Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1888 — Morton’s Public Services. [ARTICLE]

Morton’s Public Services.

The campaign eulogists of Levi P. Morton insist that he made “an honorable record" in Congress, but they stop short of details, for the sufficient reason that there are no details. Morton was a cipher in Congress. During the part of a single term he served he made no impression whatever, and it is useless to attempt to disguise the fact that he was nominated for the money lie is expected to contribute and to collect from Wall street. He was sent to Paris in payment for the money he gave to buy Indiana in 1880. and he gave a large part of the SIOO,OOO which was turned over to Johnny O’Brien a few days before thq election of 1884 to buy the Irish vote of New York City for Blaine. Though Johnny O’Brien kept the money and failed to deliver the goods, the Chicago convention was moved by gratitude in the shape of a lively expectation of future boodle to nominate Morton for Vice President. That is the whole story of Morton and his “public services.”— St. Louis Republic.