Middletown transcript., 1895-06-22
"HYPOCRITE AND COWARD. !"

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answer because they are true. Reat
the following from the Every Evening
ga lie oft repeated and well stuck II
may in course of time come to be re
garded as the truth. Such lie is tn,
statement that the chairman of th,
Democratic State Central Committed
has said that his committee had sixty
thousand dollars to spend for politica
purposes during the last campaign.
The first place that we came across
this lie was in the Republican Glasses
published in the Sunday Star-a column
in which a great many false statements
seem to originate. 1t has since crop
ped out in several Republican papers in
the State; and here we have it to-day
in the Milford Chronicle.
The Chronicle not only repeats the
falsehood, but uses the fact that the
chairman referred to is also the editor
of Every Evening to impugn the sim
cerity of this journal in its strenuous
and persistent advocacy of purity at
elections. Among other things the
| CnrOnlcl6 says:
1t is nauseating to read the above
nauseating to those who are at
all acquainted with the political life,
since he came into this State, of the
editor of the Every Evening. A man
who at the last election, as chairman
of the Democratic State Committee,
deprecated the fact that he had but
sixty thousand dollars with which to
| debauch the voters, now crying out
for change in the law! If the Demo-
cratic-State-Committee-C e-Chairman-edi-
tor very-Evening, had sue
ceeded in making his sixty thousand
dollars do debauching enough to have
won at the last election, do you think
he would now be pleading and crying
for change in the law2 Not much
It is not generally judicious to reveal
committee secrets, and not always
| worth while to run political lies to
cover, but this particular one justiies
full exhibit Of the financial affairs of
theDemocratic State central committee
in the last campaign. Instead of having
and spending for debauchery 100000,
that committee never had one single
cent. Neither the committee nor any
person acting for the committee ever
had so much as penny to spend for
political purposes. Even the expenses
of the officers and members of the
committee for necessary travelling,
postage, stationary, ETC.. were paid per-
sonally by the members out of their
individual pockets.
We trust that the editors of the
State papers will take note of this con-
tradiction-Which is intended to be
full, positive and uuequivocal-so that
they may know in the future that any
talk about corruption through the
Democratic State Central Committee
has not even shadow of truth in it.
What is the intent of this article?
1t is to deny that the Democratic party
used any corruption funds at the last
election. 1t is intended to create the
impression that only the Republicans
are guilty of bribery. Is that the case?
1t is not. In twenty years past the
Democrats of the State have spent
three dollars for every dollar spent by
the Republicans in corruption. 1t is
crime, but it is one fostered and nur-
tured by Democrats, and the editor of
EUery Euening knows it. Has he not
then written himself down a hypocrite
in the above article?
What does it deny? That as chair
man of the committee he had no funds
to spend and spent none. AS DIR.
Jekyll he is patriot, but look at him
as Mr.. Hyde. He is the groveling poll
tician and knows more of the debauch-
cry of the State in which he has taken
part than any other man. AS DR..
Jekoll he holds up holy hands to think |
that any editor ''impugnes the sim
cerity Of Every Evening in its stren-
uous and persistent advocacy of purity |
at elections" but as Mr.. Hyde he con.
tributes all he can to the party corrup-
tion fund, pleading poverty for giving
no more, and the owner of Every Even
ing, this advocate of purity at elec..
tions," gives $4,000 to the campaign
corruption fund. What is that, if not
hypocracy of the deepest dye2
A cowardI Yes, none but coward
would have written of States dying
chief executive as he did when there
was not the shadow of reason for it.
He is coward, written down as such
by his own hands,and the people of the
State, patriotic Democrats and Repub-
licans, will not forget it. We will
cheerfully give space to the least proof
to the contrary, but is there any? We
think not.
There is just one more point that we
want to notice in this bribery matter.
The Democratic Committee does not
spend cent OF this vast sum used by
the party to corrupt voters. The ex-
perts have reduced the game to a
science and it is done so clear and
clean that the man who knows the
most about it as Mr.. Hyde disclaims
all knowledge as DR.. Jekyll. Is any
further proof wanted of the hypocricv
Of the meu who have spent their time
IN denouncing the Republicans who
'or once beat them at their own game?
It is miserable business and the
Every Evening is the most miserable
ham in the lot.