Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-05
MONEY In POLITICS.
Sixteen United States Senators Who
Owe Their Seats TO lis Influence.
Row Monopolies and Individuals Use II
TO Control Legislation.
New York Tmes.l

A ate OF the United states sixteen SEN
e tors who owe their election entirely
$ the indirect use OF money and the e!
!. ercise OF corporate power aud iniluenC
, in their respective states. Why mint
e words The last presidential electio
I was determined by the use of none,
The democratic party cannot thro'
stones ut the republican harlot. The
are not without sin. They taught til
republicans the art in 1915. Barnui
and mules carried Indiana in the o.
! tohsr contest of that year. They wer
on hand again in 1850, but Dorsey ant
s. bills were too much for Connect
cut Yankee and his mules.
If Mr.. c. p. Huntington can b
compelled 10 account for the $4,000
he expended in 1876, il will be founC
that S15, 900 of that amount was /.
contribution TO q campaign fund. 1
will further appear that the contribu
ton was not unconstitutionally made
but that the pledge was exacted of
! presidential candidate TO consider fa
vorably legislation which might be EN-.
acted in the interest of the corporation
! Mr.. Huntington represented. If the
secrets of Mr.. Jay Gould's cabinet
could be extracted or distracted, it
would appear that like contribution
was made by him upon similar
pledge given AT the same time TO the
same parties, who acted as the go.be-
tweens, the bosses of the corporations.
and the presidential aspirant. OF
the SiO9, 900 which Mr.. G. p. Hunt
ington acknowledges he has expended
without taking vouchers therefor,
much the greater part will be found to
have been political contributions.
And it will appear also that these con.
tdbutions, like the dews of heaven, de.
scended on the just and unjust, upon
Republicans and Democrats. But, i'm
the memorable language of Oakes
Ames, they were always placed where
they would do the most good" The
money went into congressional and
legislative districts to help the friends
Of the Central and Southern Pacilics
1t went TO defray the travelling en-
,enses of congressman. At least one
member from the South got out of il n
zee ride and free entertainment to the
sandwich islands and return.
If Mr.. } Ohm Roach would unburden
MS conscience, what an interesting
md instructive exhibit the conntrv
would get! Stanch and Jealous Re-
that he is, his contributions
10 Democratic campaign funds would
make no small part of the sum total
gwen for political purposes. Very Gu
flous would such items as these appear.
Us they doubtless stand charged in his
wonderfully retentive memory: "To
W; II. b. for IS district, 81 ,OOO;n
To g. u. for IS district ST .0oO,,
ana now instructive would be the rec.
Dru Oh democratic IS and Republi.
AN ---s votes on the Brazilian suh-
sluy Dill! But the most curious of ali
s4ch accounts would be the entry in
MI U. L. Huntington's private cash
of the So, 900 he gave "
II; b; for the Ohio campaign. during
which legislature was 10 choosn AT
zen u. Ihurman's successor Verify
Mr. Huntington must have b,1uy.,
evil. Su soou lor
But why detail these scandals 81,
sXclaim my partisan friends. "Yo,
know that with the exception of ba
Iredlt-Mobilier and Pacific Mail snh
say exposures there have been no ca
l0us revelations affecting congress- ~,
True, my friends, but few of the 60
'rels OF our charnel-house have been
ana bare, but we have had sug~estiva
'llmpses of the fetid mass hidden tberaI
u through letter-writters like NJ
huntington. There are The latters 81
and Fremont. which sho W.
hat more than 81 800 600 of tha sen,,.i
, ,es o. me old Memphis and Ell Paso
'ha; W DC USED 10 secure charter and ,,
nn "S r rom congress for that corpora ,
oI me contract made by Marshall !
= ,.oneits Win Sorwine and Parsons =
.Sviuea i,oo0 900 Of the bonds of the :
uAas racine TO procure that com =
~ 's,s So quarter from congress. In this
80 '., tue cnarter was obtained and )
IL money or It's equivalent was paid
.;,I, W .hls aay the scandal connected !,
w rtn accufsed debauchment of lelg;isla- !
W. ihofais come to the fore every SEES i,
Dnst u congress. Like Banquo's :,
most, 10 Will not down. BY strange :
Ir', ,unsenieHt, HuntingtOn's corpora .
"a ' 9ad s up as The residuary legatee =
,n ,'Voo,vVv acres or land granted to =
IN h Scouts company despite all the
por ana disbursements of the Cali. =,
inih monopoiists. And then there !,
me less Well-known secrets of tha IL
S ,ft, Pacific job. The legislation p
, bestowed upon that corporation "a
=, peim, uonnain cost its finan- a.
" agents $1,2O0,000 in Sc y
Il We ne morttits nil nisi Jonum. W
y, ~ yer now many dead congressmen's ~
nans nave shown the Possession of ~
o.As OF Northern Pacific ground ~, ~
r,a interests Bold Henry Willard =,
aea'eheu disclosure of some of III III
I ;sa, secrets, which would have he. ~
, 4 rasI the dead and living alike. ! q
e o ,a,ner imam call his handW he '.l'
Il gwen control of the corporation ru
NAT a verltable old man of The Sen Il gr
proved TO him! And he, too has la'
$50 soul burdened with Legislative AZ
~, ass. his agents spent tens of thon.
'us OF dollars here last winter IN an
',eht legislative action ia re the for. err
.ute OF the Northern Pacific land WI
nt ~ part OF his private fortune Sol
~ 70 deiray these expenses, there gul
u,a pe y ilavor of retributive Justice WI
-he misfortune that has overtaken lh'
contributions, although NOT rec
ga WIN corrupt intent, neverthe- me
give the contributor indirect iia'
nis on his party, and even the hest yet
purest capitalist will promptly nL. eI'
Y. 10 foreclose such mortcaSes aht
never his pecuniary interests nssy ahc
threatened by legislation. knny SCI
ns.ienian whose fame as philan. Wh
' 4, I, and bubble and private bene. our
W MS Two hemispheresl. who nor AZ Il
since senta most remarkabie mas
senator OF his own political
u, IN the pursuance of q laudabin
I,o o 10 cure the evils which aiilc 7
,iiona unliy and to compel cor mo,