The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1842-02-17
THE GLENTwoRTH FRAUDS.

THE GLENTWORTH FRAUDS.
4 great attempt has been made by the
Locos TO make political capital oui of the
disclosures Of a man by the name of Client
worth against the Wings of New York,
charging them with perpetra.ing frauds at
elections in that City. We copy the fol.
lowing notice Of the pamphlet from the N.
York Express, paper we are well con.
yinccd would condemn any thing like dis
honesty in the party with which it is in
the habit of cooperating. So il will up.
pear that the Locos have not gained much
By this trick TO sell book.
CLENTwORTHs STATEMENT OF
FRAUDS, &c.
In pursuance of duty, such as every
editor Of public Journal is called upon to
perform in order to keep up with what is
going on, we undertook the very unprofi-
table task Of reading Glcntwor,h's long
pamphlet Of ~ pages, that the Evening
Post ushered into the world with SO much
pomposity. About IL pages Of this
pamphlet are filled with the aiIidayiis ia.
ken IN Glentworih's case before the Re-
cor,ler, and the other 60 with Glentworih's
own letters and statements not sustained
by the least Interior testimony.
Glentworth's main story is, that he had
valuable "papers involving the so called
" pipe layers" in aiding and abettIng him
in frauds upon tho elective franchise in
1888 and 1910, which papers" he KEEP,
back IN consideration Of certain sums of
money paid aud 10 he paid to him therefor.
lie attempts to connect these "pipe lay
ers" with these frauds, and to show that
they paid him money to keep still thereup-
on--but be furnishes no sort Of proof, nor
papers except his own account of CONVEX
sations, which he says be bad with them.
" Ihsm papers," about which we have
heard so much, and which we have looked
for with 50 much anxiety, nowhere appear,
not document,-not line, collateral
letter, not paragraph which has any 9TH
or proof, but his own abandoned and worth
loss ipse dirt |, is remarkable that q
member of the Young Mems committee
within the hearing of the secrets of a par.
~ IN the exciting scenes Of hot election
has not some siage "paper" apparently
worth something. That he was entrusted
with q mission 10 Philadelphia to bring
on Philadelphians, constabIes, &c. with
others to watch at The polls, and note per-
sons of the opposite party there attempt
ing TO vote, nobody doubts, or has ever
sought to conceal. The Wings at the
time every where proclaimed the fact
This mission, however, he strives TO per.
vert into an Illegal one Of bringing on 70
fers, though the very persons who came on
under oath, have sworn they came as con-
stables, or officers, or guardians Of the pu-
rliy Of tho elective franchise. According
10 his own statement, the Wings who sent
him on this mission recalled him before it
was half through; because they heard OF
his perversion of II. See the so-called let.
ter Of w. Scott.
The pamphlet, though, is not worth q
review. II is the last spasm of worth
less fellow to raise penny by hawking a
book. His own statements exhibit him as
a most abandoned creature. The "pipe
laying" farce turns out most ridiculous
abortion, with such a story, and such a
story teller at the bottom. Much Joy do
we wish the Evening Post of its witness
attempting TO impugn and destroy the
character of many of tho first mcu in the
state and city, from its Governor, and
down