Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1882-07-13


Of the letter the Republican Congress,
SiOnal Committee is addressing by
thousands to officers and employees Of
the federal government throughout the
United States demanding money tC
''mcrt expenses incident TO the Cpoliti
call campaign this year. In the cX'
ample We have selected for rlrrtrotyp.
ing the sum specified is fifteen dollars,
and the person from whom il mas beer
cNtortcd is Il day laborcr with a wife
and children TO support. II is assessed
on an income calculated at seven hun.
drcd and fifty dollars year. Many
other such letters have been brought tc
our attention. The figures vary in
them. and appear generally 10 be com.
putcd. rs in this ease. 10y Il percentage
upon the victims wages. salary or pre-.
/ Sumcd cmOlumcntS. In SOME instances,
however, they are inserted arbitrarily.
We have seen an example in which
they reach aS high as two hundred and
fifty dollars, and another in which
they reach aI low ~ three dollars and
''N'a ',"'0' ~ wv 'H'''i wv l,'I0 0''
assessed IS an "rrAhI n"y thirteen
wears old. hut pretty fully grown fol
hi~ age, Women and girls in the en-.
pIoymrnt Of the government also are
held liable. The cradle is robbed, and
the grave would brl II II were accessible,
We have seen 1t asserted that the
aggregate oi the receipts WhlrN the k"-
publican Congressional COMMITTEE
AIMS to obtain IN lhlN manner Is at
least 1--WE hundred thousand dollars.
In" number ol letters II already mas
sent out iScHlimalrd III lllrll thousand,
ANA is increasing daily with great rapid
ily' the intention being not merely to
reach and assess the hundred thousand
so-raIlrd oilicr-holdrrs, hut also the
Sllll greater number ol employees VINO
are not commissioners For example,
the Boston newspapers say that seven
hundred OF these letters were served
last week upon the workIngmrn in the
CharlrHtown Navy rd-prrhapN in
compliment to the civil service reform
professions of Senators Dawes and
lloar. From plan executed ON such
comprehensive scale the expectation Of
the cNtortiOn Of half million dollars
appears to be very moderate.
As the names of three Senators and
thirteen Representatives oi the United
States, constituting the Executive Com
mittrr Of the Republican Congressional
Committee. are printed in the letter in
very small type. we give them publci-
ty with font of larger type, prclNing
10 each the state Of lis owner. They
are n follows; Iowa, William b. ALI
son: Maine. Eugene Hale: Rhode Is
land. Nelson W. Aldrich; Michigan. j.
4. IIuhbrll: New York. Frank lIi>curk
New jersey. George NJ. Ruhr.On: Ohio.
William Mckinley. ,Jr.: Illinois. Gcorrr
Il. Davis: PENNSYLVANIA. lIora,io &.
Fisher: California. Horace T. Pace: In
diana. William II. Culkin,: Kansas.
Thoma, RYAN: Minnesota. William d.
Wn,hburu. Tennessee. I,ronidus G..
lIoul;; Missouri. Il. r. Van Horn:
North Carolin Orlando IIubbs.
We ventura brliryr that thrrr j.,
moi one Of these sixteen gentlemen.
who, if he were nm,rlf the recipient of
surh a lrt,cr. maxim" similar ,pccilir
demand f,r mnnr,, In, nthn,, tb,n - mn.
Iitirgl nnno,r. Wonld moi Inc Iikrjy Ia
front if os an ,ttrmut lu Llorl,moil him
,nJ nrrb,n. rnll in tbr nolirr for, hi,
urotcrt,nn If is needless 10 odd that
,,r olso hnIir,, tb,t ryr,y ono nf th,
.;y,nnr ,nuIJ Ia. liL"I,. tn ir,,t , .nIin.
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