Richland beacon., 1878-10-12
JOHN f, LGDELiNG:
What lhe Supreme Court, or
the United States Said Of Him.

John 7. Ludeling, one Of the mainstays Of
Radical usurpation, rnisrule and wholesale
Plunder in this State, has the impudence to
come forward aud ask the voters Of the 5th
congressional district to elect him TO rel resent
them in congress. He is the nominee of a
little squad Of men in Monroe, calling them
selves the Republican Convention of the 5,h
Congressional District bu, even Republicans
who make any claims to honesty and respec>
liability should consider well bel5r. voting, as
to whether they can afford n vote for a man
for such distinguished position who has
been branded by the Supreme Court OF the
United States as man totally unworthy the
Confidence Of any one even in the ordinary
business relations OF life. Do honest men
waf. such men TO represen, them in congress!
In its opinion on the great railroad ease the
Supreme Court says Of this standard bearer
of the Republican party for this District, in
spraking Of the fraudulent agreement to swim
die the old s,oe khoIders and creditors Of the
road both ont If 'Leir ownership and debt
''lt is impossible to characterize this agrees
men' anything but gross fraud. Its obvious
purpose was TO remove competition at tie
sale. II was fdgrant breach of trust on the
part Of Horne, and it was fraud in Ludeiiag,
with knowledge of the trust Horne had un-
der,aken, to persuade him TO violate his in>
structiOns and sacrifice the interest Of his con.
s,iruen,s, himself becoming a party 10 ths rio>
ystion."
Fur,her on in tins opinion this same distin.
guished tribunal says of this man
IL, is impossible to sustain such a ,rsnsac>
ton. Throughout i, wa, grossly inequi,ablc.
Tha, the property was sacrificed by means
Of an unlawful and widespread combination
is aEdndan,Iy proved, and that the directors
who we've parties to 1t, and who became the
purchasers, were guilty OF an inexcusatie
violation Of confidence reposed in them ads
mi, Of no doubt. Lndeling, it is true, was
not director, but lie was a leading member
of the combination and its chief agent to car.
ry ont its plans He kmew its purpose. He
kner its ittegoify. He had negotiated the
surrender Of Horne; with fsH k'io,riedye of
HornsS breach ~ bin.st He assumed Gordon's
eSecuiory process, and, as We have noticed
when told that Gordon had consented to stay
| the sale, he declared that Gordon had no
power to do it. Indeed, Ludeling appears to
| have had complete possession Of the sheriff
He drew up the sherif-s return, carefully
| stating in II that all the requirements and for>
msliii;es Of The law had been complied with
in the second Offering as they had been in the
first, ard he was as the evidence shows,
most active in defeating an an adjudication to
Branner & Co. on their large bid"
And this is the man ,hat the Republicans of
,lie 5th Congressional District are expected to
SUPPORT in oppo.i,loh 10 gentleman whose
character is without a stain. Can any honest
man hesitate for moment as to which OF the
TWO to support? poes he wish to disgrace nj,
Sac and District by erc,ing this man to Cor.
gress, " ho has already disgraced himself and
brought reproacb upon his State, as its Chief
Justice?
Ii is our intention to publish The opinion in
full from which the foregoing extracts are
made at an early day, that our people may
know what this scheme Of LuGelings realty
| was