Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-11
THE OTHERS ARE GEORGIA.
MAINE, MASSACHUSETTS,
NORTH CAROLINA AND
MICHIGAN.

FIVE OTHERS ARE
NOW "RECOVERING"
Colorado, Kentucky, Mississippi, Mon.
tana and Delaware Are In "Exemptn
| Glass Though Their Skirts Are Not
Clean Like Those OF Iowa and Her
Five Sister States.
Chicago, July 9.-One Of the most
remarkable Of recent newspaper arti-
cles appears IN this mornings Tri-
bune, consisting of collection Of dis.
patches from different states, showing
that in all but eleven graft has been
discovered and is being prosecuted,
while only SIX of the eleven can be
said to be clean of any suspicion.
Iowa Is one of the banner group of
six. The Tribune sa.-s in part:
il How widespread is the grating by
public officials throughout tho United
Il States and the slow awakenin;, of the
public to realization of the extent to
which officials are profiting by the
funds OF the taxpayers and from the
extortion OF bribes and perquisites
from those who would enrich them
selves at the expense of the community
lis revealed by telegraph dispatches
! from the various states
From time to time within the last
few months Lave come scattering tele.
grams telling of the Indictment Of pub.
, lie officials for The betrayal Of their
trusts, OF the failure of banks through
!, mismanagement that sometimes barely
escaped criminal prosecution, and the
league OF supposed enforcers Of the
law with those who break the laws.
.. But probably there has been little re.
!. alization OF such widespread extent OF
: graft throughout the nation as is re.
vealed by the investigation summar.
q lied here.
"The re- orts from correspondents
show that in fully twothirds Of the
states of the union graft is prevailing
on wholesale scale and that the
f1agrant offenses have aroused the vic.
Tins to demand and inflict punish.
. ment.
Legislators luiIty Of Bribery.
I'm some states 1t is found that leg.
islators have been guilty Of accepting
: brlbes. In California they have been
expelled and one has been sent to Jail,
In other states, as in Arkansas, they
are under indictment. In many, as In
New York, favors are admittedly q
matter of barter and sale
IN New Orleans and other cities it
!. Is found that the police are leagued
y with criminals to prey upon law abid.
:, Ing citizens, and in others, as in Phila-
:, : from the earnings o. disreputable dives.
: ;, fromthe earnings of disreputable divesL
= In scores of cities the city administra.
ttons are being investigated by grand
Jurtes who are uncovering corrupt
: practices that were suspected but now
g revealed
I Prominent citizens are being
brought up to shame before those who
had been taught to regard their prob.
el ity as above reproach, and they stand
n before their fellow citizens as pervert,
IL ers of Justice and instigators of viola.
Is ton of the laws for their profit. In
Oregon a senator of the United States
has been convicted and congressman
are on trial.
Only Six States Above Suspicion.
IN The inquiry develops that in only
eleven states is there no danger OF
:, graft or investigation threatening. But
~ among those exempt are Colorado
- y which has been recently the scene oi
. tremendous ballot frauds; Delaware
:. whose electorate is notoriously cor
4 rI1r Knnt1Ia1yy yuhn -
= governor was shot not many months
ago to prevent his Inauguration; Mis-
sissippi, where more than half the cit
liens are disenfranchised; Montana
= where politics is mere struggle be
= tween rival copper kings OF those ex
empt only six really stand with cleal
Of skirts-viz.: Georgia. Iowa, Maine
rs Massachusetts, Michigan and North
N Carolina.
ID Some Of the reports from cores
pondents follow:
IN Missouri
= Jefferson City, July 9. - In Kan
- sas City, grand jury is investigator,
- municipal affairs and charges that tn,
-, - county court let contracts to firm,
" ~ and banks in which they were inter
- lested. Experts have just completed
l., 10 the examination of the books of w. D
Il. Thomas. His books are found to be $40
N COO short and he has skipped tn,
Il, ,s country.
ut "In st. Louis county the racing mat
ters are absorbing the attention of TIL,
lie authorities. The sheriff says gamblin.
ce there is graft which he proposes II
"a stop.
"Attorney General Hadley, who ha
al suits pending in the supreme cour
to for custer of the Standard, the Wat
or ers-Pierce and the Republic Oil com
IN panies, contends that this oil graft i,
ne robbing the poor people OF more mon
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