The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-04

eyes to roguery at home, merely be-
cause TO recognize IL and take meas
ures for its punishment ana eradica-
ton was not thought to be consistent
! by the perpetrators of the state piracy,
with some remote merely political OBJ
| legation.
There is not much doubt as TO what
will take place in the state OF New
York National questions viii receive
| an abundance of consideration from
| the people Of this state when they come
| up in proper order They are not in
order in this contest for the governor
ship. What is in order is for the party
managers responsible for the canal
frauds to show, if they can, why they
ought not to be driven from the pubic
| trusts they have betrayed, and why
they ought not to be required to re-
turn to the state treasury the funds
1 they have stolen, and finally, Why I'M
/ prisonment, which the law prescripes
/ for such as they, should not be melted
out with a passionless hand.
/ My opponents travelling banc OF
| speakers, driving through the state on
special train, Keeling off hundreds
/ of speeches, is accompanied and min
! stered to by Chauncey NJ. Depsw, the
president of New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad Company, the
| interest Of which is greater than that
of any other natural or artificial per-
son in the decline OF cur canal water
ways, for they come in direct compe-
! tition with each other.
! At Syracuse, Mr.. Hancock, the pres
ent attorney general of this state and
member of the canal board, Joined
! them, to lend his help in an attempted
| defense of the canal frauds. ( Will
quote from his statement:
1.-THE report and all the evidence were
| at once placed in the hands of DEM
ocratic lawyer, with instructions from
the governor to study the same care
| fully and thoroughly, and to determine
what judicial action should be taken.
He is now engaged In that laborious
task"
The attorney general virtually asks
a suspension of judgment until another
investigation shall be made, instead of
accepting the solemn findings that
there We're fraud and corruption made
by the canal investigating commission
appointed by Gov Black, and composed
Of commissioners whose characters are
not attacked by any one. He does not
in any way deny the instances of fraud
set forth in this report.
| The attorney general should. instead
of defending outrages against the peace
and dignity of the state, be the chief
! instrument in the prosecution and con-
Viction of the offenders. Does he con-
slider his time better employed In an
leffort to give heart and courage to I'M
Ideniable robbers of state treasury, than
it would be in determining their guilt
| Of he can doubt it) and in familiariz-
ing himself with its details, instead of
leaving them to a specially retained
democratic lawyer?
Why was not the report and volumi-
nous evidence upon which it was
founded, submitted for examination
and action by the governor of this
state to the duly elected legal advisers
of the state government? Why have
not some of the offenders been sus-
pended and why have not some of the
district attorneys in counties where the
| offenses have been committed present.
ed the matter to their respective grand
| juries; or if they have improperly ne
elected so to do, why have not some of
these district attorneys been removed
by the governor of this state? These
are questions which suggest their own
answers.
| There is but one question in this cleo
| ton to be answered: What are you,
the people, going to do about 1t? But
this question may almost be said to be
Insulting, for what else can any honest
man, familiar with the case, do but
vote to overthrow corruption, to the
end that the public mind may be set
at rest and our state government re-
stored to the normal functions of at
Itending to the ordinary business affairs
of the state.