The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-10
Addressed to Mr.. Brice, of
New York.
Judgment Entered Against Him
by Default-His Dishonest
and Corrupt Methods
as a Senator
Are Denounced, and Sentence will BE
Passed Upon the BO0dler
BY the People in
November.
CLEVELAND, O., OCTOBER /, 1895.


Cdlpin s. Brice, Esq, Boss by 0irtue o.,
Doodle, and Senator by right Of Purchase.
DEAR SIR-Ten days have passed since
l addressed you an open letter asking
you to answer some plain questions as
to your place of residence. and your right
to purchase seat in the United States
Senate from and for Ohio. You have
not seen fit to answer my questions.
did not think you would. 1 do not ex.
pect you to do anything in this or in
any other campaign, if you survive this
one, that is open, brave, honest, manly
or fair You do not expect to convince
the people by reason, fact and fairness
You don't want to do this! You dare
not attempt it!
You believe you can debauch the peo-
pie OF Ohio with your ill gotten and
damnable wealth and a statement of
any kind upon any proposition, now be.
fore the people, would demoralize the
market, and tend to increase the price
of votes and thus place in jeopardy,
your bold purposes, and defeat your
knavish ambitions. You did not remain
in Ohio long enough to answer any
questions. Your Ohio residence being
on wheels. you conveniently moved it
and your person to the more congenial
fields OF speculation and peculation in
around Wall street.
JUDGMENT.
Our time las elapsed, and ample
notice has been served, and none of
your rights have been placed in jeopardy,
80 in equity and in justice we may pro.
ceed to enter juinient against you, and
we therefore make the following journal
entry before We proceed to the hearing
and trial of another branch of your case
Whereas, in the case of the people of
Ohio versus Calvin Stewart Brice, of
New York, q judgment of custer is pe.
toned for to dispossess said Brice of
certain rights, titles, powers and prero.
gatives which he, as nonresident. now
holds illegally, as an alleged senator from
said State; and due notice having been
given and the case set for hearing, and
said Brice having failed and refused to
appear and answer, judgment is hereby
entered as prayed for BY the plaintiff,
the people, and said Calvin s. Brice is
forever debarred from the exercise of
the rights, powers and privileges of q
senator, as heretofore set forth.
Sir, had you answered the question as
to your place of residence, you would
have claimed that you were born in
Ohio. This we all admit and regret, be.
cause your methods and career have
only tended to blight the laurels of
glory that deck the beams of a State we
all love. You would have said that it
was your intention and desire to main.
tain your citizenship in the State in
which you were born, while you de.
plored the fact the necessities of your
peculiar business required your person
and presence in New York city. To
have made this acknowledgment, which
is the truth, would have been to copfess
judgment, and you are too shrewd to
confess anything
BE FRANK.
If your business is of such imperative
Importance as to require your location
and presence near the gambling dens of
Wall street, how can you retain your
citizenship in Ohio, and how can YOU
represent the interests of the fourth
State in the Union in the United States
seperate when you are in no way identi.
fed with them? Mr.. Brice, if your bust.
ness is of such magnitude and impor.
lance as to require your presence in New
York city and prevent your residence in
Ohio, how can you vast your time in
the Senate at Washington Is there not
danger that your business may suffer by
your absence or neglect, Just as we are
compelled to mourn in Ohio because it
takes you from US.
1t can't be possible that you want to
go to the United States Senate, that YOU
may be in close touch with legislation
and jobbery, and that your Wall street
business may prosper by establishing a
branch Office in the senate chamber.
MIR. Brice, let US be frank with YOU.
brutally frank, that we may drive this
abhorrent truth home to the hearts and
minds of the people. Your sole and
only object in going to the United States
Senate Is to use your position to make
money.
This being your purpose, how can you
represent the people =? For yeur interests
as Wall street gambler, wild cat
speculator, and a railroad wrecker, must
conflict with the rights and interests of
the people, your career affords ample
proofthatwhen your own selfish interests
are involved you have no respect for
law, no regard for justice, and will tram,
pie the rights of the people under foot
Your course as senator has amply and
painfully demonstrated that you have
no convictions on any subject, and that
pending the tariff bill in the United
States Senate for three mouths, you
with others, played and juggled with
measures to control the market, and to
ensble you toincrsass your uuholy gains
by manipulating Wall street.
So demoralizing your example that
even your senatorial associates began
dabbling in sugsr. and the contaxlon
spread So rapidly that the servant girls
in the senatorial families ordered large
blocks OF sugar by telegraph and by &C
cident, OF course, and with no d-liberats
intention Of making by the manipula.
tion Of p-nfling legislation. By the
manipulation Of the duties ON sngar, and
above all hy the delay bronght about hy
you 70 as 10 enable a purchase uf thu.
raw material find IL stated on page 29O
OF Allen q Mv-r-' book on 'Bossess and
Doodle in Ohi, P.i,ric-," that the sugar
trnsf made $50 100000
You are no ptilanthropist Mr.. Brice,
Il