The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1860-10-04
Richmond, Wayne County, indiana

down to the Embezzlement bill, thHs giriny
tie Democratic officers thes, double sataries.
and then he refoed the Embezzlement bill.
(which cut of their perquisites.) and thus
added to their double salaries all the "sfeai-
ings" and private speculstions they could
make out of the funds. This is another il
lustraton OF the Democratic management
Of State affairs.
HOLDING TWO OFFICES.
During the session of 1857. LEROY Woods.
Senator from Clark county. vacated his seat
by accepting the Office OF Moral Instructor
to the Peuitentiarv with q salary Of $500
per annum. The Republicans tried to
make him give up one or the other of these
Offices, as the constitution declares that mo
man shall hold two offices of trust or profit. 7"
but the Democrats resisted. With the aid
of Lieut.. Gov. Hammond they managed to
block up all the business of the session, and
finally 10 defea. it. to keep Leroy Woods In
the Senate. though at the same time he was
drawing $500 year as moral Instruc-
tor"
Let these cases suffice for to-day to il
lus,rate the management Of State affairs by
this party, which hes held uncontrolled
sway for half lite time. Now let US look
lrt.s At the candidates presented by this
party.
THE CANDIDATES.
Thomas A. Hendricks, the Douglas can.
didate for Governor. began to hold Office
about as soon as he WAS able to vote. He
served in the constitutional convention of
1850 left that to go to Congress. was kicked
# hy he Ia N nd
in the fat Commissionership of the Public
Lands. and lef. that only to take the office
OF Governor Of Indiana-if he can get II.
While in Congress the Kansas bill was in
troduced In his private letters home he
denounced 1t bitterly. But he voed for it.
For this the people repudia'ed him. and
President Pierce paid him with an excellent
office.
While in that Office Judge Birch. one Of
the Douglas candidates for United States
senator in Missouri against Senator Green.
charges, and offers TO give him $50. 900 if
he don't prove it in open court, tina, Hem
bricks cancelled the entries OF number Of
settlers aud citizens of Missouri at the
Pitlsburg Office, though made on the 2d of
March. 1857 and ordered the Register to
give the lands to some Pennsylvania spec
ulators. who mad, their application on the
7th Of March. 1857, five days after.
While in that Office he assessed his clerks
a certain per cent. of their salaries to pay
the debt incurred In Pennsylvania by the
Democratic Central Committee in distribu-
ting forged naturalization papers, as is
proved by the testimony of Patrick Lafferty,
J. l.. Cramer, and J. NJ Lucas, in the Go.
vodc report. The forged papers Lsfferty.
q Democratic Office. holder, swears were
more than 600 in number. that he distrib
u,ed 1900 orxs, 600 himself, and that tie
Democratic maj ,rity in the Pcnnsylvania
State election TOR 1856 was only 2. 600
Thus the State was carried by forgery, and
Mr.. Hendricks helped to pay the expensesl
This is all proved. under oath, by Democ-
racy
While in tha, Office he joined the "Tndi-
ana Club" which was reorganized i'll 1853,
as Stephen G. Dodge of this State swears,
..under moral duress.' to assist in the pas
sage of the Lecompton fraud. and that club
passed resolutions fully and cordially en-
dorsinx that fraud.
While in Congress he denounced the
Homestead bill' because it gave land to
poor settlers without price" as he exoress-
ed it. but he voted steadily to give lands to
railroad companies without price"
While in Congress he advocated the rails
ing of the price Of every other section of
the public lands 100 per cent. thus doub-
ling instead of lessening the burlhen on the
settlers shoulders. This was in perfect
keeping with his denunciation of the Hone
stead bill
He is now defending and endorsing the
present State administration which we have
shown has doubled the interest on the ST tie
deb; squandered 81 800, 900 worth OF
swamp lands and cheated the children of
the S.ate out of that amount of school mon
unprotected and rewarded defauters whose
il,efts are admitted to be over 100000; by
\ trick and a lie managed to get double sal
aries for their State officers. and at the same
time give them all the "stealings" these
salaries were intended to cover and compen-
safe; and which defeated all the legislation
of 1857 to keep i'll the Senate Leroy Woods,
who was at the same time holuing an other
Office worth 5000 ayear.
THIS is a ha>ty glance at the party. and
its leading candidate. What we have said
the public records and sworn testimony
prove. let the people judge OF the two
There they stand. q worthy pair. the can
dida,s worthy of his party. tue party wor-
thy of such a candidate.