People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — HE MISSED THE FIGURES. [ARTICLE]

HE MISSED THE FIGURES.

A True Incident that Show* How Ohio Is Being Overrun. A representative of Sound Money while traveling on the cars during the last week fell in with a fellow traveler who had a few days before visited Lima, O. In the course of conversation the traveling man said that he had a cousin in Lima who was the proprietor of a hotel. "I stop with him between trains," continued the traveling man, “when I have occasion to pass through that city. A few days ago I dropped into the office of the hotel just as a gentleman was leaving. ‘Did you notice that man that just left here?* inquired my cousin as I came forward to shake hands with him. ‘Not particularly, I said, but turned around and saw an elegantly dressed gentleman passing down the street. ‘Well,* said my cousin, ‘that is a Brice agent He laid a >3,000 check on this counter not five minutes ago and said I could have it if I would use my Influence and vote for the democratic candidates for the legislature in this county.’ ‘Did you take it?’ > inquired of my cousin. ‘Well, hardly,’ he said, ‘he missed the figure. lam not selling myself to Brice or any other man in this campaign.’ ” The traveling man turned to our representative and said: “Is not that kind of business most damnable? Does Cal S. Brice actually think that the voters of Ohio are a purchasable quantity? That all he has to do is to put out his cash, hire a lot of shrewd gamblers to distribute it and the voters of Ohio will fall over each other in their eagerness to grasp it?” Our representative gave the traveling man his opinion of such proceedings, who went on his way utterly unaware that his conversation would reach the columns of Sound Money. The state of Ohio is overrun with these scoundrels with unlimited means at their command. They are seeking every avenue of bribery, and leaving their slimy trail behind them. These agents are shrewd, unprincipled scoundrels who gauge their man from a meal of victuals to a newspaper plant, and are equally ready to promise ths one or the other when occasion offers. —Sound Money.