Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-05-13

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ate. This is a lsurreptitious interpola-
tion or addendum intended no doubt to
: REFLECT UPON THE GOOD FAITH
of the majority of the Ohio House COM
mittee and mislead your committee.
We have examined the, copy sent to
the superintendent of public printing
and find that the addendum complain
ed Of Is written with pencil on soft pa
per, and wholly disconnected with the
official papers. We respectfully call
your attention to this matter and trust
that such inquiry may be instituted as
will uncover the perpetrators of this
Justification of a public record.
Respectfully yours,
EMMETT ToMPKINs,
..Secretary House Committee"
After the reading of the letter furth-
er distribution of copies Of the testi-
mony was ordered stopped and a cor
rected edition demanded. There was
great curiosity among
newspaper men and Senate clerks as to
WHAT THE ADDENDUM WAS
and as to how it had been surreptitious-
ly interpolated. The testimony con-
sisted of 1926 pages of legal cap in type
writing. Upon the day of its presenta-
ton the Pain Dealer correspondent
and other Ohio press men examined
the copy and all agree that the paper
containing this addition was noticed,
and certainly was not at the end of the
'testimany as the pages were turned to
discover them the number of the last
page. Chairman Cowgirl asserts that
he found the addendum last night up
on examining the printed copy. This
morning Public Printer Rounds brought
the original copy from his office, when
it was found that the addendum was
written in d graceful, business hand,u up
on a page Of paper torn from a scratch
book. It bore the devices of the Office
showing 1t was the last .take" given
to the compositor. On the margin was
q printers query: "Does this 60 IMP"
and also this instructions: "Omit and
query Captain Bryant's mark is then
noticeable meaning that '.it all goes"
This is all the government printing of
flee knows Of the matter. The adden-
dunn about which
THE RUMPUs IS RAISED Z
is upon the last page of the printed
copy Of the testimony and.is all there is
upon that page. The last line on the
preceding page shows that the commit
tee "thereupon adjourned" The in
terpolated matter sounds like it might
be part of the minority report and
reads thus: F'
THE ADDENDUM.
"The majority have all along con-
Quoted this investigation as though
they felt it incumbent upon them to
find somebody guilty, as though some
great party interest would be leopard
lied unless they reported that some
body was guilty of something. We
have helped them to draw the dragnet
in every muddy pool, anywhere and
everywhere, where they pleased to
designate. And every time they
thought they. had captured the boss
boodler, and when they rushed in to
grapple and land him, they invariably
found that it was
ONLY A SMALL SUCKER
which they took between their fingers
and throw back into his native ele-
ment. The majority report should
read, that, although they didn't find
anyone guilty of corrupt practices,
they think 1t burning shame
that.somebody wasn't guilty of'bribery
SO that they might report his capture
by this committed 53
WHO DID IT?
Secretary McCook of the Senate in.
stituted an investigation and learned
that the matter was not molested while
in his office, except by correspondents
inspecting it. The theories circulated
about the affair are three. While i,
was possible for any newspaper man to
have slipped the written page betweer
the leaves no one assumes this theory
Republicans generally assert titwas don,
at Columbus, and photographs Of hand
writing are to be taken to be sent ther'
for identification. A better theory i
that some smart compositor at the gov
lernment printing Office wrote the mat
ter. g. g, Constantine declares tina
the addendum is really part Of the mi
nority report misplaced. The mos
plausible theory Of all Is that the mat
ter was expressly prepared by osome .
the Republican managers and custodl
ans Of the documents, for the direc
purpose 0f furnishing a pretext
FOR HowLING FRAUD.
They preceived that the affair was to
placid and the ignoring of the collet