Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-07-09

alive in the Legislature Of Missouri,
the publication Of a letter he had
written 90 Capt. Dan. Able de-
maudlns $1,000 TO suppress an ar.
ticlc from bis paper, defeated his
aspirations to the spcakership. SO
determined was he TO make money
by selling the influence of his pa.
per-Ihc 81. LoHis Tmes-that his
partner, M. Mahoney. who was
equally determined that this should
not be done, was oblige to leave it.
BY his own admission he stands
on record rs having subsidized the
clerk Of the Missouri House of Rep
resentatiyes. by the testimony of
Mr.. Gilbert, ON the same matter, he
stands convicted OF levying $4,000
blackmail for the passage Of Wag.
neI'S Statute Bill. And clerk ID.
a. Sutton stated that he could give
the names of representatives
whom Ilutchins bribcd.
Paying rings are dearer to Hutch
ms than party interests. He would
have made an excellent Judas to
help a ring in which he had a thirty
pieces of silver sort OF interest; he
did his best TO defeat the election
OF Mayor Brown, in st. Louis, in
1873. He endcayorcd to induce a
lawyer to betray his client TO the
tune Of $4,000 as consideration for
passing a bill through the Missouri
House, and because this advocate,
who was also retained on behalf Of
st. Louis county for the bill, would
not sell ont his client, IIutchins,
who had charge of the bill in the
/ House, defeated il. On the other
hand he helped the election Of SEN
atOr Bogy in consideration of that
gcntleman'S endorsement Of $50.
GOO Of IlntchinS' notes.
4 man who Is, or lately was,
Sl30,00O in debt, had $500 unsat-
isied judgments hanging over him,
and is no more honorable in his
methods of procuring money than
llutchins, is fine candidate for
Senator or Public Printer. \ man
Of his persuasive eloquence and
quality Of brass might surely look
/ higher than the Government Print.
ing Office or even the Senate
Think what his power Of persuasion
must be when a juryman in a trial
to which IIutchins WAS n party,
exclaimed Ey dencc be Id,
Hutch shall have the verdict. The
case, however, was too strong even
for such a iuryman. and the verdict
WAS against clutch" and by the
same token i'm lSri-1l twenty -four
cases were decided against him.
Twcnty-onc of them were in the
hands OF one adverse attorney, and
this lawyer he endeayOred, by
tempting offers, TO win over to his
side and failed. He was told to his
face in jefferson City that he was
"the smartest man in Jefferson City
and the biggest scoundrcl in the
State" Known as "public enc
my" and an "incorrigable villain"
sneered at 10y good and bad alike
as the great disrememberist on &C.
count Of his sinuous windings, eva
sions and declarations Of forgetful-
ness when brought face to face
with his periuries, he yet cares
to return to Jefferson City to enter
the lists rs a candidate.
This is the man who, as was
shown in the Opera House suit, de
fraudcd his creditors in some cases
by getting the property which was
their security, out Of their hands,
aud in many cases discOunting his
own debts by allowing something
like twoihllds of what was due
\ long list OF transactions Of this
sort VAS produced in llutchins'
hand writing with his signature at
tachcd. Then, too. he set up
"straN trustee, and in his name
made notification of an execution
on the very property to which lac
was laying claim rs his own. Per
haps nothing more impudcnt was
ever esSaycd by any swindler.-
The character OF this man il thrown
into still holder relief by the fact
that when he had, through the in.
iluence of friends, secured from the
Times Company a settlement Of
case he was contcsting with them,
he insisted on an agreement TO de-
stroy tie dispositions which were
damaging to him. Could anything
show more clearly an effort to
screen himself from the conse-
quenccs of his rascallty and n de-
termination TO iMpOse himself On
the community as innocent, when
in fact he WAS guilty F. No wonder
that in disgust il was said of him,
she has more rings than saturn and
commits more wrongs than satan"
The full history OF all these trans
actions with copies OF some Of the
alidavits fixing the guilt Of this un.
bluShing sharper is in our posses
sion. But for the lenity of his pros
ecutors and the men whom he had
injured he would now be looking
/ from behind the prison bars, 0ccu.
pying seat at Jefferson City that
no one would care 10 contest, in
stead Of publishing ring newspa-
per in Washington.
When IIutchins in 1S17 sought
10 establish the Post he tried to
strike every Democratic Senator
and Representative for $50 to help
him. lie thus sought to extOrt
about $4,000 from Congress to set
him up in business. As he was
from Missouri the Democratic mem
bers naturally asked Hon. John NJ.
Glover who and what he was, and
Mr.. Glove, with manly courage,
told the exact truth about him.
Hence, Hutchins effort to levy trib-
ute on Congress failed, and ever
since he has taken every opportu-
nity to belle and ridicule Mr.. Clio.
yer in the Post
Il is the mau whom the records
and his own confession show to be
guilty of almost endless villainies
who has assumed to dictate to men,
bers of Congress what their public /
course should be who has dared to ,
assail men Of the highest character /
and TO cndeayor to drag them down /
to the depth Of public contempt, at /
which he lies, where he is really |
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