The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-09-24

hsem0ers u our tate assembly had COtes to
selt-did not wait nor need to be tempted,
but were on the lookout for brides. If a
bill was brought to their notice, they ask
ed 1T there was 'any money in it'-that is,
whether there were persons who could az
ford to pay to have it passed or defeated
lfthcrc were. the next question in order
was, How much?" then followed the ap-
pIication of divisor. And, as 65 yeas
are required to pass bill in that House.
the cynic will be amused. while the hon
est man must be grieved, on noting how
many bills of consequence were passed by
65 to 10 votes.
The New York Dispatch, edited by
Amor j. Williamson, noted Republican
politician, also says:
The shades cannot be blacker than its
reputation. We have seen debased politi-
cal bodies before this; trucking assem-
blies, caucuses, dragooncd committees; we
have seen Common Council rings" and
bribed nominating conventions, and half
and-half Utica split pow-vows; but we
have never seen any body Of wretched po-
ltlcans or graceless partisans that ever
came up to the present Legislature in
sheer, downright corruption, sordid kna-
very, and unblushing barter-and-bargain
selling of influence
| We have Witnessed Assemblymen open
ly exhibiting themselves as shameless bid.
ders for brides; Senators changing with
every wind Of influence; lobbymen playing
with notes as anglers play with gudgeons,
which they caa hook at any time. We
beheld nominally Republican Majority
held at the post and worked as the mere
machine Of theving office hoders in your
city of New York, who-sometilnes with
out disguise, or with the flimsiest veil
bid off the voices and ballots of legislators.
as black wenches were once bought for
like purposes on the shameless of Southern
markets.
The Albany Express says:
Recreant to their plain and unmistaka-
bic duty, and false to every sentiment
which apimates honorable men. they have
made record which cannot be eifaced
and which is as disgracef,l to them as it
is prejudicial TO the interests of the State.
The N. Y. Dispatch says-"W retches,
traitors, penny stealing kuaves, and poor
souled politica! parpers are bad enough
anywhere; but the specimens that have
cursed the capital during this last legisIa-
tive term are so many degrees below COM
parison and beneath contempt, that all the
stationery which they did not succeed in
stealing could never do justice in describ-
ing them"
The Evening Journal says-"Therc arc
members of the present Legislature who
will return home to their constituencies
with such reputation as in after years
their children will blush to look upou.'
The above denunciations Of that corrupt
republican legislation were all made by
republican newspapers at the time in or
der to clear their own skirts. Bat the
people of New York took the matter in
their own hands for in 1867 they tool,
the power out Of the hands Of those men
and consigned it once mere to the dcnoc
racy, by majority Of fifty thousand Yet
the corruption Of that f.mnus legislature
bears no comparison TO that of tho last
congress aud those pfeceo ling it for the
past five years.
Republican congressman have sold the;l
influence and votes for money as boldly a:
ever did a brazen prostitute her charms
There are rot dozen RI lien member.
Of congress in Office to day who have not
grown rich by their position, Even Gen
Sche nck, chairman of the committee or
ways and means, said on the floor Of con
gress but a few days before its adjourn
men, a" / steal, you steal, We all steal" Nc
bill OF any Importance has passed that
body for the las five years without thC
expenditure Of vast sums of money. unlcs,
the bill itself gave them all chance for q
big steal. Such is the party to-day calling
itself republican, which asks your votes
Do you approve Of their conduct? DC
you feel proud Of their record Their
vote for Baker, Packard, Westervelt 6
Co. If not, then do your duty like homes
men AMI vote against them. The verde
must come from your hands.