Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — COL. DUDLEY'S LETTER. [ARTICLE]

COL. DUDLEY'S LETTER.

IT IS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE FEDERAL GRAND JURY. Figuring on Election Majoritl**— Contest* Probable—The Grand Army Couiiu inilrr Appoints His Aides—Other Inteiestiug News. [lndianapolis (lud.l sp?cial.} The Federal Grand Jury has virtually received instructions from Judge AA\ A. Woods, of the District Court, to return an indictment against Col. AA\ AA r . Dudley for “aiding, advising, and counseling” au attempt to bribe voters. The Grand Jury is composed equally of Republicans and Democrats, but politics is not likely to cut any figure, as Judge AVoods, a Republican, enjoined the jurors not to allow partisan considerations to interfere with their judgment. Coming as this does from a jurist who is Gen. Harrison’s confidential friend, who was with him at Middle Bass Island this summer, and who is believed to be the choice of the President-elect for the first vacancy on the Supreme Beach, the charge has more than ordinary weight, and its real significance is that the next President is going to enforce the election laws. In his charge Judge AVoods did not mention names, but he might just as well have done so, and the indictment of Col. Dudley seems to be a foregone conclusion. Colonel Dudley’s friends regret that the famous letter containing a course of treatment for “floaters” should have made his indictment so easily possible. Democrats who have undertaken the prosecution evince their determination to push it, and they profess their ability to secure a conviction. THE FAMOUS LETTER. First—To find out who has Democratic boodle, and steer the Democratic workers to them, and make them pay big prices for their own men. Second—Scan the election oflicers closely, and make sure to have no man on the board whose integrity is even questionable, and insist on Republicans watching every movement of the election officers. Third—See that our workers know every YOter entitled to a vote, and let no one else offer to vote. Fourth—Divide the floaters into blocks of five, and put a trusted man with necessary funds in charge of each five, and make him responsible that none get away and that all vote our ticket. Fifth—Make a personal appeal to vour best business men to pledge themselves to devote the entire day, Nov. 6, to work at the polls—i. e., to be present at the polls with tickets. They will be astonished to see how utterly dumfounded the ordinary Democratic election bummer will be, and how quickly he will disappear. The result will fully justify the sacrifice of time and comfort, and will be a Bource of satisfaction afterward to those who help in this way. Lay great stress on this last matter. It will pay.

LATE ELECTION NEWS. Figuring Up the Majorities—Contests Likely to Occur. ILLINOIS. Springfield, Nov. 13.—The official returns from all the counties in Illinois on the vote for Governor have not yet been received at the office of the Secretary of State, but the figures at hand, with Alexander County official figures missing, indicate that “Private Joe” will have a plurality of 13,695, and it is not thought that the figures to come will reduce the total below 13,000. INDIANA. Indianapolis, Nov. 13.—Official returns of the vote for Governor have been completed. The total is 536,634, against 495,094 cast in 1884; cast for Hovey (Rep.), 263,194; for Matson (Dem.), 261,003; for Hughes (Pro.), 9,776; for Milroy (Labor), 2,661; Hovey’s plurality 2,191, against 7,392 for Gray in 1884. Official returns on Presidential electors are not yet complete, but the returns thus far received indicate that it was only a few hundred in excess of the Gubernatorial vote. OKLAHOMA. St. Lotus, Mo., Nov. 13.—The result of the election held by the Oklahomaites in No-Man’s-Land was largely in favor of Territorial government and for the Springer Oklahoma bill. 0. G. Chase was elected delegate to Congress, together with the entire Territorial Council ticket favoring the Oklahoma bill. The Kansas annexation schemers polled only a light vote. WEST VIRGINIA. Wheeling, Nov. 13. The political situation in West Virginia is unchanged. Both parties claim a small plurality in the State, and it will require the official count to decide the result. A canvass of the vote in the State has begun. It will require ten days to determine the result. ARIZONA. Tucson, Nov. 13. Mark Smith’s (Dem.) majority for Congress is nearly 3,000 —1,200 increase over 1886. The Legislature is largely Republican in both branches. DISPUTING A MARYLAND DISTRICT. Baltimore, Md., Nov. 13.—1 t is announced that the friends of the Hon. Isidore Raynor, who was defeated in the Fifth Congressional District by Henry Stockbridge, Jr., have discovered errors in the count which will overthrow Stockbridge’s slim majority of 89. An appeal will be made to the courts for the purpose of securing a recount of the ballots. Carlisle’s perforated ballots. Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 13.— An examination of the ballots in Boone, Campbell, Kenton and Pendleton Counties in the Sixth Kentucky District shows that 6,502 perforated tickets were cast for the Hon. John G. Carlisle. His majority in the entire district was 6,051, so that if no further search is made there are enough ballots to defeat him if it shall be declared upon contest that these perforated ballots are void. Georgia’s governor inaugurated. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 13.—Gov. Gordon has been inaugurated for his second term. In his inaugural address the Governor said that he does not believe that the Republican victory means the degrading of any of the Southern States by the enactment of force bills. lOWA commissioners. Des Moines, lowa, Nov. 13.—Sufficient returns have been received from the official canvasses to make it certain that the Hon. John Mahin has been elected Railroad Commissioner by from 1,500 to 2,000 majority over Colonel Dey. This will make the commission wholly Republican.

FAMOUS ELECTION BET. Over 9150,000 Realized Off One Sack of Flour, Probably the most noted election bet was that made by Kuel Gridley, of Austin, Nebraska, in 1862. He bet that he would beat his opponent. The terms of the wager demanded that the loser should carry a sack of flour from upper to lower

Austin. Gridley lost, and the day after election started oft his trip, accompanied by the entire population of Austin. The question arose as to what disposition should be made of the flour, and some ingenious individual suggested that it be sold at auction for the benefit of the Western Sanitary Commission. Gridley was auctioneer, and the hag was knocked down for $250. The purchaser declined to receive it, and suggested that it be 6old again. The idea took like wildfire, and the bag was sold again and again, and before night the sum of $6,900 had been realized. Gridley saw fame for him and gold for the sick soldiers opening before him. He entered heart and soul into the idea, and be started with bis now famous bag of Hour on an expedition which immortalized himself, and brought joy and comfort to thousands of suffering soldiers. His reception everywhere was like a Roman triumph, aud the people, infected by the noble work, vied and struggled with each other in their generous rivalry. Gridley sold his flour all over the West, and finally exhibited it at the great sanitary fair in St. Louis. Afterward the flour was baked into small cakes and sold at a high price. AVhen the grand total was added up it was found that Gridley’s bet had been the means of adding more than $150,000 to the fuuds of the AVestern Sanitary Commission.