The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-03
AN OPEN LETTER
To Calvin Stewart Brice
from q
Democrat in Whom there is No
Guile.
The Boss B0odler Summoned to An.
swer at the Bar of Public
Opinion.

1u0 OOSD 0OOUl0r SummOu00 10 Aus
swer at the Bar of Public
Opinion.
CLEVELAND, o., Sept. 20.
Calvin s. Brice, Esq, United States Senator
By Right Of Purchase:
DEAR SIR-Your return to the State
of Ohio at this time 10 opportune your
presence, If prolonged, may result in the
clearing up of some questions of vast
importance to our people, and of some
significance to you as private person,
public, and notorious character and
political factor. I have not addressed
you by the title of "Hon." such as the
position you hold, If honorably attained
would entitle you to bear, because there
is cloud upon your claim. have lust
completed the painful perusal of that
astounding book which has lately an.
peared, entitled "Bosses and Doodle in
Ohio Politics." by Hon. Allen o. Myers.
The statement contained in this remark.
able book are overwhelming and start.
ling.
The indictment presented Of Calvin s.
Brice, the junior senator from. Ohio, is
terrible one the charges made against
you as citizen, politician and sena.
tor are of such a character that they can
not be ignored. If you remain silent
under such serious and appalling charges
your attitude must be taken as plea of
guilty, and every honest citizens of
Ohio, without regard 70 his politics,
must impose sentence of his disap.
proval by his ballot, because an Ohio
man has and never will bring dishonor
to her great name by permitting your
alleged methods as boss and boodler
to 60 unchallenged and unrebuked. If
she does her people are degenerated and
disgraced sons of worthy sires and are
utterly unworthy of the name they bear
and the blessings of peace and good gov.
ernment that they enjoy as an heritage
from their fathers.
Sir, it is not pleasant task for me to
address you, but my sense of obligation
has been so aroused by the study of
your life, career and methods that feel
that 1t is duty owe my country, my
state, my party, my family and myself
AZ q citizen to bluntly ask you to re-.
pudiate the charges made against you as
Q citizen and senator, and in the event
of your failure or refusal to do 30 my
duty a. well as that of every citizen is
made ~ evident as q mountain on the
plain. I am Democrat, but not Q bigot !;
/ am citizen of Ohio, State you mis-.
represent in the United States Senate !;
I am Of the constituents that form the
constitutional pretense for your alleged
purchase of seat in the United, States
Senate. This was done in January, 1890.
THE CASE STATED.
You were not candidate before the
people in the canvass of 1889. You
carefully concealed from our party and
the people of Ohio your purpose, to &c.
cure seat in the United States Senate
by fair means or foul. You were not a
candidate, because had you been honest
enough to openly avow yourself an as.
pirant, our party would have been de.
feated and you would have had no op.
portunity to debauch the chosen repre-
sentatives of the people, and by the
corrupt use of money, secure q seat to
which you are not entitled, and by
methods that were violation of the
laws of Ohio.
Now you are candidate before the
people. You have not openly said as
much, but your letters to partisans, the
activity of your agents, the obsequious
appeal of paid papers, and your presence
and interest in the canvass warrant the
conclusions that you have or will have
designs to secure majority of the legis.
lature, should it be Democratic. My
vote can help accomplish Or defeat this
result. I have right, therefore, to ask
you certain questions and to demand OF
you positive, prompt and plain answers.
You are not citizen or an inhabitant
Of the State of Ohio, why do you seek
then to secure the 6enatorship ? Are you
law.biding person? If 90, why do you
try to force yourself upon the people Of
Ohio as their representative in the
senate when you are expressly prohib.
tied by the constitution from doing so.
Clause of section 8, article of the
constitution says: "No person shall be
q senator who shall not have attained
the age of 80 years, and have been nine
years citizen of the United States, and
who shall not when elected, be an in.
habitant of that State for which he shall
be chosen" You have not been an Gin.
habitant" of Ohio for nearly 10 years
By profession you are q speculator and
stock gambler, and you moved to New
York City to be in more congenial at
mosphere, and near the great center oi
those attractions, that command youl
peculiar taste and bent of mind. Your
location and business have severed you
from all identy with the interests and
destiny OF Ohio and her people. In l(
yeare you have not spent 80 days in
Ohio. The plain intent and purpose oi
the constitution WAS to insure the AZ
lection of men as senators who were
identified with the people and the State
from which they claim to hail.
A GRAVE CHARGE.
Sir, you may employ lawyers, like
yourself, to make aflidavits and render
eft.hsnded opinions - to your location
and citizenship and the intent and pur
pose OF the constitution, but while they
may deceive themselves they cannol
mislead the people, nor can they pre-