Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SECRETS #1888! Disclosed by Men “on the Inside”—How the Gro..t Doodle Campaign Was “Ru. " - Benjamin Harrison as Mana_er-in Chief--Dudley’s Great >Vork-- A Triok He Played on Guileless Business Men —His “Fifteen Hundred Demooratio Repeaters” Fake —He Handled No Mcney, but He Did the Business—Where “Soap” Come From—Some Memorable Conferences at the Hotel Denison—An Occasion When Mr. Harrison Left the Room—What Happened Immediately After the Election. Why Judge Woods Gave His First Charge to the Grand J ry and Why He Reversed It—What Matt Hill of Monroe Countv Told the President-Elect and Ex-Attor ney- General Michener—The Presbyterian Elder Who Burned Dudley’s Letter Two Hours Before Swearing to the Grand Jury That He Had Never Received .It —A Good Many Things Whioh Explain a Good Many Other Things, Among Them the Recent Appointment of William A. Woods as a Circuit Judge of the United States—What Would Have Happened if Woods Ha Done His Dnty and Adhered to His First Charge. [Concluded. I [lndianapolis Sentinel, Jan. 18, ’92.] Harrison Ordered the Second Charge. “The idea generally prevails that Dudley forced Judge Woods to deliver his second oharge. This is not true. Benjamin Harrison himself caused Judge Wooi sto reverse his firßt charge. He did so when he found out that Dudley intend, ed to explode his dydamite. “Dudley today stands before the public as a man guilty of a orime and who escaped punishment by a technicality. And Harrison, through Judge Woods’ unoalled for first oharge, is responsible for the .tigma. Judge Woods charged Dudley with a crime, but did not give him a chance to clear himself. Dudley despises the president and Judge Woods, and were it not for the fact that Dudley’s pull in the departments at Washington is worth iRU,OOU annually he would not allow «v oods to be onfirmed. I have it from reliable authority that Judge Woods wo’d have been appointed on the supreme ouuch h.o not Dudley interposed. Dudley will be vindicated, but not till after the next election. Then Harr.son win eave the white house under u cloud “

HARRISON BULLDOZED.

Booddebs Who Told Hlm He Knew How the Money Was Spent, Testerd .y, in conversation with a Sentinel reporter, a well-known Gresham republican, a man who is on the most intimate personal terms with the judge, and who occupies a prominent position in he legal and political circles of the state, said: “This talk about Judge Gresham being displeased with Judge Woods’ sppoin:nient is a mistake. It is a matter which gives him no concern and in which he takes o inter st whatever. He is simply content to do his duty as best he can and then be judged by his record. Happily it is not necessary for him to be on close pers'nal relations with all whom he may be called upon .to associate with in his judicial capacity. Harrison Advised the Use of Money- “ The appointment of Judge Woods recalls certain events that to us, in Indiana, are especially interesting. It is a matter of common notoriety that the electoral vote of this state was secured for Harrison byjthe improper and corrupt use of money during the week immediately preesd ng and on the day of election. It is also well known that Mr. Harrison, m the Denison hotel, counseled and advised with large numbers of republican politicians from all over the state regarding the use o money at the election, and that heboid them in so many words that it would be necessary to do this to save.the electoral vote of Indiana. Workers were brought together by the hundred to hear these statements from the lips of the republican candidate. Spies, Parsons, et.al., the anarchists hanged at Chicago, suffered because, in pnblio speech, they had ad vised a resort to force as a means of bettering the condition of the working people and redressing their wrongs. They had nothing direotly to do with the throwing of bombs in the Haymarket, All dnring the campaign of 1888 Benjamin Haprison counseled regarding the use of money at the election with men who afterward went out and bought, or superintended the getting c f votes. Moreover, Mr. Harrison, through his agents, supplied men with the money with which they made the purchases. For instance: “Matt Hill, ohairman of the republican committee in Monroe connty, and Joseph .G. McPheeters of the same county o .me to Indianapolis during the onmpaign of 1888 and saw Gen Harrison and Michener. Hill told them his plans of opera tion in his county and the amount of money he would need to put it through, .uying votes, eto. Harrison and Miche ner were satisfied, and said Hill should have the money &nd it was given him.— Just before he received it, however, Harr son left the room, saying it might be as well if he was not present when the money was paid.

Hill and Harrison,

“After the election annmber of men in M onroe county, who had been influenced b the money obtained by Hill an I some who had aided him in his management, were indicted by the federal grand jury. Hill then came to Indianapolis and again met Harrison and Mirhener, told th> m what occurred, and demauded that something be done. They both said they did not understand that Hill had obtained the mone to be used improperly. Hill became angry; told Harrison and Miehener that would not do; that he had fully informed them of his plans, etc. Michener then said: ‘We will see what can-be done.’ “Thereupon Hill said to Michener: ‘lf t' ese prosecutions are pressed the defendants and myself will go to the penitentiary; it can’t be avoided, and if I go to Jeffersonvilie you will go there too instead of going to Washington.’ “The visit of Law Partner Miller and Bussell Harrison to Chicago ii quest of tends a few days before the presidential election need not be recalled here. At the close of the campai n of 1888 there were a number of men in Indiana who knew enough of the doings of Benjamin Harrison in that campaign to have secured his conviction, had he been indicted for conspiracy, the abject of whioh was to corrupt and debauch the voters of Indiana at an election when a representative in congress was voted for, and further aiding, counseling and advising tharsto.