Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-13
FKOMWASuINGTON, ID. c..
Feb. 4d 1873.

ms came up fOrclbly tniS moTnlhS
on receipt of bundle of Republic
ans directed to a. B. G., the initials
of the Miss in my mansion, who
alone of all this world has Il
right to call me Father" Study
ing the Why awhile''I gave it up
laid the bundle down, lay back in
my chair, put my feet upon my desk,
Yankee like, and commenced read
ing the REPUBLICAN. / soon fell
uron another Letter from Wash
ington" dated two days earlier than
mine. I read on wondering at q
style so familiar, till / came to the
A. 3. c., when l was suddenly SEN
sible that / had dropt something.
My clerks gathered about me, won
dering what had so extended my
mouth. Well. / offered my hat to
any one who would take it. Often
had this daughter said to me, "Fath-
er. why don't you write to the Re
PUBLICAN? 1 am afraid it will stop
coming" Let ker crow now if l am
| silent.
Speaking of smallpox which is
raging here, reminds me ofa polite
al disease that is making sad havoc
here just now, called" Credit Mobili-
er," whatever that may be. Small
! poX seems to flourish most among
the lower class, while this political
small pox has attacked none but the
great. the noble, the devoutIy pious.
Some stoutly denied having symp.
| tom of the disease, and walking loft
lily went whistling through the city
till they broke out all over and had
to "give it up and 90 into Hospital
with the hopeless lingering Liberal
patients.
But seriously, Mr.. Editor. I can.
not see whv member of Congress
NAV not 90 into any business with
his funds that promises profit. Mer
club together with their funds ant
take np land belonging to the rail
road company, Law out cities ant
vilia2 put up buildings, open stores
&c DC, which raises at once th,
price of land around and in thest
towns. sell out at large profit ant
devote the money realized to build
ing the Railroad, which still increas.
es the land along the line. and thu
the Credit Mobilier," build the roa,
to the Pacific and have money left t,
divide up among the members of th
company. If understand it, il is
clear, honorable business transac
lion, very likely profitable one.
Now it q member OF congress vote
a subsidy or any other favor to til
, road after taking stock. his vote ma
: be based upon personal interest, bt
/ not recessarily 50 then. Still he wi
BIZ suspected, for in this peculia
. age, the money motive is n powe
and seems to be most unblushingl
used everywhere Senators buy elec
: tions. Tweed buys jurymer
! Judges are in the market, aud ever
: power, animate or inanimate, seen
h to have an approximate value whic
= our commercial editors can definitel
Y report from day to day as they quot
e gold or other stocks.
d Stokes must feel anxious to 81
e the quotations of stock in Tweed
F. jury. Tweed can well afford to pa
+. one "stand-out'' jurvman on eac
T. jury who tries him for the next twer
'e ty years, if the prosecution hold o.
e so long, $4,000, and he has Il
:, means TO do it. But these mt
d quotations vary somewhat strange
: ~
IS Wynaas off1ew York was $1,000
e York of Kansas only asked 500
e lie saws.
II It is to be hoped that some stab
2 itv viii soon be reached in the
If quotations. Judges in New Yo
n held their prices too low, while LIE:
Y lslators rate too high.
Let US nave some rule establishe
< To-day it rains. so am staying
!, and looking round in place of yo
= readers, somewhat after the style
Il a Clairvoyant. n. A.
P. I have just clipped fro
the Baltimore San the followir
on Tweed, Stokes, jury, Ring
~ Stocks: n. a.
!, THE CASES OF Stokes AND rwEl
, -How ,Juries are Managed IN n,
:, Tork.-The New York Herald CIV
:. the substance of an interview wi
=, Mr.. LYMAN Tremain, on the Stock
and Tweed cases, which puts the
!, in an interesting light. Referring
y the Tweed case, Mr.. 1remain 50
the ring still remained in power
New York. by reason of the laws g
ready passed in their interest, al
the present mode OF summoning il
ors made q mockery of justice.
1870 the ring passed law makil
le the commissioner of jurors the e:
e elusive judge as to qualifications
jurors. The ring desired Stok
ie conviction, and jurors remarkal
~ for intelligence and character we
III drawn The reverse of this is tr
r IN Tweed's case. Of this jury o
|" had served year in the penitentia
another was worthless loafer abo
al the city. and was provided a M
= suit of clothes for the occasion, ,and
n third had openly boasted that
10 could make good deal of money
o he could get on the Boss's trial
~ Tremain added that seven of tue ju
rs were for acquitta! and five for co
p, viction He mentioned the fact I'll
:, of the one hundred men summon
" on the Tweed panel, only twent
nine appeared, from which numt
the principal portion of the jury W
RS drawn. The remainder subsequer
le " appeared before tue court q
er showed that they never had be
c. summoned at all, and they were
p accordingly excused from fin
j. These latter were all remarkable
to their intelligence and respectable