The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-06-14

ranks, till he again was returned
as congressman at large, and took his seat
in December, 1873, his term of Office, and
OF course his pay, dating from March Of
that year. Now, during this interim, we
are told, he accepted employment the
attorney of Stilwell and Ialmsdge to as
slst them IN recovering "tbsir percentage
paid by the Venezuelan government"
Percents eot what? And paid by Ven
ezuels? What right had Tslmsdge or Still
well TO any percentage from that govern
meDt, when they were in the pay of their
own? Is iJ not
A BAREFACED swISDLE,
and did you not know it, Mr.. Orth? Had
you not been told that Sumner was out of
the way, and the coast comparatively clear?
But you unlocked the state Golfers and got
his unrighteous swsg for Stilwell and Tai
msdge, after trying TO have II collected from
that suffering country at the cannon's
mouth. This you did for fee as hired
attorney. Later, with your hands already
defiled with pitch you lobbied through a
bill In 1872 which sustained these me1,
your corrupt clients, in their fraudulent
transactions, and placed q tempting pre-
mium on administration thieves. All
this time you were an attorney and had
the full privilege OF the lobby without the
sen ior this work because your standing az
member OF the last committee, and the
knowledge of this case gained by you
while in Congress, made you an available
engineer. This, IL seems, was not enough.
Your contract was not inished. The bill
had been passed, but Venezuela found
means to stsYe off the payment, and your
| clients wanted an instslment on their cer-
! tihcstes. The times have now changed
you into congressman elect. Il is July,
1873. You are drawing pay from the
United States treasury as a representa-
tive from Indiana, and by means of your
congressional influence, combined no
doubt with Senator Morton's, you corres-
pond with the state department, and yet
this you did not do in your professional
character. OF course not. There WAS
NO CHARACTER OF ANY KIND
about it. It was deliberate, unprincipled,
unprofessionsl, and uncongressional act,
and the closing sentence OF your testimony
unmssks the whole procedure and shows
where it was corrupt. "The name of Tai
msdge does not appeal in this correspond
ence as the person Tor whom you are act
| ing, but the name OF Thomas Brown does,
and you say Talmadse must have written
| to you that Brown was the holder of these
certificates" !" on which you were trying to
realizs the cash. No, Mr.. Orth, no man by
the name of Brown was the holder OF those
certificates. The fact was you dared rot
approach the state department with
say claim iu the name OF Tslmsdge
| and so a name like Brown, which
has furnished ornaments Tor
every trade and profession and every ras-
cality on the face of the earth, was chosen.
Do you know, Mr.. Orth, how often trick
sters will betray themselves by very trivial
condolences? This poor, prosecuted
/ Brown bad moro burdens to bear than you
placed on his back. When Char es Dresher,
formerly in the employ of Tom Stilwell
as clerk in the old Anderson bank, was
called upon during the recent trial to ex-
plain certain entries made on those books,
he was confronted with this same man of
poor Dresher, a man whose only fault was
bis devotion to Tom Stilwell an
swered confusedly that he did
| not know. In other words, TO
help Stilwell in his bank swindles, Dresher
| had consented to make dummy enteries.
| Dresher is good fellow, and universally
| liked in Anderson, and the creditors of
| that bank to-day shake him bV the hand
cordially. They know il was write" or
"starve" with him, and are charitable ac-
cordingly. But you, Mr.. Ortb, can not ex-
| pect the same consideration. When you,
a member OF Congress, resort TO playing
| the game of grab with dummy" favor
ing unjust measures by substituting men
OF straw for your flesh and blood clients;
the party which calls you its standard
| bearer, aud the honest voters of tie state,
will not be charitable enough to believe
you are representative of honest goY-
| ernment and reform.