Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1908 — A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTEO BR BERY. [ARTICLE]

A CHARGE OF ATTEMPTEO BR BERY.

Everyone who knows Luther W. Knlsely. a representative In the legislature from Dekalb dounty, knows that he is an honest, conscientious man, who is respected by his neighbor* regardless of party. He Is a quiet, unassuming man, who dislikes notoriety. But when he was Improperly approached with an offer of appointment to office If he would desert his party and vote for Governor Hanly’s county option bill, he thought It his duty to make the fact public. Within an hour after th* dishonors ble proposition had been made, Mr Knlsely denounced It on the floor ol the house. Later he made an affidavit setting out the facts involving Repub-' Ucan Senator Wickwire and Governor Hanly. Then there was great squirming among the Republican schemers. Doubtless they had not dreamed that a practice, so usual and ordinary among Republican politicians of their class, would cause so much fuss. Ths trouble was that they had ran up against an honorable man and in that had made a “mistake.** Everybody knew that Mr. Knlsely had told the truth.

The governor, with great apparent Indignation, called for a legislative Inquiry. This was held and Mr. Knlsely reiterated his story. The governor declared that he had only talked to Knlsely "on high moral grounds," and Wlckwlre said he was "misunderstood,” etc., etc. The Investigating committee expressed confidence in Knlsely, gave the governor a neat (but thin) coat of whitewash, but failed to exonerate Wickwire. And then Wickwlre declared that the committee had made a “scapegoat" out of him. He tried to see Hanly, but the governor was not td be seen. The legislature adjourned, leaving Wlckwlre in the air, and at last accounts he was still trying to “see Hanly," who was still sturdily refusing to be seen.