Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-09-25
! A Pettifogging Representative.

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When the people Of Marshall and
Starke Counties sent Mr. Packard to the
State Legislature. they supposed be was
going there. for the purpose of looking az
ter the interests Of the laboring men who
voted for him; but Mr.. Packard didn't
think anything Of that kind. Beis man
who believes all laboring men are igno-
ramuses, and have no business to tell him
what he must do as q member of the Legis-
lature. He is lawyer and don't want COM
mon people to talk to him. Mr.. Packard
went to the bankers. brokers', Capitalists
and money lenders and asked their advice.
They told him to pass law making men
pay higher interest on money. and Mr..
Packard attempted it, but thanks to the
good sense of the other members OF, the
House it was overwhelmingly voted down
as a swindling scheme got up by wealthy
men to rob and plunder the farmer and
Mechanic.
Mr.. Packard still felt a determination
to oppress the 'lower classes" as he faci-
tously terms them, in Marshall and Starke
Counties. and for that purpose he sat him
self down one evening in his comfortable
room at Indianapolis and reflected in this
manner: II believe I'm lawyer, and
think I'll do something for myself this
winter. I must make some laws while /
am here which will put money in my pock-
ct when get home. recollect charging
old Adams wife ten dollars for about an
hours writing. and think administered
on an estate ont in the country for two
young men and their two sisters, and can't
exactly satisfy them in regard to where the
money is gone. But these folks are all
common. and politician must spend a
great deal of money no matter who is
swindled to get it. Now believe I'll
pass law making every man who con-
tracts debt in Plymouth. no difference
whether he lives in Tippecanoe. German,
Polk or Union Township. liable to be sued
where such contract is made 1t is very
true our law at present is that no man
shall be sued out of the township where he
resides, but then it is easier for them
to come in to Plymouth than it il
for rue to go out over their muddy roads.
And. besides. the time Cf laboring man
is not worth more than 80 cents per day
while l can make from five to ten dollars
in the same time" So Mr. Packard de.
manded law making all the farmers in
Marshall County come to Plymouth and
be sued. and he told the members of the
House that "aH the people Of his region
,cere in favor of such law."(l)
Farmers of Marshall, aud Starke are you
in favor of coming into Plymouth and
Knox from the outskirts of the Conn.
ty. and spending two or three days in every
little suit which may be brought against
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Plymouth or Knox? then vote for Mr.
Packard, he will pass such law and every
time you are sued for ten shillings il will
cost you twenty dollars before you are done
with it.
Mr.. Packard made another attempt tc
put money in his pocket by skinning tn.
farmer while in the Legislature. He vo.
ted against extending the Jurisdiction ol
Justices so as to compel the farmers t.
come into the Circuit or Common Plea.
Courts with their suits so that he-lawyeI
Packard-could make largo fees. Ii,
tried to make his fellow members believ,
that the Justices in "his region" were to,
ignorant to be trusted with more impor
TAFT business than that now under thei
control. These were the acts and opinion
of lawyer Packard the friend and eounselo
Of the laboriDg man. Farmers can yo,
vote for such pettifogging Representative
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