The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-09-22
Hew the Involuntary Contributions
Are Spent.

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jaw Hubbelrs recent circular. prod
ding the delinquents, is sign of des-
perate weakness after all his boasts tliat
the 'syoluntary contributions" were
coming in better this year than during
the Presidential campa On. Strange as
it may seem, the most determined
resistance to this blaekmailing is
found among Stalwart subordinates
at Washington. They are protected BY
their politics, and are not in awe of
lHubbel. Some of them are bold
enough to denounce the assessment
system as Infamous. Others maintain
that this being an off year they should
not be called upon for the party tax.
They are q sinclined to give money to
elect members of Congress in wflom
they feel no interest, and who. If sent
to the House of Representatives, might
displace them.
The Half Breed clerks, al those Who
are suspected of being Democrats, the
neutrals, and the needy without in
iiluence, are the victims of the assess
tment system. II disgrdces the public
service and is standing reproaeh to the
Administration. Ii is made worse this
year for the helpless clerks, because the
State Committees are demanding con
'tributions in addition TO the exactions of
the Congressional Committee.
Mahone exacts five per- cent from all
the Virginia officeholders. Refusal to
pay is followed by instantaneous dis
n1issal. Mahone's order to that effect is
law in all the departments. No matter
how loyal Republican the recUslnt
may be, or how excellent an officer he
is. if he fails to answer the highway
man call, removal is the penalty.
Don Cameron State Committee ask
for two per cent from the Pennsylva-
MIA oi1iceholders, without distinction Of
sex, or as between soldiers and civil
ians. How hard these exactiots fall on
those least able to bear them is illus
trated by the case of q clerk with 81. 600
a year and a family of five children to
support. He received Hubbell' circu-
lar and borrowed $40 to pay the assess
ment from one of the Shylocks that
prey on the poor. Hardly had he paid
Hubbell, before circular came from
Don Cameron 5 committee, calling for
$50. Unable TO meet tbs second de-
mand, he went to Huhbeils 5 headquar-
tiers. disclosed his poverty, and asked
that half of the eNtorted money should
be sent to Penns vlvania IN his name.
He was told that the Congressional Com
mittee had no connection with State
committees, and he was advised to pay
up at any sacrifice.
1t is alleged that Hubbell has made
some bad investments in the South,
which have provoked much indignation
among old-fashioned Republicans He
and the other managers have devoted
much energy and no little money to
breaking ND the solid South, exDecting
to gain sufficient number of members
to control the next House of Repre-
sentatives.
Among Hubbelrs enterprises was a
plan to carry North Carolina by Demo-
crate detection. It was Known that
several Bourbons, who had failed TO get
Office from their own friends, were in
market, and had frequently visited
Washington to exact terms from the
Democrats. or, as an alternative, to sell
out to the Republicans 1t appears that
Hubbell was caught in this trap. Two
thousand dollars were transferred from
the contribution box into the pocket OF
one of the North Carolina men, who put
the money where it would do him the
most good, and left the movement to
shift for itself.
The Republicans of Virginia, who
gave character to the party, feel out
ragged at being cast aside by the Admin
istration for a iobber like Malone, who
tomorrow would betray the President
for higher price, and who despises the
negro, except as the slave of his pur-
poses. The tissue ballot, which the
Republicans first introduced in Florida.
was adopted by Malone in Petersburg
as weapon to fight the Republicans
with when he was Bourbon. His fol
lowing is getting small by degrees and
beautifully less, and, when the spoils
are distributed, there will be nothing
left OF him but played out trailicker,
who profited by his opportunity, and
who deceived all that trusted him.
The Republicans of Mississippi rebel
at the adoption of Chalmers as an Adj
ministration candidate for Congress.
For sixteen years he had been de-
nounced as the author of the massacre
of the Union soldiers at Fort Pillow. He
was held up as the incarnation OF infa-
my and all that was horrible in the re-
bellioD. He was charged with pollut-
inc the baliot box at three Conoression-
al elections, and with cheating a negro
majority of ten thousand out of its
rights. He was elected from his seat
at the last sess. on. and now, by bar
gain made through William E. Chand-
Ter, he is suddenly purged of all these
crimes, and is the chosen candidate of
the Administration for Congress in the
Second District of Mississippi
George w. Jones, the Greenbacker
from Texas, is the Administration can
didate for Governor in that State. An
alliance is made with the Greenbackers
in Missouri, and with the boilers in
Tennessee. Wherever a rotten Demo-
crat can be found, or a sorehead who is
in the market, the machine managers
at Washington adopt him in preference
to a sound Republican. Tens of thous-
ands of the money levied on poor men
and women by Jay Hubbell have been
expended in this way for the profit of
seedy adventurers who hardly had q
title to their own votes. - Washington
Cor. ~. I. Sun.