Barbour County index., 1905-01-11
EVEN AT THE HUB.


according to the Cincinnati Enquirer:
LANDED so near to the Boston state
house that the detOnation when 1t went
OF must have shaken the sacred cod
fish off his perch." Mr.. Lawson says:
The Massachusetts legislature is
bought and sold as are sausages and
fish at the market and wharyes.
That the largest, wealthlest and
most prominent corporations in
New England, whose affairs are
conducted by our most representa-
tive citizens. habitually corrupt the
Massachusetts Legislature, and the
man of wealth among them who
would enter protest against the lni-
guilty would be looked on as .class
anarchist " 1 will go further and
say that if in New England man
of the type of Folk of Missouri can
be found who Will give over six
months TO turning up the legIsla.
tive and Boston municipal sod of
the last ten years, who does not ex-
pose to the world condition of rot
tenness more rotten than was ever
before exhibited in any community
In the civilized world. it will be be
cause he has been suffocated by the
stencil Of what he exhumes.
Mr.. Lawson. as is pointed out by the
Enquirer, gives names, dates and dc
tails to establish the truth of his state
ment. After relating how the legisla
ture was brited TO carry through bill
the purpose of which was defeated by
Governor Walcott's veto, Mr.. Lawson
concludes his narrative with the follow
ing interesting story:
EaIly next morning there came
to my two wild eyed, desperate
creatures, Towle and MIR. Patch.
When looked upon The big, power.
full man, who had always seemed In
any light IN which l had hereto.
fore beheld him to fear neither
man nor God-when I looked and
saw his plight pitied him deeply.
sincerely. He carried large tray.
cling bag, and Mr.. Patch two 9th.
ers.
Lawson, for Gods sake don't do
what they are all dong-don UP.
braid me! I've got to get out into
the world and be dead to all know
family, friends, everyone. If I
stay it's states prison or worse, and
Whitney says must go. I've got
all the papers together, and Whit
ney has given me what cash he had
on hand, and this check OF $4,000.
DO me one last favor-get me gold
for it. l know l have no right to
ask any favors of you. but think if
you were ia my place. have wife
and children-and the great, strong
man wept like a child.
/ called nv secretary, and in
short time George Towle. with the
$4,000 IN gold and bags "eyldence.
faded out of my life and into the
gray mist of eternity.
A few days after vessel dropped
anchor off the island of Jamaica.
George Towle's body was carried
ashore and buried. ana Mr. Patch
was escorted back to the ship A
few days later, with weight of lead
to carry 1T to Its last resting place
on the oceans bottom, the latter's
dead body was dropped over the
vessels side. And somewhere
floating on the high seas is a venture.
in
who, when in their cups, tits said,
tell strange tales of bags of gold
and queer documents.
simultaneously the members of
the great and good court of the old
commonwealth Of Massachusetts
for the year of our Lord 1898 re.
celved, none of them could tell from
where. their promised vote money
in the form of a yaru that the
stuff" belonging to them had been
delivered to George Towle, but that
Towle had decamped with it to tor.
eign shores. where be was living in
luxury with Mr.. Patch.
l sent to police officials to the
island of Jamaica and had the con.
tents of the coffin marked George
Il. Towle" photographed. I could
not photograph the contents of the
oceans bottom.
Whenever an anarchists plot is laid
bare, the people are shocked and yet
the stories of the bribery of public off
cials and the debauchery OF legislatures
may be told and retold and many intel
ligent people are not In the least stir
ed, evidently accepting these deplorable
features as part and parcel of the "des-
tiny" that shapes our ends.-Common.
er.