The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-05-30

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lore Care
Selecting NJ
Students OF municipal politics all
over fhe country recently have
found food for thoughtsin the cases
Tera.Haute Ind, and St: Louis.
no. where the highest officers. who
mad t1st been elected, now are
serving penttentiary sentences.
Thesthoughtsf Is that while corrup-
ton issDe1ns stamped out. the dis
patchwith which convictions Were
Obtained gives ground for greater
hope for the future.
1t has been shown hatnunicipa1
voters no longer are content under
corruption
Though greater. care might have
been exercised in electing At men
to sonice, the convicttons immedt-
ately after election demonstrated
that there is an element OF voters
keenIy alert and determined to keep
sondces clean The penitentiary
aftermath was due to the efforts OF
sVotersss leagues during what at first
.appeared to be losing campaigns
was nneted out to the
ohenderssmuch more quickly than
you'd have been possible a few
yearsago. tshas been proven that
tl1esmighty pull Of the ward heel
eds giving way to the force Of an
aWakeningzpubltc sentiment on the
moral fitness OF men for. Office.
At Terra Haute twenty-one OIL
Gals including Mayor Dom NJ
Roberts, Circuit Judge Eli NJ Red
mansand Sheri Dennis Shea re-
ceived sentences to- the Leaven-
Nosrth spenitent1ary for election
frauds:
The last chapter IN one Of the
greatest exposes that any city Of
the United States has experienced,
was writer when 8. H Frederick.
Who 18sd days before had been elect
ed president Of the St. Louis Board
OF Aldermen. the second highest
position that the city could confer.
pIeaded guilty to forgery IN the
first degree, accepted a sentence OF
ten years in the penitentiary and
two hours later departed for the
penftenhary at Jefferson City TO
servesout his sentence
GLOWING closely on the heels OF
theaHerre Haute, Ind. scandal. In
whichthe mayor and practically all
the city officials were convicted and
sent by private train to the federal
penttenttaryat Leayenworth, the st.
Louis scandal is one Of the greatest
of the present day. involving as it
does azman who three weeks before
was elected to the second highest
onfcesm the city and who today is
convict numbered and wearing
p1rison garb and 1ncreerated with
other prisoners in the Missouri PEN
itenhaE-
broken In spirit and but shadow
Of the former real estate dealer.
dnanctersand politician who carried
onayigorousscampaign for head Of
fheBoard of Aldermen, a H
FSedertck under four indictments
for forging deeds Of trust entered
HIS plea Of guilty and within two
hours was on his way to prison
He: entered the court supported by
two attorneys He was hasgard
ana emacdateds and was hardly able
q that one word Guilty that
minute transformed him from
one OF the leading men in the city
to- conEict
AGED already. by worry over imam
deals and rendered almost a
shsa,idow O. ms former self by e1-
p..oIissure AFTER exposure that branded
t11e man who had the confidence OF
5e:0oo voters OF the city IN his In
fssrZdt as robber OF widows, 1t
semen as II q life sentence were
l3e4ls tsaposed on this unfortunate.
,:77;:;:g,searso lc, as he heard the judge
son your plea Of guilty
sGafence son 10 ten years IN the
lSt,ElengLary..
PRosECEToR
NED
God that such thing should
s,5;;:S;nnensto q. man remarked the
sesuit attorney as he saw the