The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-07-19
SEN ATORIAL NAUGHTINEss
The Season Of Ex-senator Platt's
Withdrawal from the
Senatorial Contest.

00udLOT1t11 SOuLSSC.
The opponents as well as the friends
of Ex-senator Plat regret that he has
been forced to withdraw from the
senatorial contest by a dirty scandal.
the disgusting details of which have
filled the air at Albany during the
past week. The struggle had been
demoralizing enough without this adj
ded element Of filth. AS part of the
history of the Senatorial contest we
give the following brief details of the
affair:
About s o'clock Wednesday even
ing, Mr.. Platt was seen to enter a
room in the Delavan occupied by a
lady. His conduct attracted the
suspicious of a negro porter, who in
formed a member of the Legislature
of what he had seen. Platt soon after
wards left the room and the lady
went down to supper. Rooms OPP
posite the lady's room were taken
possession Of by watchers, who saw
the lady return to it, and about 1880
a. m. Platt went to the door,
quietly raped, and was
admitted. A stepladder was
procured, and through the transom
over the door the watchers observed
the inmates of the room disrobe and
retire together. The watchers waited
in vain until 1:30 a. m. for Platt to
re-appear. A consultation was then
held, at which the following letter to
Platt was prepared:
DEAR PLATT-You are discovered.
1t is known that you are in 113 with
your female friend. Hurry out. If
you are in there in half an hour from
now the room will fe invaded by your
enemies. A FRIEND.
This note was put in a small envel-
ope addressed to the man to whom it
was written, and enclosed in a larger
envelope addressed to "Mrs. Baldwin"
A retained negro knocked repeatedly
at the door and finally after refusing
to open to him, the lady was told by
the servant that he would push the
note under the door, to which she
assented. 1t was done, and as it was
done the step-ladder was again brought
into requisition. The light was turned
up, the outer envelope was opened,
then the inner ones direction being
perceived, the note was handed by the
woman to the man in bed to whom it
was written, who read it, and who
instantly extinguished the light. He
shortly, however, in accordance with
the warning, furtively emerged, as is
declared, and was pursued with jeers
and salutations by some of those who
had unhived him, yet he distanced
them all, by every account, and
disappeared, not in his own room, but
in the room of a friend. 1t was in.
tended to use this knowledge privately
to force Plat out of the canvas, but
this plan was defeated by one who was
present only part of the time, and
who, very early in the morning went
round circulating the story, asking
persons eff they had heard it" and
then telling it to them. A watch was
maintained from the room opposite 113
till 12m. Thursday when the wo man
was hurried out of the hoteln and
driven away by a coachman. 1t
is stated that among the watchers
were Assemblymen Hustled, Skinner,
Steele, Chickering, Senator Wooden,
ex-Sherif Daggett, of Brooklyn, ex-
Commissioner Disbecker, of New
York, and others.
On Friday Mr.. Plat perempterily
withdrew his name not. he claims,
because he is guilty, but to relieve his
friends from an unpleasant attitude of
defense. He denies the story of the
scandal, and says it is a conspiracy
which he will expose in his own time
and way. Mrs. Plat came up to Al
bany Friday and returned to New
York with her husband Saturday.
Conkling and Arthur also went to
New York Saturday. 1t is stated
they were greatly displeased at Platts
withdrawal.-New YORK Courier and
Freeman.
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