The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-06-07
From the Lansing Republican.

FROM tue Lansing hepuDllcan
Courts OF justice are dreadful things for uu
masking humbuggery. They bring out bottom
facts, and deception "pales its Intellectual fres'
before the sharp cross questioning of attorneys.
Samuel j. 1ilden has been shown up for the
sham refomer and business cut throat that be
Is, by the courts of justice, in which his IRON
money, his railroad wrecking, his income tax
swlndling, and his many rascalities to make
money we're exposed
Moses W. Field was hazed into our supreme
court for robbng a soldiers widow of her
husbands war bounty, and in a well-known
decision his portrait was drawn by Judge
Chrstiancy as "a speculator in the blood and
bones OF his more patriotic fellow citizens"
Sam. F. Carey has been jerked before the
courts of Ohio for spongng his co-partners in
silver mine scheme, where he made use OF
bis facility in brazen fasehood, to the great
detriment of other peoples pockets.
Bnck Pomeroy was dragged to light as the
sharer Of Boss Tweed's stolen money to the
extent OF $4,000, and how much more nobody
but himself knows. This came out in Tweed 9
sworn testimony on his public trial.
These men all belong to the class of spon-
taDeous patriots. Tllden is a mighty democrat
ic reformer, and the others are gallant green
hackers. They rise up with disinterested
courage and un6lnchipg zeal for the rights OF
the dear people, and strike out bravely at the
'Shylocks,' "bloated bondholders,7 national
bank sharks "robber clan. and "black hearted
money suckers, who have been guilty of saw
ing up few dollars and lending them to the
government for ts salvation. What a spon-
taneous set OF saints these irredeemables are
to be sure
AT .heir head for crednlity, stands old Peter
Cooper, really honest man, successful in max
ing money and keeping 1t, unlike most Of the
tribe Of irredeemabe agitators. He is shown
up in new light. A suit was brought against
him in the circuit court of Brooklyn N. Y, for
$4,000 damages, by one Wallace p. Groom
This man had received $4,000 from Cooper for
getting him nominated for president by the
irredeemables at Indianapolis in 1876; for
printing and circulating Cooper and Cary docu-
ments, for conducting the campaign. and set
ting up election-boxes for the distribution OF
tickets. The whole business was paid for from
Coopers capacious pocket. but 1t did not pan
out we'll The old man was wrathy because in
the whole city of New York he got but 2s9
votes, being less than one 10 each voting place
and in the state 1887, so that his votes aver
aged hun over $3.50 apiece for the state, which
is higher price than irredeemabes used to
cost in Lansing before the law came down like
thunderbolt on bribery (unless Dan. Edwards
was running). Groom appears to have filed
one pocket by defraudlng Peter Cooper, and
the other pocket by selling the irredeemable
party out to the democrats. He is a counter
part OF Moses W. Field, who will put through
similar job at Grand Rapids next week, il he
can.
Cooper accused Groom in published letter
of having swindled him by not distributing his
doing as he agreed in furthering the cause Of
this great spontaneous uprising Of the people
IN favor Of irredeemable money. The suit has
just been concluded by a disagreement of the
jury.
OF all the humbugs on earth, that which
claims pure and spontaneous origin for the
,rradeaua abIa marty il tho yooat pranostaro,,e
You scarcely see a man OF any prominence in
It who has not, like Cary or Field. been re-
pudiated by the other parties, or who has not
bought his way up to the head, like Cooper