The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1889-08-03
BROADDRIM'S n. Y. LETTER.

The Doodle Alderman, Arthur McQuade,
acquitted What of itP Did anybody doubtP
Why, the fate of the Doodle Aldermen de-
pended on our last municipal election, and
a majority of the voters of New York de-
clared that there should be no more Doodle
convictions. 1t was question of very
hard cash, and in our city elections very
hard cash will tell every time. When /
read the returns the morning after election
| said that finishes it, and / said IN my
next letter that there never would be an
other conviction of that batch of boodlers,
and there meyer will be. There has been
nc more painful or shameful exhibition in
court of justice in this country than that
witnessed at these Doodle trials. Duffy,
bold and defiant, perjured and impudent,
proud of his degradation, and seemingly
unconscious of his infamy. Waite, once
gentleman, the son of an honest man and
highminded and honorable woman, now
moral wreck, whose only shelter is the
grave. Fullgraff, who piled perjury on
perjury, who on realizing the shameful
position in which he had placed himself,
wept like child, and then repented that
he ever had tried to be honest, and cursed
his folly for not sticking to his perjury. No
wonder the jury at Saratoga acquitted Nc
Quade. To place any reliance on the
words of such unhung villains would be a
greater perverslon of justice than the ac-
quittal of a Doodle thief
Mark you the difference:-Fopr or Ave
weeks ago miserable blackmailer gave
out that the money he fleeced from his
victims, who were violators of the excise
law, had to be shared betw sen District
Attorney Fellows and Inspector Byrnes.
Great was the wrath of these officials when
they heard the charge, and if it had not
been for the newspapers, they would have
railroaded that fellow to Sing Sing inside
of thirty-six hours; as IL was, the miserable
wretch was tried inside OF two weeks, and
without any unnecessary delay was
whipped off to States prison. The moral
of this is, that you may rob the people as
much as YOU please and get off, but don't
slander police officer or District-At-
torney.
Last week was not good week for news.
Reporters were at their wits end and cor
respondents in despair, Even Broadbrim,
who usually finds something to write about
had to lo some tall hustling to make up a
readable weekly letter. 1t was right here
that the reportorial liar, who seems to
flourish and grow fat in several of our
large newspaper offices, took a hand in,
and the next morning the city was startled
with the intelligence that the government
at Washington had undertaken the censor
ship OF the press, and that the President's
private secretary, Mr.. Halford, had broken
into the telegraph office and altered all the
dispatches left by press correspondents in
violation of the constitution of the United
States and the rights of American citizens
The head lines were terrific, and when the
article was put in, the managing editor ant
all Of the respectable members of the stat
knewit was not true. On Tuesday tn,
Sun got caught on Auldoon. Now the San
as a usual thing is sharp. Dana may no
be first-class when he dabbles in politics
but he does understand the newspaper, anC
up to quite recently whatever you saw il
the Sun was reliable. But he has beer
carried off his base by his burly neighbor
the World, and in his anxiety to get tn,
earliest and most startling news, he doe
not scan the Yagrant manuscripts tina
come in late at night as close as formerly
The Sun was almost ready to 60 to pies
when a vagfant Bohemian rushed in will
an Interview with Muldoon, in which h
denounced Sullivan as an migrate,
drunken brute, &C., &c, and coupled will
it his denunciation of prize fighting in gen
eral and his determination to have nothinI
more to do with it. The lie was well pu