Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-04-14
ICoNMUNIcATED.1
PORTSMOUTH, llth April, 1896

i PORTSMOUTH, llth April, 1886.
Mr.. Atkinson,
Sir-l am plain farmer and spend all my
time in working on my little piece Of land,
and of course do not NEEDLE with party mat
ters, any further than to vote my own opin-
ion on all occasions, and ! think | always
vote for the best men. | belong to the Ma
tional Republican party, or the Wing party,
which is the same thing, and am satisfied,
that that party is right, and is doing all it car
to prevent Gen. Jackson and his party from
running the Country. think it is the duty
of every man who has the right to vote, to
exercise that right without fear or the hope
OF reward-it makes no difference whether
he be rich or poor. am poor man myself,
but am satisfied with my condition in life.
do not envy the rich, nor have any dis
turbing anxiety to be rich. And despise
above all things the man who being poor him
self, when he gets where he is unknown at
tempts to palm himself off as a rich man, a
great landholder, and cries out against hon
est poor men. ! was in Providence last win
ter when the General Assembly was sitting
there, and was enquired of by man from the
country part of that County, whether Thomas
Cory, Jr. Jackson member of the Senate,
was not very large farmer and whether he
did not own great deal of land. | told him
no-and enquired what made him ask that
question. He told me, that he had been lead
to believe from Mr. Cory's conversation up
on that subject-his running down all other
classes of men but the farmers, and his con-
tinualy talking about We farmers, and tCe
landh0lders, that he was a very rich farmer.
Now | feel from these circumstances, and
from the treatment have received from Tho
mas Cory, Jr that such deception ought to
be exposed: therefore send you the follow
ing facts, which have been obtained from the
records of our town. send you the evidence
to support WHAT state, and you are at liberty
to use my name at your discretion. The
plain, naked truth is, that Thomas Cory, Jr.
has not been freeholder for one year during
any part of his life. He says himself that
when he became twenty one years old, Roger
Burlington conveyed to him little piece of
land for the purpose Of qualifying him to
vote, and that he was propounded on that
deed, and that when he received a deed of
gift from his father Of quarter of an acre of
land, which shall notice by and by, he then
reconveyed to burlington the lot he took a
deed of from him to be propounded on.
have not yet been able to ascertain that he
ever had such deed from Burringtou; if he
never had such deed. then Cory has never
been legally propounded.-l shall see how
this is before town meeting day. Now for
the facts.
It appears by the Records in the Town
Clerks Office, that on the Goth day of May,
1902, Thomas Cory, Senior, conveyed by deed
of git to his son Thomas Cory, Junior,
quarter of an acre of land with very small
old one story house on it, and which was new
er worth over two hundred dollars, if so
much, which made a part Of the only real es-
tate that 11tos Cory Sen. owned-that on the
29th day Of May, 1902, I'hos. Cory, J. gave
life lease of the same lot and house to his
father, the said 1hos. Cory, Sen. And on the
first day of March, 1886, Thomas Cory,
Senior, gave quit claim deed Of the same
lot to Ihos. Cory Jr. in order to qualify him
to stand as candidate in the tory prox, and
to make him voter under the new Election
Law, which the Wings passed last winter to
guard against frauds, which law Thomas CO.
~, Junior, as q member Of the Senate, roted a.
gainst! Now it is very clear that previous to
March 1st, 1896, Thomas Cory, Jr. was not
freeholder. In addition to this, he never paid
OhS Sebt toA III hie Hic, iot any Iedl tstdte ne
held a deed of, or that he owned. This is
the man who is always crying out about
frauds-who is always crying out against
poor men, and is always palming himself off
as great farmer, and large landholder.-
Beside all this, have known this same man
to cheat his poor old father out of bis vote.
The old gentleman is highly respectable
man, and is now over ninety years old. The
last time Stephen b. Cornell was candidate
for the Senate, this same Thos. Cory, Junior,
brought his father to town meeting-he was
then about ninety. When the old gentleman
got into the town house, he said "I want to
vote for that prox which has in il the name of
my old friend Stephen B. Cornel-his son
Thomas handed him tory prox which had
not, of course, Cornell's name in il, all fixed
with the old gentIeman's name written on the
back Of IT, and told him that that was the prox
that had Cornell in 1.-THE old gentleman
confdIng IN his son, put that prux inl!
IL may be wondered at by some, that this
man should have exercised the rights Of a