Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1892 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Al ILL K HANDL ,i> Till; M X. Y. "Dudley wrote the ‘b!ocks-o flve 1 tte it is true, but he never touohed a doil of the money raised to convert floaters u Harriso . He mappsd Out the o irapan*i and indicated where the money cpuld l e had. Can President Harrison ard Attor-ney-General Miller say as'much? They would not d re to say upou oath that corruption money did not touch their fingers, for there a too many people living in this state w o remember that Law Partner Miller attended personally to the distribution of the moue - to the various Connies. M„r. Miller himself handed the allotment to the repi-esontative f'om my county. I was present irt the time. In one instance. I am told, there was a disagreement as to the amount a certain county should receive and Mr. Harrison settled the matter, e was not the chairman of my county, nor did the ohairman have anything to do with the financial part of the campaign. The Harrison people did not trust him beca ise of his Gresham proclivities. The seeretar of the committee was n elder in his church—a man of the Harri>on type on a small scalewho held family prayers and believed that it was bis dutv to his God and country to beat the Lemooratic part' even by buying votes. Under Arthur's adiniiiißtr*tion. feecator Harrison had him appointed to a mine federal office. He was willing to do anything for Harrison. He was the only member of the county committee intrusted with the seorets of the compaign. I mysel an 1 two othtr outsiders, together with the secretary, constituted whnt yon might call a ‘junta.’ Dudley uddresßed all nis correspondence to the secretary.— I saw every letter and telegram that Dudley sent to onr oonnty. A Dcdl, y Scheme.

Dudley is a wonderful man He wo’d wire us information about some baok townships, showing that he knew more about our county than we did. I learned afterward that Dudley had special agents travelin r’l ovet the state reporting to him, unknown to us. Some of these agents went from house to house as pe"dlers, others as stock buyers. It was a common occurrence to receive a dispatch from Dudley telling us that John Smith of Blank township, who had always voti d the republican ticket, was ‘off 1 and requesting that a certain relative of his in an adjoining township be hired to‘fix’ him. “Dudley ever failed in an emergency. A fewd ys before the ‘bloeks-of-flve’ letter w 8 exposed, we wi ed him that we could not get ourprominent businessmen to contribute. The next morning wo re ceLed a long te egram toting that 1,.T00 deiin orotio ''epewters from St. ' ouis were o tbe r .ay to Indiana an 5 would Vie dist i nte SI long the O. A railroad and imp ori g n*- to r ise monev‘o put detective- on t . i- track to prevent the on, rage, fiua-edi 'el a per instruction of J) d 'y. wr. wire a list of bn nes men to Mr. ill r, u i befqre a ndow-novmym non [ho list ad e Hived a e<gr m, s gned b\ Mr Viarr on, sk nv I itn to at end a meeting at onrrou. tttoe loom that ni ht. Ibe 6 m-o e ' tittered at boi personally reco.' (1 by Mr Ha r>so ■. At the meeting I ■, ! the Dudley le eeram ' d decln m some length upo the ontr eth t he viked democrats were going topeqntr nonho 8 ‘ t voters and a-

p v° s. ' h n tiftea.il mmn 1 u 0 was so -•< r ■ i h’y the e Mid gnaut uM. nensmer>. ‘-ome of them were sowo' ked up that t ey ost slee > that u'ght, ,m«l from that tim on to the closing of the polls we had n trouble to get any of hem to neglect their business to drive out in the country fifteen miles to see some ona they oould i; /Juenoo. But, 1 repent it, not a dollar used in the county came from Dudley. With the exception of the amount raised in the county every dollar came from Messrs. Harrison and Miller.” t How about the 1,500 repeaters?" Of course they existed only ia imagination, but the scare had the d sired effect " The Deaco' Bitkned the Letteu. “Was there a ‘blocks of-five' letter received in your county?” Yes, the secetary before refeired 'o received one. When he was subpu;nmd before the grand jurv ‘o testify in this ma'ter he came to me for advice. I came wth him to fn ianapolis. Two houfs before he- tool ihe witness stand, where he testifi d u*.d6/ o ith 0 had nevti r®ceived one, he i timed the letter upou nay dvice. 1 advised him to tell the truth bout the nia'ter, and having no letter n his possess,on. of course he could 1 ot swear that the letter he received was identical with the one in possession o; the grand jury. However, just Deiore going to the federal court he met some one in the Denison who told him that if he testified tha h< received t ‘blocks-of-five’ letter he would never receive an appointment from Mr. Harrison. He didn't get as big an office as he expeoted, but he has been well taken oare of.

“By the way, eiery man who rsce ved a 1 blocks-of-fiv ’ letter is in office to day, ! from Smiley N. Chambe s down to Sam ' Kercheval. The latter came very near being left in the cold, for he was charged with having lost, through carelessnes' / his letter, and that it 'ell into the han s of a democrat. But it ar pears that S ~m cleared himself of the charge, for he nn ,, holds a fat pi ce. “There is one thing that is not gen nrailv known about this D dlev letter 'll ?■ { fact, however, that when The S an tinel published the letter, J idge Wor ,ds and Law Partner Miller advised Gen. * Harrison to come out in ca d deuounoin/ , Dudley ff*’ Hwn on was very indigna, f t 6t Dudley and had made up his mind to to nubticly denounce him. when ‘ . St °nton J Peeile, Attorney-General Mu ihe™, an (i certain members of the slick f j s threat ened to make trouble if Jt Woods’ advice was follow.d. Karri. t Ind ana could not be car Pj d w ithout moProclamation against the Dudley letter f be workers would have a lowed tb.e flou ters to take care of themse.yes This w a 8 expla.ned to Harrison focibly by Miche ner “ A '! e , r , th . e election Me*. , r 8 Harrison and Millet tr ed to make a sca r,A coat of : Dudiey They advised Ju dge Woods to’ deliver to the histtederalg r4d jury what TK n °»* kn .°? U in !" 8t ?, 8 the first charge. Th.it s what m de Du.dle y on ry at the Whole crowd, that cha. waß uncalled for aud even if \y 00 d B (lid tako it back subsequently Dudley w ill nover forgive him for it, j n g ( Wi Jo ds i bought that he would 'rehabilitate Harrisou with a clock of ~ift e bydraggi.g Dudley before tft-e g r nd jnry. But this hypocriti cal t'ick of Hsrnson , Miller an i Woods so<"jn caused Harrison much worry. Dud*ey is a broo or man and endowed with greater resources ham the resident, and he soon gave him tc- understand that in the end Harrison would come ou of the ordeal the worse di ffitjureil of the two.— In other words he hud * dynamite In hia pockets.’ [Concluded next weak.] No gr*vater triumph un medicine or chemistry has been reeor ded than Hall’s Hair Renewer to revivify and testoregra hair to the color of youth •