The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-10-02
Corrupt Modes in the October State.

0rfupt Modes IN the OCTOBER StdIe-
The news from OHIO shows that the
publican managers are making 9
effort to retrieve their de-
lining fortunes. That great disor-
anization exists in their ranks is a q
hing of public record, and the object ,
ow is to satisfy the kickers and
lose up the lines for more telling !
fleet in this October state. Money is
t last forthcoming; it is seen that the
,eople are aroused against the prac-
ices of the republican party and that
hey are especially inimical to can
lidate with so base record as that of
James G. Blaine. Moral opinions
lave been forme6 and they are so tell
ng in opposition to the republican
that money as last resort is
necessary to keep the party from go
ing absolutely to the dogs in Ohio. 1t
Is gong to take a very large amount
of it TO produce the desired effect, and
the managers will spare no means by
which it may lie raised. 1t is reported |
that in the past 4ew days Jay Gould |
has come to the rescue with round |
hundred thousand and it is said forty
or fifty thousand dollars have flowed
III from other sources, but from evil
dences as to the demands that will be
made In desperate case like this it is
thought less than two millions OF dol.
lars will not procure the votes needed
How this large sum may be secured is
not understood, but the government
official army is to be squeezed and
it is calculated a good stake
will be received from that quar-
ter. The effect of the second
batch OF Mulligan letters was ter
rifle. People had already concluded
that Blaine was corrupt, but when
this last publication was made many
of those who had still chung to him be-
gan to turn away with disgust. The
office holders declared they amounted
to nothing, while the workers insisted
money was necessary to produce
counter effect at the polls. Then,
too, it was decided that Blaine should
hippodrome in Ohio, but the effect OF
his presence is variously commented
on; the Ohio committee say it is dam
aging, while the eastern trainers de-
clare it was matter of necessity. He
has become an artful dodger on prohibit
ton; he is one thing in Maine, another
thing in Ohio, and he opens himself at
all points to criticism, All in all there
is great activity. John Roach, ship
builder and treasury leach. has gone to
Ohio; Pension Commissioner Dudley
and Senator Plumb go there too, and
now if Dorsey and Brady can be IL
duced to invade the state its treasury
may be transported to parts
unknown. Dudley asserts that the In
diana method cannot be applied to the
whole state unless the money flows
in more freely. A letter writer des-
cribes the proposed mode of operation
The territory in which operations are
| to be carried on has been cut down
and will be confined to a belt
of country running diagonally
from northwest to southwest en-
bracing Cuyahoga, Erie Sandusky
Lucas, Montgomery, Butler, and
Hamilton counties. At the election
last year these counties cast an aggre-
gate vote of 15S,903, and a democratic
majority of l2,472. This is considera.
bly, more than one-fifth of the total
vote of the state, and almost precisely
the democratic majority of last year
Embraced in this territory are the
cities of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo
Dayton, Hamilton, Sandusky and Ere
mont-all the large cities of the state
except Columbus and Springfield. Ii
these seven counties and the cities
they contain Col. Dudley expects to
do his work, and they are being organ
lied and differed with that end il
view. In other parts of the state
they expect to make some gains, sus
tain some losses or hold their own
while in the territory named
they expect to change enough to give
them the state. This is the way
they figure it. The remain.
ing II counties will be stand-off this
year, as they were last. In Cuyahoga
county the republicans expect 1850
majority; in Hamilton, 5000; in Lu-
cas-, 500 or more; Sandusky they ex-
pect to carry by, say, 100, and reduce
the democratic majority in Erie to
500, in Butler to 1900, and in Mont
gomery to 1000. This would give a
republican majority of between 5000
and 5000. In these seven counties
there are 1877 voting precincts, having
an average vote at last years election
of 400 to each precinct. 1t would re-
quire an average republican gain of
40 votes in each precinct-a change of
one vote in every ten-to give the re-
publicans majority, assuming that
In the other 81 counties the MAORI
ties of the two parties would balance
each other. The 1877 picked men
who are to distribute money in thea
precincts, in the Indiana fashion, are
expected to make the average number
of conversions" run somewhere be-
tween 40 and 80 to the precinct. The
purchase of 600 votes at an average
of $40 each is not beyond the 6nan-
cial capacities of the United States
commissioner of pensions, all claims
of poverty to the contrary notwith-
standing. Defiant violation of the
civil service law indicates that no
conscientious scruples will deter him
from carrying out his scheme if it can
be done. Win the desperate straits to
which these partisans resort save
themp Is it not an evidence of
madness which precedes destruction
For twenty years the republican
party has sustained IT'S power by the
basest systems of corruption. Corrup-
ton has pervaded every department
of the public service, and now we see
a chief of one of those departments
leave his post of duty at Washington
to personally supervise the distribu-