The Sunday globe., 1901-08-11

/ always be careful to give him the dally
ration Of taffy. His capacity for taffy
! is enormous. We work upon this
weakness-his vanity-and there you
are. Have no fears. You do what |
tell you and / will see that you are
not disturbed as Pension Commission
er. An alliance offensive and defens-
| i've. see." and he wrung the hand of
Judge Evans, while tears of mutual
sympathy appeared in the eyes cf
/ Brian, Crooks, Evans and Priddy.
Judge Evans cleared his throat, and
| after few preliminary ahems he or
| dered the prisoner to stand up, when
| he thus addressed him:
"Mr. Priddy yours is not an ordi-
nary case. You had everything to keep
/ YOU in the straight path, home wife,
! influential friends, and a snap at the
| Union Building. The young man who
, was caught doing that with which you
are charged is now donig time in the
penitentiary at Moundsville. Your Of
/ fense is so much more heinous | can
not think Of sending you there, The
/ Sunday Globe will, of course, comment
upon this case, and is aware Of all the
! facts. Its editor telephoned my chief
/ clerk as to its progress, He will have
| to be informed of the findings and SEN
/ tence, and will, no doubt, publish the
| same Now, to prevent scandal to the
| Administration, | must make an ex-
ample Of you. Everybody knows that
| your stepfather holds a trusted posi-
| ton at the White House and stands in
with the President therefore, in order
to show the public that notWithstand-
| ing this fact and the further one that
your fatherin-law is boss Of the Gov
ernment Printing Office, I must, in or
der to have a friend at the White
| House, near the President so as to
head off the demand Of the G. A. r.
for my scalp, inhict on you exemplary
punishment to the end that other
Young men with a pull may be ad-
monished or warned of the fate in
store for them. The sentence Of the
court will be, therefore, an indetermi-
nate one. You stand convicted as a
| clerk in this Department at $500 per
annum, at present, and you will labor
as you please six hours daily. Your
present compensation is only a blind,
| and in little while you will be in re-
/ ceipt Of the maximum compensation
/ for men with a pull and may God
( have mercy on your soul Remove the
/ prisoner"
/ 1t is unnecessary for The Globe to
state that such a sentence was entirely
unexpected But the offense was a
grave one and the District Attorney, it
appears, washed his hands of the af-
fair. He could not act detective and
policeman. If Priddy had been arrest
ed on a warrant sworn out by Captain
Ferrell, the District Attorney would
act But Captain FerTell dare not
swear out a warrant, as he would lose
his place, The Sunday Globe also has
a legitimate excuse. 1t is not the
Globes business to prosecute or per-
secute, for that matter. Our duty as
a public journalist and a conservator
of public morals is performed when we
expose the wrongdoing We have not
| been remss in this duty. Our contemp-
oraries-the Post, Star and Times
| have failed in theirs. Why they have
done so we leave the public to sur
mise.
Touching the Priddy matter we have
only to state that in Ohio a public Of
| fetal an appointee of Governor Nc
] hlllltNs anu HIS NOllllutulldl llANhh
named Mcdonald Superintendent Of
| Shops and Factories, was arrested for
embezzlement of public funds, He was
| indicted by the Grand Jury. That is
to say 1876 indictments for penal Of
| fenses were returned against him, and
60 for petit larceny. Was he punished?
| Not he, any more than Neeley or Rath-
bone or any other public thief under
Governor and President Mckinley.
Mcdonald was not even tried by
jury. Postponement after postpone.
ment took place, until a Mckinley tool
was elected prosecuting attorney on a
Republican ticket in a Democratic
county and the 1856 penal indictments
were HOHied. Mcdonald served a few
days in Jail until bond was secured,
and is today a free man, after having
robbed the State Of thousands Of dol
lars. Indeed we are not sure but that
he has some position somewhere under
the Administration,
Again we repeat the records Of Ohio
show that the administration Of Gov.
ernOr Mckinley was the most scandal
Gus the State was ever inflict with
official peculation downright and open
robbery like McDonald's, and all man
ner of scandals such as McKinley's Ad-
iutant General being compelled to re.
sign for a nameless offense while on
duty with the governor in Chicago,
physicians i'm the insane hospitals and
superintendent of public institutions
drunkards, libertnes and thieves Such
were the records Of his appointees to
Office. As President we have the Army
do no oI %
transports, supplies, etc, the Neeley,
the Rathbone, and other dissgraceful
and unpunished public robbery and
loOting. This Priddy affair is but a
drop in the bucket. His stepfather,
Crooks, has the ear Of the President
and the young man can commit peni-
tentiary offenses or offenses which
sent other men from the same building
to the penitentiary, with impunity.
And yet the Ohio Republican party,
and the Maryland Republican party,
and all the other States Republican
parties and the National Republican
party endorses the Administration of
President Mckinley of loot, robbery,
scandal and malfesance in Office Here,
in this case of Prddy, the young man
is saved because his stepfather Is an
official at the White House and the
Commissioner Of Pensions, who has
no room for an old soldier applicant,
finds a place for the man caught dead
to rights rifing the letters Of their con-
tents in the Union Building by the SUI
perintendent Of that branch Of the
Government Printing Department.
As a Democratic newspaper, The
Globe would be justified i'm rejoicing
over such fragrant exhibitions of Re
publican rascality and cOndonement by