Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1892-09-29
CORRUPTION IN POLITICS
Republican Statements as to Methods
Used to Bring Success in 1888. :.

Used to Bring Success in 1888
Divide the foaters into blocks
If five, and put trusted man with
necessary funds in charge of these
five, and make him responsible
that none get away and that all
vote our cket.-Col. w. w.
Dudley from Headquarters Re-
publican National Committee,
October "A, 1888.
Many people fancy, because
1ov. Hill carried New York when
President Cleveland was defeated,
that a plurality of the voters in
the State would support him
again. But in that contest. as
people here well known, Hill sue
ceeded only because he was able to
sell Il Presidency for a Govern
ship.-N. Y. Tribune (Rep) Feb.
Il, 1890.
The only reason a commission
was attached to this bill (for re.
pairing the Capitol at Albany,
n. " was for the simple purpose
of taking care of the politics that
was in the job on the eve of Il
Presidential election. Isn't that
true: 1t was an unwise thing to
do it. We ought not to have
done it. We ought to have left it
in the hands of Commissioner
Perry. and let the politics take
care Of itself, and we would have
had a Democratic President in
stead Of a Republican if we had
done it.-Speech of Assemblyman
Ainsworth, Republican leader, in
New York Assembly, February p,
1889.
There is another bank in Wa.
kins. and that is the bank III
which, for the past year, | have
kept all my private accounts.
Along about the 1st of
November the State Committee,
in its kindness, in its generosity,
realizing the fact. | presume. that
| was in the native county of Gov.
Hill, that we have large vote
that is questionable. sent ii large
amount of money into the country.
OF course, my friends, perhaps
that was not a wise thing Per-
haps it was not a wise thing for
me to be the receiver of that
money. 1t came from
Republicans high up in official
life; it came, a large part of it
almost all of it. with the exception
of few hundred dollars-from
the State Committee. The day
after election it seems | had over
drawn my account. and | fixed it
up with the bank. - Speech of
Fremont Cole, Republican leader,
in the New y York Assembly, March
y, 1889.
OF the money so literally con-
;ributed by the Republicans ir this
city for election expenses. three
very large sums were paid out
which brought in only about 1850
votes as the result of these expen-
sive negotiations.
The Coogan labor vote cast for
Harrison and Miller amounted to
1900; the James O'Brien protec-
ton Democracy vote, 50; the John
j. O'Brien vote, beyond what is
the normal vote in the Eighth
District, to 100 votes.
On Saturday before election
there was paid by the National
Committee for use in this city, to
a Republican State leader, AS we
are informed, the great sum of
about $3.50, 900, and. as none of
this went to the County Commit
tee, it is fair to presume this very
large sum was used in the three
negotiations alluded to.
We hope we have seen the last
of attempts to buy votes en- bloc
in all which attempts for the past
twenty-slx years we have been
buying experience and not votes,
been filling and trimming the
lamps of our opponents and empty
ing our own. N. Y. Mail and
Express, (Rep.) Nov. y, 1888.
True To-Day.
They have put wickedness into
the statute book, and its destruc-
ton is just as certain as if they
had put gunpowder under the
Capitol. That is my faith. That