Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1889 — The Montana Theft. [ARTICLE]

The Montana Theft.

It is only logical that the man who organised the theft of an election precinct in Silver Bow county, JJJJ onraua > to change the political complexion of the Legislature, should be an old convict and jail bird and that he narrowly escaped lynching for his villainy. The Homestead Tdnnel precinct of Silver Bow polled 172 votes, of which 168 were Democratic,There is no allegation of fraudulent voting or fraudulent count, and the whole theft is based upon the merest technicality that has been settled by the “ontana courts as immaterial and insufficient to vitiate the return. A board of canvassers was sol - icly Republican; the chairman of the board!, W. W. Jack, had heavy wagers on the county electing the Republican ticket, and he has skipped for Europe. AV hen it is considered that the pretexts for this theft were prepared by a convict; that the chairman of the board of canvassers had heavy, wagers on the result; that no allegation of fraudulent voting or fraudulent count was presented, and that the canvassers have no legal powers beyond computing and certifying the vote, the utterly lawless and revolutionary nature of the political theft may be fully appreciated.— Philadelphia Times

A letter on the tariff question recently contributed to the New York Times by ex-Secretary Hugh Mcuulloch, has attracted a great deal of attention throughout the country. Mr. McCulloch was an old time whig end an original republican. He was the first comptroller of the currency, was secretary of the treasury in the cabinets of three republican presidents andjstands high as a political economist and financier. The ex-sec retary says, as he has said before, that we have onterown protection. “The United States,” he sayp, “has reachc d the point where fret r trade with < ther nations has become absolutely necessary. The greatest producing country in the world it has paramount interests in international trade -With wise legifj Nation it could hold th,, keys of the wf lid’s commerce and make the nations its tributaries.” The exsecretary is not a depraved college proiessorlike Eliot, Perry, Sumner am Jordan, but is. on the contrary, a ‘practical man,’ in the test sonse of the term, we commend his re flections to the consideration of our esteemed contemporary, the Journal. Will it tell us what is the matter with Hugh JcCulloch? —lndianapolis Sentinel.