Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — Was Shamed Into This Act “ot Grace.” [ARTICLE]

Was Shamed Into This Act “ot Grace.”

President Harrison’s. remission of th? fine and in the Coy case are explained by his organ as “simply an act of kindness bro’t about by the understanding that Coy had been robbed of his property during his. imprisonment by Sullivan, his partner in crime.” We rather suspect President Har - rison was’shamed into this act “of grace” by the spectacle pres* nted in Judge Woods’ court, where scores of election knaves have been set free by a reversal of the very ruling under which Floy was .con - victea and sent to the penitentiary. The offense with which Coy was charged did not affect, was not designed to affect, am’ could not possibly have affected the election of a representative in eongress. Yet Coy was convictedjunder the same section of thd revised statutes which Judge Woods held to be inapplicable to Carpenter, the wholesale vote-buyer of Shelby county, because it was not shown that is corrupt expenditures influenced the election of a congressman. Benjamin Harrison, reflecting upcn this outrageous jugglery with justice, doubtless felt that the least he could do was to remit the fine and costs in Coy’s case and permit him to go hence at the expiration of the time for which he was sentenced And it is curious to see that the very newspaper which for more than a year denounced President Cleveland bitteily because it pretended to believe that he contemplated extending clemency to Coy, applauds Harrison for his action!—lndianapolis Sentinel.