Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-11-03

Swim, Mayer Of Philadelphia, fepeiis al the IN !
situations thrown out against him The aff6s
wits, also, Of several Of the rcrsoas said 10 have
been brought ON a. voters fully eon,rsdie, any
been IN New York In their whole liie.--ws
would gladly give up CUT columns 10 the yycsts
in this matter u the msss wss no, too large The
whole Of our paper Cor three week. would not
contain Il all.
We give place TO the following article from the
Log Cabin, in relation TO Glsniwofth and Steven.
son sumo what illustrating the character Of this
matter. We are not without hope that the uboa,.
Unable nature OF this business will - open the
eyes Of some Of the friends OF Van Barcn a. 10
give the vote OF the city 10 HARRISON
One word respecting the chief actors IN this
dark business. How came James Il Client.
worth TO be Wing officer We answer,
Nerer by he free selection Of he Way party.
james Is. GleniwoIih, a native OF Phlladcl-
phia, has resided in this City for some wears,
and first made himself conspicuous On 1892
as Ward politician on the Van buren, side.
In 1884, he came out ON the side ofihe Wings
and has since been as forward and active as
doub,edly went TO Philadelphia in 1898 to ob.
tain persons who would be likely to know the
Loco-Foco pariisans of that City who might
attempt TO vote at our election. lie went a,
his own suggestion, but under a general belief
that persons would come on from that City 10
vote in our Election. While there, he proba.
bly, FIRST thought OF the idea OF procuring or
pretending TO procure persons who would vote
Ia New York HIS ooject WINS probably tn
obtain money, under color Of defrayng hsex.
penses. But he was promptly informed tina,
no illegal voting would be countenanced by
tho Wings, and ordered TO discontinue all his
operations. He returned and obtained money
TO fulfil his engagements, alledging that troub-
le would arise If he did not have it, lie was
| next seen by Capt Schultz. bringing on twenty
or thirty men, whom he told Capt s. he had
hired TO vote Capt $. ian ardent Whie) re-
buked him sharply and told him he ought 10
| be ashamed Of himself He came to the CITY,
saw no more of his men, and they no more OF
him. Probably some of them watched tho
polls, and some did nothing they had been
| paid for their time and expenses beforehand,
and had no possible inducement to vote.
| There is abundant evidence that they never
intended or attempted any such thing. and none
at all that they did.
| But how came Glontwor,h's appointment
We answer Jonathan ID. Stevenson, the Guy
Faux OF this conspiracy, had long held the of
| flee of tobacco inspector of this city, under the
Van Buren, administrations. We believe he
himself procured the creation Of the office for
his own express benefit. II is very lucrative
one yielding him some twenty or Thirty thou
sand dollars year. lie is a man ofdepraved
character, licentions habits, and notorious
want of veracity. His last Van Buren, mp
| .l.u n
1910, but on the election Of Gov. Seward and
the downfall of the Regency Power he offer
ed TO resign in favor Of his friend Glentworth,
and on no other condition. Now the only
choice the Wings had was to consent to Client
worth's appointment or leave the office in the
hands of Stephensoa--a bitter loco foco, and
a man every way more eyceptionablc than
even Glentworlh could be-
Under these circumstances, Glentworth was
recommended and appointed; and il was not
till some time after that the Wings discovered
that they had been cheated by a corrupt bar
gin--that Stevenson had nomnally resigned
only TO secure his Office more firmly and for
longer period, and that Stevenson was real
ly still the Tobacco Inspector and Glen,worlh
receiving some paltry stipend from tho profits
of the office. These facts excited much in
dignation, and an attempt was made to pro-
was no change against the manner in which
The duties of the Office had been performed, and
he removal was not urged upon the Governor
One of Mr.. Stevenson's numerous affida-
Wits tells the rest Of the story. 1t seems that
these worthless have been laboring together to
procure the continuance of Glentworth in the
Office, Stevenson having little hope that his
own party would come in power this fall, is
naturally anxious 10 learn whether he can Sc
cure the office through the reappointment OF
Glentworth. To this end, every effort is
made without success. Glen,worth at last
| probably while soliciting an advance of mon
ey from Stevenson) assures him stevenson
says) that he can command reaEpoinhneBi
10y threatening to implicate certain leading
Wings in his own corrupt practices at the
| Election of 1896 Now Stevenson undoubt-
eddy knew that this assurance Gf any such
was given) was false. He knew very well
before he commenced operations that Client
worth would not be reappoioted, and his only
hope lay in contriving up some plot to defeat
Gov. Seward and secure his own reappoints
ment from Van Buren, Governor. This was
the point he was aiming at with Butler a. Co.
while he was pretending to Glentworih that
he was working to compass has %. 50 reap
| pointment. There, reader, is the whole plot
laid bare-how much shall IL avail It's PROJECT
ors LOG Cabin.