooting of many public evils.
To use the mild phrasing of the historian John Fiske,
"Villains sometimes succeeled in imposing upon President Grant, who was an honest, simple-hearted soldier
without much knowledge of the ways of the world." To
say it more concretely, hardly a department of the national government but was alive with fraud. The Sun,
which had supported Grant in the election of 1868, turned
against his administration in its first months, and for
years it continued to keep before the public the revelations of corruption-which were easily made, so 1)old
were the scoundrels, so coarse their manners of theft.
Among the scandals which the Sun either brought to
light or was most vigorous in assailing, these were the
principal:
The Credit Mobilier Scandal.-This involved the
names of many senators and representatives who were
accused of accepting stock in the Credit Mobilier of
America, the fiscal company organized to build the Union
Pacific Railroad, as a reward for using their influence
and votes in favor of the great enterprise.
The Navy Department Scandal.-In this the Sun ac182