The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1873-05-15
THE HOME STRETCH.

From our exchanges received on
Friday and Saturday last, we select the
following, which we hope Mr.. Wilson
may read with prayerful consideration,
in his quiet retreat at Tranquility. If
we desired to issue all extra, and go
back over our exchanges for only one
month the universal Indignation ex-
pressed against the Great National
Crime would be So terrible as to make
the wicked crew call on the rocks and
mountains to fall on them and forever
shut them out from the view of an in
dignant and terribly earnest people.
"John T. Wilson won't do for Governor. He
has got back pay in his pocket. portsmouth
Times.
"The onslaught Of the press upon the back
salary business was the means OF restoring to
money Portsmouth Times.
eHon. John T. Wilson heads his letters
Tean9qilf5 Te m Is n5 heePS e a gsS F9 anu
'eWhen the President looks around among
the EX-Congressmen OF this State for a Minister
to Russia, we think he will probably take
special care not to appoint Il salary -grabber."-
Cincinnati Chronicle.
"Congressmen tainted with the back-salary
steal may be considered Shelved, if the tone of
the press is the standard nom which tojuoge."
I-GHfipoiis Ledger
"The interesting letter of Hon. John Il. Will
son, to which we referred last week, is publish
ed ON the first page. The writer Is forced 10 be
! inconsistent. He voted against the increase of
| salaries because he thought it was wrong. He
| Then took the money because the temptation
| was too great. He attempts to palliate
the perpetratiOn ofthe raid ON the treasury by
citing precedents, and by claiming mat iI lsn
| much of an increase a1ter aII-tnat II VIII ohiy
cost about three quarters ola million dollars per
drdGn 5t the DEE etense an act that he orgna
| opposed. But the Honorable John I. says he
| took it because it was the law OF the land. But
| that the Credit Mobiler SwindleS were carried
/ on under the law, and that the swindling debts
| fastened upon the Southern states We're eIiected
by authority of law, and that the Tamany
forms of law. The mischief is in the laws
themselves, the passage of which are effected
| members of Congress whose terms were about
to expire were caught by the retroactive clause;
and the Presidents approval was promptly
given, and he secured SlO0OoO additional Tor
| his present term. 1t was mutual bribery that
passed the law. We venture to assume that
| the concience of the recent Representative in
Honest john will not rest easy until that
1900 of the BoeSPeR BeGP5es m32Res 2ss IS TO the
.sHon John T. Wilson, who served three
terms in Congress from the old district
composed of the counties of Adams, jack
son, &C., has written an open letter to Mr..
| AIackIey, of the Jackson STANDARD, in reply to
c ptance of the Congressiona al back-pay. There
is a good deal of personality in the letter, with
mhae IN fet had I Better tier been oitted The terms
used by Mr. Mackley in speaking of this salary
question were not different from those
almost universally used by the Republican
press as necessarily to INDICATE eat any personal
ever the fact may nay have been.
sistentIy against the salary grab throughout,
but took the money. He says:
law of the @ land ND pdssed bV V a maIorfT Of tbs
peoples representatives, in the exercise OF
It can be rePpe Yopr s stop hief erie
however gratifying they may be to yourself
either know or care much about the subject
further than to crafty your own private feel
We confess our inability to see any very
positive reason for voting against the salary in
it. Certain it is that there was no Obligation
on the part of any member to receive his share
OF the plunder, ana Mr. wilson greatly disap-
points US in failing to see that this is, to the
people in general plain issue between right
in favor OF the wrong do not count for much,' p
Cincinnati Chronicle
cone has turned UP at last. We mean a man
who defends the salary grab. OF course he is a
member of Congress, and he is a Democrat OF
Missouri, Democratic Representative from the
Kansas City district, has written letter filling
that city, defending the bill as an excellent and
praiseWolthy measure, back pay and all, and
Hon Comingo is the first man We nave heard
of, in or out of Congress, who defends the steal;
but he represents a strong Democratic dis
trict, he probably knows what he is about.''-
| Vest Union SctOH
HON. JOHN T. WILSON.
"In another place in this paper we publish
an article from the Jackson STANDARD, reflect
Ting upon John II. Wilson, our late Congressman,
for taking the salary grab We also publish
| the letter of Mr. Wilson in reply to the STAND
| ARD. Wilson takes the only feasible ground
that can he taken by any one receiving the back
pay. He justifies the act and quotes precedent.
Those who took the money, and then because
of the universal opposition to the measure, re-
| turn it, show a cringing to the public sentiment
that viii not only lessen them in public eStima-
ton, but reflect upon the former RGt. Our
principal objection to the measure Is, that
the former salary amply sufficient, and
when the nation is grOaning under such q
| weight of public debt as at present, the passage
of the law shows a reckless extravaganza in the
| use of the peoples money that deserves the
seYerest condemnation. ''-ITOntO9 Commercial