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Show TWO WAYS. It can be put down as certain that Woodruff, the defaulting treasurer of Arkansas, will never be convicted. He stole about $100,000 no person doubts that he stole it, but the jury, after a long and expensive trial, failed to agree. Why? Woodruff is a good democrat, Arkansas is a good democratic state, and, more than this, Woodruff has a fine record as a rebel. This is the democratic dem-ocratic way of doing things. A few months after the discovery of the peculations of Woodruff, the shortage of John Bardsley, treasurer of the city of Philadelphia, came to light. He was at once arrested and put on trial, and although the evidence of his guilt was not as damning as in the Woodruff case, he was promptly convicted con-victed and has already served four months of the fifteenyears imprisonment to which he wa3 sentenced. Bardsley is a republican and Pennsylvania is a republican state. This is the republican republi-can way of doing things. |