The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1874-02-26
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The gentleman whose name heads this
article is Just now in rather bad order with
the honorable world, whether deseryedly
SO is "a question for time and the law to de-
termiue. He is charged with an effort to
levy biackmail upon the banking institutions
of the State, through an alleged endeayor to
secure the repeal Of the usury laws, and
with using the United States mails for the
purpose Of securing successful swiudle.
For the first offense he was brought under
the searching eye of an investigating CON-
mittee, but he attempts to take time by the
forelock by resigning his membership in the
Legislature For the second offense he is
under arrest, and will be tried before the
United States Court in Philadelphia and
here he will be compelled to stand the brunt,
We hope with complete acquittal of the
charge.
Mr. Dimuiick was the representative of
our neighboring District of Pike and Wayne,
ana we cannot but believe now as we
believed when we heard of his nomination
that it would have been much better if
the stawart and unterrifed democracy Of
that district had been content with Bub
Wells and let Dimmick slide Dimmick was
a member in former years, and we do not
remember that he reflected much credit upon
his constituents even then. Indeed, if our
memory serves us there was something
in connection with the $4,000 bonus which
the New \ York and Erie Railroad paid annu-
ally for the right of way through PcnnSylva-
MIA which was not looked upon as the most
reputable thing under heaven.
The fact of the business is that Dimmick
has never been much else than political
trimmer. and We presume never regretted
any act of his life so much as his failure to
vote himself the nominee of the democracy
of this district in the conference at Easton
some four years ago when the Hon. John B.
Storm was nominated. How it happened
that the Republicans of that district were
trapped into his nomination, Jointly with
the Democrats, for representative, is more
than We can imagine They would doubtless
have been defeated in opposition to him,
but they have certainly secured no victory of
honesty or principle with him, and they
would be better off to-day if they had never
known him. They cannot handly divest
themselves of the obloquy growing out Of
his charged escopade, and they can be
assured that Republicans elsewhere claim no
share of the funeral, and will indulge in no
share of the mourning.
We, as We said before, hope the Hon.
gentleman from Wayne ard Pike will be
able to clear his skirts to the satisfaction of
Judge Cadwaladcr and his jury, as thereby
hangs the decision as to whether the Hon. :"
means honorable OF 'honery"
We hope the lesson, let the case 90 as it
may, may be we'll learned by Republicans
everywhere that there is danger in every cf-
fort Of Republicans to join forces with Demo
Gratis, as was the case in Pike and Wayne,
merely TO skin the skunks of the latter. You
cannot touch pitch without becoming 2eflcd,
neither can you come within the range of
''escensc pcdlarS'' without securing more of
the pUngcnt perfume than you bargaincd
for