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Show Revulsion From the Old Acknowledged Corrupt Cor-rupt Conditions Danville, Ills., Jan. 26. Political Danville arose earlier by two hours than Its usual wont. The summons for Judge E. R. B. Kimbrough, Mayor Piatt and a half score of the most prominent Democrats in the city, appear ap-pear before the grand jury and tell what they knew of the stories which have floated about the county ever since theeJectious two years ago, was the cause. The situation as was viewed by those who have made Vermillion county coun-ty politics their business ever since Speaker Jos. G. Cannon started to become be-come a power In this district, Is this: , Todny Is the first since the Investigation Investi-gation started that there was an even , chance of a great revulsion from the old and acknowledged corrupt condi- i tions. Previous to this time, these men explain, only one part of the citizens ' wore subject to tho glare of the search light and not only was It backing out in self-protection, but its opponents, fearing- retaliation, were not disposed to prove the corruption it fis evcry-wohc evcry-wohc conceded exists. Specifically, the one big event of the day will be the appearance of Judge Kimbrough before Foreman i Isaac Woodyards inquisitorial body, ! one which he, as circuit Judge, instituted. insti-tuted. The foreman has said ever since he came up from his bank at Ridge Farm, that he "was going to hit right and left regardless of any one. Second in impprtance only to the judge's testimony, will be that of May- , or Piatt and of Earl Chambers, owner own-er of a garage here. Judge Kim- i brough was a strong supporter of Mr. , Piatt In the latter's election twenty-one twenty-one months ago, and It is about the nature of that support that Chambers is to testify. Chambers is the chauffeur who yesterday yes-terday said he was prepared to tell the grand Jury that he drove the mayor may-or and the judge in an automobile on several trips from the First Na- ' tional bank to various precincts of the city, carrying "more money than 1 over saw," to the workers at the polls. He was driver of the famous machine, NTo.-2lT72. -w'hich figure's" lnthe "mayor's "may-or's carnpaign. Several other witnesses arc summoned sum-moned to tell what truth there is to the stories they have told of having seen, when the machine ran into an electric pole, a tarpaulin disarranged in the bottom of the tonneau and beneath be-neath It a disorderly heap of gold and silver coins and paper money in small denominations, scattered in alluring profusion on tho floor. no |