The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1872-10-04

II is now time to deal with the men
on trial before the people of Pennsylva-
MIA % courts of justice treat all cul-
prits when they have them on trial.
The duty of the court is to sum up the
evidence as it is presented for and
against the prisoner at the bar. The
candidates respectively for Auditor
General and Governor represent in their
persons the Cameron Treasury Ring
now on trial, and while Hartranft and
Allen are the individuals whose names
appear most prominently in nthestruggle
and proceedings of the trial now in
progress, General Cameron, the tutor of
all the political crime which has dis
graced Pennsylvania for ho.last twenty
five years, is really the man on trial. AS
Hartranft and Allen are defeated by a
round majority, so will his crimes be
condemned, and his blurred and blotted
political career rendered for all time to
come a warning to men without brains
or culture not to attempt to occupy daz-
zling heights in public affairs by the
mere force Of fraud, because when they
have reached the summit of their glory
it will be, like him, to be dashed back
into an ahySs of shame and condemna-
tion from which there is no res
cue.
What are the facts proven? What
are the charges made ?" The IreSS has
led the cause of the people in this trial
of the plunderers, and well may it now
sum up the evidence. The charge was
direct as to the Camerons' using of the
public money to conduct their private
banking operations, and the proof to
sustain this charge is the record kept in
the Auditor Generals Office. Gen. Hart
ranld was publicly appealed to to pro-
duce this record, but he refused, declar-
ing that the people of Pennsylvania
are not fit TO know where their mo oney
is kept, and yet he asks the same peo-
pie to vote him into more important
office to which he now aspires. In the
face of this refusal, we senta trusted cor
respondent to Harrisburg, who manag-
ed to get the facts desired, and thus the
people were put into possession of the
fearful truth that the Cameron banks of
Lowisburg, Hfrrisburg, Middletown,
and other localities are run principally
with public money, by the profits of
which he and those around him grow
rich and secure the means to corrupt
the Legislature, to sell the offices i'm it's
gift and vast corporate privileges in
opposition to the true interests of the
people and the spirit OF our govern
ment, There is no rebuttal offered to
these facts not a single witness has
been produced to show that the public
money has never been thus used by the
Cameron Ring, or that Cameron never
paid the Legislature for the Senator,
ship. But, in the face Of the fact that
Iartranft holds the proof of all that
has been alleged on this subject of thus
using public money, and moro than tho
people are allowed TO learn, he ant
General Cameron encourage their or
gans to impugn the veracity of th'
witnesses who have convicted them. -
Whenever an attorney is forced to re
stor to an attempt to break down ;
witness the court and jury at once con
clude he has no case, as the people have
long since concluded in the issue nov
being tried. The Cameron Treasury
Ring haveno case The only question is
is the jury before which these bold, baC
men have been tried composed of hon
est men ? The evidence is clear ant
} strong enough to convict, 1t is over
whelming and crushing There ar
thousands OF men in the penitentIaIie
of the country on much less cvidenc
} than thatadduced against the Gamer
Ons, but it remains 70 be seen Whethe
the jury will convict, whether the pow
er of the arch corrupter extends (
shape the verdict of presumably hon
} est people sitting in judgment ON III
, prove criminal offence Of a politics
scamp, If ii does, we advise ever
r man who holds Pennsylvania secur
t ty at once to sell out, for there will no
E be dollar left in the sinking fund q
= the end of Hartranft's term as Govol
] nor while the debt Of the State will nc
, be reduced faTthing. The necessitie
, of the men who are now plotting {
S elect Hartranit, as well as their gree