Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — MONEY DEFEATED HIM. [ARTICLE]

MONEY DEFEATED HIM.

The proofs accumulate that Mr. Morrison was defeated in the 18th Illinois Congressional District by the direct use of money, and that the secret organization of the Knights of Labor was made use of to coerce the votes of members. — The Chicago News, an independent newspaper, makes distinct charges of bribery. T'lat journal says: “Seldom has the evidence of wholesale corruption been more directly brought home to the parties employing it. Aside from the end to be accomplished, being no other than the deliberate purchase of a Congress district, the source from which the corruption fund came and the manner of its distribution mark a phase in contemporary politics more dangerous to the Commonwealth than the clumsy audacity of half a dozen ballot box stuffing cases.” It is of the first importance to the Knights of Labor that they shall show that their organization has not been used by mercenaries to influence the result at the ballot box in Mr. Morrison’s district or elsewhere. —Philadelphia Record.