Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1871-08-10

the absorption Of ali the Committees
means by the ScascAs concern. And
then il was that the writer hereof has
brought down upon his head the light
eous wrath Of the mighty Richard. But
we have. survived the malignant eiimity
of Blight and Bingham for two Years, and
have no forbodings that we shall not be
able to live and prosper without their
friendship.
Bright is at this time robbing the peo-
pie of many counties of this State by the
most exhorbitant charges and outrageous
extortion for county otfic rs blank books.
He is governed by no fixed scale OF prices
but gobbles all he can get. We under
stand that in Posey and several other
counties he is charging four and five dol
lars per quire for blank books that he fur
nishes to other counties for S2.25.
We have the statement of the best Dem
orats in Indiana that Richard t. Bright
undertook, during the session OF the Leg
islature last winter, to black mail a prom
inent Democrat of Vigo county out of a
thousand dollars, BY offering for that
amount to use his influence with Cover
nor Baker 10 veto certain bill, when he
knew, at the time, that Baker had deter
was not worth farthing.
Richard j. Bright pompously boosted
in New York, ia 1868. during the Nation
al Convention. that he intended 10 go
home and defeat Hendricks election for
Governor He did all he could to redeem
his promise, and, as a result, Mr.. Hen
bricks ran nearly four hundred votes
ahead of the balance of the ticket.
n - -, toI fl.s.
tine to the contemplate business OF max
ing a Scurrilous and uncalled for assault
on Judge ID. 5 Gooding, in 1868, and in
1870 secretly and successfully worked to
defeat that gentleman for Congress in the
Fourth District, solely to crafty personal
spite. Judge GOoding was beaten only
four votes, in district where there is a
clear Radical majority of more than a
thousand land, but for Richard j. Bright's
perfidy, We would now have six instead
of five Congressmen-a majority OF the
delegation.
The Indianapolis Sentinel circulates
mainly in the city where it is published.
1t is miserably conducted and its editors
and proprictors are SO odious (because so
well KNOWN, that the Radical majority
in the city increases every year.
Joseph j. Bingham-the political edi-
tor of the Sentind, and Bright's man of all
dirty works even mcaner than his mas
ter. We shall have to- make him the sub
ject of a separate article, al some future
time. His history is one of baseness and
treachery, unrelieved by one solitary vir-
tuous or noble act. lie never made a
friend but to betray linn. He is a mig
gardly, sneaking sponger of free drinks
notorious "dead-beat," who. BY begging,
pilfering, black mailing, and indiscrimi-
nate scoundrelism, has got together
thirty or forty thousand dollars which he
lends to his master at twenty per cent.
Having been once State Printer, he
knows how 1t is himself" and is said TO
be very expert at stealing State paper, and
in making up and swearing TO bogus ac-
counts for printing That's why Bright
keeps him around. BY long study AID
practice he has attained perfection in the
art of stealing, and has rendered his ser
vices Indispensable To Bright.
We are in receipt of q letter from a
prominet Democratic member of the last
Legislature, from distant county, con
graduating us on the course We have TAX
en in exposing the rottenness of Bright &
Co. We take the liberty of making the
following extract from it:
That fellow (Bright5 - a ready perrin
rer-a shameless corruptionist, a blatant
loud-mouthcd blackguard, and should
meet the condemnation OF every honest
Democrat in the state Jason Il. Brown,
Dick Bright, and that pira,ical crew must
he put down, or our party will deserved :
sink into odium.
fear the Democracy will find out when
il Is too late that this fellow will be TO Us
the old man OF the sea, load thai We
cannot shake of our backs. | hope every
Democratic editor in the State will open
out on that corrupt Sentinel Office ring,
and not let up till the las. one Of them :
;cotchcd." --
WIZ :. bcl,.,ifli b.acc of roguos a.a
these fellows. Blight and Bingham
spurned and dctestcd by esery honest
Demo crat in the State who knows them
guilty Of crimes that should send them
10 the States Prison, if not TO the gal
lows, they are
"r:sed figure. FOR the hand OF seorn
To point its slow, unmosius s-ger at"
The Democracy owe il TO themselves
TO condemn these men, and publicly dis
claim AL sympathy with them in their
frauds upon the treasury. Let us cleal
the decks for action in ~ by getting rid
of this corrupt ring at the Capital, thai
can only prove curse and an incumbus
upon the party We are enlisted for the
war and shall fight il out on this line ii il
takes oil summer.