A favorite war-cry in American political life has always been, "Turn the rascals out." We made it evident that, as far as we were concerned, this war-cry was pointless; for we turned our own rascals out.
There were important and successful land fraud prosecutions in several Western States.

Probably the most important were the cases prosecuted in Oregon by Francis J.Heney, with the assistance of William J.Burns, a secret service agent who at that time began his career as a great detective.

It would be impossible to overstate the services rendered to the cause of decency and honesty by Messrs.

Heney and Burns.

Mr.Heney was my close and intimate adviser professionally and non-professionally, not only as regards putting a stop to frauds in the public lands, but in many other matters of vital interest to the Republic.