Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-18

asked me if ! wanted the marshalship
here I asked him why and he said he
was Gin with Garfield in this fight" and
could get it for me. said, If accept
the Office would be expected to act
against Conlkling - he said s Yes )" then
said l didn't think I could accept the
place that I wanted to be Independent !;
I told him I didn't know whether Conk-
ing would be candidate or not; if he
were, should support him. He said had
better think it over, and meet him at the
Fifth Avenue hotel at nine or half-past
nine o'clock he said I would have to
accept it on the Jump if at all ; the Ca
binet, he saSd, twill meet tomorrow be-
confirmed. told him l would
meet him, though there was no probability
| of my accepting met him, and declined
tho appointment I have not seen him
since.
MORE CHARGES.
Mr.. Tuthill Paints = Vivid Picture Of tho
Corruption Within His Party.
Before votirg yesterday Mr.. Tuthill
said desire to be excused from voting
and to briefly state my reasons. From
the beginning of this contest my vote has
been cast in one direction. I have en-
deav0red to be consistent not only with
my convictions, but with my record. For
two years I have consistently given my
| voice and my votes for all measures tend
ing to relieve the people from unjust dis
ordinations and from unequal and in
equitable taxation. In all these efforts
have been baffled by this same corrupt
power which confronts us to-day. To
! continue to oppose this overshadowins
power is still q duty which is clear to me,
and for the performance Of which my con-
stituency will, as IS right, hold INC to Il
strict accountability, when they come
| to understand the painful and shame
full facts now being uncovered by the in
vestigation now being had. have ad-
vocated caucus, in accordance with all
| former usage, to nominate candidates fOp
| whom Republicans could unite in voting.
But all attempts in this direction have
been defeated. What influences, ask,
have been brought to bear to prevent Re-
publicans from comforting together? Who
have prevented US from having caucus
Men who have undertaken to represent and
to speak for the national administration.
Overwhelming corporations have been
present everywhere. Whom have they
attempted to put into the Senate of the
United States Why have they feared and
refused ito attend Republican caucus to
pass upon their candidate Can it be pos
sible that Republicans wero to be kept
thus disOrganized in order that corruption
might do its perfect work-that men
were to be forced into position of
individual liberty in order that material
influences might be attempted before a
party pledge should bind them The tax
payers who are robbed by unjust taxation
e..
robbed by dishonest rates and charges,
will answer why all these bold and high
handed proceedings have been taken. They
are only part of a general and constant
raid upon the public right. 1t is an open
secret that the candidate of the corpora
tions is and has been for years thoir head
lobbyist. A. ID. Barber has been
his confederate and associate, and
Edwards and the rest Of the
gang are ieutenants in the work
Of infamy and corruption. The room of
A. D. Barber has long been the head
quarters and den where legislation is
bought and sold and where certain legisla-
tors gamble with lobbyists and claim
agents and where game of cards is made
to cover naked bribery. know enough
of what am saying to take the response
bility of saying it. Ifthose who frequent
Barber room for such purposes complain
of this statement let them put me to my
proof. Let committee of this joint con-
vention be appointed and will furnish
the witnesses who will uncover this
foul nest of legislative jobbery. go
further and say that in this corrupt
canvass which has been made here,
and which is not yet ended, Barber
and his corrupt agents have been the con-
trolling and leading managers, managing
to put into the Senate of the United
States their chief, the man who supplies
them with money to corrupt and debauch
the representatives sent here by the people.
No administration can affort to be repre-
sented by such q candidate, pushed by such
men resortingto such means to break up the
Republican party and to betray and dis
grace the state. From the day tho first ballot
was taken every hour has made clearer the
wickedness and dishonesty of the opposi-
sition set up Ostensibly in the name of the
administration. The disclosures, day by
day, fill the public ear and the public heart
with shame, and present tho issue whether
m0n0pOlies, corruption funds and plumber
are to rule and decide the question now
pending before us. For my part, confirmed
and fortified by all that has happened,
take my stand more firmly in favor of the
men whose hands have not been stained
by corruption, and whose canvass does not
proceed by bribery, lobbyists, patronage,
or corporation direction. Matched against
these men, on whose name there is no stain,
is one of the last of all men whom the Re-
publicans of the state of New York would
trust in the United States Senate. Chaun
cey NJ. Depew for years has been the
man who has lab0red to prevent
all honest legislation to equalize taxes,
to honestly adjust railroad freights and
to give their just rights to interests
opposed to monopolies. To think of send |
ing him to represent the state OF New York |
in the highest legislative body in the |
world would be standing alone, but the
idea of sending such man, with such a
record, to triumph by such means and
sustained by such men and combinations
as support him would, in my judgment,
be an indelible wrong and disgrace to the
Republican party fthe state. Those of US
who have stood together being baftied in !
our efforts to maintain the immemorial
usage OF that party have adopted the
only practicable and effective way to avert
the triumph of corrupt lobby, to save
the state of deeper and more foul dis
grace than was ever attempted during the
reign of Tweed, when corruption held
high carnival in this capital, and money
ilched from the people controlled every
avenue of power. withdraw my request
to be excused from voting and vote for
Thomas c. Platt."