The daily Argus., 1874-08-21
POLITICAL CORRUPTION. IN THIS CON-
GRRssIOHAL DIsrR IcT.
Money Used to Dsmoralize the Voters,

Money Used to Demoralize the Voters
The evidence'is clear that there has been
an organized system of corruption through
out this congressional district to deieat Mr.
Hawley in the Republican primaries ana ~
the Republican county conventions. Notori-
Gus personal enemies of his and emmissaries
of Mr.. Lynde have travelled every county
in the district, from end to end, with mon
ey in their pockets to corrupt the voters |;
to hire Liberals and Dem ocrats topack the
primaries in the interest of Lynde; and,
through all the devices which are so wen
known to Republicans, to procure le,
dict against Hawley, by fair means or foul
The men engaged in this business OF cor
rupting and demoralizing the voters are
not men of wealth they have no money to
throw away, nor can they afford to give
their time to the business in which they
are engaged. Mr.. Lynde is man of large
wealth and known liberality. 1t is fair,
therefore, to suppose that he furnishes the
means to pay for all the work which is be-
ing done in his behalf in this
district. And when all this work
shall be laid bare before the peo-
pie of this congressional district it will re-
veal a system of political fraud and cor
ruption quite astonishing to the moral
sense of the pcople-a system OF eorrup'
ton which the better portion of the people
cannot approve
We call attention, now, to this state OF
things, not in the interest Of any man or OF
any party, for The ARGUS is not yet de-
cided as to What man or what party it will
support in the coming election. 1t GER
tainly will not be the man or the party
which resorts to corrupt means to secure
success
1t is not probable that anybody will
charge The ARGUS with any particular
friendship for MIR. Hawley. No one con-
nected with this Office ever asked or re-
ceived any personal favor from him, or
ever knowingly aided in his political sue
cess. He never even seLt document or
newspaper of any sort to this Office III his
whole congressional career, thus showing
himself possessed of bigotry and narrow
partisan prejudice quite beneath the posi-
ton he ought to occupy. He may, in the
narrowness of his mind, have supposed
that books and documents paid for out OF
the peoples treasury for distribution
among the people were his private prop
erty Other congressman do not soregard
them, and we have through other sources
than him, procured such public books and
documents as are necessary to Il proper
discharge of our duties tc the people. But
THE ARGUS is interested in the cause of
good government and opposed to all sorts
of political corruption, and will expose it
wherever found. That the canvass now
carried on by certain Republicans in
this district is full Of all sorts of frauds
aud corruption does not admit OF doubt by
those at all conversant with the head men
in this city who are running the ant-llaw-
ley machine
In this county Liberals and Democrats
openly participated in the primaries,v ting
unquestioned In Moline resolution to
allow none but Republicans to vote in
choosing delegates to the Republican coun-
ty convention, was absolutely hooted down,
with insults to its mover, and the caucus
was participated in by Democrats, Liberals.
minors, unnaturalized persons. etc--gen
orally voting for the Lynde ticket, and
without further opposition. In this town
We have no doubt that more than hun
dred such persons participated i'll the cau-
Gus. We hear the names of good many
such, and among them Democratic boy,
of II years oi age, who says he voted three
times for the Lynde ticket That is prob
ably fair sample of the way the opposi-
ton to liawley run the business through
out the district. Free drinks at the sa-
locus generally were set up for all who would
work for Lynde Mr. Lyndc himself at
tended the Moline saloons, setting up the
drinks -and participating in the orgies.
We d5ON, ,-therc is "a saloon in the dis
trict KEN y man who would take mon
eyy, where free drinks for Lynde men
were not been set up. All this costs a
great deal of money, to say nothing of the
money paid to partizans who canvass ev-
cry town in the district in that interest.
Many thousands ofdolars have already been
eXpenoed In that way--and it is this sort
OF corruption, as well as the bribery used
IN other ways to corrupt the people, that
IL Is our duty to protest against
ln the township of Weller, in Henry
county the primary was disorderly. Liber
ais Republicans, and opponents of the
nepunlican party entering the room and
iuSiS'lhgon voting, and did vote,-and the
opponents Of the Republican party thus
reversed, in that town. the will or tho ma.
lority of that party. The result was that
Two sets OF delegates from Weller appear.
ed In the convention. and the bogns co,
was actually admitted by the convention
Wen known Republicans were present in
the Henry county convention from Woatb. /
ersheld aud Oxford, and, in accordance
with the previous practice Of that partv
it was proposed to admit them as delegates
thae they might cast the vote to which
their towns were entitled, but this was yot.
ed down because the men diJ not suit the
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