The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-16
ANOTHER CARB0NDALE LETTER
POOR, PROSECUTED DAN BRusH-A PEEP
BEHIND THE sCENEs--wHAT THE OLD
FELLOW HAS BEEN AND Is.

C,hn1SpALE, June 8, 1917. |
EpIroa BULLETIN. Yapologise in adj
vance. You have already been sufficiently
bored by the two previous letters from
this place, but still, let your good nature
receive another turn of the augur. Your
editorial of the I'd instant, in connection
with Brush's letter. leaves wrong inn |
preston on the minds Of your readers con-
corning the people Of, Carbondalc. An
outsider in the late fight between Brush
and others, I regretted TO see the letter
from your correspondent Joe. No one
dictment against Brush would be sus-
tanned Not that Daniel is so thoroughly
honest, but that he knows enough of the
law to keep out Of the penitentiary. A
summing up of the case would be about
this; The mayor Of our city resigned bis
Office last April. The resignation took eff
feet few days before the annual election,
and, TO save expense, a number of citizens.
proposed that all formalities be waved,
ana that the mayor be elected at the regu-
lar election. This would have been an
economical proceeding, but the PROPOSE
ton was objected to, and failed. AT the
election for Aldermen, Mcssrs. j. NJ.
| Richart, A. c. Dryden, II. F. Goo and j.
w. Darling were elected. Three of these
are run by Brush, and by them
and old Dan the scheme was
concocted, that the election for
mayor should be prevented and that
Mr.. Dryden should be chosen by the
council as acting mayor. Accordingly,
the Saturday previous to the election for
mayor, these gentlemen organized them
selves into council and elected Dryden
acting mayor and old Dan clerk and at
torney. This was done, mark you, before
the outgoing board had flashed their bus
mess, and before their term of office had
expired. As soon as Brush had donned
his official robes, without consent of the
custodian of the city property, he picked
up few little traps and walked off with
them. This may not be stealing-and as
it was an act of the very honest Daniel
II. Brush, Esq, guess it wasn't.
On the Tuesday following the taking
or the "what is it the election of mayor
came off. As rebuke to Brush and his les
ser lights, Mr.. j. ii. Crandall was elected
mayor by n vote Ct nearly three to one.
There Mr.. Editor, is the opinion of Carbon
dale regarding the honesty or
htzh .,f hn
In this election Brush partcipa-
ted both working and voting. And now
after nearly two months of quiet, Brush
kicks up another dust by swearing out a
writ of quo Warrant against Mr. Crandall.
This raised the ire of some one who prob
ably thought that the only way to fight the
devil was with fire, and he brought Dam
iel's pecular--or other-performanc be-
fore the grand jury, and the honest old
man was indicted for larceny and ar
| raigned as common thief.
Your speculation that it might be Dan
iels liberalism that caused his prosecu-
ton, is at fault. l don't think any man
in town-not even Dams old wet nurse,
Miss Nancy, of the New Era, knows
what his political principles are-whether
he is for Greeley, Grant or the nominee
of the Baltimore convention-and nobody
cares.
Now word regarding Daniels perse-
cution. Before your time Mr.. BULLETIN,
but yet not so long since, but that
it is fresh in the minds of many
in this community, Brush was prosecuted
by Judge Jinkins for Islander. That
Judge jenkins was one Of the greatest
and best men Illinois ever produced, few
will deny but yet he was compelled to
take refuge behind the law from Brushs
filthy tongue and pen. Again, the Grand
Jury room has been used by Dan. Brush
to crafty personal malice at almost every
term Of court, for ten, perhaps twenty
years past. But little over year ago,
he tried to have Judge Lemma indicted for
malfeasance in Understanding into the
jury two legal cap pages of law and in
structions, but never whispering II word of
tHN IN" uhuci "hiCH WI A<cululu was
elected and held his office. Was this an
honorable, high-minded way to treat a
young brother attorney? Again, but
short time ago, he went before the grand
jury and caused eight indictments to be
found against Billy Greenwood, a colored
man, for perjury. Billys offence WAS
simply signing utlidavits of citizenship for
unregistered voters, Mr.. Henry Buckles,
he'ghboring farmer, was also indicted
Tor the same offence. When these ndict-
ments were Drought into court, they were
kicked out by the Judge in an unceremo.
NOUS manner. Was it Christian-like and
H'sh-lohed to endeavor to send a poor coll
ofed man to Jail for months Yet. that
was honest Dan, Brushs object, ms Billy's
bona was necessarily eight thousand dol.
ars Numbers of similar cases could be
cited ou, let one more-the dirtiest, filth
est OF all, suffice. At the last term of
y eoU't brush worked like beaver before
= 'ne .,e"-same grand jury that indicted
C. VII" 'or 'hc crime of larceny, to procure
al indictment agains, denutv sheriff
o fhgor, for malfeasance in ofice NJ
I'd fhgor i one of the most roi,hrl