The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-09-08

rob the psoplo. while those in charge Of
the city's interest sit by and share the
plunder.
Thank God for at least one honest man
in this city of millien and a quarter OF
No corruption has been traced to
Mayor Hewitts door. It has mattered not
to him whether they were Democrats OF
Republicans, If they were dishonest he
hunted them down. He is not popular
with political thieyes--he never will be-
He may be deceived at times-he may
make mistakes. think one Of the great
est mistakes of his life was the endorsement
Of the Morey- Garfield forgery; but that is
all past. You could no more move him TO
any intentional dishonesty than you could
move the rock of Gibraltar. So Isay again.
in the midst of this deplorable showing,
thank God we have an honest Mayor.
Another case of perjury lies between one
Mclean and General Lefevre. Mclean
swears that Lefeyre told him that he want
ed $3.50, ,0OOto buy three of the Commits
sioners, and Lefevre swears point blank
that he meyer had any conversation with
Mclean on the subject. One of these
men ought to be behind States Prison bars.
But these are only sample bricks of the
whole affair. Rottenness, lying, pecula-
ton, robbery, forgery, and even crimes OF
more desperate and deadly character, are
spread out in the piercing sunlight of this
terriable investigation. Men who have
hitherto stood fair in this community, will
henceforth go through life with smirched
characters and blackened regulations.
Where will it all endP The Tweed gang is
stricken down, and the Doodle thieves take
their places; we drive them into exile OIL
States Prison, but the horde that succeeds
them are worse than the Doodle thieves,
What will become OF us? / don't know
we can only watch and wait.
Thank fortune we haYe been spared one
humiliation, in part, at least. Richard X
Fox, the patron of prize fighters and the
proprietor of the Police Gazette, gave
orders to Billy Harding to give Jake Kilrair
a big reception, that would knock the
Blaine reception cold. So Billy hired 9
steamboat and brass band and cannon
and invited all the pugs and gamblers to &C
down and meet the Etruria and Kilrain
They were delightful crowd, and as re
freshments were plentiful and free while
they were cruising around, they all got full
as ticks. The programme was, if the
Etrura got in on Saturday, to meet the
champion. take him off on the boat, escor
him to the wharf, where they had carriages
decorated with American and other flags
and therce escort him with a procession
and band of music to his hotel. Forum
ately the Etruria arrived in .he night, ant
} her captain refused to let the pugs come OIL
board his ship. Kilrain finally got ava!
about twelve o'clock at night and unde
. cover of darkness was taken TO the Metro
politan Hotel on Broadway, where fin,
suit of rooms had been engaged for hin
by Billy Harding, Richard X. Fox payini
all the bills. All this to-do is about
prize-fghting ruffian who, Fox thinks, cal
down John L. Sullivan. No need o
Kilrain, Mr.. Fox; John l.. Sulliyan ha
downed himself. He tackled create
tough than Kilrain when he entered III
ring with a whiskey bottle. The bottl
knocked John out the first round. Goo
: bye, John.