Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1894-10-18
MORE POPGUN WARFARE.

The attempt to make political capital
by the arrest and detention of Hon. l..
P. Morton's imported coachman under
the alien contract law shows the des-
perate straits to which the opposition
is driven. No straw is reckoned tCo
small to be seized upon in the mad
struggle to escape the vortex toward
which they are being swiftly and surely
swept by the current of public opinion.
The story of the proceedings given by
the New York Tribune is very interest
ing as disclosing the true ''inwardness"
of the affair.
John James Howard, being United States
prisoner, charged with a violation of United
state, laws, was supposed to be in contine-
ment yesterday. But he was not. For the
greater part of the day he was upstairs in
the private apartments of the Democratic
state committee, in the Park Avenue hotel,
being coached by Senator Hills agents, with
the assistance of Inspector Dodge, as to the
story he should give reporters of Democratic
papers about his employment by ex-yice
for governor. After Howard had been duly
instructed as to the story he should tell,
Dodge took him to No. 1873 East Sixteenth t.,
and the offices of newspapers known to be
friendly to David B. Hill and no tile to Mr..
Morton were requested to send reporters to
get his tale.
The appearance of Howard and Dodge at
Democratic state headquarters recalled the
fact that Chairman Hinckley suddenly
started for Poughkeepsie early last Thurs
day, ostensibly 10 arrange matters for the
nutchess county Democratic convention,
which was held on Saturday. 1t is now
known, however, that his business in Dutch
ess county was connected a great deal more
with the exploiting of the Howard boomer
ang in the hope that political capital might
be manufactured against Morton among the
labor organizations. Hinkley had been made
aware that Bradley B. Smalley, the Demo
claHe gnited States collector OF customs a.
BuriSagton ana member of the Deu.os.rati,
national committee for Vermont, had writ
ten to John q. Carlisle, secretary of the treas
ury, and had received Carlisle's authority
and warrant, empowering Inspector Prentiss
G. Dodge to come here and arrest Howard
Dodge arrived here early last week and aftel
consulting with Major Hinkley and othe1
Hill campaign manipulators at state head
quarters, went to Duchess county. The ar
rest of Howard on the charge that Mr.. Nor
ton paid his passage, S35, second class, to thi,
country and thereby violated the contrac
law, followed. What arrangements Hinkley
and Dodge were able to make with Howard
10 secure his assistance in stemming the tide
going so strongly against Hill and the Dem
ocratic ticket, have not yet been made pub
lie, but 1t was asserted last night on author
ity that was looked upon as authentic, thai
for a consideration and promises of future
maintenance Howard entered into this petty
Democratic scheme. 1t was reported also
that he is to be ostensibly sent back to Eng
land, but that in reality he will go no further
than Montreal or some other place in the
Dominion of Canada, where he will be taker
care OF until it will be safe to let him return
The United States inspector who pilotet
Howard about yesterday, is well known il
Burlington as a political heeler of B. B
Smalley. ready for any kind of a job whic1
smalley may require.
a personal friend of Mr.. Morton said las
evening: ''Mr. Morton has been advised O
Howard's true character and is fully awar,
of the dicker which he made with Hill ant
Hinkley to injure his employer, who hat
treated him with great kindness ever sine,
he entered his employ. do not believe from
what have heard that Mr.. Morton will inter
est himself further for Howard's release
He will leave the treacherous English cur t.
the care of his Democratic friends"
The scheme so elaboratelv worked III
is ingenious enough, but if our Demo
cratic friends expect to gain votes by it
they will be greatly disappointed.