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Show H GRAFT AND CORRUPTION. H Theodore E. Burton of Ohio defends I he honor of his stale in H a speech in New York by declaring that, his stale is not behind the M other states in the matter of honesty, as the recent disclosures con- M cerning legislature corruption affected only one county. H That is a weak defense at best and. iT we are to believe the tclc- H graphic reports which have been coming out of Ohio for a year H past, the senator has overlooked some of the faults of his co-work- H crs in the political field. M In Adams county nearly 2,000 voters were arrested on charges of vote selling and 1.G00 were disfranchised for n period of five M years by Judge A. Z. Blair. A circular, which has .been widely dis-, M Jributed contains affidavits of half a dozen men who declare they H were bribed by Judge Blair. H Cox, the political boss, is said to have the judges of the state H In his grasp and to have forced them to release him from the grip H l of the law when all the rest of the state had found him guilty of H perjury. H Ohio has been the state of presidents nnd the home of many H I brilliant, high-minded men, but in politics it has degenerated and H become as corrupt as any of the western states, and some western H states have been so corrupt as to be classed as rotten boroughs H Graft and corruption know no political bounds or geographical B lines. They creep in wherever the temptation is offered by men of |