The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-09-21
How the ssYoluntary Contributions
Are Spent.

uOW bu6
Are Spent.
Jay Hubbelrs recent circular, prod
ding the delinquents, is sign of des-
perate weakness after all his boasts that
the voluntary contributions were
coming in better this year than during
the Presidential campaign. Strange as
it may seem, the most determined
resistance to this blackmailing is
found among Stalwart subordinates
at Washington. They are protected by
their politics, and are notin awe of
Hubbell. Some of them are bold
enough to denounce the assessment
system as infamous. Others maintain
that this being an off year they should
mot be called upon for the party tax.
They are disinclined to give money to
elect members of Congress in whom
they feel no interest, and who, if sent
to the House of Representatives, might
idisplace them.
The Half Breed clerks, all those who
are suspected of being Demeerafs,s f1Hsz::
neutrals, and the needy without in
fiuence, are the victims of the assess
ment system 1t disgraces the public
service and is standing reproach to the
Administration. 1t 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.
Malone exacts five per cent from all
the Virginia officeholders. Refusal to
pay is followed by instantaneous dis
missal. Mahone's order to that effect is
law in all the departments. No matter
how loyal Republican the recusant
may be, or how excellent an officer he
is, if he fails to answer the highway
mans call, removal is the penalty.
Don Cameron's State Committee ask
for two per cent. from the Pennsylva-
MIA officeholders, without distinction of
| sex. or as between soldiers and civil
ians. How hard these exactions fall on
those least able to bear them is illus
| trated by the case of clerk with 81, 900
| q year and family of five children to
support. He received Hubbelrs 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 a circular came from
Don Cameron's committee, calling for
$40. Unable to meet this second de-
mand, he went to HubbelTs headquar-
ters, disclosed his poverty, and asked
that half of the extorted money should
be sent to Pennsylvania 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 Hubben 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 up the solid South, expecting
! to gain sufficient number of members
to control the next House of Repre-
sentatives.
Among Hubbell's enterprises was a
| plan to carry North Carolina by Demo-
cratic detection. 1t was known that
several Bourbons, who had failed to get
Office from their own friends, were in
market,-and-hss had fFeff ffs1entfy tfy--tfsfred
Washington to exact terms from the
Democrats, or, as an alternative, to sell
out to the Republicans. Itappears that
Hubben was caught in this trap. Two
thousand dollars were transferred from
the contribution box into the pocket oil
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 jobber 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 a weapon to fight the Republican:
with when he was a Bourbon. His fol
lowing is getting small by degrees ant
beautifully less, and, when the spoils
are distributed, there will be nothing
left of him but a played out trafficker
who profited by his opportunity, anG
who deceived all that trusted him.
The Republicans of Mississippi rebe
at the adoption of Chalmers as an Ad
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. HI
was held up as the incarnation of infa
my and all that was horrible in the re
bellion. He was charged with pollut
ing the ballot box at three Compression
al elections, and with cheating a negr,
majority of ten thousand out of it
rights. He was elected from his sea
at the last session. and now, by bar
gain made through William E. Chand
Ter, he is suddenly purged of all thes,
crimes, and is the chosen candidate o
the Administration for Congress in tn,
Second District of Mississippi!
George w. Jones, the Greenbacke
from Texas, is the Administration can
didate for Governor in that State. Al
alliance is made with the Greenbacker
in Missouri, and with the boilers il
Tennessee. Wherever rotten Demo
crat can be found, or sorehead who i
in the market, the machine manager
at Washington adopt him in preference
to sound Republican. Tens of thous
ands of the money levied on poor me-
and women by Jay Hubbell have bee
expended in this way for the profit Q
seedy adventurers who hardly had
title to their own votes. Washington
) Cor. N. Y. Sun.