Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 274, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1914 — FEDERAL AUTHORITIES BUST IN TERRE HAUTE [ARTICLE]

FEDERAL AUTHORITIES BUST IN TERRE HAUTE

Deeply. Entrenched Methods of Fraud May Be Routed by Use of Government Officers. There is consternation at Terre Haute. '■ ' _ „ 5...-■ • The city is dominated by Donn Roberts, and Crawford Fairbanks, the 'brewer. Corruption reigns and decency has no chance. That is, it has had no chance so far, owing to the deeply entrenched positions the “gang” have occupied, controlling th courts and ruling elections 'by the most debauched methods. The federal authorities, however, have taken a hand. Eighteen men were arrested at Terre Haute Wednesday and taken- to Indianapolis on warrants issued by Charles W. Moores, federal commissioner. The men were sent to jail pending arrangement for bond. The men are charged with a plot to defraud the government. Specifically they are alleged to have voted-, “repeaters,” also minors and to have influenced men in casting their votes. The al-, fldavit® are based upon Sec. 27 of the U. S. .code, which reads <as follows: ‘‘Sec. 19. (Conspiracy to injure, etc., persons in the exercise of civil rights.) If two of more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the constitution or laws of the United States, or because of having so exercised the same, or if two or more person® go in disguise on the hjghway or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any, right k)’ secured, they shall be fined not more than $5,000 and imprisoned not more than ten years, and shall, moreover, b£. thereafter ineligible to any office, place’ of honor, profit, or trust created by the constitution or the laws of the United States.”