Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1887 — A “Tax Payer” Waxcs Wroth. [ARTICLE]

A “Tax Payer” Waxcs Wroth.

The amount of all the sums given l .y Cleveland in charity or for public go>l, during his presidency, would not equal one tenth of what he contributed towards the democratic corruption fund, in New York City, at the recent election.

The keeper of a- low negro dice in the city of New York hud •$1,00') -placed in his hands to buy votes *with, at the late election, according to a reputable writer in the North Ameiican Review. By the way thia may have been the identical SI,OOO contributed by the great reformer, Grover Cleveland.

Indianapolis Journal.—ls New York ceases to bo the ]>ivotal state, Indiana may become so. If the Republicans are likely to 1 lose the former they must carry the latter Ot they are gone. This brings Indiana to the front. It looks now as if this might become the battle ground in 18S8., Indiana and Con-. uecticut»can elect the president.

Some specu ation lias been indulged in lately regarding the dilemma the President would find himself in, in case Jefferson Davis should happen to die during the next few months. He was Secretary of War once aud-accord-ing to the precedent established in the case of Yellow-fevei Juke Thompson, the dag at the War Department would have to bo placed at half-mast for old Jeff To do this would make a fearful . row at the North and not to do it, would create a monumental rumpus in the South. Jnji case like this Grover would have greater difficulty in keeping on both sides >t the Fence, than he experiences in performing that font in tbecivil service reform question. We presume, however, that Glwer will lepend on Inf n.-uu! b-K I;.el: to avert this unplnt dile a n ...

Elgar J. L«'v >y r hies i.i tue ~ t i.- a u Norin A view fwL'eceuib<.r his i• i k ■•'s •hiring the', late* cacti n in N> w ,► i esJr'.Sfcy. A portion of his <x- ‘ /reS&hce in one precinct is thus described: “As soon ns each uian voted (the Deni’Ciatie ticket) he passed out and tiled into th? ride door of a bar-roui.i doc;’tem near ■by. I entered and saw a well known ward heeler pi ss a live dollar bill into each voter’s hand with n > effort at cbueealjnont. c Tl.ewhole transaction, from. I’iot to last, had quite the air of a common business transaction/' Thiajndid nt was cu’y a specimen of wa'at he savA and what anyone might hays seen at d.-z<u.s of,different preeincts of that city on that day. Fraud and moi ruption in New York City. Fraud and violence in the South, are the < Agencies that- made Cleveland,

president in 1881, and the same methods will be adopted in the attempt to re-elect, him in 1888.*

Ed i tor Bep u blicau. The expense of the Rutherford trial, as published, is something enormous. It would not take many such trials to bankrupt the county The inconsistency of the I whole thing lies in the allowance* made by the Court, 1 believe in the punishment of criminals; but 'in this case justice was defeated l»nd the county paid for it'and more too. The Board of County I Commissipners made a contract with M. F. Chilcote, Esq., to attend to all legal business the county was bound to furnish. IT Mrs. Rutherford was too poor to hire an attorney to defend her and her “many friends” would not "chip in,” Mr. Chilcote could have made the defence, as per contract with the Commissioners. Instead of that Judge Ward appointed Messrs Hammond & Austin and they were paid 8200. To even up the thing when the friends of John Steele, the mui* dered man, sent for M. H. Walken the Court appointed him to assist in th * prosecution and the County paid 8100 for that, lie also made Auditor ItobiusoM an agent to dia-

tribute 8139. mon* of the County’s { money to re-imbui'tie friends of Steele, who advanced money to J hire an attorney to prosecute Mrs.Rutherford. Four hundred anil Thirl'j nine dollars of the peoples 1 nioHiof tin nrccssa rily expended. i The AVartena trial was the first i of the kind, and the Stitz trial was 'the next. It is said that Stitz deeded his farm to his wife and : then swore he was too poor to em- ' ploy a lawyer to defend liiin, when I Fiis'fainily had between six and seven thousand dollars worth of property in their possession. If i the Court made a single inquiry about the matter, Who knows of it? It is time this big leak was stopped. More Anon, Tax Payer.