Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1890 — SENATOR AND CONVICT. [ARTICLE]

SENATOR AND CONVICT.

▲ Scorching Parallel Drawn by a Republican Paper. The Pittsburgh Leader (Republican) said editorially recently: “It is curious how fat* deals with men. The telegraphic dispatches announce that Stevfnson Archer, late treasurer of the State of Maryland and ex-chairman of +he Democratic State Committee, who embezzled one hundred and thirty odd thousand dollars from the finds under his control, has been convicted and sentenced to five

years in the penitentiary. With the embezzling treasurer of her sister State and nearest neighbor in a felon’s cell, how must Pennsylvania blush when she reflects that one of her ex-treasurers is accused, without denial, of stealing from her funds double the amount, and, inste c d of being m the penitentiary or having proved the charges unfounded, is at the hear! of the Republican party of the nation, and has the effrontery to say to her, ‘Here is my candidate for the highest exeout ve offioe in your gift. Make Deiamater Goverror or suffer my displeasure.’

“He is a trusted and loved ser of our pious nonenty, Benjdfmin jHarrison, land of our still more pious millionaire Postmaster General, who takes care to fill his own pockets and grip sack with both hands, while his mouth drops preoious pearls about the blessings of poverty and submission to the will of heaven under its trials. “Maryland is a Southern Democratic State, bnt she honors herself by calling a thief a thief, while Pennsylvania, a Northern Sta*e and wheel horse of the G. O P., elevates her accused ex-State Treasurer to the position of slave driver, puts a whip in his hand and crouches at his feet to be submissive to his will.” -