t ( ! i- i ; I i ! ! i t i' i I n k i v it - ItKl' Ul iLKUXiiECOKl). A BITTER ARRAIGNMENT OF COM MISSIONER RAUM'S METHODS. A Kotorloaa I.nnd Sicnliitlnn mill a Ccr tnln Gypmiui Mlno TrBnuartlon Where Dili the Money 1'nlil by llrllen Ten ', (Ion Office Kntplnyrr OoT It has been said that the scandals ot the Rnum regime ran nearly tlio whole gamut of possibilities. The greater part of thrm grew directly out of the Raum family's desire to get money without earning it and in devious ways. It was for money considerations that Banm got his daughter into two govern ment posts nt once, coul rary to law, and tried to get her through a loophole of tho 8tatnto into u remunerative place in the civil service without the civil service examination that all others must pass a thing which would have cheated sonic capablo and law abiding person out of the place and pay. It was for the sake of money that John Raum exploited his relationship to the commissioner by way of advertising hi bnsiness as a pension attorney. It was for the sake of gain that he seems tc have been allowed illegitimate knowl edge of what the pension office record:? contained. It was for gain to his family that Hit commissioner created a place in the serv ice for hia oilier ton to occupy. It was for money that Green 13. Raum, Jr., levied tribute upon the earnings of hit subordinates and sold appointments foi bribes, as the civil service commissioners have declared that tho evidence justifiet them in charging, and as tlio congres sional committee in its report says there can be no reasonable doubt" that ho did. In the Lemon case Raum gave Lemon as alleged security a block of stock in a certain gypsum mining company oi which ho was president. This stock happened to be, as .the cominitteo re ported, "of no particular value" because Baum's company did not own the prop erty it represented, and because the mining value of that property was of very doubtful exigence. But whatever its worth, the stock appears not to have belonged to Raum, but to the company. Yet Raum pledged it for if 12,000 and put tho money into quito another specu lation of his own in which tho company that owned tho stock had no interest whatever. The transaction was so foreign in its methods to the ordinary accepted way of doing business that one of tho min ing company stockholders remarked to Raum that he "didn't think thero was much difference between that and em bezzlement," an opinion in which many business men will perhaps share. This gypsum niino was one of the speculations which Raum undertook to promoto from tho pension oflice and chieily at government expense. With one Duckey ho had become possessed ot Bomo lands vaguely located in south western Virginia alleged to bo gypsum bearing. Tho company, of which he was president and factotum, seems nevci really to have owned the lands. It had contracts of purchase merely, on which it had paid un insignificant amount, partly in "stock" of the company. Un der these contracts the company was bound to pay the full purchase price $100,000 within a Bpccilicd time or for feit not only tho land, but all that might havo been paid upon it. This vague, inchoate title to unpaid for lands of uncertain value seems tc have been the only property Mr. Raum'a "company" possessed. Yet he capital ized this at f'3,000,000 and tried to wori off the Etock on that basis. According to tho testimony of Buckcy, who first got possession of the claim time capitalized, ami who was nominally made secretary of the company, Raum adroit ly managed to get the whole thing intc bis own hands and to keep it there. The secretary swore that he hart never been able to see tho stockbook but once; that he had never succeeded in getting his own stock issued even to fulfill a con tract of delivery for a part of it to Colo nel W. W. Dudley, of "blocks of five celebrity; that Raum evaded the fulfill ment of tho contract by reason of the fact that the attorney who drew it omit ted to namo in it a date for Raum's ful fillment of his part of it; in short, that Raum got possession of even-thing per taining to tho company and did what he pleased with it regardless of the rights of everybody else. Tho one occasion on which the secre tary had been permitted to see the stock book seems to have been when Raum wauted some etock issued presumably for delivery to Lemon and found it necessary to havo the secretary's signa ture to tho certificates. Then,' accord ing to Secretary Duckey's testimony, he sent for him to sign the papers, but upon pretense of having mislaid his memo- 1 randa had him sign the certificate in blank bo that tho secretary never knew how much of tho stock Raum issued. Thero is no reason to suppose that Raum Jiuporod upon Lemon in giving hiin this block as security for Iris $12, 000. Lemon was not a mau to be thus taken in, IIo neither l;uev nor cared anything about tho value of tho stock. Ho hud oilier recompense for hia outlay. But if, as Duckey says, Raum confessed to Lim the stock given to Lemon be- , longed to tho company, tho transaction, in its relations to the company, was of a character which tlio court are neons to'.ned to tuko cognizance of in a way not ngreeablo to the person concerned. As tho slock was "of no particnh'.i value" at the time of its issue, and as what vnleo it had went out of it soon 'afterward by tiie foreclosure of tho con tracts und the forfeiture of tho shadowy right.; thr.t constituted tho company's only resets, nobody seema to havo cared to subject Kama's dealing with tue stock to legal question. Tho whole en terprise seems to havo Ixcn of that kiiul whic h honorable men of bu:-.ines:.s ivso hittly decline to have tiny connection wilh Uu '-heads I win, lulls you lose'1 sort of speculation. Another of Raum's peculiar ventures wasth-i Charlton Height! s'locuhitioii. Charlton Heights is a village of twenty- .' l.rlifr Imiicoa limit Wnalil?lr(-rm. Tf mini got possession of a tract of land there and proceeded to organize a "company" for its exploitation. He represented the place as one of peculiar picturesqueness, salubrity and convenience, snro to be come at onco one of tho most prosperous suburbs of tho capital. As usual, ho does not seem to have paid anything of consequence for tho land. lie merely secured an option tipon it, at a price reported to bo thirty dollars an acre, and laid his plans to work it off on his pension office subordi nates and others at $1,4-10 Bn Here, mak ing for himself and his associates a neat little profit of $1,410 on every thirty dol lars thereafter to bo paid. The prospectus of the company repre sented that streets wcro to bo laid out and graded, a $70,000 hotel to be built and everything possiblo done to hasten the already rapid growth of the suburb. All this was false. No evidence has ever been discovered that any of the money received in subscriptions was spent in improvements at Charlton Heights. The suburb was not growing and really had no capacity for growth, as all tho lots that wcro not in a marsh, and therefore unfit for residence, hud been sold already. The scheme was a mere trap for the savings of pension of fice and other government clerks. They wero asked to subscribe to the stock of their chief's company and to pay their subscriptions in monthly in stallments of fivo dollars each. As they were dependent upon their chief fur their bread and butter they naturally subscribed in considerable numbers. It pays a poor clerk to give up fivo dol lars a month rather than risk tho loss of liis place and pay. The receipts from subscriptions to this enterprise are reported to have amount ed at ono time to about $2,000 a month. What became of the money nobody seems to know. It is certain that the few fellows who bought the stock could not now sell it for the price of a single month's subscription. They were promised that if at any time they wished to withdraw from the com pany they should receive their money back with interest. Several of them asked for this return, but only two or three who had influential friends got it. The rest did not deem it prudent to make any kind of disturbance. j A poor clerk cannot afford to press his official chief for money wrongfully got ' out of him. I It is a noteworthy fact that of all tho j people who have been coaxed, cajoled, deceived or driven into investing in tho ! speculative schemes fathered by Com- ! missioner Raum not one has ever got a ' profit upon his investment, and scarcely i ono has over got his money back or any part of it. The man who has engineered theso j schemes; the man who has in this way I levied tribute upon his &ulxrdin;ttes; . tho man who has used bis official term, his official influence and his official con trol over a government otlico to make market of worthless shares is so es- j pecially the confidential ngeut and j friend of tho president that even tho ex- ' posure of his misdeeds has not induced Mr. Harrison to remove him or to with draw from him his official confidence und personal support. Raum has publicly proclaimed that ho is "an iamo in thisi campaign." Ho is so. lie represents that old issuo which has always existed since tho sense of right and wrong was born in the human mind the issuo between honor nnd shame. ' "Rut. tlin RWf-nluHmis rer-nrdpd hpre or should tho word be spelled without the initial "s?" are insignificant as scandals in comparison with tho univcr- i sal refrigerator affair, and Raum's , shifts, evasions and plain falsehoods concerning it. New York World. Force lilll la In Kvidcnce. The force bill is as much a part of the Republican platform 63 tho protective tariff or any other featuro of it. It is now called a bugaboo and other de risive names by its authors. It is laughed at and snoered at on all sides. Would this be its treatment if tho platform con taining it should meet with popular in dorsement next November? It might be, and then again it might not be. In fact it might, liko tho tariff issue, be mode more terrible than ever. Thero is good reason to believe that this would be the case, but even if there were no good reason for thinking this there is a chance that it would bo, and this alone is suffi cient to point out to every good man and every lover of free and independent government his duty to voto against the party which brought such an iuiquitous measure into being. Dallas News. A TIhkuo of tntruttiii. Even Mr. Harrison's letter of accept ance was a tissue of untruths almost from beginning to end. If he is re-elected president it will be due principally to the astute dissemination of falsehood by tho party managers. It is hard for the Democrats to keep pace with these artistic untruths, but wo have reason to believe that the people havo been pretty thoroughly warned regarding the con templated deceptions, and that they will carefully sift all the statements made by the Republican managers. Memphis Appeal-Avalanche. A Coat nnd Tin neon t. Not so very long ago Mr. Harrison met tho Democrats' proposition to re duce tariff taxation and cheapen prices with tho snuor that "a cheap coat make1! a cheap man." llo now claims that the great object of the Itepubliean tariff policy was to cheapen prices. Evidently the president has added not only a cheap coat, but a turncoat to his wardrobe. Louisville Courier-Journal. &tatt):uuuHliii 1'oliUiiil Cuuulni;. If Harrison is 11 statesman, ns boiuo of tho orgaiiti of Ilcpublici.ns profess to bo lievo him, bo has won that reputation in npite of himself. Between tho utter nnces of Cleveland and HnrrUon there is all the difference between statesman ship and political cunning. Utica, (N. V.) (Jbsorver. The tVoutMi Will Ho It Agnln. When the Republican party v.t.s flat tened to tlio proportion of a postage stamp in November, 181)0, Mr. Thomas Brackett Reed ruefully remarked, "Tho women did it." If that explanation was correct, as it was in part, the women aro likely to do it again. Nothing has hap pened since to mitigato their re sentment against tho men who mado their shopping battles harder. They, at least, aro not to be deceived by the re ports of senate committees purporltug to show that retail prices hive gone down, for they know better. They know whon they are given shoddy for wool and cotton for silk. They do not care for Commissioner Pecksniff's assertion that wages have gono up if their own hnrbnnds aro getting as littlo as or loss than before. They nro not seduced by pictures of tho protected workingman eating roast turkey in a dining room furnished with morocco cushioned chairs nnd an Axminstcr carpet if their own protected table is set with corned beef and cabbage and situated in a kitchen equipped with a pino table and a broken stove. Ban Trancisco Exam iner. Illnlne Not Yet riui-iitol. All tho Republican machines i:i tho country aro now for Harrison. And with them all lie feels that his defeat is assured if ono man up on the New Eng land coast will not come to his help. Thi'i man Is advancing in years, broken i.n health, bowed down by domestic nfllic tion, and with no further political aspira tions of his own to serve. Ho was de fecated at Minneapolis by tho official machine which nominated Harrison over tho sentiment of tho party. He never had a machine of his own. Every time he was a candidate in a national convention tho official machine wan against him. And yet, with everybody else placated, with all tho "practical politicians" nt their posts, and all tho cogs and wheela of all tho machines in perfect running order, Harrison tunifi to Blainowith nn appeal to rouso tho senti ment and enthusiasm of tho party; to appeal to its intellectual sense; to awaken it to a recognition of its duty to its can didate as the representative of its ideas, policies and aspirations. St. Louis Re public. Clovi'lnud'a Idea of rctiMjuiiR. Mr. Cleveland's letter of acceptance reassures every veteran who has been affected by Republican clamor. The Democratic candidate for president be lieves that tho pension roll should be a roll of honor. The list should not be contaminated by the names of men who have no title to the respect and rewards of the government. At the same timo it should receive tho name of every de serving wearer of tho blue. This is tho view taken by tho soldiers themselves, whoso contempt for the shirkers and fraudulent pretenders exceeds that of any other class of citizens. Even tho billion dollar congress dared pass again i only a very limited number of the bilLi ' vetoed by Cleveland when president. l no name ot urover Cleveland is on more private pension bills than that of any other president. Elmira(N. Y.) Ga zette. lleHil)licanH ?XiiKrii of llrllK-ry. Tho Democratic managers cannot compete with the Republicans in a cam paign of bribery. They havo neither tho money, tho skill nor tho disposition nec essary to do so. But they ought to bo ablo to orouse the indignation of honest people to such a degree that tho cam paign of bribery will fail. If they do all ! that they can and fail, the prospect for good government m this country will be very gloomy. If it be once thoroughly demonstrated that tho peoplo can bo bribed with money taken from them selves to keep the party of sperial privi leges in power, tho popular confidence in freo institutions will bo greatly weak ened. Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. A 1'Urnoiucnnl Majority Frohnble. As Hill's personal influence in Now York will carry that state for Cleveland, so will Gresham's personal influence in Indiana carry that state for him, and so the Democracy may safely now count on tho electoral votes of the solid south, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana and a portion of Michigan. This will secure Cleveland's election, but there are many states heretofore safely Republican which nre considered now doubtful, and it will not be at all surprising if his majority in the elec torai coiiego were as phenomenal as it was when he was elected governor of New York in 1882. Richmond Times. No Fining at Custom Home. It is our right to trarto with foreign era; to honestly ucquiro wealth from them, nnd to bring it home without be ing fined at the custom houses. This is what we nre standing up for. It is not a question of percentages. We are will ing to pay all the tariff taxes the govern mcnt needs, but wo aro net willing to pay one cent ia tariff tines because wo have acquired foreign wealth nnd are trying to bring it home. mis is tno iusup, ana wiintever argu ment is not directed to this falls outside tho isBue. St. Louis Republic. Lot South mill Went Join 1 1 main, There is littlo hope that Republican protection will over be destroyed until the west is ready to join hands with the south against it. Tho south is all right. It is in lino to give tariff thievery its deathblow and to establish commerci.il freedom and industrial independence. But the south can do nothing unuided. With the help of its fellow victim and natural ally tho west it can do every thing. If the west is ready to net intelli gently nnd for its own interest in this campaign protectionism in doomed. Chicago Herald. An Importunt Oiuliwlon. Oao of the comedies of tho cnmpiiin is tho patent curtocu cf Undo Sam pointing to Peck's report r.liowiug tho effectd of tlio McKinlcy bill on labor. It fails to bhow Jh Peck in tho bach- ground under nrrrct for destroying tho j public papers from which his report was I compucu. iv-aniias uity Ainu, An open letter ta women. No. 3. Thurlow, Term. 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