kout for
repeaters, pipe-layers, and ballot-box stuffers, they were in open
market purchasing votes. We learned the nature of the business when
too late to meet it, had we even had the means to make our knowledge
available."

No doubt this gentleman told the truth. The sums subscribed, that
counted in the millions, came from men not only of means, but of high
social positions, who, not being altogether idiots, well knew the
purpose for which their ample means were assessed. That able and
honorable gentleman, Judge Gresham, whose well-known courage and
integrity rendered him unavailable as a candidate for the Presidency
at Chicago, points openly to these respectable corruptionists as the
real wrong doers. It is more than probable that such may escape the
penitentiary, and it is poor comfort to know that when such die
lamented, their souls, in the great hereafter, will have to be
searched for with a microscope.

The pretence offered for such assessments is too thin to cover the
corrupt design. Says a prominent editor of the political criminals:

"The legitimate expenses of a national political canvass have come to
be enormous. There is a great educational work to be done; a vast
literature to be created and circulated; an army of speakers to be
brought into the field; various organizations to be made and
mobilized; machinery to be perfected for getting out the full vote;
safeguards to be provided against fraud: all the immense enginery for
persuading and marshalling at every fighting point the last score
among six million voters."

The comments upon this made by the New York _Evening Post_ are so to
the point, and conclusive, that we quote them in full. The _Post_
says:

"Well, now, this being so, why did Wanamaker and Quay, when they had
finished their noble work, burn their books and accounts? Missionary,
tract, and Bible societies for mutual improvement and for aid to home
study, lyceums and lecturing associations, not to speak of charitable
and philanthropic associations, do not, after six months of unusual
activity, commit all their papers, vouchers, and books of accounts to
the flames. No such thing is ever thought of in Wanamaker's Bethel
Sunday-school. Why, then, was it done by the Advisory Committee?
Religious and educational organizations, such as the Advisory
Committee seems to have been, on the contrary, when they have raised a
large sum of money and spent it in worthy ways are usually eager to
preserv