Smyrna times., 1870-10-26


have robbed the Commonwealth, the hand that
feeds him, of its honor and good name. :" He
who robs me of my purse" etc.
LOTTERY SWINDLE AND CORRUPTIONTsTs.- -
The old adage that murder will out, was
never more thoroughly verified than in the
circumstances attending the bargain and sale
of the Salisbury Corruption party leaders with
France 4 Co., in regard to the lottery bill
granted by the Legislature. through their in
fuence in 1859. The dark and damning deed,
done at time and under circumstances when
it was thought the transaction would never see
the light, that it would remain buried in the
privacy of an Individual interview, or among
the papers of the lawyers office, has recently
been thoroughly revealed, and now after years
of repeated efforts on their part to hide their
lnfamy, the guilty authors of the diaboical act
stand convicted at the bar of public opinion
without an answering word. The other day at
public meeting, held at Kenton, we were
told how these corruption-leaders have con.
Quoted themselves, not in the hour Of supreme
temptation, but at the very first show of the
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ate gamesters that ever hung upon the verge
OF wicked, weak and vacilating Legislature.
While the party who elevated them to power
and public trust, surely believed them honor
able and honest men, aud permitted them to
manage the public affairs as no other triumvi-
rate ever were allowed to do, with baseness
unparalleled in the politics of this State, they
secretly, and with an utter disregard of public
virtue, sold the high honor and integrity of
the State to the miserable seoundrels whose
bonds were as worthless as themselves. $780,
600 in such bonds paid to the most prominent
leader OF the party, now the Governor of the
State, that he might lend the weight of his in.
fuence in corrupting the Legislature of the
State in favor Of an infamous and iniquitous
lottery bill, seems to be the price at which the
virtue and integrity of the Legislature were
valued. The facts as they come to us from
the men who have taken the rostrum against
them, and who, it is presumed, know whereof
they speak, are so appalling, and the evidence
OF the shameless act so convincing, that we
would fain shut our eyes and turn from the
ghastly sight, did not our duty as an honest
journalist forbid us to hold our peace For the
honor OF the State, for the sake of our COM
mon humanity, we would refrain but cannot.
And now, not content with these efforts to cor
rupt the representatives of an unsuspecting
people, they siezed control of the State, then
tree from debt, and with an ample suppzy of
J"f.ds IN tie Treasury, exhausted that balance
and, notwithstanding Direct Tax which they
have imposed upon the people, have accumula-
ted Million and Quarter of Debt. Surely we
have fallen upon evil times and in the midst
OF the men OF Jerieho And these are the
men who have been for fourteen years preach
ing the dispensation of the White Mans
Gospel, and now ask with virtuous indignation
whether the white fantb ring shall not longer
rule tie State The people say now, and on
IL. il lay OF November next will utter with
potential voice, and in unmistakable tones, an
answer to these miserable corrupters of the
public faith, and say that the white men who
shall In future rule this State shall be Honest
Men, incapable of bribery and corruption. 1t
may not so materially matter whether Demo-
Gratis or Republicans shall administer the gov
ernment OF the State, but it is of the very first
Importance that the men who hold the power
shall be honest, and incapable OF committing
the shameless deeds and dishonest acts of the
men by whose miserable incompetency and
eager greed of gain the Treasury or Delaware
Is Empty this day. The times, We repeat, arc
serious times, the hours are pregnant will
danger to the best interests of the State
What, we know not, shall be the next develop
ment Of fraud and corruption, of pecuIatior
and Of public decentralization among the mel
who but few years ago openly boosted tha
their corruptiOns could not be unearthed, ant
boldly defed the TINES to the exposition i
then threatened. Men stand almost blind witt
terror at such unblushing frauds, and witt
trembling lips and fainting hearts ask, "Wha
snextY ,in the fearful catalogue of political sin
and fearful mismanagement of the publ
1t is money in Secretary Cox's pocket to o.
oft of office: La Cincinnati be makes Si5. .O0