The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-06-16
THE TROUBLES OF THE DEMOCRACY.

The democracy of Indiana are discover
ing that there is extreme danger in not res
ponding to tie popular demand for reform
and there Is a valuable lesson to be de-
rived from their experience. Prior to the
assembling OF the recent democratic state
convention of Indiana, the expenses of the
supreme court from 1871 to 1915 were pub
lshed, showing that there had been allow
ed and paid nearly eight hundred aud six
ty-four thousand dollars exclusive of the
salaries of judges and the pay of the
clerks. This sum was made up, in the
greater part, of the "personal account OF
the court, and more than one-fourth OF it
was for the personal benefit Of the Judges
Some twenty-five hundred dollars was ex-
pended on "female help" and upwards of
eight thousand dollars in the private sleep
ing rooms of the judges the washing of
some twenty-five and thirty dozen of pieces
a month was charged and paid for-and al
though this may haYo included the judges
shirts, handkerchiefs, socks, etc, it did not
include "drty linen" The "dirty lin
men, is receiving q pretty thorough
washing through the newspapers of both
parties at the present time. Carpeiing,
rugs, mattresses, ETC., in large quantities,
were purchased for the use of the court,
aud several hundred dollars worth of new
stoves were purchased each year for the
same set OF rooms. Nearly the whole OF
the accounts were Of the came nature.
There was no dispute as to the genuine
ness of the accounts as published. They
were taken from the files and records OF
the state, and the items we're given as
charged, allowed, and paid cut Of the state
treasury. The publication, however, did
not seem, at the time, to disturb the seien-
ity of the judges, or impair the confidence
of the democracy in the fitness OF these
judges to represent them, and TO admins.
ter democratic justice III Indiana. They
had demonstrated their capacity to make o
good thing out Of the office, and shown
that they could expend the peoples money
with the same facility that they could d.
vorce party upon whom the bonds OF
matrimony rested heavily. The democracy
remembered that William L. Marcy haG
charged to, and received from, the treasury
of New York fifty cents "for mendinl
'pants, and had subsequently, been elected
governor Of, and Uaited States senator
from, New York, and, also, become score
tary Of state Of the United States aut
that Tweed and others had gone heavily
into the stove, carpet, "female help" an(
'priyate sleeping room" business, and haC
repeatedly thereafter received Offices o
honor and profit at the hands Of their ad
miring democratic brethren. They, there
fore, had good reason 10 believe, as the
did believe, that these judges were but fol
lowing democratic precedent, and dc
monstrating their fitness, and 30 this stat
convention gave them an unanimous re
nomination.
The facts were as well known befor
their denomination as after, but the de
mocracy in state convention assembled
nhu lorSottch thht u elhiiI VI icloiih wa
actuating the people, that the people, thi
year, would not be satisfied with the sam
class of officers that they had so readil.
swallowed ia years past and the echoe
of the convention had hardly died ava.
before the democratic state commlttee.dis
covered that such storm had been raised
that nothing but complete new departur
would save them from utter and disastrou
defeat. Just at this time, to add fuel +
the flame, one of these model Democrat
judges-the one whose letter we give be
low-became grossly intoxicated, probabl
at the expense Of the state, and in drunk
en- street brawl attacked and knocke