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Bit," which was supposed to be "a narrative of some of the blackmailing operations of Charles A. Dana's Sun." "The Biter Bit," however, did not shake the confidence of the friends or acquaintances of Dana in his integrity as a journalist, nor did it affect Dana's own confidence in Amos Cummings or Isaac Ingland or any of the other subordinates who came over to The Sun from The Tribune and were incidentally assailed in this scurrilous pamphlet.

TOMBSTONE CARTOON PUBLISHED

The most biting rays which The Sun shed on Grant appeared on November 30, 1876, when The Sun published in its columns a picture of a tombstone with the following inscription:

Sacred

To the Memory of American Liberty

Born July 4, 1776

Died

At Columbia, S.C.< By Order of Ulysses I

November 28, 1876 Age 100 yrs., 4 mo., 24 days

DANA'S ATTACK ON HAYES

After the great political conflict of 1876, which declared that Hayes had been elected, The Sun turned its rays from Grant to the new President. On Saturday, March 3, 1877, when Hayes was about to take office, The Sun came out with inverted column rules, thus giving the paper the appearance of mourning. Upon his -first visit after the election to New York, The Sun found a spot on May 14, 1877, for his picture with the word "Fraud" printed across his forehead. Under the picture it published this quotation from Charles Francis Adams: "A person who must forever carry upon his brow the stamp of fraud first triumphant in American history. No subsequent action can wash away the letters of that record." It again reprinted the picture on May 15, when Hayes was still hi the