Show THE KIND HIND OF CONVICTION One of the organs of retrogression charges that the American party has defended men in the American Ameri Amen can party who have been guilty o of wrongdoing That is quite untrue To accuse a man and on the accusation n convict on no testimony save sa that of ups hold-ups and ami self-confessed self thieves 1 trill ill not do 1 in n this country without corroborating o 1 testimony 1110 ny That is all that has been accomplished though much money has been expended to tol tomake l make a case The t thieves ups hold-ups bunko and the rest have been heen fed and clothed and coached by the county coun- coun 1 ty 6 but up to date nothing has been established c. c except except ex ex- that there was a dirt dirty conspiracy involving high ind nd low officers to h try to convict an accused man hi the mouths of witnesses ever every one of whom lc would uld have robbed a baby in its cradle cradIc of its rattle and imd a dead ead man of the coins on his closed eyes ees If anything dirtier is in the record of sworn officers officers c cers rs we have not se seen n it and as we contemplate the character of the proceedings on the part of the county county county coun coun- ty officials helped by an utterly unscrupulous pr press ss both Democratic and Republican as well as the eunuch the words of Coleridge comes to us The Tho ri river river r Rhine Rhino as is weB sell known Washes the city of Colo Cologne uE But oh ye e Rods gods What power po divine Could over wash the river Rhino |