The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-09-04
GOVERNOR COX
AND HIS CHARGES
RoIlin S. Childs Thinks He Is Initial
ing Christ In Driving Money
Changers From the Temple.
Editor of The Reformer:

Editor of The Reformer:
1t often requires a fund of ingenuity
and great elasticity of purpose in I'M
folding a story not founded upon cold
facts. There is a long, long trail of POI
Htical fat frying and corruption in
American politics and very much of it
history has located on one side of the
political fence NY earliest recollection
of attempts at bribery in politics is I'm
mistakably proven by a circular issued
in the early '70's by Chairman Daniel
Hall and Secretary b. II. Prescott of
he then Republican state committee of
New Hampshire, which said: eve en-
close herewith 5000 for your political
purposes. You ought, with this a
mount, to elect moderator, selectmcn and
all the minor Republican candidates in
your town. This circular went into
the towns from Rockingham to upper
Coos and no doubt performed the du
bious errand for which it was sent.
Many of your readers have seen and
read the editorial in last Saturday IS
New York Sun and Herald, leading Re
publican newspaper of the East, which,
under the caption, "Damfoolishness -,
condemned the methods and practices
of Chairman Hays and Treasurer Up
ham, which Governor Cox is dealing
with, hence, with the country wide cop
led New York editorial, The Reformer s
effort last evening to scoff at and at
tempt to dispose of Governor Cox 5 am
ply fortified charges, was at wide var
lance with the great New York jour
nal Is condemnation. There is plain re
collection of Indiana 5 Republican
slush fund which voted the Hoosier
floaters Gin blocks of five' by direc-
ton of Col. w. w. Dudley, when Chair
man Marshall Jewell pointed with pride
to the "'fat' he had fried out Of pro-
tected corporations. Chairman Zach
Chandler conceded the solid South to
Tilden in 1876, Eut on the morning aft
er election he sent kilograms to South
Carolina, Louisiana and Florida COM
mitteemen Hold these states for
Hayes and Wheeler Troops and money
will be furnished" Chairman Mark
Hanna boosted in 100 that he had laid
tribute upon the corporations and gath
cred a fund of $15,000,000 for the '96
national election. When charged with
wholesale bribery in the election of Sen
ator Truman H. Newberry, by the same
corrupt methods which Governor Cox
now charges, there were indignant de-
malls in every home of the brides ivers,
but they ceased when Republican
court. upon the over whelming evidence
presented, gave Mr.. Newberry a -
year sentence at Leaveuworth and he
has not been seen again in the senate
which could not have been organized
for the rejection of the league of ma
lions without his vote OF recent mem
ory we have the spectacle of two lead
ing candidates for the Republican pres
idential nomination at Chicago, Gov.
Frank o. Lowden and Gen. Leonard
Wood. discarded because their pre-con-
vention managers had expended the gi-
gantic sum of two and one-half million
dollars in harvesting delegates largely
from the South, where not an electoral
vote could be sighted for either. The
exposure of this corrupt expenditure
halted the party leaders now denying
the charges of Governor Cox. The Saw
Tor of mankind rebuked the money
changers in the ancient temple quite
after the manner that Governor Cox is
dealing with modern "money diggers -
who command, "Boys, get the money"
The country knows what for.
ROLLIN S. CHILDS.
BrattlebOro, Vt.