Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-11
$1,000 Reward.

/ will give any man the above sun
who will name any bill or measure
which l voted for and received a
bride therefor to the value OF one
cent or any other amount while q
member OF the Indiana Senate, and
will furnish any witness or circum-
stance tending to prove it. Hear the
truth and condemn the falsehoodl
Voters of Fulton county. L am a
candidate Tor Judge, and challenge an
honest examination Of my official
conduct by the rule of honesty and
| qualification. / am willing to be
tried, and will stand or fall by a fair
investigation. l have learned that
in some remote parts of the county
reports are in circulation that /,
while in the Legislature, received a
large amount Of money for voting
for some bill-what one / am not in
formed. II this is true, why do not
these secret enemies publish il in the
papers of the county and give me a
chance to show its falsity, instead of
secretly circulating it in remote parts
OF the county, where there is no
chance to prove il a willful and de-
liberate falsehood? Do they tell you
what bill il was? IL not, ask them.
Henest voters, is this the way candi-
dates who seek office expect to steal
your votes? l have lived in Mar
shall county nearly twenty-five years
and have been honored by them with
office by their patronage many times.
~ II L..
Would they do this if there was any
truth in these reports, and il true
they must know il? Now, gentle
men, / pronounce all such reports as
being wickedly and maliciously
false, and known to be such by the
parties who originated them. L will
tell you where they come from that
man is A. L. Wheeler, of Plymouth,
who has no worth except his green
backs, which he gathered by extor-
tions from the oppressed. He is the
same libertine who was indicted by
the Grand Jury of Marshall county
for the murder Of Sue Beavers after
he had debauched her, and again by
the same Grand Jury for procuring
an abortion upon another female OF
Marshall county, and his neck was
saved from the rope or his body from
life Imprisonment by his money only
These are harsh words, but true.
This is the man who is trying TO beat
me by these lying reports, and the
man he has selected to do it with is
one A. c. Capron, his lawyer. And
who is he? l will tell you. He is the
man who was entrusted with some
notes to collect for Marshall county,
and after collecting over $1,000 in
money belonging TO the county he
refused to pay it over; and also col
lected large amount OF the school
fund OF the town OF Plymouth, which
he also refused to pay over, and now
has it unless he has squandered it in
riotous living or his friend Wheeler
has won it OF him playing draw poker,
a favorite game with them. These
are the men / have to meet, and what
/ say Of them is true and can be
found among the records Of the Mar
shall county Circuit court. 1 should
have let these infamous and dishon-
est things slept had they not COM
PEELED me to publish them by the
course they have pursued against
me. When / say the reports they
have circulated about me are false /
will not ask you to take my word
alone, but l refer you to the affidavit
OF DIR. Terry, OF your county, who is
a Republican, but was in the Legisla-
ture at the same time with me that
these things are charged against me,
and il have an interest, he has none.
So read what he says, and then watch
your votes, and vote for the best man
for the Office of Judge.
HORACE CoRBN.
State of Indiana, Fulton county, IS:
s. s. Terry being sworn says he
was a member OF the Indiana State
Senate during the time that Judge
Corbin was a member; was well and
intimately acquainted with him dur
ing that time; was also acquainted
with most Of the bills in which he
took an active part or voted upon;
and he further states that during said
time there was only two bills before
the Senate which it was supposed or
believed there was money used to
procure their passage-one known as
the Morgan Raid Bill, designed to
take about $2,5OO,OO0 from the State
Treasury, and the other was a Rail-
road Bill TO transfer or sell the White
water Valley Canal to an Indianapo-
lis and Cincinnati Railroad Company
both of which was vigorously OPP
posed by Judge Corbin, myself and
others, and that we both voted
against every question designed to
aid in their passage, and am conf
dent there was nothing in his con-
duet while member OF the Senate
that had the appearance OF dishones-
ty or corruption. This affidavit is
not as political friend, but as tes-
timony to vindicate the right and
condemn the wrong. s. s. TERRY.
Subscribed and swofn to before
me this Sd day of May, 1876,
SAMUEL KEELY,
Clerk Fulton County Circuit Court.
To the Voters ofFultOn County.