The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-04-29

drels, and they denounced each other in
the most severe terms; and yet that
Democratic Legislature white-washed
and cleared the entire batch So scan
dalous and corrupt was this Democratic
Legislature, that for long time no Dem
ocratic paper dared defend them. But
now you cannot take up Democratic
paper, from the city daily to the dingy
! little patent outside country paper, that
does not have something to say in de-
fense of this corrupt Legislature
We have several times referred to the
case of VIM. NJ. Tweed, who is admitted
to have stolen millions of public money:
After his thefts could no longer be de-
MED, the Democrats elected him to the
State Senate by over ten thousand ma
jority. They appeared to feel ashamed
of this for time, and declared that it
was Democrats who had Tweed convict
ed and sent to the Penitentiary. Now it
seems that they are coming to the rescue
of their Boss Thief
The following appeared as editorial in
the Gallipolis Bulletin last week. 1t is
the production of Hon. John L. Vance,
who was elected to Congress last fall by
the Democrats of this district:
THE TWEED CASE.
There seems to be but little doubt that
the Court of Appeals of New York will
set aside the judgment of the Court of
Oyer and Terminer, and pass adversely
upon the sentence that Judge Davis saw
fit to inflict upon the ex Dictator of New
York politics-Wm. NJ. Tweed With
out going into the merits of the case, it
cannot be doubted for an instant but
that his trial was mockery, his convic-
ton a farce, and his sentence, one of the
most iniquitous acts ever committed by
a corrupt and venal judge. Time has at
| length exposed certain of these practices,
and a reaction in Tweed's favor was fast
setting in when his old enemies (who
certainly do not appear well as public
prosecutors) Chas. O'Conner, Samuel j
Tilden and Wheeler H Peckham, by
means of an act of special legislation has
| tily lobbied through a partisan legisla-
ture, are now enabled to once more
make jump at that political opponent
who for years scorned their pretentions
and ruled alone, and by neglecting their
| political aspirations ultimately brought
rum upon himself. w hateVer errors or
crimes may have been committed by
Tweed, no one who has watched the pro-
| gress of the Ring suits in New York can
doubt but what he is the only man sus-
pected who has conducted himself like
an innocent man, and when it is seen
that all the machinery of the law is
made to work on the supposition that he
is guilty, that the jurors before render
| ing their verdict are intimidated into
unanimity and that law, justice and COM
mon sense are alike violated by the
Judge elected to try, and who seems to
think that his oath of Office bound him
to convict this one man, can look upon
! the present project to re-arrest him upon
the old charges, and require him to give
! $3,000000 bail without thinking there is
something rotten in Denmark and won
dering how it happens that all the Grim
inality of New York chances to have
settled upon the shoulders of an old, and
now broken down pnlitf-. i header, the
life long -eu~''-3 OF the men now engaged
I II making laws to aid their enterprise,
and dev oting all their energies to secure
his ruin and impoverishment? Perhaps
the conviction of few more members of
the Bar Association will cast some light
upon this subject