Show publio PUBLIC corruption ABUSE OF POWER if that great groat man profound philosopher aid sagacious stat statesman esman esmau comte CSia parin were now alive lie ho would see seo in the grand movements of the honest labo laboring rl 0 men of the united states the elond uprising of a great people and learn in this as in the former that whenever the people army array themselves against the corruption and tyranny of tile tilo politicians Instantly tile tiie victory is won though months may pass ero oro it wipes out the cor rupt bupt and dishonest officials 11 the first great uprising so wonderfully depicted hy by comte gasparin was aal aai against 0 list the cruelty and wickedness and corruption and slavery of tile the bodies and minds of the tile poor negro The present one so faithfully represented inthe in the age is the uprising of honest industrious and economical labor against the thieves robbers and and plunderers of the tho great masses gottlic of the american people the public officers the and the politicians who now have possess possession on of L and national from the officers of tl th general government down to the twenty eight defaulting treasurers treasur ers of iowa that the whole body politic is corrupt thata that a large largo majority of men now in office are mere plunder plunderers eis els of tile the public moneys held by thern them in trust for the people whom they rob is demonstrated day by day liv evidence the most irrefragable able abie and the case of your own dave aal baz rago cago hal goll is repeated by nine out of veli velt lit of the political rascals who havo have crept into office simply be calise calie the farmers the mechanics the lau iau viers giers and the honest men of the nation have permitted themselves to be the mere tools and cats paws of republican republic n and democrat crapio ii parties when before in the history of this nation lias has the president entered the white house poor and in four years accumulated a fortune fortuno of nearly a million when before in the history of this union lias has an officer entered upon the duties of his department without any property and in his fourth year found found means to erect a palace at the expense ot of nearly as his home the cellar for which was wag as dug and the ground graded at the expense of the U S where lie he ean entertain in princely splendor his companions in the same successful mode of performing public duties just think how it must read to our creditors in in europe that a costing 1 1203 then improved by then lined with with satin with pole straps buckled with gold buc buckles buckie kies kieb was bought for a dashing lady and paid forout for out of the contingent fund or of the Depart department merit of when before in the nearly years of our government has a secretary converted all matters in his department into mere jobs whereby a fortune of some four hundred thousand dollars has swollen to millions at what period of the former history of this nation have men entered congress as mere beggars and within six out any other employment than their doffid office e grown to bo be millionaires in olden times it was the pride and glory 0 of f jackson dlo nio monroe n roe 01 clay Y webster wright douglas berrien and their colleagues to work hard live well and die poor while today the possession of money no matter how obtained gives a united states senator a preponderance of power that no talent learning or honesty cau can command it is a notorious fact which no honest man dare deny that seats in local and national legislature legislatures sare are sought 0 and paid for as instruments that will pay better dividends than farming manufacturing mechanical or professional labor and that votes are bought and sold in the amerl ameri ican congress as constantly as sheep in the market but even the judiciary of the government the sheet anchor has become demoralized judges 0 of ohio of louisiana of kansas of alabama of arkansas and many other U S district judges have proven to have been bribed and to have used their official position in the most corrupt and infamous ways to make money for themselves we assert without fear of contradiction as the records will show that down to 1855 no member of congress no judge of the federal courts was ever charged with corruption in office for the purpose of making money although some few cases have occurred where judges were I 1 impeached impeach eil for high 0 crimes crimea and misdemeanors but in the last ten years nearly all officers of the fed onal enal government have gronim rich on salaries that would scarcely support honest men in their places whiskey thieves land thieves mining thieves indian thieves cabinet thieves and congressional thieves are the appellations appel lations that many men seem proud of now while all these party officials claib are building houses dri driving in tileo tilen their splendid carriages bought with money filched from the united states liow how is it with the farmers the mechanics the laboring men inen the merail merali merchants ants and tho the honest men of michigan illinois indiana iowa wisconsin nebraska and indeed the entire west their crops are plundered from them ere they reach the tile markets their farms are covered with mortgages 0 their taxes are piled like orsa 0 isa on pellon pelion and poverty stares them in the face while the president of the tile united states State takes stakes out of their taxes at least per annum for domestic expense expenses drives his four in hand teams worth 5 with veith white reins and gold buckles and his lady ri dewith 0 c carriage and horses bought with th the peoples money and the most corrupt of all pock ets liis his millions of profits but thank god the industrial people of this country have llave at last stricken hands and the uprising of a great p people ea p has commenced against a g ainest t the 11 e robbery the jobbery and the plunder of the national and state officials calling themselves republicans and now having nothing to show to the tho people except the war record of ten years ago row now even hero here in utah in salt lake in this beautiful valley hemmed and aud gemmed gemmec by these grand mountains although we possess no vote in national matters we have special evidence before us every da day y odthe of the putridity t the he corruption and the tyranny of x 11 K and that evidence will be furnished liere hereafter after aften cor industrial age march 21 a 4 0 statistics of the tichborne trial the action of ejectment in the court of common pleas in which the claimant was plain tiffand colonel lushington and the guardians of the infant baronet were the de fen danti commenced on the of may 1871 before the late lord chief justice bovill and a special jury after lasting forty days extending over nearly two months the trial was adjourned on friday july 7 until tuesday nov ath and finally closed on the oth of march 1872 having occupied days in the course of the trial the whole of the evidence taken under the chill chili and australian commission was read in in witnesses were called for tile the plain plaintiff tifT and 17 for the defendants the jury then intimated abish a wish to stop the case upon which mr ballantyne on behalf of the plaintiff elected to be non suited and lord chief justice bovill directed that the plaintiff should le ide prosecuted for per perjury jury he was thereupon taken into custody and conveyed to newgate New gate where he was detained for several weeks until ball bali was obtained the trial at bar just concluded commenced on the ot of april 18 1873 3 before the lord chief justice of england sir alexander cockburn and two of the puisne judges mr justice mellor and mr justice lush the indictment was against the defendant by the name of thomas castro orther wise called arthur orton in two counts dhar charging ging him with the crime of wilful and corrupt perjury the first count charges perjury in hl his s examination on the trial of the a action c in the common pleas in 1871 I 1 the second charges perjury in his affidavit in chancery in the tho year 1868 in the burse counse course of the suit he had then pending in that court in the first count charging perjury at the trial there are distinct assignments or charges of perjury each sufficient to sustain the indictment and all making up only one count I 1 I 1 in n swearing he be was roge roger r alc ble tichborne hb or ne I 1 in swearing that he resided in paris unil 1845 3 in in swearing that ci ch nillon i tion llon was his tutor 4 in swearing swea tg that in 1845 h he 0 came to england to attend the fu of his uncle sit sir henry 5 in swearing that lie be had been a student at the jesuits colle college g e in sto ny hurst 6 in swearing that he had been an officer in the army 7 in swearing that ho he hadin July or au gust 1852 seen miss doughty no now v 8 in swa ering that habad in those months seduced her 9 in swearing that he had after the the of J june juno u no in that year ever seen her herz 10 in swearing that he had ever seen miss hales in the company of her mother at cantor canteri bury 11 in swearing that he had been at bilton grange the seat of mr and mm mrs washington hibbert 12 in swearing that lie he had never been to lloyds rooms booms these thee the e aro arc the assignments on the Ti tichborne cliborne p part art of the case then follow others on the orton part of the case 13 in irl swearing t that he lie was wa not arthur orton orto n 14 in in swearing that lie he had never been at wapping before 1863 1803 15 ill in swearing that lie he had never gone by tile the name of arthur orton 16 in swearing that he be did not leave Et england gland giand in 1848 in the ocean and did not arrive at valparaiso in that year 17 in swearing that he was not at any time between 1848 and 1851 at melipilla Meli mell pilla a place midway between valparaiso and Saut sant santiago lago iago 18 in swearing that he lie did not in 1851 come baet bacr from chili in ill the J essig jessie miller the t ilip mentioned by the defendant himself in hisata declaration at sidney as the ship I 1 in which he had sailed 19 in swearing that he had never seen diary mary anne loder before 1867 and had llad not kept COM eom company pally with her hei 20 in swearing that he lle had llad not written letters to her iler 21 in swearing that ho ile did not go out to hobart town in the Midd widd middleton teton in november 1852 1832 22 in swearing that eliat lie he had not seen any of ortons artons sisters more than once before the trial 23 in swearing that he had been charged along with orton at castlemaine with horse stealing each and every one of which statements is charged as wilful and corrupt penury perjury then chenin in the second count based on the affidavit in chancery in april 1868 1808 there were ten distinct assignments founded on his statements in in that affidavit I 1 similar to the main assignments in I 1 the first count as to the tichborne part of the case 1 that he was roger tichborne 2 that he resided in paris until 1845 in 1845 IM he was brought to england and 4 that he was placed at Stony hurst 5 that in 1849 1949 he was appointed cornet in the carabineers Carabi Cambi 6 that in october he joined the regiment 7 that he remained on duty in th the tho 0 regiment until January 1853 when lie he returned 8 that in march 1853 he took his passage on board aboard a ship phlp bound for valparaiso and in due course arrived there 9 that from that time to april 1854 he traveled to various places in south america 10 that in april ISM ibm he took his passage to rio in the weila wella bella belia for new york each of which statements is 14 charged as wilf wil uland fulfand corrupt perjury though the whole constitute as in the former count one count thus there were two distinct counts for different ir I r juries on different occasions dir mr Hawkin hawkings ss opening speech for the prosecution extended over f nive five lve ive days peroration his hiss being delivered on the the morning of the sixth day of the trial april last at its conclusion dr nce Ire kenealy took technical objections to the proceedings the principal one being that of the two counts in the indictment one charged the defendant with pe penury rj u ry committed in the city of london and the other in the county of middlesex the learned counsel contended that the court had no power to try au an otence committed in the city of london by a middlesex jury but the court ruled th that at the omee okee offense offence was committed within the jurisdiction of the criminal court and that by virtue of the xe moval boval of the cause by a writ had power to try the issues issuer the objections were ivero therefore overruled witnesses for the prosecution to the number of were then called and mr hawkins announced on the lot lotti iotti ai of july being the day of the trial that his case was closed an adjournment then took pi place pile le e until tle tio of july jais but the till proceedings that day were of short duration owing to the illness of a juror which necessitated a further adjournment till the following day on the of july juls the case was resumed and dr kenealy advanced legal objections to the efi acl that the court of common pleas the C chief h I 1 of justice of which had directed the prosecution of the plaintiff in the action tried there for perjury had no right to sit anywhere any where except in Westin westminster lister dister hall whereas in fact the tho court sat and the claimant was nin the westminister West minister sessions rouse House These objections shared the same fate as the foi fol former nier being overruled by tile the court upon which dr I kenealy proceeded to open the case for the defence and having spoken for 21 days brought his address to a conclusion on oil the of august the witnesses for the defence to the number of were then called and on october being the day of the trial the defence was closed an adjournment for one day was tilen ilien taken and on the tho ath of october mr hawkins called rebutting evidence which occupied that and the two following days on the tiie of october the court was again adjourned until the of november to enable the tile prosecution to produce witnesses from america to rebut the statements of jean luie lule on the leih of november the prosecution not being prepared prepared with the necessary evidence the court aln ain adjourned until the of the same month on which day witnesses were forthcoming on orl friday the the rebutting evidence closed and dr kenealy applied for an adjournment for the purpose of enabling him to call sur rebutting evidence but his application was refused on monday the of december dr kenealy applied to the learned judges to commit mr pollard one of the solicitors to the treasury for contempt of court but without effect and on the 2nd and december being the day or of the trial dr kenealy commenced his second address to the jury under mr justice denmans delmans Den mans act by which prisoners soi sol vers lers counsel has the privilege of summing 0 up the evidence for the defence on the an adjournment was taken for the christmas holidays until the when dr kenealy resumed his reply finishing on the of january of the present year being the day duy of the trial and having spoken for twenty seven days mr hawkins commenced his reply on the whole case on the following day and concluded on the january being the day of the trial and having in occupied ten days with his speech speech the lord chief justice entered on his summing up tip on the of january and during its progress there have been three ad journ ments of one day each friday week the concluding day of his lordships lord ships summing up was the day of his addres sand the lay flay of the trial triai which including the adjournments adjourn ments has extended over ten calendar months viz from april 23 1873 to feb 28 1874 london paper 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