Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-29
rar SAME FRAUD BEINe PRAcTIoED
AGAIN.


campaign Of 1855.
There is an amusing feature about It,
also. The hstelligencer evidently did not
1 know Just exactly what it was talking
about. When it began it's alleged mind
was not altogether clear as to whether it
should hold that DUDLEY never wrote
the letter, or come out in bold defense
of the fraud.
So, it did both.
II started out by calling it "DUDLEY's
allsged blocks-of-6ve letter." thus dis
creditlng its authenticity, and then
in the next breath acknowledged the
authenticity Of the letter by defending
the fraud and declaring that
Il was a confidential letter to State
manager and could not have been written
for effect.
And that "it was a perfectly legiti-
mate proceeding" and that 1.-THE
Democratic politicians fail to ex-
plain what is meant by the blocks
of-6ve plan OF campaign adopted By
| Mr.. DUDLEY in Indiana"
We will leave Mr.. DUDLEY to explain
that neat system. The REGISTER has
published the DUDLEY letter in full
many times, but here is his ''blocks-oi-
Eve" plan as outlined in detail by him
self;
Write each Of our precinct correspond
First-To find out who has Democratic
Doodle and steer the Democratic workers
20 them, and make them pay big prices Tor
their own men.
Second-Scsn the election officers close
IL and make sure 70 have no man on the
board whose integrity is even questionable,
and insist on Republicans watching every
movement of the election officers.
Third-See that our workers know every
voter entitled to a vote, and let no one else
even offer TO vote.
Fourth-Dirids the foGters into blocks OF
IRE and pr q trusted man WITH NECESSARY
FUNDS in charge OF these JtUe, and make him
responsible that none Gct array and that all
rots our tictst.
Fifth-Make q personal appeal to your
best business men TO pledge themselves 10
devote the entire day, NOvember6 @, TO work
OF the pOlls-i. C., TO be present at the Dolls
with tickets. They viii be astonlsaed TO
see how utterly dumbfOunded the ordlna-
rv Democratic election hummer will be and
how quickly be viii disappear. The result
viii fully justify the sacrifice OF time ana
comfort, and viii DO source or satisIac-
ton afterwards to those who help 10 tnls
way. Lay great stress on this last matter.
And by way of further encourage
ment Mr.. DUDLEY stated:
Your committee tCiH certainly receive from
Chairman Houston the assistance necessary TO
hold oar f0dters and doubtful UOterS and gain
enough Of the other Kind % giue Harrison and
Morton 10000 plurality.
Is there a sane man in the country
who doubts the meaning Of DUDLEY's
letter? II the IptelliGencer is honest in
its Interpretation Of it, maybe it can ex-
plain the language of Judge WOODS,
the Republican judge who shielded
DUDLEY. In his instructions to the
grand jury Judge WOODS said:
THE mere sending, by one to another,
Of a letter or document containing advice
I A
for such bribery, however bold and repre-
heusfble. is not indictable. There must be
shown In addition an attempt by the re-
| ceiver Of the letter, or some others tnstl'
gated by him, 20 execute the scheme OF
Dribing or attempting TO prbe somevoter. u
What did Judge WOODS mean by
"a letter or document containing ad-
vice to bride a Voter?"
He referred 10 DUDLEY's letter. And
thus shielded DUDLEY from indictment
in his court, and as a reward he was
appointed . to federal judgeship by
President HARRISON, whose election
DUDLEY bought with tariff Doodle,
Decent Republican papers protested
against this reward Of infamy
by the elevation of Judge WOODS,
and it was shown that he had, in shield
ing DUDLEY from Indictment, reversed
himself. In a previous Interpretation
Of the same statute against bribery in
January, 1889, Judge WOODS said, in
his instructions to the Grand Jury:
"The clause makes it an offence for any
one % advise another 70 commit any OF the
| offences named in this section; so that,
while IL is not a crime TO make the attempt,
10 is a crime 10 advise another TO make the
attempt. IL A attempts to bube 3, that is
no attempt under this statute; but il A adj
yises 3 TO bride c. then the one who COM
m2nds or gives this advice is an offender
under this law; and I will say that there is
some wisdom in this provision
AS advising another" was just what
| DUDLEY had done in his "blocks OF Eve"
letter, this was an instruction to find an
Indictment but before an indictment
had been found Judge WOODS gave con-
trary instructions, apparently in obedi-
ence to partisan orders. And thus was
/ DUDLEY shielded.
But even then DUDUEY dared not re-
turn to Indiana, because he knew he
would Immediately be arrested and in
dicted and convicted in some other
court
In view Of Judge WoODs' interpreta-
ton Of DUDLEY's letter and DUDLEY's
own guilty action in remaining so long
away from his home, which he would
not have done had he not known that
Re was liable to arrest and imprison-
ment the Iatelligeacer'S defense of tho
/ Infamous blocks-of-6ve letter-the first
defense Of it on records a gross in
I suit 20 its readers.
The other day the REGISTER pub