The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-04-18
DANV|LLE SCANDAL
FRESH SENSATION PROMISED BY
GRAND JURY IN ELEc-
TON PROBE.
Inquiry Extended to Hoorston and
Other Places in Colnty--can-
mons Friend is IN
easy.

Danpille. ILL.,, April 1.-THE poli,i,
cal corruption pot is boiling again in
Vermiiion county ana unless the
present plans OF jose GoodWtnc,
fore man OF tie gr -..1sCry ana Ms
supporters 90 awry the nome iowa
of Joseph G. Canaon will be seathing
with sensations within the next week.
Politicians Of 10th gGrties ale ner,
yously awaiting tire first move Of tAa
incuisitorial body when i resmue-
Is sessions tomorrow mogn,lg. It ID
sn that big batch OF suoroc-
nac5 have leen placed In the haLda
Of John T SHEPARD, the saer... 1t il
also known that the grand jury aas
numerous offdsyits made Us poll i
clans setting forth alleged criminal
misdcels and also has much new -Vi-
deace against the rings wh;c4 .-a.c
controlled rci4es for yea:s,
Nolemhsr Election Up,
As the November election, Al w.litl
Mr. Cannon was sent back to lis
scat in congress. is the only import
ant election whiLh comes within the
eighteen months Limitation for IL,
vestigltion get by Judge E. r. Z.
Kimbrorgh OF the circuit court.
friends CT the former speaker are
feeling shaky
Il has never beeh denied that a
huge money barrel was tarnaa
3oose in the election in this couaty
and in other counties whlcn maze up
the eighteenth congressional district.
With the other counties gradually
awakening TO the Gauge {. civic rignt-
eousness they fear thataif the Yer
million county inquiry is successful
such exposures may be un:erLaaen
outside of that county
This fear aud the knowledge that
if an exposure came practically every
politician might face Indictment mas
caused them to build up barriers OF
which the jury will have
to break down.
Inquiry to be Wide.
The grand jury, according to its
present plans, will not limit its in.
yestigation to Danville politics. It.
is said that in the bundle Of suDpoe
macs are the names of number of
residents of Holy Hoopeston, tie
town of Rossville and the mining
villages of Westville and Grape
Creek.
Several witnesses are also to be
called from Ridge Farm, the home
Of Isaac Woodyard, the s;dr.y banker
who was the last foreman of tae
grand jury. To bring about complete
harmony there is probability that
Mr. Goodwine, the new foreman, win
ask Judge Kimbrough to reappoint
MI. woodward as foreman in his
place when the jury conyenes.
Mr.. woodward rctiled two weeks
before the adjournment OF the former
vote inquiry because of i'll health.
He has now entirely racoJesed ald
today declared that he intended to
stick to the finish"
Many Politicians Leave.
Tie jury viii have considerable
difficulty in finding numerous Yer
million county residents vao hal
been expected to testify Within the
last few days number O, politicians
have had hurried calls which took
them out of the city. Those VINO
have been conducting the secret
plans for continuing toe inquiry as
sert that the absence OF these poll
ticians will have little effect on tire
work OF the inquisitorial body, as a
majority of the Witnesses 10 be
called, they say, are persons who
have heretofore not been mentioned