The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-01-20

! an adjoining township be hired to fix
I him.
! Dudley never failed in an emergency.
l A few days before the 'blocks-of-fve'
| letter was exposed, we wired him that we
! could not get our prominent business
men to contribute. The next morning we
received a long telegram stating that
LOO democratic repeaters from 1t.
Louis were on their way to Indiana
and would be distributed all along the o.
| & NJ. railroad and imploring us to raise
money to put detectives on their track to
| prevent the outrage. Immediately. as per
instruction of Dudley, we wired a list of
/ business men to Mr.. Miller, and before
sundown every man on the list had re-
ceived a telegram, signed by Mr.. Harri-
son, asking him to attend meeting at
our committee room that night. These
men felt hattered at being personally
/ recognized by Mr.. Harrison. At the meet
| ing 1 read the Dudley telegram and
| declalmed at some length upon
the outrage that the wicked demo-
| upon honest voters and taxpayers.
! Within fifteen minutes $1,000 was sub
/ scri5ed by these indignant business men.
Some of them were so worked up that
they lost sleep that night, and from that
time on to the closing of the polls we had
no trouble to get any of them to neglect
their business to drive out in the country
/ fifteen miles TO see some one they could
J influence.
But, repeat it, not dollar used in
the county came from Dudley. With the
| exception of the amount raised in the
county every dollar came from Messrs.
Harrison and Miller"
How about the l.500 repeaters?"
| Io, 4 -,
ton, but the scare had the desired effect"
The Deacon Burned the Letter.
"Was there 'blocks-of-fve' letter re-
ceived in your county,"
"Ees, the secretary before referred to re-
ceived one. When he was subpGned before
the grand jury to testify in this matter he
came to me for advice. came with him
to Indianapolis. Two hours before he
took the witness stand. where he testified
under oath that he had never received
one, he burned the letter upon my advice.
l advised him to tell the truth about the
matter, and having no letter in his pos
| session, of course he could not swear that
| the letter he received was identical with
| the one in possession of the grand Jury.
| However, Just before going 10 the federal
| court he met some one in the Denison
| who told him il he testified that he had
| received a 'blocks-of-fve' letter he
would never receive an appointment from
| Mr.. Harrison. He didn't get as big an Of
fee as he expected, but be has been well
taken care OF.
! BY the way, every man who received q
! 'blocks-of-five' letter is in office today,
| from Smiley y. Chambers down to Sam
| kercheval. The latter came very near
being left in the cold, for ne was charged
with having lost, through carelessness, his
letter, and that it fell into the hands of a
| democrat. But IL appears that Sam
I holds fat place.
There is one thing that is not generally
known about this Dudley letter. 1t is a
fact, however, that when THE SENTINEL
| published the letter. Judge Woods and
Law Partner Miller advised Gen.
| Harrison to come out in card
denouncing Dudley. Mr.. Harrison was
very indignant at Dudley and had made
up his mind to publicly denounce him,
when Stanton j. Peelle, Attorney-Ge General
| Michener and certain members of the
| slick six threatened to make trouble ii
| Judge Woods advice was followed. Har-
rison knew that Indiana could not be car
ried without money, and if he issued a
| the workers would have allowed the
! floaters to take care of themselves. This
was explained to Harrison forcibly by
| Kitchener.
'After the election Messrs. Harrison
| and Miller tried to make a
scape goat of Dudley They
advised Judge Woods to deliver to the
first federal grand jury what Is now known
| in history as the first charge. That 8
what made Dudley angry at the whole
| crowd. That charge was uncalled for and
| even if Woods did take it back subse
| quently Dudley will never forgive him for
/ il. Judge Woods thought that he would
| rehabilitate Harrison with a cloak of vir-
tue by dragging Dudley before the grand
| jury. But this hypocritical trick of Har-
rison, Miller and Woods soon caused Har-
rison much worry. Dudley is a broader
man and endowed with greater resources
than the president, and he soon gave him
to understand that in the end Harrison
would come out of the ordeal the worse
| disfgured of the two. In other words he
had dynamite in his pockets
Harrison Ordered the Second Charge.
''The idea generally prevails that Dud-
ley forced Judge Woods to deliver his
second charge. This is not true. Benja-
min Harrison himself caused Judge
Woods to reverse his first charge. He did
so when he found out that Dudley in
tended to explode his dynamite.
Dudley today stands before the public
as a man guilty of crime and who es-
capped punishment by a technicality. And
Harrison, through Judge Woods uncalled-
for first charge, is responsible for this
stigma. Judge Woods charged Dudley
with a crime, but did not give
him chance to clear him
self. Dudley desplses the president and
Judge Woods and were it not for the fact
that Dudley's pull in the departments at
Washington is worth 100000 annually he
would not allow Woods to be confirmed.
have it from reliable authority that Judge
Woods would have been appointed on the
supreme bench had not Dudley inter
posed. Dudley will be vindicated, but
not till after the next election. Then
Harrison will leave the white house under
a cloud"