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 CORRUPT COURTS 
 
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 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 
 
 Copyright 1904. by PETER M. SULLIVAN. 
 
 Send 50 cents to P. M. Sullivan at Oklahoma City, O. T. 
 and he will mail a Copy of this Book to your address. 
 
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 PARTIAL CONTENTS. 
 
 This Book proves : That a conspiracv of (60) 
 Ring Republings of New York headed by (14) Supreme 
 Court Judges in persecuting their victim committed such 
 crimes as Bribery, Perjury, Extortion, Grand Lar- 
 ceny, Anarchy and Attempt to Murder. 
 
 That such conspiracy is a band of secret Anarch- 
 ists, and that President Roosevelt took his oath of of- 
 fice from one of these Anarchists and now screens the 
 whole criminal bunch from public exposure. 
 
 That afterwards the County Attorney at his office 
 in Oklahoma City, 0. T. attempted to murder the same 
 victim, and the leading Ring officials of the territory 
 protected their political partisan and attempted mur- 
 derer from prosecution. 
 
 That the Civic Federation ot Oklahoma City then 
 filed criminal charges with President Roosevelt against 
 (4) of these Oklahoma Outlaws, and the President like- 
 -ris? pru:.ected them b> sending the charges back to 
 themselves to be thc'r own Judges. 
 
 Moii/es, pictures and correct names are given. 
 
 It's a Book of Facts. 
 
ATTORNEY P. M. SULLIVAN, 
 
 Victim, Author and Publisher, 
 
 Oklahoma City, 0. T. 
 
CORRUP' 
 
 NOTE. 
 
 The victim and writer of this book was born in a 
 log house, and of Irish parents who pioneered the for- 
 ests of Steuben county, New York, and there from the 
 wilds of nature hewed out a home for themselves. 
 
 When ten years of age the victim commenced his 
 literary career by learning to read from '-Websters 
 Spelling Book," purchased with the proceeds of a sheep- 
 pelt that he had skinned from a sheep found hanging 
 dead in a stump fence. 
 
 And alternating between working upon the farm, 
 studying by the light of the logs in the fire-place, and 
 teaching school in winter, he progressed so that 
 on June 10, 1869, he was admitted to practice law in all 
 the courts of his native state. 
 
 He is now closing his literary career by skinning Jug- 
 handle Judges, Ring Politicians, posthumous Presidents 
 and such like parasites, who are polluting public morals 
 and destroying national life. 
 
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 CHIS Book shows : That Ring Politics was the ini- 
 tial point of all the criminality here exposed ; and 
 that blind obedience to her criminal mandates disgraced 
 all these Judges, Governors and the President of the 
 United States, whereby, instead of transmitting to pos- 
 terity a glistening pyramid of integrity, they leave be- 
 hind a debauched hovel of infamy and shame. 
 
 This New York Conspiracy of Sixty named crim- 
 inals, consisted of high State and United States Judges 
 and officials ; and by a criminal use of their offices, they 
 robbed the victim and some of them attempted to mur- 
 der him to hide their sins and shame. 
 
 There were Fourteen Supreme Court Judges in the 
 plot, and their own Court records prove them guilty of 
 such crimes as Oppression, Extortion, Perjury and so 
 forth up and down the line of crime. 
 
 This is the first band of Ring Politicians, consisting 
 of Judicial Robbers, Perjurers, Assassins, Secret Anar- 
 chists, Crooked Governors and a Corrupt President ever 
 run down and exposed in America. 
 
 Great crimes are like other great things, they grow 
 from small beginnings And in order to show how the 
 perjury and crimes of these great criminals started 
 and grew, we will now mention a few of such compara- 
 tive small beginnings : 
 
 NORTH Tonawanda, N. Y, is a thriving Commer- 
 cial and Manufacturing place, half-way between Buf- 
 falo and Niagra Falls. The victim practiced law there 
 for several years, and there, seven years ago these 
 crimes and this private war began. 
 
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 In 1897, the republican party concluded to have the 
 village of North Tonawanda incorporated under a City- 
 Government, and the victim was deputed to prepare the 
 necessary Charter, which was satisfactorily done. And 
 as usual in such cases, the political plums were parcelled 
 out before the new City was organinized. 
 
 The allotment of ix)litical frnit was like this: 
 Assemblyman Warner was to be returned to the 
 Assembly. His law-partner, Mr. Lindsay was to 
 be made Receiver of the German American Bank, 
 about to fail. The Baldwin brothers were to haye 
 the City Attorneyship, the victim was to be its 
 Judge, and so (m down the line the selection went. 
 
 But it so happened the Banlv did not fail and 
 the Receivorshi]) was not delivered; then Mr. Lind- 
 say chaperoned by his partner, Assemblyman 
 Warner, made a dive for the City Attornyship, 
 which they had so solemnly promised to the Bald- 
 wins. But like the prodigal, Lindsay soon returned 
 empty-handed. 
 
 The pohtical plum chance was then fast grow- 
 ing painfully less; something must be quickly 
 d(me or all hope of gathering fruit from that crop 
 would be lost and forever gone. 
 
 So .the resourceful Assemblymen came to the 
 victim and argued; that inasmuch as his partner 
 had lost both his i^ro^jwK-tive Jobs, and he himself 
 might be defeated for re-election, they ought to get 
 S70(), for the Judgeshij); and of course the would- 
 be .Iiulge demurred to that proposition. 
 
 Then tlie Assemblyman chafing under the 
 defeat of liis $700, scheme, returned t() the L(>gis- 
 
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 lature in a "get even"' sort of mind; and having the 
 passage of the New City Charter in charge, he 
 changed the same so as to defeat the victim, and 
 gave the City Judgeship to his partner Mr. 
 Lindsay. 
 
 And of course such treachery 'incensed the 
 victim and caused an irreparable disruption be- 
 tvt'een him, the Assemblyman, and the Ring part 
 of the republican party. 
 
 Shortly after this attempted bribe, the victim 
 wrote and filed a chattle mortgage, and by mistake 
 wrote "one cart" where he should have written 
 "two carts," both carts not being worth over Five 
 Dollars; and when the mistake was discovered he 
 corrected the error at the request of both parties. 
 
 At that time the Assemblyman and Ring 
 Republicans were in the political Saddle, so they 
 immediately formed a Conspiracy to ruin the vic- 
 tim by twisting and torturingthis legitimate change 
 about the dog carts into a crime of unlawful mutil- 
 ation of records, which if true, would have fur- 
 nished the Ring an excuse for ipiprisoning and 
 disbar ing, him. 
 
 Then the Conspiracy commenced active operations 
 by Mayor Smeaton and Clerk Cramer (of the new city) 
 borrowing $90, on their joint note from the State Bank, 
 with which money they bribed the mortgagor (Mr. 
 ¥/ambach) of the dog carts, to swear to such false 
 matter about the change of the mortgage as would send 
 the victim to States Prison and disbar him. 
 
 ABNER T. HOPKINS, was then district attorney 
 of Niagara County, and is one of the Conspirators and 
 
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 Perjurers here ; He knew all about this bribed testimony 
 and used the same upon which to indict and try the vic- 
 tim for such dog cart change. 
 
 DISTRICT ATTORNEY HOPKINS, 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 
 All these bribery facts came out upon the trial and 
 the Jury acquitted the victim in less time than it takes 
 the reader to peruse these facts. 
 
 SOON after such persecution of the victim, the 
 Kfew City election took place, and then he printed all 
 these bribery facts on a Circular and had a Copy placed 
 in every office and house in the City. And of course 
 the result was, that the Mayor, Clerk, Lindsay, Warner 
 and all the Conspirators and Rin^ politicians went down 
 to an ignominious defeat. 
 
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 Then the Conspirators and Ring went wild with 
 rage, and commenced trying to inveigle the victim out 
 of his home in the middle of the night to kill him ; but 
 failing, the Mayor and City Clerk, writhing under the 
 loss of their money, their offices and reputations, they 
 came to the victim's house at 10 o'clock at night and 
 there made an attempt to shoot and murder him, but as 
 fate would have it, no blood was shed and all live to 
 bear their part in this statement of facts. 
 
 THE last criminal escapade of the Mayor and 
 Clerk burned like hot iron in the marrow bones of all 
 the Conspirators, so they organized a new plot by hiring 
 a Thug named Hale, to do the victim up. He had re- 
 cently arrived from Troy, N. Y., where he was mixed 
 up with the political murder of Batt Shea. 
 
 The Thug secretly watched until he caught the vic- 
 tim alone going through the United States Post Office 
 on Sunday after a paper, and there he attacked him 
 from behind and did him great bodily injury before help 
 came. There was no law that could punish the Thug, 
 or these other attempted murders, as the Ring and Con- 
 spirators controlled the Courts and run the town. 
 
 And then, to help the would-be murderers out, the 
 Ring papers published all kinds of lies about the attack, 
 and twenty of the Conspirtors lead by Millionaire James 
 S. Thompson, raised a sum of money and gave it with a 
 gold watch to the Thug, for thus attacking a decent 
 citizen and violating the criminal law : Since which 
 time the Thug caused the death of a young girl, then 
 murdered his wife and committed suicide, 
 
 JUDGES AND CONSPIRACY 
 SUCH persecution and criminal conduct cost the 
 
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 Ring many respectable votes and n^uch political prestige; 
 80 the leaders became alarmed, and Senator Ellsworth 
 of Lockport, N. Y., (then President pro-tem of the Sen- 
 ate) began active operations to regain lost ground. 
 
 And soon the Conspiracy was increased so that it 
 had Sixty members : The last acquisition, consisting of 
 a United States Judge, Fourteen Supreme Court Judges, 
 United States Attorneys, U. S. Commissioners and oth- 
 ers in high official rank, and all Ring Republican Poli- 
 ticians. 
 
 These Judges soon plotted to have the victim 
 brought before them upon false and fictitious charges ; 
 and there by disregarding all law and evidence, they 
 would scon run him through their Judicial Machine and 
 drop him out at the tail end despoiled of his money and 
 right to work at his profession ; and thus done up, he 
 would be powerless to expose any more of their crimes 
 and boodle plans. 
 
 They calculated their money and power would keep 
 such Judicial crimes out of the papers, and their official 
 standing would be a satisfactory answer to anything the 
 victim could say or do against them ; and then in a short 
 time their crimes would be looked upon as the mere 
 vaporings of an Attorney who had only received what 
 he deserved. 
 
 NOW to work their plot of ruin as already out- 
 lined, they procured a woman of illrepute from the 
 Barbara Coasts of Buffalo and induced her to falsely 
 testify that she had not been paid a certain $350. by 
 the victim coming out of an assault case. 
 
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 SUPREME JUDGE KRUSE, 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 
 The victim was brought into Court before the above 
 named Judge and there charged by the affidavit of that 
 woman with not having paid her the money, which meant 
 that he had stolen it ; though she had remained quiet 
 about it for nearly a year since receiving it, and until 
 the Ring and its Judges wanted to ruin a man with the 
 false testimony of a harlot. 
 
 Judge Kruse was then seeking re-election, and 
 Ossian Bedell, the ring's chief committeman with his 
 Counsel, Ex- Judge Lewis, were in Court secretly di- 
 recting the persecution ; and seoin^ the Court did not 
 fall down on the preconcerted plan to rob and ruin the 
 victim, also that Judge Kruse earned his re-election by 
 his infamy there to be done, 
 
 As against her affidavit the victim produced and 
 read the affidavits of four unimpeachable men showing 
 
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 in detail the fact, that this same money had been paid 
 to her about a year before that time. Which affidavits 
 entitled him to have the charge forever dismissed. But 
 tp make such dismissal would knock out the Conspira- 
 cy's greatest plot, leave the victim free, and defeat 
 Judge Kruse for re-eleptjon,. 
 
 So not being able to get the charge dismissed, the 
 victim demanded his legal right of a trial by Jury on 
 t«he issues raised by these affidavits. 
 
 Now these conspiring Judges knew, that if he were 
 given such jury trial, he would prove the fact the mon- 
 ey had been paid ; hence to save themselves and the 
 Ring from the open shame of defeat, and to secure the 
 final ruination of the victim, also to promote the re-elet- 
 ion of Judge Kruse, they had him make a written decis- 
 ion depriving the victim of his right to a jury trial ; con- 
 trary to the Statute and Common law of the State, and 
 contrary to the law of every civilized country on earth ; 
 which decision was also made, so that the Judges and 
 Re£<erees they would appoint could make the law and 
 facts against the victim and thereby rob and ruin him. 
 
 AND, to carry out such plot. Judge Kruse sent 
 the matter to be tried by a'Referee named HenryH.Sey- 
 more of Buffalo, who is a jury Commissioner there, ap- 
 pointed by these Judges, and a conspirator and perjurer 
 here proven by the record. The Ring and Judges in 
 New York have several such fellows all over the State, 
 who act as Referees in carrying out their criminal work ; 
 as power or pelf, or politics may demand. Therefore 
 you see they are a secretly organized band of robbers, 
 who use the power of their high positions to covertly 
 plunder the people and solidify themselves in power. 
 
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 The Referee went through with the farce of a trial 
 taking much of the evidence against the victim in his 
 absence with no one to represent him. And when the 
 evidence was closed, the direct testimony of six witnes- 
 ses showed that the money had been paid to the womaa 
 from the Barbara Coast ; besides the evidence of all 
 the witnesses on both sides of the case contradicted her 
 in nearly every material particular : She also contra- 
 dicted herself in many such particulars ; besides she was 
 shown to be so loathsome that her description cannot be 
 given here. 
 
 Now, in order for the Referee to make a decision, 
 he must first make findings of fact from the evidence to 
 base his decision upon. So he made Twenty findings, 
 all of which were false ; some of them were contrary to 
 all the evidence on both sides of the case, the remainder 
 were without any evidence for or against them, 
 pure fabrications. 
 
 And upon such findings, he decided the victim had 
 stolen the money, and for Referee's costs and all he 
 must pay about $1000. Yet these Judges dare not in- 
 dict and prosecute him, because they knew he would 
 Prove his innocence if given a jury trial ; and would also 
 prove their guilt in this conspiracy. 
 
 Therefore to completely rob him and protect them- 
 selves, they must prevent him from getting a jury trial, 
 and have their own Judges and Referees to make the 
 facts and law of the case, and rely on screening them- 
 selves by keeping it out of the papers, and away from 
 the people as already stated. 
 
 NOW, before the robbers could get the victim's 
 money under the Referee's decision, they must have o.rre 
 of their Judges to confirm it in Court, so they brought it 
 
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 on for such purpose before Supreme Court Judge 
 Childs. 
 
 SUPREME COURT JUDGE CHILDS, 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 
 On the argument against that confirmation of the 
 Referee's report, the victim pointed out from the evi- 
 dence the falsity of all these twenty findings of the Ref- 
 eree, and plainly showed that he was being robbed by 
 the Referee. Notwithstanding, the Judge knowingly 
 and feloniously, and to carry out the general plot of 
 Judicial robbery inaugerated by United States Senator 
 Tom Piatt's ring, confirmed the whole of these falsehoods 
 in a bunch and pronounced them all solid truths ; when 
 he personally knew from the record they were all false. 
 
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 - The Judge wrote and filed his decision on such con- 
 firmation and in it, he inserted six new lies against the 
 victim so as to defeat him in the Court above in case he 
 appealed from the confirmation. And thus Judge Childs 
 made himself the father of (26) Judicial lies proven by 
 the record, and put to ashame all the liars of the world 
 back to and including the Ancient Annanias. 
 
 THE victim had to submit to being thus robbed and 
 branded as a felon, or take his chance on an appeal 
 from Judge Child's decision, so he appealed and thereby- 
 jumped out of the frying pan into the fire, landing into 
 the crucible of five Ring Judges made to order by Sen- 
 ator Tom Piatt's Political Machine of New York. 
 
 Thus these Judges out-rivalled all the Judicial in- 
 famy of the world since the days of Pontius Pilate : and 
 even raised the Blush of competitave jealousy on his 
 cheek, he having been dead for over eighteen hundred 
 years. Specific attention will be called to them later on. 
 
 A few days after Judge Childs had committed the 
 foregoing infamy, he felt as though a little more could 
 be done, so he came back after the victim and hit him 
 again by maliciously and unlawfully ordering him to 
 give $1000 bond on appeal or to jail. 
 
 And because he did not give the bond or go to jail 
 as soon as desired, the Conspirators had Supreme Court 
 Judge White come into the Arena and unlawfully order 
 him sent to jail at once. So might made right : And 
 Ring Robbers Ruled the Roost : but they never succeed- 
 ed in landing him in jail. 
 
 THE robbers now were very hungry for the little 
 dab of money they were going to get from the victim, 
 and were not willing to wait until the Appellate Divi- 
 sion of the Supreme Court at Rochester had gone through 
 
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 the pretense of hearing the case on appeal and confirm- 
 ing the robbery. 
 
 So they tried to prevent an appeal by having Ref- 
 eree Seymour settle and order the case on appeal writ- 
 ten and printed in such way that it made no sense and 
 was only a jumble of words ; they calculated such a 
 course would cause the the victim to abandon his case 
 and then they would get his money right quick- 
 
 AND to help that scheme along, they had the mat- 
 ter brought up before Daniel J. Kenefick, another ready- 
 made Ring Judge of the Supreme Court. And after the 
 impossibility of writing or printing the case was shown 
 him in full detail, he ordered the same to be re-written 
 signed by Referee Seymour, and filed in (10) days, or 
 else the case would be deemed abandoned. 
 
 JUDGE LAMBERT 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 
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 Immediately after that order Referee Seymour 
 skipped the town and stayed away until after the (10) 
 days had expired ; and by these Judicial tricks the case 
 was declared abandoned. 
 
 But before they had a chance to divide the money, 
 the victim had a motion pending before Supreme Court 
 Judgi Lambert to vacate and set aside that abandon- 
 ment order and to settle the case in a fair manner. 
 
 Judge Kenefick's order was as glaringly wicked as 
 highway robbery, and the court room being quite full, 
 Judge Lambert through shame and self protection va- 
 cated it. 
 
 But he wound up by comcnitting as much infamy and 
 crime as any of these other ready-made Judges ; because 
 he knew his retention or promotion in of&ce depended 
 upon his skill and willingness in doing dirty Ring work. 
 
 Rule (34) of the general rules of practice provided 
 that only the material parts of the evidence and papers 
 should be printed in a case on appeal. Now, Judge 
 Lambert committed his first crime by violating this rule 
 in ordering that all the evidence and papers should be 
 printed in full unless the opposing attorney would con- 
 sent to a shortened case. 
 
 And thus the Judge loaded the victim down with 
 extortionate printers fees as it would cost $500 to print 
 such a case while $50 would print a proper one. By 
 such infamy they expected the victim would abandon 
 his appeal, and then they would get his money by a 
 short cut. 
 
 But the opposing attorney being a half fool of a 
 fellow (and as criminal as foolish) the victim coaxed him 
 to consent to a shortened case so a reasonably fair one 
 was printed for $125. 
 
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 CALIFORNIA BANDITTI. 
 
 IT was then September 1900, and the victim had 
 published his California Conspiracy showing how Mil- 
 lionaire Murderers, Sirens and Senators with hired As- 
 tassiris had made over forty attempts to murder him, 
 while he was Enrolling Clerk of the state Senate there. 
 
 In that book he mixed the crimes of these Judicial 
 Junk dealers with the California Banditti, and after its 
 publication the Conspiracy determined upon his swift 
 ruination without waiting for these Judges to do it on his 
 appeal case. Besides the Junk Dealers, they had the 
 millionaire murderers to help them in their plots to se- 
 cretly ruin a lone individual who never had done them 
 harm, only to stand pat on his rights. 
 
 JOHN E. POUND, U. S. Commissioner, N. Y. 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 THEIR new ruination scheme was planned and 
 worked out as follows ; At that time W. B. Simson, an 
 
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 attorney, thief and perjurer, resided at Tonawanda, N. 
 Y., and the persecutors had him get his client Goodman, 
 a Jew, (against whom the victim had a judgment of 
 several hundred dollars) to make a fahe complaint, 
 charging the victim with a criminal violation of the Uni- 
 ted States Bankrupt law. 
 
 The victim was arrested upon such charge and 
 taken before this Commissioner for a preliminary hear- 
 ing. Goodman and his attorney were the only witnesses. 
 
 The Jew had an abortive idea that he could 
 send the victimjo prison and thereby in some way he 
 would get rid of paying his judgement. And Simson 
 was the general tool and handy man of the Ring working 
 for its favors, such were their motives. 
 
 The only incriminating evidence given by the Jew 
 was against himself, by contradicting the Court records 
 and thereby committing perjury : And the same was 
 true of Attorney Simson, who denied the court records 
 in a crimnal assault case then pending against him by 
 a married woman, thus committing perjury. 
 
 Simson was then, for more reasons than one, anxious 
 to have that assault case dismissed from the record ; so 
 the next day he secretly applied to Judge Kruse who 
 ordered the case dismissed from the record, thereby de- 
 frauding the victim out of $75, he being the opposing 
 attorney with that sum due him. 
 
 Further on we will show how Judge Kruse denied 
 such order and contradicted his own court record in said 
 case to prevent a judgement against himself for making 
 such an unlawful order, and thereby committed wilful 
 perjury. 
 
 Now there was not a particle of evidence before 
 Commissioner Pound to show that any crime had been 
 committed, except the evidence of Simson and Goodman 
 
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 which showed they each had committed perjury before 
 that United States Commissioner. 
 
 But according to the clamor of the Sanhedrim, this 
 new Pontius Pilate Pound crucified the victim between 
 these two perjurers and held him to answer to the next 
 grand jury without naming any crime, and then turned 
 the purjurers loose to roam and glean in the fields for 
 other victims who dared to dispute the power or expose 
 the crimes of Ring politicians. 
 
 The victim's case soon came on before the United 
 States grand jury, and the Ring's attorney Brown with 
 his deputy Mr. Dempsey were there trying their level 
 best to have him indicted upon the evidence of these 
 perjurers, and at the same time' were screening the per- 
 jurers from prosecution by witholding the evidence of 
 their guilt from the grand jury. 
 
 For the purpose of preventing these United States 
 attorneys from having the victim indicted, also to make 
 a record against them and the whole Ring for future 
 use, he drew up a lengthy affidavit with full details 
 which, among other things showed ; that these U. S. 
 District Attorneys were protecting the perjured tools of 
 the Ring from indictment, by refusing to present the 
 evidence of their guilt to the Grand Jury and at the 
 same time were using their evidence to have the victim 
 indicted. 
 
 And as soon as opportunity afforded, and in the 
 presence of about one hundred and fifty persons (many 
 of them being Grand Jurors) , the victim read that affi- 
 davit in open Court, which exposed the whole conspira- 
 cy, and the criminal use these U. S. District Attorneys 
 were making of their high offices ; and he asked the 
 Court to make an order requiring them to present the 
 
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 evidence showing the guilt of these perjurers to the 
 Grand Jury. 
 
 That affidavit which directly charged these two 
 United States Attorneys with partiality and crime done 
 in their Official capacity, opened the eyes of the Grand 
 Jurors, and startled both the Court and its Attorneys. 
 
 Such a cyclone in the Judicial farce, completely 
 bewildered the actors ; and it was some time before the 
 Court gathered sufficient nerve to decide that the victim 
 should be prosecuted upon the evidence of the two per- 
 jurers, but that they should go free. 
 
 JOHN R. HAZEL, U. S. DISTRICT JUDGE, 
 
 BUFFALO, N. Y. 
 
 Conspirator and Perjurer. 
 
 The spite and revenge promoting the farce was 
 plainly seen by the Grand Jury, and it lost no time in 
 
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 voting not to indict the victim ; and thus for the third 
 time in his persecution he practically proved the liberty 
 of the poor is only safe in the hands of a Jury. And 
 especially is that so in New York, where Tom Piatt's 
 Jug-handle Judges administer the law. 
 
 From a criminal stand-point the last plot to ruin 
 the victim was quite well planned : He was to be ar- 
 rested and prosecuted upon perjured testimony, before 
 John R. Hazel of Buffalo, N. Y. ; who was so recently 
 raised from the ranks of a common Ward Politician, to 
 the high office of a United States Judge ; by the politi- 
 cal power of boss Piatt, for the purpose of robbing the 
 poor and doing political work tor the Ring. 
 
 As a matter of patriotic duty and historical fact, 
 we present the picture of this Judge, and later on will 
 show how he CDmmitted willful perjury by denying all 
 the records of his own Court about that motion and the 
 other two perjurers. 
 
 APPELATE DIVISION INFAMY 
 
 These Kings in crime, having thus met their Wa- 
 terloo, and being completely routed on their own camp- 
 ground, were very angry and deeplv humiliated. Yet 
 undismayed, they lost no time in pursuing the victim in 
 their plot of ruin before the Ring Judges of the Appell- 
 ate Division at Rochester, N. Y. ; where by Judge-made 
 facts and Jug-handle law they judicially robbed him of 
 his money, honor and right to work and live by his 
 profession. 
 
 The Judges of that Court were : William H. Adams, 
 of Canandaigua, Justice presiding; Peter B. McLennan, 
 of Syracuse ; Pardon C. Williams, of Watertown ; Frank 
 C. Laughlin and Alfred Spring, of the Buffalo District. 
 
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 And they have jurisdiction over (22) Counties out of 
 
 (61) of the State. 
 
 The printed record upon which these judges were 
 presumed to base their decision was before them. It 
 contained (20) false findings of Referee Seymour, the 
 
 (6) lies of Judge Childs, besides (33) criminal lies and 
 crimes in the brief of the opposing attorney, Mr. Ladd, 
 Making (59) printed falsehoods for these Jug-handle 
 Judges to sail around in reaching tneir gulf of shame 
 and debauchery. 
 
 AND, to briefly recapitulate some of these facts, 
 and their crimes we state : The record showed that all 
 the witnesses on both sides of the case contradicted 
 Miss Johnston (from the Barbara coast of Buffalo) on all 
 the main points in their evidence, and the main point 
 litigated ; besides she contradicted herself to such a 
 material and flagrant extent that her evidence was self 
 evidently false from the record. It was a case of 
 thirteen witnesses against one, and that one (herself) 
 shown to be false by her own testimony. Besides her 
 physical condition was shown by her own evidence to 
 such that it can not be printed. 
 
 JUDGES CONSPIRACY. 
 
 THE conspiracy of Judges to ruin the victim is 
 now plainly seen ; it is also plainly seen how Judge 
 Kruse first robbed him of his right to a Jury trial, so 
 that Judge Childs could later on rob him of his money 
 and honor. 
 
 It is also plainly seen ; that by reason of the exal- 
 ted positions, supposed learning and honor of these Ap- 
 pelate Judges, that a crime committed by them is of ten 
 thousand times greater moral turpitude, than when com- 
 mitted by any of the preceding lesser conspirators. 
 
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 And by reading the following pages it will be more 
 plainly seen ; how these Appelate Judges feloniously 
 confirmed all the foregoing crime and robbery and made 
 themselves a party thereto ;and then committed the crime 
 of Perjury, by denying their own Court records under 
 oath to prevent a money judgment against themselves 
 for having committed such ciime when sued therefor. 
 
 These Appelate Judges by confirming the robbery 
 order of Judge Childs, thereby swallowed the whole of 
 these (59) lies in one gulp and decided they were all 
 solid truths. Besides they decided the evidence of one 
 self-confessed perjurer and diseased courtesan out- 
 weighed the evidence of (13) reputable witnesses. 
 They also decided the victim should not be given his 
 natural, legal and constitulional right of having the 
 question as to whether or not he had paid that (350) 
 dollars tried by a Jury. 
 
 They made such unlawful and malicious decision 
 because ; they knew he pould and would prove, and a 
 jury would render a verdict that he had paid the money : 
 And that would defeat their scheme to ruin him accord- 
 ing to the plot of Piatt's Ring robbers and political pros- ' 
 titutes of New York. And they attempted to hide their 
 decision from the people by refusing to write or give 
 any reasons for it, as required by their sworn and legal 
 duty, and the law of the State. 
 
 Again : They dared not try to write an opinion ex- 
 plaining away these (59) lies, for the minute they 
 touched them, the whole robbery scheme would have 
 exploded, knocked off their Jug-handle heads, busted 
 Tom Piatt's Ring, and killed the goose that was laying 
 their golden eggs. 
 
 BESIDES the foregoing, they further attempted to 
 
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 25 
 
 hide their crime and infamy from the people, by order- 
 ing disbarment charges to be brought against the victim 
 so as to make it appear that he was a bad man, and 
 they were justified in thus summarily disposing of him. 
 
 Now the only thing worthy of consideration in these 
 disbarment charges was the fact, whether or no, the 
 victim had paid that $350. to Miss Johnson. 
 
 And to have that question fairly tested, he asked 
 and begged District Attorney Hopkins, these Appellate 
 Judges and other conspirators, to have him indicted for 
 stealing the money ; and then if he could not prove be- 
 fore a jury that he had paid it, he would be sent to 
 States Prison, disbarred and forever knocked out and 
 disgraced. 
 
 ATTORNEY W. B. SIMPSON, OF TONAWANDA 
 
 Thief, Conspirator, Perjurer and Anarchist. 
 
 But they, knowing his innocence, and that he would 
 be acquitted and exonerated before the world by a jury 
 
26 CORRUPT 
 
 trial, which would practically condemn them, they 
 prevented his indictment and held him in before these 
 jugglers to be ruined upon their final decision on these 
 disbarment charges. 
 
 Reader just think of a man in this God-given country 
 chased and persecuted by a band of conspirators and 
 perjured Judges, until he is willing to submit to be in- 
 dicted upon a false charge in order to get a jury trial 
 to preserve his honor and get away from such persecu- 
 tion. 
 
 ON May 10, 1897, this same Simson was a.ttorney 
 for a poor old Dutch woman, named Louisa Lohm.an, he 
 had collected $1600 for her on a judgment, one half the 
 . the money was hers, the other half his. 
 
 He stole the old woman's $800 ; and about four 
 years thereafter, while the victim was thus being perse- 
 cuted he found out Simson had stolen that money, so he 
 immediately swore out a warrant for Simson's arrest 
 upon a charge of Grand Larceny. 
 
 The Ring and its Conspirators filled and controlled 
 all the offices, so the warrant could not be served until 
 after Simson had raised the $800 ; and through the 
 Ring's Postmaster, Wallemeir, the matter with the old 
 woman was settled by paying her part of the $800. 
 
 After the capture of the thief, the tools of the Ring 
 immediately flocked to his rescue. And Attorney Reb- 
 adow, of Buffalo (a Republican Committeeman) who 
 knew all about Simson stealing that $800. could not be 
 made to answer any questions in Court telling what he 
 knew about the Grand Larceny. 
 
 DISTRICT Attorney Penny, of Erie Co., instead 
 of prosecuting, protected the thief and prostituted near- 
 ly all the functions of his High Office in doing so ; con- 
 
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 sequently Simson was turned loose as a thieving Para- 
 site upon a stoic public. 
 
 APPELATE DIVISION AGAIN. 
 
 AS further facts that chain these Appellate Judges 
 fast to the public whipping post of infamy, we show 
 their criminal ommission of sworn public and official 
 duty as follows : 
 
 That soon after this last episode about Simson, the 
 victim prepared verified disbarment charges against him 
 based upon that $800. grand larceny crime : Against 
 District Attorney Hopkins based upon his misconduct 
 and crimes herein ; and against Attorney Ladd for the 
 (33) lies and crimes contained in his brief heretofore 
 described. 
 
 The victim filed these charges in this Appellate 
 Court and asked the Judges to proceed with disbarment 
 charges thereon, the same as was being done against 
 him, to the end all should be treated alike before the 
 law. 
 
 Of course the Jug-handle Judges refused to prose- 
 cute these charges because ; Messrs Ladd, Simson and 
 Hopkins were the special tools of the Ring and the 
 helpers of these Judges in persecuting the victim. 
 
 But to be as infamous as possible these Appellate 
 Judges appointed this same conspirator and perjurer 
 Hopkins to prosecute the disbarment charges against 
 the vicHm, thereby misusing the power of the people's 
 Court to specially insult a man after robbing and dis- 
 honoring him. 
 
 And then the Judges hunted around for several 
 days to find an efficient tool to do their bidding and 
 finally without the knowledge or consent of the victim, 
 
28 CORRUPT 
 
 they arbitrarily appointed Joseph W. Taylor, of Roches- 
 ter, to go through with the farce and make-believe of 
 taking the evidence upon the charges and report the 
 same to them for confirmation. 
 
 This Referee was the longest, leanest, smoothest 
 and slickest tool in the whole criminal trust and robber 
 combine. He was also the mental superior of any of 
 these Judges, or any other member of the new robber's 
 roost. 
 
 THEY had only two charges upon which they re- 
 lied as an excuse to disbar the victim. 
 
 First; that he had maligned Judges Kruse, Childs 
 and Referee Seymour in his book, wherein he had pub- 
 lished the foregoing facts about them. 
 
 Second ; that he had stolen $350. for which they 
 dare not let him be indicted and have a jury trial. 
 
 They proved the first charge by introducing the 
 book in evidence. The victim disproved it, by testify- 
 ing and proving that all things contained in the book 
 were absolutely true ; and no one contradicted him. 
 Keither Judges Childs, Kruse nor Referee Seymour 
 came into court because they knew they were guilty, 
 and dare not submit to a cross examination. 
 
 To prove the second charge they offered the printed 
 case on appeal in evidence. The victim objected to 
 such evidence upon the ground ; he had a natural, legal 
 and constitutional right to have the witnesses against 
 him brought into court where he might cross-examine 
 them. 
 
 Of course the Referee over-ruled such proper ob- 
 jection and the record on appeal was recieved in evidence. 
 The case was then closed and reported to the Jug-han- 
 dle Judges, for final action, and disbarment. 
 
 But by the time the matter came up before them. 
 
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 they found out the objection to the printed case should 
 have been sustained. Also that if they disbarred him 
 upon such illegal evidence, he could get to the Court of 
 Appeals upon such evidence. . And they must not give 
 him a chance to appeal, for the Court of Appeals would 
 not sustain their criminal conduct in thus robbing a 
 man. 
 
 SO the jugglers sent the case back to the Referee 
 to take the evidence of Miss Johnson, for they must 
 have some kind of evidence as an excuse for disbaring 
 him. What a disgrace it is to the nation. A robber 
 band of Ring Judges resorting to and relying upon the 
 sole evidence of a perjured harlot to hide their crimes 
 for Judicially robbing a man. 
 
 Now, she had been living in open fornication ever 
 since she got her whack out of the money produced by 
 Judge Child's robbery of the victim, consequently they 
 were afraid her recent unsavory conduct might be 
 brcught out on cross-examination, but there was no oth- 
 er course left, so they brought her into Court, relying 
 upon the lankey Referee to keep her shame off the 
 record. 
 
 And there before the Referee, with him to help 
 her, the poor unfortunate creature attempted* to hide 
 her sin, but instead of hiding, she exposed it, and com- 
 mitted two seperate crimes of perjury as follows : 
 
 First, because on February 25th, 1901, before a 
 Justice of the Peace she had testified that she never 
 was married, and then on March 23rd, 1901, before the 
 Referee she testified that her evidence before the Justice 
 was false ; while the truth is, her evidence before the 
 Justice was true. 
 
 Second, because on March 23rd, 1901, before the 
 Referee she testified that she was married on June 10th, 
 
30 CORRUPT 
 
 1900, which was false* as stie was not married until 
 March 22, 1901, the day before she came into Court. 
 
 Such false evidence was given to hide her illicit 
 conduct with Bradford since June 10th, 1900, for she 
 and the persecutors knew the witnesses were in Court 
 to prove such conduct, and unless the same could be 
 hid, she would be exposed on the record, which would 
 destroj'- her evidence for the Ring's disbarment scheme. 
 
 Yet she is nowhere so guilty of moral terpitude as 
 Hopkins and the other persecutors, who induced her to 
 get married and then to give false evidence about it, 
 with the vain hope of bolstering up her character on the 
 record to serve as a pretext for the Court to hang its 
 intended disbarment order upon. 
 
 The victim then offered to contradict her testimony 
 by testifying ill his own behalf; that her name was 
 signed to her marriage record in her own hand writing 
 that he made a full and complete record of her mar- 
 riage from the original, which showed she was married 
 on March, 22nd, 1901, and he offered such copy in evi- 
 dence along with his proposed evidence. The District 
 Attorney objected to- having the chief witness of the 
 prosecution contradicted by showing her perjury, and 
 the Referee maliciously and unlawfully sustained such 
 objection. 
 
 He then offered in evidence the original record of 
 her marriage and the evidence of the minister who 
 married her to show she was not married on June 10th 
 1900, (as she had testified) but on March 22nd, 1901, 
 for the purpose of impeaching and lessening the weight 
 of her testimony ; to which the District Attorney object- 
 ed, and was sustained by the Phonegraph of the Ring, 
 in other words the Referee. 
 
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 The Referee knew that such evidence was a death 
 blow aimed at the very gizzard of the persecution; and 
 that if her perjury was again spread upon the record, 
 all the sophistry and veneered reasoning of the Jug- 
 handle Judges in the state could not galvanize it into a 
 presentable appearance. Hence his debauchery in 
 keeping it off the record. 
 
 WHAT a mockery of Justice for these official tools 
 of the Ring to thus unlawfully build a wall of protection 
 around an unsavory witness, so that her false testimony 
 might serve the malicious purpose of disbarring a man. 
 It seems that such conduct is enough to shock the mor- 
 al sense of all who read these pages, and to arouse the 
 people to the danger that confronts them by the malad- 
 ministration of justice in the Courts of Ring Judges and 
 their Referees. Whose life, liberty or property is safe 
 in the Courts of New York, or any where else, where 
 Ring Judges administers the law? . And they are ad- 
 ministering the law to a very large extent all over "the 
 land of the free and the home of the brave." 
 
 NOW, the payment of that money was the 
 only real question in the case and upon it the 
 victim testified; that he paid her that same 
 $350. Mr. Lane, the opposing attorney, tes- 
 tified ; that he saw the victim count out and 
 pay her that same $350. Her own physician 
 testified ; that she told him the victim paid her 
 $350. The Justice of the Peace testified, that 
 she showed him some money and told him 'she 
 git it from Mr. Sullivan out of her cases, 
 Mrs. Alexander, of 257, Senaca St., Buffalo, 
 testified ; that she rented living rooms of her 
 and during the time she lived there she told 
 her that she had gotten her money from Mr, 
 Sullivan. Eva Harris a little thirteen year old 
 ■ girl testified ; that she slept in the same bed 
 
32 CORRUPT 
 
 with Julia and Bradford for a week before 
 Christmas, 1900, and that Julia told her that 
 she had got $350 from her lawyer (meaning 
 the victim) . Besides upon her final examina- 
 tion, Miss Johnson testified ; that Mr. Sullivan 
 had paid her this $350 and her evidence is so 
 recorded in the stenographer's minutes. 
 
 So here is the evidence of six unassailable witnesses 
 showing that this same $350 in dispute had been paid ; 
 besides Miss Johnston herself testified that the same 
 money had been paid to her by the victim. Therefore 
 it is plainly seen ; the persecutors failed to prove any 
 of their charges were true, but on the contrary the evi- 
 dence proved them all to be false and malicious ; Not- 
 withstanding Referee Taylor decided and reported to 
 the Judges, that the charges were all sustained by the 
 evidence. 
 
 And according to the previous decree of the Ring's 
 Judges of the Appellate Division, they formally con- 
 firmed the report of the debauched Referee, and there- 
 by decided that the victim had stolen the money. But 
 they refused to disbar him, because (as you shall see) 
 they could work greater injury upon him by suspending 
 him from practice until their further order, which they 
 did. 
 
 IF they had disbarred him such decision would 
 have been final, and he could have appealed from it to 
 the Court of Appeals; where it would have been re- 
 versed, because it was contrary to all the evidence on 
 both sides of the case. 
 
 So they simply suspended Him from practice until 
 their further order, because he could not appeal from 
 that, as it was not final, but was still pending and left 
 open in their Court for further order, which order they 
 
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 never would make and that would practically disbar 
 him forever. 
 
 And thus after having robbed him of his money, 
 they robbed him of his honor and of his right to make 
 a living ; thereby trying to starve him, the same as the 
 Spaniards starved the Cubans. And such is a practical 
 illustration of man's equality before the law in the State 
 of New York. When the law is administered by Tom 
 Piatt's Ring made and ready made Judges. 
 
 IF the victim stole that money he should have been 
 disbarred. But when he proved that he paid it, he 
 should have been exonerated. There was no middle 
 ground that could be taken. He was either guilty or 
 innocent, and had a legal right to be treated so by these 
 Judges, and they knew it. And when they made their 
 trick order suspending him, by that order, and by their 
 many other malicious crimes herein they violated their 
 oaths of office, and committed the crime of oppression 
 for which they should be impeached and sent to pris- 
 on. 
 
 It's enough to chill the blood and give every pa- 
 triotic citizen the blind staggers ; to read and consider 
 the vindictive persecution by these Appellate Judges, 
 how they outraged every principle of law and justice in 
 trying to ruin the victim, and then followed him with 
 the lone evidence of a harlot, and tried to get it in 
 shape to serve as a pretext upon which to disbar him, 
 and failing, how they then arbritrarily and without any 
 evidence, but contrary to all the evidence on both sides 
 of the case deliberately and judicially robbed him of 
 his law license by suspending him from practice until 
 their further order which meant forever. 
 
 Again note the attempted cunning of these Judges ; 
 when they deprived the victim of a jury trial, and had 
 
34 CORRUPT 
 
 despoiled him of his money, they fixed their decision so 
 it could not be appealed from ; and in these disbarment 
 proceedings they do the same thing, and even commit a 
 crime in order to do so. 
 
 They seem to take all the precaution of cracksmen 
 or burglars to cover their tracks and keep from expos- 
 ure. They preserve the same mum mouth about their 
 decisions the sneak thief does about his crimes. They 
 dare not offer any opinion for their unholy decisions, 
 because they know there is no honest reason to give. 
 After they had tried to murder and rob him, these 
 Judges determined to rob him of hjs law license so that 
 he must leave the State in order to make a living. 
 
 DOES not such low wicked conduct coming from 
 such high places, outrival and put to shame the conduct 
 of all the world's land pirates for boodle? Was it not 
 as bad as highway robbery for these Judges to take 
 away his money, his honor, and his right to practice 
 law and make a living, without evidence, but contrary 
 to all the evidence on both sides of the case? 
 
 Nowhere in the history of civilization has such an 
 aggregation of crime and persecution ever been shown 
 to exist by the Judges and law power of the land. And 
 what a blight and degraded shadow it casts on the hor- 
 izon of the great Empire State of New York ! It puts 
 to shame all the pretense of justice and the protection 
 of the citizen in the Courts of New York State. It en- 
 tirely outrivals the persecution of Captain Dreyfus in 
 the French Courts. 
 
 Are not nearly all the high Judges of this country 
 placed in office by the power of Ring Politicians? And 
 hence are not all such Judges as corrupt as these Ring 
 Judges of New York? And can such a debauched con- 
 
JUSTICES APPELLATE DIVISION 4th DEPT., N. Y. 
 
 Peter B. McLennan Presiding Justice Alfred Spring 
 
 Frank C. Laughlin Wm. H. Adams. P. C. Williams 
 
 Conspirators, Perjurers and Anarchists. 
 
36 COURTS 
 
 dition of the Judiciary remain, and the life of the nation 
 be preserved? And can the people of this great nation 
 afford to overlook or allow the crimes here pointed out 
 and proven to go unredressed and unpunished? 
 
 THE foregoing Judicial Trust and Criminal Com- 
 bine, having thus robbed the victim, he moved to New- 
 York City, there to try and work out a living for him- 
 self and family. And in trying to do so, and to recov- 
 er his money the band had robbed him of together with 
 damages, he sued twenty of them in the Supreme Court 
 in New York for $200,000 damages. 
 
 The complaint against them contained over one 
 hundred allegations and was verified by the victim. It 
 was based entirely upon the facts, unlawful acts and 
 criminal conduct of the defendants in this great crimi- 
 nal trust. 
 
 The separate facts and acts of the different mem- 
 bers, of the combine considered as a whole, clearly 
 proved the existence of the conspiracy ; and the whole 
 complaint was provable by the records made and pro- 
 ceedings taken against the victim by the different mem- 
 bers of the criminal trust or conspiracy. 
 
 PERJURED JUDGES, ETC. 
 
 AND as the complaint was sworn to ^^o the answer 
 of each of these defendants must likewise be sworn to, 
 otherwise the plaintiff would be entitled to his $200,000 
 judgment against those who did not so swear to his 
 answer. 
 
 That verification matter placed the defendants be- 
 tween the devil and the deep sea ; for if they did not 
 deny the allegations of the complaint under oath, they 
 would by such failure to d-ny, admit their guilt in the 
 conspiracy, besides the victim would then be entitled 
 
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 to take a Judgment against them for $200,000. 
 
 And if they denied any of ;he material allegations 
 in the complaint in their sworn answers, they would 
 commit perjury by swearing their denials were true, 
 ■when they personally knew they were false, and could 
 be proven to be false by the aforesaid records and pro- 
 ceedings. 
 
 But they knew they could never be successfully 
 prosecuted for any perjury they might committ in swear- 
 ing to their answers. Because ; the conspirator Sey- 
 mour was deputy jury commissioner at Buffalo, and 
 when thus acting he had the selection, and manipula- 
 tion and drawing of both the Grand and Petit Juries ; 
 while these Jug-handle Judges controlled all the courts 
 where the perjury was committed. 
 
 Hence there could be scarcely any chance of their 
 prosecution and conviction, unless there was a general 
 uprising of the people against them, and that was hardly 
 possible with their great influence with the newspapers 
 there, and their power to quell any attempt with the 
 people to punish them. 
 
 Besides the ruined and boycotted victim was then 
 four hundred miles away at New York City, with 
 scarcely any prospect of him ever returning to Buffalo 
 to institute criminal proceedings against them for any 
 further crime they might commit. 
 
 So under these conditions each of the whole twenty 
 defendants came boldly and defiantly to the front, and 
 made and served their separate sworn and verified an- 
 swer, and falsely denied therein, many of the material 
 allegations in the complaint against them. 
 
 And they each and all thereby committed square 
 toed and flat footed perjury, which is provable against 
 them by the court records made by themselves in perse- 
 
38 CORRUPT 
 
 cuting the victim. And he stands ready to prove them 
 to be guilty as here charged before any fair jury of 
 twelve men in any part of the United States. 
 
 The conspirators thus sued are named as 
 follows : John R Hazel, U. S. Judge ; Judges : 
 William H. Adams, Alfred Spring, Frank C. 
 Laughlin, Peter B McLennan, and Pardon C 
 Williams of the Appellate division at Roches- 
 ter, N. Y, ; Judges: Henry A. Childs, Fred- 
 erick W, Kruse, Daniel J- Kenefick, and John 
 C. Lambert, of Buffalo, N. Y. ; John E. 
 Pound, U. S. Commissioner ; Charles H. 
 Brown and S. Wallace Dempsey, U. S, At- 
 torneys ; Abner T. Hopkins, District Attorney ; 
 Henry H. Seymour and Joseph W. Taylor 
 Referees; Carlton E. Ladd and W. B. Simscn, 
 Attorneys ; C. B Penny, of the Tonawanda 
 News, and Abram Goodman the Theosophical 
 Jew. 
 
 TO briefly illustrate how some of these defendants 
 swore knowingly and falsely to the denials in their an- 
 swers and thereby committed perjury we state; 
 
 Judge William H. Adams, presiding, falsely 
 denied in his sworn answer over (40) ot the 
 material facts and allegations in the complaint 
 against him, and these other Appelrte Judges ; 
 and falsely denied and contradicted the rec- 
 ords of his own court which, proved such (40) 
 allegations against him were true, and that his 
 denials thereof were false : And falsely de- 
 nied any knowledge or information thereof suffi- 
 cient to form a belief as to the truth or falsety 
 of such forty allegations in the complaint, 
 when he personally knew that all of the allega- 
 tions in the complaint were true and that his 
 (40) denials in his answer were all false ; and 
 thus Judge Adams committed over (40) crimes 
 and perjuries in one fell swoop. 
 
 The sworn answers of the other four Appel- 
 
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 late Judges namely : Spring, Laughlin, Wil- 
 liams and McLennan were on the same line 
 and contained in substance the same false de- 
 nials and perjury as the answer of Judge Ad- 
 ams. 
 
 So it is evident without argument ; That all these 
 Appellate Judges madj and inserted in their sworn an- 
 swers many material and false denials of the allegations 
 in said complaint against them, and then knowingly and 
 falsely swore that such denials in their answers were 
 true ; when they personally knew that such denials were 
 false and untrue, and that the allegations in the com- 
 plaint against them were true. 
 
 So here is the undeniable and conclusive evidence ; 
 proving that these Judges used their official positions to 
 rob the victim by unlawful proceedings in their courts, 
 and when he sued them for such misconduct and crimes, 
 they each falsely denied and contradicted in their sworn 
 answers their own court records and proceedings then 
 on file in the Clerk's office. Did civilized humanity 
 ever before hear of such vicious conduct and unmiti- 
 gated perjury? 
 
 People : Just think of these great Judges of the 
 State of New York openly and defiantly adding the great 
 crime of perjury to their many other sins and crimes, 
 in their fight through their official positions to ruin an 
 attorney, whose only offense was that of exposing the 
 misdeeds and crimes of corrupt Judges and other cor- 
 rupt Ring Politicians and officials. 
 
 JUDGE HAZEL'S perjury is shown in this 
 way ; He knowingly and unlawfully made and 
 inserted many false denials in his sworn an- 
 swer, contrary to his personal knowledge of 
 such denials, and contrary to the records and 
 proceedings made by himself in his own Court, 
 
40 CORRURP 
 
 and he falsely denied in his said answer, that 
 tne victim ever made the affidavit and motion 
 described on page 20 of this book, when he 
 personally knew that 150 persons, then in 
 Court, and his Court Records would contradict 
 said false denials, and he then swore that such 
 denials were all true, when he knew they were 
 all false ; which false swearing was wilful and 
 corrupt perjury. And it is evident that he 
 committed such perjury to keep from admitting 
 his guilt in this Conspiracy, and to prevent 
 the victim from obtaining a $200,000 judgment 
 against him. 
 
 JUDGE CHILD'S sworn answer to this complaint 
 falsely denied : 
 
 That he had ever written any opinion when 
 he confirmed Referee Seymour's report ; and 
 falsely denied that he ordered the victim to 
 pay into Court more than $750. And falsely 
 denied that he had any knowledge or informa- 
 tion about the same sufficient to form a belief. 
 
 Now at the time Judge Childs made the foregoing 
 false denials, he had written an opinion and the same 
 was filed with the Clerk and made a Court Record ; and 
 a copy thereof had been served upon the victim by the 
 opposing attorney, besides such opinion had been printed 
 in the record on appeal, and used in the Johnston case 
 by the Jug-handle Judges at Rochester, N. Y. 
 
 Besides he knowingly and falsely contradicted the 
 records of his own Court made by himself, wren he 
 denied any knowledge or information sufficient to form 
 a belief, because such records furrdshed the conclusive 
 knowledge of the same. 
 
 So here is the undeniable evidence proving; That 
 when Judge Childs made these false denials in his an- 
 swer and swore they were true, he personally knew they 
 
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 were false, and that he was swearing false when he so 
 swore that his answer was true ; and he knew that he 
 was committing perjury by swearing to said denials and 
 answer. 
 
 JUDGE KRUSE'S sworn answer to this 
 complaint falsely denied : That he unlawfully 
 deprived the victim of a Jury trial in this 
 Julia Johnston case ; and he further falsely de- 
 nied that he ever made any order at all dismiss- 
 ing the action for assault against W, B. Simson 
 in which the victim had $75. due him. 
 Now the truth is ; that at the time Judge Kruse 
 made said false denials in his answer, the above 
 mentioned order depriving the victim of a jury trial to- 
 gether with the papers showing it to be unlawful were 
 on file ia the Niagara County Clerk's office. And the 
 order dismissing the action against Simson was on file 
 in the Erie County Clerk's office. 
 
 Hence it is evident ; that Judge Rruse knowingly 
 contradicted the record made himself in his own court, 
 and mide such contradictions in his sworn answer; to 
 prevent the victim from obtaining a judgment of $200,- 
 000 and the great Judge, thus committed great per- 
 jury. 
 
 JUDGE LAMBERT made an order in this case re- 
 quiring the victim to print all the papers and evidence 
 in full without any settlement of the same before the 
 Court or Referee unless the attorneys agreed upon a 
 shortened record. 
 
 And when Judge Lambert was sued for 
 making such malicious and unlawful order, he 
 falsely denied in his sworn answer ; "That he 
 ever made such order relating to said appeal, 
 at all, while at the very time he made such 
 false denials, his above described order was 
 on file in the Niagara County Clerk's office." 
 
42 CORRUPT 
 
 So here is the conclusive evidence showing and prov- 
 ing ; That Judge Lambert knowingly and falsely in- 
 serted in his sworn answer false denials and thereby 
 committed willful perjury. 
 
 JUDGE KENNEFiCK, to carry out his part of the 
 tragedy in ruining the victim made an unlawful order 
 stating therein : 
 
 "That if the defendant (meaning tiie victim) 
 did not write out the case as settled by the Ref- 
 eree and have him sign it within ten days then 
 the case should be deemed abandoned." 
 
 SUPREM" COURT JUDGE KENNEFICK, 
 
 Conspirator and Pt rjuri r. 
 
 And when sued for making this un]aw:'u! order as 
 his part in the Conspiracy, thv Judge flatly and falsely 
 denied that he ever made the above described order or 
 
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 any part of it : while at the very time he made such de- 
 nials in his answer, his above order was on file in the 
 Clerk's office ; and by such false denials and false 
 swearing the Judge committed Perjury for the same 
 reasons his fellow conspirators did. 
 
 THE chain of perjury made by United States At- 
 torneys Brown and Dempsey, U. S. Commissioner 
 P:und and District A'torney Hopkins, is so long we can 
 only spare space to mention a link and say ; They all 
 contradicted under oith the Court Records they helped 
 to make in persecuting the victim, and such Court Rec- 
 ords prove them to be guilty of perjury ; hence they 
 shDull all be incarcerated in states prison. 
 
 CONSPIRATOR. Jury Commissioner and Referee 
 Seymour only made (20) false findings contrary to his 
 oath and against the victim, and when sued for the 
 same ; he falsely denied in his sworn answer that he 
 ever made any of such findings, and thus he committed 
 v/ilful perjury, which is provable by the court records 
 he helped to make. 
 
 ATTORNEY LADD, only committed (33) lies and 
 crimes in his Brief to the Appellate Division to deceive 
 ih^ Court, and when sued therefor he falsely denied all 
 such lies ani crimes, though the record proves him to 
 be guilty ; and thus poor Ladd swcre away his soul and 
 CDmmicted perjury. 
 
 AND GOODMAN the Theosophical Jew, and Penny 
 the Phonographic EJitor, it's enough to say they are 
 perjurers the whole year around. 
 
 AND SIMSON the lowest one of these perjurers, 
 serves at the tail end of this criminal Octapus, a place 
 to which he fitly belongs. 
 
 SECTION (96) of the Penal Code of the State of 
 
44 CORRUPT 
 
 New York says : That a person who swears that any 
 matter stated in his affidavit or other writing is true, 
 which he knows to be false, is guilty of perjury. 
 
 IT takes uo splitting of hairs to prove such false 
 swearing, for the documentary evidence proving the 
 same stands out as plain as the towering heights of 
 mountain peaks ; and the law deciding that such false 
 swearing is perjury, is as clear as light and as certain 
 as death and taxes. 
 
 And since these defendants committed the great 
 crime of perjury, no excuse or defense can be made for 
 them in relation to their other crimes herein stated ; for 
 by the fact of such perjury, they have proved beyond a 
 doubt their everlasting infamy, and the absolute cer- 
 tainty of their guilt in all the infamy and crime here 
 stated or implied. 
 
 In other words ; If they had been guiltless, 
 they would have admitted these facts and claimed they 
 were all innocentlv done. But as soon as they denied 
 their own Court Records and proceedings, they plead 
 their own guilt, and thereby placed themselves in that 
 Pillory of Infamy, from which there is no escape in this 
 world whatever may be their chances in the world to 
 come. 
 
 It is well known that criminals belonging to the 
 same class usually stand in and help their pah out 
 when caught, and accordingly the victim's damage case 
 was moved from New York City by a Corrupt Judge 
 there, to Buffalo to be tried by the conspirators them- 
 selves. 
 
 Then the victim moved back to- Buffalo and printed 
 a book containing 115 pages giving a full detailed ac- 
 count of such crimes with illustrations. And to perma- 
 nently establish a history of these crimes, he took about 
 
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 two hundred of such books to the Court house in Buffalo 
 where some of these Judges were holding Court and 
 there gratutiously distributed to them, the Supervisors, 
 Aldermen and various officers all of such books. And 
 he so distributed Two Thousand such books throughout 
 the State to Judges, Attorneys, Bankers, Business men 
 and Law Students of law schools. And the Judges 
 never made any reply to such open charge of their 
 guilt. 
 
 And in January 1902, he served a sworn copy of 
 the book with a complaint describing such perjury upon 
 Thomas Penny the District Attorney of Erie County at 
 Buffalo ; and so served the Grand Jury of Erie County, 
 then in session, and requested both the Attorney and 
 Jury to indict either the Judges for Perjury, or the vic- 
 tim for libelling them, as one or the other were certain- 
 ly guilty by the record and the book. 
 
 But the District Attorney knowing these Judges 
 were guilty of Perjury, he refused to present either their 
 crimes or the victim for libelling them to the Grand Ju- 
 ry ; and the Jury likewise refused to do their duty and 
 inquire into these crimes. And the reason was, they 
 were all controlled by the power of Ring politicians, and 
 Jug-handle Judges. 
 
 And thus the District Attorney knowing the guilt 
 of these Judges, aided and abetted them through his 
 office in avoiding exposure and punishment ; thereby 
 making himself an Acceffeory to all the crime here ex- 
 posed against them, and committed the further crime of 
 willful omission official duty. And such is a practical 
 illustration of the criminal effect and working of Ring 
 politics under Piatt's boss and Ring rule in New York. 
 And it is very closely duplicated all over the United 
 States where the Ring rules. 
 
46 CORRUPT 
 
 Besides thesa Gran 1 Jurors vijlat-ii Ih'iir oaths and 
 made themselves liable to criminal punishment in re- 
 fusing to eximine in;o thise crimes ; and all by reason 
 of the power of secret Ria^^ P litico and the power of 
 these perjured Judges. 
 
 DITTRICT ATTORNEY PINNEY, 
 Accessory to all the Ciimes of these Judges. 
 
 A copy of this book was presented to three different 
 Grand Juries of Erie County N. Y. and they refused to 
 indict the victim for libel or the Judges for perjury ; 
 while it is self evident that eithef they or he are guilty. 
 
 So here are three grand juries consisting of Sixty 
 men who are morally and criminally debauched by the 
 power of Ring politics in order to protect these Ring 
 Judges from exposure and punishment. 
 
 And we alarmingly submit ; That when so many 
 Supreme Court Judges and other high offiicials are thus 
 
COUKTS 47 
 
 proven to be guilty of the great crimes here exposed, 
 and when they are run down and chased into a grand 
 jury room and there find protection, ty the prostitution 
 of a district attorney's office and Six y grand jurrors ; 
 a criminal condition is presented that is not only alarm- 
 ing and disgraceful to the state of New York, but the 
 whole country. 
 
 HIGH- HOLDER HOOKER. 
 
 The Ring having demonstrated its power to control 
 and di base grand juries felt bold and strong, and con- 
 cluded it was time to have the victim's $200,000 case 
 for damages against these Judges dismissed, so it 
 brought the same on before that true and tried ringster 
 Judge Hooker. 
 
 After the jury were sworn to try the case and the 
 vxtim had spent some time in stating the Court Records 
 that proved the perjury and crimes of these Judges, 
 and the jury were becoming eagerly interested in the 
 statement of criminal facts. Judge Hooker, interrupted 
 and arbitrarly, despotically and contrary to all law and 
 justice, dismissed the case without allowing the victim 
 tD introduce or give any evidence whatever to prove 
 these crimes against the Judges. 
 
 Before Judge Hooker dismissed the case, he knew 
 all about how these fellows had persecuted the victim 
 and robbed him of his money, his honor, and his right 
 to make a living by practicing his profession. So by 
 dismissing the case under these conditions, he com- 
 mitted moral perjury aad proved himself to be saturated 
 with more moral turpitude than all these other Judges 
 and criminals here combined. 
 
 He is the same Judge Hooker that was charged 
 with judicial crookedness in the Bissert police case. 
 And is now charged with postal frauds and felonies in 
 
48 CORKURr 
 
 the Bristow report. Besides the State Bar Association 
 is after his Judicial scalp for such infamy. He is more 
 ignorant but no more criminal than the remainder of 
 these Judicial High-holders. Thus one by one these 
 criminals are coming to some bad end. 
 BOYCOTT. 
 
 The victim having thus found that he was boycotted 
 in both the civil and criminal Courts of New York, he 
 tried to obtain relief and make a living by lecturing and 
 selling their infamy published in his Book from the 
 rostrum. 
 
 Accordingly he rented the Ellicott Theater at Buf- 
 falo, N. Y., for a series of Lectures and advertised the 
 same by cuts, dodgers, and bills But on the night for 
 the first lecture, the Theatre Manager skipped to Can- 
 ada, the doors were safely locked and the gas cut out. 
 
 The victim cannot prove these Judges hired the 
 manager to skip, or the gas to be cut ; but he can prove 
 by their own Court Records that they are each and all 
 guilty of perjury, and should therefore be impeached 
 and imprisoned. 
 
 He then tried to obtain Halls in the country villages 
 of Erie County for his lectures and found the boycott 
 there sure and complete. 
 
 PENN YAN, N. Y. 
 
 Then he went a hundred miles East from Buffalo to 
 Penn Yan in Yates County and there obtained a hall 
 and advertised a lecture ; and no sooner was that done 
 than the persecutors fixed their tools, and the boycott 
 began, but they were not able to close tne hall on him, 
 though they kept many from attending tre lecture. 
 
 He sold several books at the lecture and in the 
 town, and then procured a man to go before the Grand 
 
COURTS 49 
 
 Jury about to convene and have him indicted for libel, 
 so that he might have a jury trial and prove their guilt 
 on his defense for libel. 
 
 But just before the Grand Jury was empanneled, 
 that man saw the Ring's District Attorney of the Coun- 
 ty, and so the day the Jury set, the man received a few 
 dollars and then lit out for tall timber; and the victim 
 could not get a chance to prove these Judges guilty of 
 pjrjury upon his indictment for libeling them in that 
 cjunty. 
 
 STEUBEN, N. Y. 
 
 HE did not loose faith nor give up his efforts to 
 bring these criminals to justice but tried again by going 
 over into his native County of Steuben ; and there he 
 had himself arrested and bound over to the Grand Jury 
 for publishing and circulating his alleged libellous book. 
 
 Six witnesses testified before the Grand Jury that 
 he had given a book to them, and told them it was the 
 worst libel ever published in America; and thus the 
 crime of libel was clearly proven against him. 
 
 The Ring's District Attorney, believing the victim 
 wanted to explain such charge away, let him go before 
 the Grand Jury, but instead of explaining it away, he 
 admitted that the book was the worst libel ever printed 
 and that he was guilty, unless he could prove it true 
 before a trial Jury. 
 
 And he then and there asked the Grand Jury not tc- 
 commit a crime by refusing to indict him after he had 
 admitted the libel ; but to indict him and thereby make 
 him prove the Book to be true or to be convicted and 
 sent to prison. But the Jury refused to indict, thereby 
 proving the Jury's orders from this Criminal Trust of 
 Supreme Court Judges. 
 
50 CORRUPT 
 
 And by such refusal and obeying of orders, the 
 Jurors violated their oaths, committed a crime, pre-, 
 vented the exposure of the Ring's attempt to murder 
 the victim, prevented the exposure of these Judges 
 ratification of such attempted murder, prevented ^.he ex- 
 posure of their Perjury and other crimes, and thus 
 suppressed all these crimes, that are nothing less than 
 Anarchy and a new species of Treason, all of which 
 would have come out in evidence upon the trial of the 
 victim for libel 
 
 And so there in the farmer County of Steuben, the 
 Ring proved its power to cause Grand Juries to protect 
 Ring Criminals from prosecution. And for the fourth 
 time in this persecution, the Ring caused Grand Juries 
 to ratify and confirm this attempted murder of the vic- 
 tim and all the Perjury, Anarchy, and quasi Treason 
 here explained. 
 
 WHAT serions questions to the moral and business 
 world to know ; That a band of Judicial Robbers and 
 Perjurers are making the decisions that guide and gov- 
 ern the people of the great State of New York? And 
 which Decisions are used as authority by nearly all the 
 civilized world? And how awful it is to know, that in- 
 stead of punishing these attempted murderers, these 
 Judges conspired and robb=id and ruined the same vic- 
 tim, their brother Ring Criminals sought to murder? 
 
 How deep and broad such questions grow as we 
 consider : That the Judical function of our Govern- 
 ment permeates every industrial, social and religious 
 avenue of life, over-rides Legislatures, Governors and 
 Presidents, disposes of life, liberty and property ; and 
 is therefore the very guardian of the people and life of 
 the nation? 
 
 How immense and immeasurable is the evil wcrked 
 
COURTS 51 
 
 by this Republican Ring? It caused these fourteen (14) 
 Supreme Court Judges of New York to corrupt them- 
 selves, disgrace their families, dishor.or the State and 
 rob the Law of its virtue. It caused these Judges to be 
 hurled from the mountain top of Lustre and Fame to 
 wallow at the feet of debauchery and shame. 
 
 The combined sin, crime and wickedness of all the 
 money Trusts, Combines and Boodlers of the land, do 
 not equal in moral turpitude and govermental danger, 
 the baneful influence, injury wrought, and that will be 
 wrought by these and other Ring Judges throughout the 
 Country. And if such is true, then how powerless are 
 - wjrds to describe such woeful conditions, and how 
 seriously they affect Eighty Millions of people? 
 
 We do not court the ruin of these individual men, 
 but we do court the ruin of the Ring that placed them in 
 official power and then caused them to use the power to 
 commit the crimes here exposed. Because we know, 
 that these political and judicial facts establish the dead 
 line of liberty and the approaching end of civil rights 
 for the poor and powerless. 
 
 And because we know ; That for the last fifteen 
 years both the State and United States Courts have 
 been packed wiih Ring Judges until a rich person can 
 not be punished for crime, and until it is now im- 
 possible for the poor and obscure to obtain their legal 
 right's when opposed by Ring Politicians, Trusts or Mag- 
 nates, or when a Ring Attorney is opposed to an honest 
 independent man. The Courts must be pure or revolu- 
 tion must ensue. 
 
(^ mtnmmn °^ 
 
 CHESE (14) Supreme Court Judges of New York 
 having lead the Sixty Conspirators that robbed 
 and attemped to murder the victim, and then boycotted 
 him in all the Civil and Crfminal Courts so that he 
 could not obtain any redress, it was plain that in order 
 to live and work out life's problem he mus*. leave his 
 native State and go to some other place. 
 
 So he boarded a Western train and landed in Okla- 
 lahoma City, Okla., in February 1903. There he was 
 soon admitted to practice law upon his untarnished Law 
 License from California, and in a few days he was act- 
 ively engaged in the celebrated Hoover conspiracy 
 case. 
 
 And, as usual in such crimes, the principle actor in 
 this conspiracy was a wom.an (named Harris) , who 
 with her husband and two young daughters had con- 
 spired to defraud and old man named Hoover of all his 
 property. 
 
 In a brief word, she left her husband and daugh- 
 ters at home and went forty miles to the old man's hotel, 
 and there through false pretenses, in a short time she 
 had him so entranced and entangled that he married 
 and Deeded all his property to her upon the same day : 
 She in the meantime having gotten a fake divorce for 
 the purpose. 
 
 Then she began the freeze-out process, and in 
 less time than it took to capture the old gent, she had 
 him frozen out and left standing on the cold barren 
 
COURTS 53 
 
 edge of poverty and grief, by reason of which, brain 
 fever was superinduced and in a few days his body was 
 laid in the City of the Dead, his spirit gone to its 
 maker. 
 
 During her escapade she was charged with having 
 committed many crimes among which was perjury. 
 And as Ralph Ramer was the County Attorney at Okla- 
 homa City, it was his duty to procure her indictment for 
 such perjury. But instead of doing so, he secretly did 
 all he could to prevent her indictment : Notwithstand- 
 ing the victim quietly secured her indictment for this 
 perjury from the Grand Jury in July 1903. 
 
 MURDER FACTS. 
 
 In a short time thereafter the victim went to the 
 County Attorney's Office and there requested him to ex- 
 amine a complaint and authorize a warrant to issue 
 thereon : It was the sworn duty of the County At- 
 torney to examine all such complaints, and if found 
 sufficient to authorize a warrant to issue. But instead 
 of examining this complaint he immediately and in 
 great anger said he would dismiss that damned Hoover 
 indictment, and ordered the victim to get out of his of- 
 fice and shouted that he would get his gun and shoot 
 and kill him. 
 
 The County Attorney and victim were scarcely ac- 
 quainted and up to that time never had any unpleasant 
 words, so the victim did not expect, and was not pre- 
 pared for such a reception ; therefore he started to leave 
 the office, and the County Attorney hurried to a desk in 
 his office and thrust his hand in a drawer to find his 
 gun, but not finding it there, he rushed back across the 
 office to another desk and there found his revolver and 
 as soon as he got it in his hand he turned ashy pale. 
 
54 CORRUPT 
 
 By that time the victim had gotten near the door 
 leading out of the office, and the County Attorney then 
 and there pointed his revolver at the departing victim, 
 and swore and said he would shoot and kill him and 
 called him many vile names : At that juncture the vic- 
 tim's client Margret Fay rushed to the assailant and so 
 obstructed him that he could not immediately shoot, and 
 in the meantime the victim got out of sight and out of 
 range of the Assassin and his gun : After which the 
 County Attorney swore to Mrs. Fay that if the victim 
 ever came into his office again he would get his gun and 
 shoot and kill him, and that he would kill him any way. 
 
 The County Attorney was secretly angry because 
 this woman had been indicted in her conspiracy to de- 
 fraud this old man of Seventy. But up to the time of 
 his attempted murder, the victim did not know of such 
 anger, and did not even suspicion that this Officer of the 
 Law bore him any malice or ill-will whatever. 
 
 And thus are briefly told the salient facts of this 
 attempt to commit cold-blooded murder ; and now we 
 will briefly state how the leading Ring Republicans of 
 the Territory protected this Ring Criminal from exposure 
 and punishment, so as to keep the Machine in good re- 
 pair aad repute for future political work and crimi- 
 nal use. 
 
 THE County Attorney was disqualified from prose- 
 cuting this criminal case because he was the defendant : 
 So the victim embodied all these murder facts in affida- 
 vits and applied thereon to District Judge Burwell, of 
 Oklahoma City, (as a Court) to appoint a special At- 
 torney to prosecute this attempted murder case. The 
 Judge retused to make any such appointment, and falsely 
 claimed the law did not authorize him as Court or Judge 
 to do so : And to try and shift the blame of his derilic- 
 
COURTS 
 
 55 
 
 tion and turpitude, he argued that the Governor alone 
 had the power to make such an appoi-tment. 
 
 UNITED STATES JUDGE BURWELL 
 Accused of Conspiracy, Etc., Etc. 
 
 Now the Oklahoma Statutes say : "That when the 
 County Attorney is unable to attend to his duties, the 
 District Court may appoint some attorney to temporari- 
 ly act in his place." So it is evident that the Coun- 
 ty Attorney being disqualified to act, that he was as 
 much "unable to attend to his duties" as though his 
 back was broken, or he was imprisoned in the peniten- 
 tiary for his attempt to murder. 
 
 Then under this plain law and these attempted 
 
56 CORRUPT 
 
 murder facts, which were all legally known to Judge 
 Burwell, the question is ; Why did he not do his plain, 
 moral and legal duty, and appoint some Attorney to 
 prosecute this attempted murderer, when he knew that 
 his refusal would impede and obstruct the proper and 
 due administration of the law, and help to screen and 
 protect this guilty County Attorney from prosecution 
 and punishment? The answer is plain. Ring Poli- 
 tics. 
 
 Again, the Organic Act of Oklahoma Territory 
 says: "District Courts possess authority to redress 
 all wrongs committed against the laws of the Territory 
 affecting people or property." 
 
 Now Judge Burwell knew, that the law never grants 
 power or authority, but that such grant carries with it 
 all incidental power neccessary for its execution. He 
 knew this Organic Act gave him the power to redress 
 this wrong and crime, and to do all things necessary 
 to prosecute this felon, such as ; calling a Grand Jury, 
 appointing an attorney to prosecute him, etc., etc. So 
 the questions are : Why did the Judge violate this Or- 
 ganic Act and his official oath by refusing to appoint an 
 attorney to redress this wrong and prosecute this felon? 
 Answer as above, Ring Politics. 
 
 To again show that Judge Burwell had power and 
 authority to appoint an attorney to prosecute this felon 
 we say ; That among the necessary adjuncts of a Court 
 of general jurisdiction are those of Clerk, Crier, and 
 Prosecuting Attorney. And when any of these officers 
 are unable to act by reason of sickness, absence or dis- 
 qualification, the Judge and Court has inherent power 
 to appoint some competent person to temporarily per- 
 form their duty to the end, that justice may be admin- 
 
COURTS 57 
 
 istered and the law enforced. This is the universal rule 
 and law of the land. 
 
 And what an apparently foolish and corrupt thing 
 it is for a Judge or Court to say and decide ; That the 
 law is so weak and impotent that when a County Attor- 
 ney murders or attempts to murder, no attorney can be 
 appointed to prosecute him ; and as a consequence the 
 criminal can escape prosecution and punishment for his 
 crime. Common sense and Common decency revolts at 
 such a beggarly and false construction of the law. 
 
 So we say it is perfectly plain ; That when Judge 
 Burwell, refused to appoint a temporary attorney to 
 prosecute this attempted murderer, he evaded an un- 
 pleasant duty upon a plea of false pretenses ; which 
 false pretenses ; are prcven by the Organic Act of the 
 Territory, the Statutes of the Territory, and the Inher- 
 ent power of all Courts with jurisdiction the same as 
 his, and by his own subsequent decision. 
 
 And aside from the Judge impeding and obstruct- 
 ing the prosecution ot this felon as aforesaid, he threw 
 all the moral and official weight of his office against 
 such prosecution, by refusing to call the attention of the 
 Grand Jury to such crime ; also by refusing to call the 
 attention of the Govenor to such crime, whom he falsely 
 clamed had sole power to appoint a prosecuting attorney 
 for the case. 
 
 And to further prove the Judge's false pretenses 
 in this case, and to show his partiality in the administraion 
 of law, we state ; That after he had refused to call the 
 attention of the Grand Jury to this case he directed the 
 the Grand Jurys attention to some alleged deficits of 
 City officials, and as a result two of the most prominent 
 Democratic officials were indicted ; One of whom de- 
 manded an immediate trial and was promptly acquitted 
 
58 CORRUPT 
 
 by a Jury. And the Political Ret cf these indictments 
 then so publically appearing, all prosecution of the oth- 
 er Democratic official was dropped like a hot potato. 
 
 GOVERNOR 
 
 AS soon as Judge Burwell had thus blocked the 
 prosecution of the County Attorney, the victim laid the 
 matter before the Civic Federation of Oklahoma City, 
 and the Federation selected a Committee of Three per- 
 sons, who went next morning to the Capital City (Guth- 
 rie) and there presented the whole matter with affida- 
 vits proving such attempted murder to the Gov- 
 ernor. 
 
 The Committee explained to the Governor how 
 Judge Burwell had refused to appoint an attorney to 
 prosecute this attempted murder case, and to present it 
 to the Grand Jury which was then in session. The 
 Committee further explained how many officials at Ok- 
 lahoma City were in league with criminals and toughs 
 and as a consequence crime was running rampant and 
 corrupting the morals of the city, and that this County 
 Attorney would not prosecute these criminals. 
 
 The Governor expressed himself as greatly shucked 
 at such criminal conditions, and particularily so at 
 Judge Burwell's refusal to appoint an attorney to prose- 
 cute the County Attorney. He promised to appoint 
 some attorney to prosecute this case before the Grand 
 Jury then in session ; and to write and let the Committee 
 know the next day what he had done in the matter. 
 
 The Committee never received the promised letter 
 from the Governor, and he also failed to appoint an at- 
 torney to prosecute this felon, and as a presumptive 
 consequence he was not indicted or punished. 
 
 The Organic Act of the Territory, It's statutes and 
 
COURTS 59 
 
 his official oath all require the Governor "shall take 
 care that the laws are faithfully executed." And when 
 the Judge refused to appoint an attorney, the same law 
 made it the Governor's official duty to appoint such at- 
 torney, so the law would be faithfully executed. Hence 
 we ask : Why he refused to make such appointment 
 and thereby allowed the law to go unexecuted, and the 
 felon to escape indictment and punishment? 
 
 And we further ask : If this felonious County At- 
 torney, had been a Democratic heeler instead of a Ring 
 Republican, would not this Republican Judge and Gov- 
 eroor.each have been willing to faithfully execute the 
 law? And would they not have immediately appointed 
 an attorney to prosecute the criminal? 
 
 ACCESSORIES. 
 
 NOW, when both the Judge and Governor refused 
 to appoint such an attorney, they lawfully knew from 
 creditable and undisputed affidavits that this County At- 
 torney had committed a Felony, by attempting to shoot 
 and murder the victim. Besides, this culprit has practi- 
 cally admitted his guilt. 
 
 And the law says : Ti at a person who knows that 
 a felony has been committed and aids or helps the 
 offender to avoid prosecution or punishment, is an Ac- 
 cessory to such felony, which means that he is guilty 
 and subject to criminal punishment. 
 
 Now by reason of this Judge and Governor refus- 
 ing to appoint an attorney to prosecute this felonious 
 County Attorney, is it not plain that they have aided 
 and helped him to avoid prosecution and punishment, 
 and thereby made themselves Accessories to his at- 
 tempted murder crime? 
 
 Private persons can not ordinarily become Acces- 
 
60 COURTS 
 
 series to felonies by silence or inaction : But the rule is 
 different as to public officers whose duty it is to admin- 
 ister the law against such offenders, and especially 
 where their duty, and their motive for not doing it, is so 
 clear as it is in this case. 
 
 CONSPIRACY. 
 
 Under the law of this Territory : If two or more 
 persons conspire to commit any act injurious to public 
 morals, to pervjrt justice, or to obstruct the due admin- 
 istration of the law, such persons are guilty of the 
 crime of conspiracy : And a conspiracy is usually 
 proven by circumstantial evidence and the reasonable 
 inferences drawn therefrom. 
 
 Now, under this legal definition of a Conspiracy 
 and the usual manner of proving one we say : That 
 the omission and refusal of Judge Burwell to do his 
 duty by appointing an attorney to prosecute this Felon, 
 also his refusal to suggest such crime to the Grand Jury 
 and the Governor : Together with the Governor's lying 
 to the committee from Oklahoma City, and his omission 
 and refusal to do his duty by appointing an attorney to 
 prosecute this attempted murderer ; together with the 
 moral and official weight of these high officials being 
 thus thrown against the prosecution of this County At- 
 torney, these facts have when taken and considered to- 
 gether contributed to the same general result to wit : 
 That of injuring public morals, perverting justice, ob- 
 structing the due administration of the law, and by 
 reason thereof this Judge and Governor are apparently 
 guilty of the Crime of Conspiracy in preventing the in- 
 dictment, prosecution and punishment of their political 
 partisan and this attempted murderer. 
 
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 ATTORNEY GENERAL. 
 
 IT throws some light and certainty upon this con- 
 spiracy besides its fair to say ; That the Governor ap- 
 parently attempted to shift the blame of his own official 
 misconduct in refusing to execute the law by appointing 
 an attorney to prosecute the attempted murderer, and 
 to make such shift he referred the matter to his own 
 appointed Attorney General of the Territory, who 
 through his ardent desire to screen this partisan crim- 
 inal wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Committee, wherein 
 he so glaringly lied in his eulogy of his criminal parti- 
 san, and tried to ignore and pervert all the attempted 
 murder facts, that he plainly showed his partisan pur- 
 pose and made himself absolutely disgusting for want of 
 fairness, decency and honesty in the administration of 
 his office and th€ law: And his acts with his office 
 easily bear the interpretation that he was a Co-conspir- 
 ator in shielding this County Attorney. 
 
 SELWYN DOUGLAS. 
 
 THAT it adds clearness and certainty to this con- 
 spiracy to state the following facts : After the Grand 
 Jury had been in session Ten Days and its work was 
 about done, it was quite generally known that the vic- 
 tim intended to secure the indictment of the County At- 
 torney for his attempt to murder. And then, it so hap- 
 pened that the County Attorney appointed his last law 
 partner namely, Selwyn Douglas, Deputy County At- 
 torney, who then filed his appointment and oath of 
 office with the County Clerk, of which, no revocation 
 has since been filed. 
 
 Mr. Douglas is the Register of the United States 
 land office at Oklahoma City, and the conceded Ring 
 
62 CORRUPT 
 
 Republican General there. We do not say that he was 
 appointed to manipulate the Grand Jury, so that ii 
 would indict the previously mentioned Democratic offi- 
 cials, and would not indict his former law partner 
 namely, the murderous County Attorney. 
 
 But we do say ; The Grand Jury heard the evidence 
 which clearly proved the County Attorney was guilty of 
 an attempt to commit an unprovoked murder: And 
 under such evidence the jury refused to indici. only 
 lacking One vote according to report. 
 
 The day after the Grand Jury had adjourned, the 
 Civic Federation of Oklahoma City caused the arrest of 
 the County .\ttorney in the District Court upon a charge 
 of having wilfully refused to prosecute the open and 
 notorious gamblers of the City. 
 
 The law says "it shall be the duty of the County 
 Attorney to appear in the District Court of his County 
 and prosecute all criminal actions on behalf of the Ter- 
 ritory and further that he may appoint a Deputy to per- 
 form such duty." 
 
 Now according to the record Mr. 1 Douglas was 
 Deputy County Attorney at the time of Mr. Ramar's ar- 
 rest. And contrary to all the duty devolving upon him 
 as such Deputy and under such facts and law, he went 
 into the District Court and there, contrary to such duty, 
 openly defended Mr. Ramer upon such criminal charge. 
 
 And after he worked all day and half the night on 
 the defense of such criminal action. Judge Burwell 
 claimed he had found a hole in the complaint, through 
 which the County Attorney escaped without a trial on 
 the merits. 
 
 The law provides that officials (like Mr. Douglas) 
 who wilfully fail or refuse to perform their duty are 
 
COURTS 63 
 
 guilty of the crime of a Misdemeanor. Now by reason 
 of such law and the fact that Mr. Douglas as Deputy- 
 County Attorney failed to prosecute the defendent Ra- 
 mer, but defended him contrary to such law and his 
 official duty, it is apparent that he not only violated 
 his official oath but cnmmitted the crime of a Misde- 
 meanor, for which he is liable to imprisonment and dis- 
 barment. 
 
 After the foregoing, Mr Douglas appeared in an- 
 other Court where the County Attorney was on trial for 
 a different crime, and there he took the witness stand 
 and gave evidence in behalf of the accused which is 
 claimed to be false. Now considering all these facts in 
 relation to Mr. Douglas, we ask, was he not appointed 
 Deputy County Attorney by Mr. Ramer for the purpose 
 of keeping the Grand Jury from indicting him for his 
 attempt to murder? 
 
 JUDGE BURWELL AGAIN. 
 
 AFTER the County Attorney had been protected 
 from prosecution as here shown, the Civic Federation of 
 Oklahoma City filed charges with President Roosevelt 
 against Attorney General Roberts, Register Douglas, 
 Judge Burwell and Governor Ferguson and asked for 
 the removal from office of the Judge and Governor. 
 
 The charges contained substantially the same mat- 
 ter and criminal accusations as herein stated against 
 them. And after waiting for some months and nothing 
 being heard from the charges, the victim made another 
 application in Judge Burwell's Court for the appoint- 
 ment of a Special Attorney to prosecute the attempted 
 murderer. 
 
 The facts and the law regarding these applications 
 had not changed, but the facts surrounding the Judge 
 
64 CORRUPT 
 
 had changed. He was then charged and chased by the 
 Civic Federation for having made a wrong and malicious 
 decision upon this first application for the purpose of 
 preventing the prosecution of this political partisan. 
 
 That decision was the basis of all the charges made 
 against him before the President and in this book. And 
 under the force and fire of such charges he appointed 
 such an Attorney, thereby actually admitting that his 
 former decision was malicious and wrong, and that the 
 charges based thereon were true. 
 
 It must be clear to all who read these facts : That 
 Judge Burwell intentionally boycotted the law and pre- 
 vented its due administration by refusing to appoint 
 an Attorney to prosecute this attemped murderer for the 
 political reasons herein stated and seen : And that he 
 never would have made such appointment had he not 
 been chased and run down by these charges ; futher that 
 he only made the same to try and hedge and hide his 
 own tracks of official misconduct. Its a plain proposi- 
 tion, no futher statement netd be made. 
 
 THE Special Attorney appointed by Judge Burwell 
 had County Attorney Ramer brought into Judge Har- 
 per's Court and there charged with the crime of simply 
 pointing a revolver at the victim, instead of attempting 
 to murder him. 
 
 That charge gave the culprit the right to a jury 
 trial of Six men, and made an opening for his judicial 
 whitewashing, which was speedily done according to the 
 following facts and proceedings : 
 
 The law gave Judge Harper the power to secretly 
 select a jury list of Eighteen (18) names from which a 
 jury of Six men might be taken to try the case. He se- 
 lected such jury list, but before the six jurymen were 
 
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 so taken to try the case, the vctira filed an afiidavit and 
 
 made a motion thereon asking him to vacate and set 
 aside such jury list. 
 
 fe_ 
 
 PROBATE JUDGE HARPER, 
 
 The Accused Jury Packer. 
 
 The affidavit, among other things, stated : 
 "That the Whole Eighteen (IS) so selected by 
 Judge Harper, were in favor of persons vio- 
 la- ing the criminal law of the Territory at Ok- 
 lahoma City, by openly carrying on gambling 
 and doing other vicious and immoal conduct." 
 
 That ihe defendant was likewise in favor 
 of such iaimoral and unlawful conduct the 
 same as the Jurors selected to try him ; also 
 
66 CORRUPT 
 
 that such Jurors were biased against the pros- 
 ecution and prejudiced in favor of the defend- 
 ant ; and by reason of such premises none of 
 such jurymen were competent to fairly try the 
 case, and were not such good and true men as 
 the law contemplated should be empanaeled to 
 try criminal actions, and especially that one 
 against the County Attorney. 
 
 That by reason of such facts and condi- 
 tions it was apparent that a trial of the action 
 before any Six of said named jurors would be 
 nothing less than a farce, a mockery and a 
 false pretense of administering the law and 
 justice, and that he (the victim) would not 
 silently consent to any such conduct. 
 
 The affidavit closed by asking as follows: 
 "That said jury list be vacated and set aside, 
 and that a new and fair jury list be prepared 
 by the Court composed of good true and law- 
 abiding men wno were in favor of enforcing 
 the law and punishing all violaters thereof 
 without regard to class, occupation or official 
 position." 
 
 There was no contradiction whatever made to the 
 affidavit and no defense or opposition made to the mo- 
 tion: but as soon as the victim started to read the affi- 
 davit upon such motion, Judge Harper immediately de- 
 manded the same and silently read it and then instantly 
 and contrary to all the foregoing facts an^ the law 
 over-riiled such motion, and knowingly and unlawfully 
 retained all of such biased, prejudiced and incompetent 
 jurymen from which Six were taken by the defendant 
 and Judge Burwell's Special County Attorney to try 
 the case. 
 
 And as stated in the affidavit, the trial was an open 
 mockery of justice and the law from start to finish with 
 the Special Attorney contributing thereto, by refusing to 
 
COURTS 67 
 
 call over hilf the witnesses for the prosecution, and by- 
 neglecting to cross-examine nearly all the defendant's 
 witnesses, some of whom were then under indictment by 
 the Coun'y Attorney. 
 
 Notwithstanding tne Special Attorney thus-wise and 
 otherwise helped the defendant out, still the evidence 
 clearly proved that the County Attornej;- was guilty of 
 an unprovoked attempt to murder ; but the Jury per- 
 functorily performed it's presumptively prepared perfidy, 
 and the White-washed defendant walked out of Court 
 thus licensed to finish his attempted murder. 
 
 The County Attorney calling witnesses ignorant of 
 the facts of his case, but whom he held under indict- 
 ment, to help swear him out, with the Special Attorney 
 thus helping him out, and with Judge Harper helping 
 him out by selecting and retaining a jury thus shown to 
 be biased and prejudiced in his favor, presents a case 
 of such apparent fraud and corruption, that an honest 
 man sickens at the sight. 
 
 And by reason of such facts, the objects and aims 
 ot aspiring men in official life, and what they will do to 
 further their own political interest by helping their polit- 
 ical partisans into office and out of trouble ; We contend 
 that it IS as cle^ir as light and as certain as death that 
 Judge Harper packed that jury to Acquit the County At- 
 torne}^^ at.d thereby help his own future political interest. 
 
 We further contend : That at the present day Re- 
 publican officials are properly called Ring Republicans. 
 That by the high-toned and official sample lot here pre- 
 sented, it is proven that the Ring will through it's mem- 
 bers use their official power to cormit any crime neces- 
 sary to help each other out of crime or trouble, so as to 
 keep their Machine in good repute for political use, and 
 that the officials here in Oklahoma are no exception but 
 
68 PRESIDENT 
 
 rather an extension of such rule, and that b}'' reason of 
 all the premises expressed and implied, that. Judge Hur- 
 per, Judge Burwell, Governor Ferguson, Attorney Gen- 
 eral Roberts, and Selwyn Douglas all did the wicked and 
 unlawful things herein complained of against ih.em for 
 the purpose of protecting and screening this n.uu.ercus 
 County Attorney from prosecution and punithrr.tnt to 
 preserve th.eir political machine in good repute ft. r 
 future use and personal gain. And that they are mc re 
 guilty of moral turpitude than the County Attorney who 
 attempted to murder the victim. 
 
 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT 
 
 The President received these charges against the 
 Ring criminals of Oklahoma, and to cap the clirrax, of 
 all the single-handed official infanny since the treascn 
 days of Benedict Arnold, he sent these ciiu.inal charges 
 back to the accused Attorney General and Governor for 
 examination. 
 
 He is the only Chief Executive of a civilized ra- 
 tion that ever made persons accused of crime the Judge s 
 in their own cases: Such savage, barbarous conduct 
 rough-rides all decency and amounts to nothing less 
 than treason. The only defense that can te made to 
 such bold infamy is political insanity. 
 
 Whe'n the President sent these verified cha iges 
 back to the accused criminals 1o be the Judges of their 
 own crimes, he outraged the whole moral and criminal 
 code of jurisprudence and butchered the fundamental 
 principles of our government : He stabbed the honor 
 and fairness of the Nation in the heart and outrivalled 
 the treachery of Brutus : He put to shame all the 
 criminals of the country and proved himself to be the 
 
ROOSEVELT 69 
 
 most darigerous Conspirator in this whole criminal 
 category. 
 
 He apparently did these things because he wants to 
 be elected President, and knew the investigation of these 
 charges would prove the persecution of the victim by 
 the Ring Republicans and their several attempts to mur- 
 der him, ani that would cost his party many respectable 
 votes: Sd to av Did such personal disaster, he assumed 
 the power of a Tyrant and made these criminals their 
 own Judges, thus placing them in position to again con- 
 spire and in the execution of their criminal trust bury 
 these charges and their guilt in some lone grave with 
 their murdered victim. 
 
 IN NEW YORK 
 
 Through the Political power of these Judicial De- 
 bauchees of Naw York and Tom Piatt's Ring of crimi- 
 nal Paliticians, John R. Hazel a ward heeler of Buffalo, 
 N. Y., was made a United States Judge, and soon 
 thereafter he became a criminal Conspirator and Per- 
 jurer, and then administered the oath of office to Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt at Buffalo, N. Y. 
 
 In November, 1901, the victim verified a Copy of 
 his Book as charges against these New York Conspira- 
 tors and sent the same to President Roosevelt. The 
 Book showed the actual facts and crimes constituting 
 such Conspiracy, and that the President had uncon- 
 ciously taken his official oath from such conspiring and 
 perjured United States Judge. And requested the 
 President to investigate such accusation and if found to 
 be true, to remove the Judge, stating that it would be a 
 great insult to America's (80) Millions of people to 
 have their Chief Executive take his oath of office from 
 such a criminal Judge unless he was removed. 
 
70 PRESIDENT 
 
 At the same time the victim also sent a verified 
 copy of such book as charges to Governcr Odell of New 
 York and requested him to investigate these crimes and 
 Conspirators and put the boycotted law in operation. 
 But the Governor being the pivot of the State Ring and 
 the President the King-bolt of the National Machine, 
 neither of them made any answer or reply. There mo- 
 tives in not replying and their criminal neglect in the 
 administration of the law is already plainly seen and 
 will more specifically appear as we proceed. 
 
 After the foregoing facts the victim wrote and 
 mailed to President Roosevelt several letters trying to 
 induce him to investigate the charges made against 
 this United States Judge for conspiracy in office and 
 perjury. But the President would not investigate nor 
 even condescend to the amenities of his office by ac- 
 knowledging the receipt of any of these letters, books or 
 charges. 
 
 And so in June, 1903, the victim mailed to Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt another copy of his book as charges 
 proving the criminal guilt of all these Ring Republicans 
 in office and wrote, properly enclosed, and properly 
 mailed a letter to him under a Special Delivery Stamp 
 which letter was as follows : 
 
 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, 
 
 Dear Sir : — The fact that you have neglect- 
 ed for nearly two years to investigate these 
 charges against Judge Hazel for conspiracy in 
 office, and perjury causes me to believe that 
 you do not intend to do so, and in looking for 
 a reason I have conclued that it is based upon 
 personal and political reasons as follows : 
 
 You know that Senator Piatt is at the head 
 of the Ring Republicans of New York, and 
 through the criminal Judges named in my book 
 
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 and other ringsters he controls the Republican 
 party of the State. 
 
 And you desiring to succeed yourself as 
 President fear that should you investigate this 
 criminal Judge, the New York Ring would refuse 
 you the National Delegates which might defeat 
 your nomination, hence your refusal to investi- 
 gate this Judge and turn the criminal out. 
 
 Again, you necessarily know that to investi- 
 gate Judge Hazel would be like investigating 
 this whole criminal bunch, as the facts are so 
 blended together ; and that the exposure of all 
 ttiese high-toned criminals would surely defeat 
 the Republican party in the State of New York, 
 and that such condition would have a great 
 effect against the whole party at the next Pres- 
 id-ntial Election. Hence you refuse to do 
 your official duty. We think such conduct is 
 moral, patriotic and political cowardice. 
 
 Mr. President here is something for your 
 very serious consideration ; The rule of com- 
 mon sense and of Law says: "That he who 
 screens one guilty of crime from exposure or 
 punishment, thereby aids and abetts him and 
 by so doing becomes an Accessory to such 
 crime and is as guilty as the principal crim- 
 inal " 
 
 Now by reason of your refusal to do your 
 official duty and investigate the perjured Judge 
 Hazel, it is clear you have not only screened 
 him from exposure and punishment but you 
 have also screened and protected this whole 
 bunch of Ring Republicans in New York from 
 exposure and punishment ; and thereby under 
 the above rule of common sense and law you 
 have become an Accessory to all the Con- 
 spiracy, Perjury and Anarchy described in this 
 Book ; and that the world should and will hold 
 you guilty as such Accessory. 
 
 These are just and fair conclusions drawn 
 
72 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 from the f icts stated in my Book, and from a 
 fair consideration of the aims and objects of 
 men, and the ways of political life at the pres- 
 ent day. Respectfully Yours, 
 
 P.'M. Sullivan. 
 
 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. 
 Protector of Conspirators, and Perjurers. 
 
 The President received the foregoing letter but like 
 all Eight (8) letters, Four (4) books and charges sent 
 to him showing the criminal guilt of this United States 
 Judge and his confederates, he never made any reply 
 thereto though he has had over two years in which to 
 investigate this criminal Judge. 
 
 NOW, as argument and facts we say ; There is 
 
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 not an intelligent innocent man in the world who would 
 allow himself to be accused of the high crimes charged 
 in that letter against the President without replying 
 thereto in some way or trying to punish his accuser. 
 It is contrary to human nature for innocence to remain 
 silent under such serious criminal accusations ; and es- 
 pecially when one had the power of punishment that the 
 President had. 
 
 If the accusations in the letter were false and he 
 and his Ring Repuplicans were innocent men, instead of 
 unconvicted culprits, would he not have acted his nature 
 and jumped into the Arena of public print and opinion, 
 and there made a lime light display of his vaunted per- 
 sonal honor and Civic righteousness? 
 
 Would a man with his inherited millions and in- 
 herited Presidency over Eighty (80) Million of people, 
 allow the Nation's Eexecutive to be accused by the 
 powerless victim of being Accessory to Anarchy, at- 
 tempted murder and all the crimes herein alleged with- 
 out attempting to punish his accuser, unless he was in 
 fact guilty as charged? 
 
 The answer to these questions are so evident they 
 need not be written. But they will be found in the fact ; 
 That the President knew from the multitude and magni- 
 tude of these crimes that any stir or investigation of 
 them by him, would inform the American people of iheir 
 actual existence, and then this nest of ringsters together 
 with his Presidential aspirations would soon be broken up 
 and destroyed. 
 
 Therefore, the reason why he refused to acknowledge 
 the receipt of that letter, and refused to prosecute the 
 charges against that United States Judge, and ignored 
 the whole business is again made clear and certain. 
 
 In other and more direct words these solid facts 
 
74 PRESIDENT 
 
 and reason show ; that the President by refusing to do 
 his sworn and official duty has attempted to hide and 
 protect from expc^ure and punishment the largest and 
 most dangerous band of criminals that ever disgraced 
 any country. And for such moral turpitude and quasi 
 treason he should be impeached and imprisoned. 
 
 And here we pause to ask ; Has the administration 
 of the country and the law, become so corrupt that the 
 President of the United States will criminally use the 
 power of his high office for personal and partisan pur- 
 poses? The facts and reason here answer Yes: And 
 that in doing so, he sneakingly robbed Justice of her 
 Virtue, and trailed her garments in the dust. 
 
 We further say, a President who could read the 
 facts of this individual oppression, judicial robbery, and 
 these governmental crimes, and not be moved to emotion 
 and official action, must have a heart like Pharaoh, and 
 be lost to all feelings of manhood, save that of presi- 
 dential ambition with a determination to gratify the 
 same at the expense of all patriotism and crime. 
 
 Because ; here is a detail of crime appalling to all 
 civilization and dangerous to governmental life. And 
 when the President of our country undertook to suppress 
 and hide these crimes from the public by refusing to do 
 his official duty thereon, he proved his want of morality, 
 the violation of his official oath and committed a crime 
 as much greater than these, as his office is greater than 
 that of Tom Piatt's small Assemblyman who first 
 started this criminal ball a rolling. 
 
 Under these charges it was the sworn, official, legal 
 and constitutional duty of the President to investigate 
 the same, and if Judge Hazel was found guilty to re- 
 move him from office. But when he refused to take any 
 action or even to acknowledge the receipt of such 
 
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 charges, he not only proved his official discourtesy, but 
 also plainly proved his cringing and criminal intention 
 to unlawfully screen these Ring Republicans of New 
 York, so that they- might have standing and power with 
 the people to elect him to the Presidency. 
 
 Now these Judges and other Conspirators are guilty 
 of the crimes herein charged against them and the 
 President knows it. And he is likewise guilty of pro- 
 tecting them from exposure and punishment as herein 
 stated : Therefore he has ratified and confirmed all 
 their conspiracy and perjury, and by reason of all the 
 facts he is an Accessory to all their crimes ; and is as 
 guilty as any of these perjured Judges or Thugs who 
 attempted to murder the victim. 
 
 He is more guilty than the whole criminal aggrega- 
 tion ; because after he knew of their crimes and that he 
 had taken his official oath from this perjured Judge, he 
 insulted the whole nation by refusing to investigate him 
 for the reasons herein stated. So it is plain that a Pres- 
 ident who screens a perjured Judge as herein explained 
 is unfit for the Presidency or any other office. 
 
 As further evidence and argument we say ; That 
 having shown that these crimes started and grew from 
 the disputes between a small attorney and a less sized 
 Assemblyman, until they now include these mighty 
 Judges and the President of the United States, is it not 
 clearly seen ; That unless the people step in and stop 
 this criminal development, history will repeat itself by 
 spiders weaving webs in parlors and palaces, and the 
 Cities' streets becoming carpeted with the growth of 
 grass. 
 
 And when a lone victim saved his life and liberty 
 under such powerful persecution, and is able to present 
 this wonderful category of high crimes and official crim- 
 
76 PRESIDENT 
 
 inals, is it not proper to say ; That if the whole truth 
 was shown, the people would see their Country was only 
 resting upon a shell of virtue, while underneath was a 
 boiling mass of political corruption, liable to break out 
 at any time and reproduce the historic days of Repub- 
 lics falling through their own corruption. 
 
 The magnitude and danger of this criminal situa- 
 tion is so alarming, that it sinks the personal degreda- 
 tion of these culprits into insignificance. And the rapid 
 growth of these crimes under the secret power of Ring 
 politics plainly shows ; The destroying influence of such 
 a band of criminals, and the patriotic necessity for de- 
 stoying such ring power, in order to save the morals of 
 the people and the life of the Nation. Such facts show, 
 that it is now a question of patriotism against personality 
 and politics. 
 
 We argue: That when the Supreme Court Judges. 
 State and United States Attorneys, United States Judges 
 and other high officials, become so corrupt that a citi- 
 zen in private life is able to state and prove the facts 
 which show such officers to be guilty of Conspiracy, 
 Perjury, Anarchy and other crimes here stated, and 
 then the President of our Country screens and protects 
 such criminals from exposure and punishment by refus- 
 ing to do his sworn and official duty as herein explained, 
 and all such criminal conditions being the offspring of 
 Ring Politics, we submit that such politics must be de- 
 stroyed or else it will destroy the country. 
 
 Should the question be asked ; Why the victim 
 alone out of Eighty Millions of people should be so pat- 
 riotic as to attact all these high officials, one perfect 
 answer is ; He is the only person in America that has 
 ever been so persecuted by such high officials, and there- 
 by had such a privilege and duty thrust upon him. 
 
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 Much thought may be used upon this proposition. 
 
 And should the people ask the President, why he 
 has neglected and refused for over two years to prose- 
 cute the Conspiracy and Perjury charges against United 
 States Judge Hazel, what moral excuse or legal defense 
 could he make ? Answer None : But he would probably 
 quibble and lie and have the Ring papers to attack his 
 accuser, and thereby try to divert attention from himself 
 to the lone and ruined victim. 
 
 And should he secretly or publicly use the power of 
 his office in trying to destroy the force of these facts, 
 or to crush the victim, the American people would not 
 sustain him in such a ourse : For they are in favor of 
 fair play to all, be he Peasant or President. Consti- 
 tutional equality is yet supreme : Arbitrary power has 
 had its day : And he who employs the same to destroy 
 another destroys himself, as these Jug-handle Judges 
 and this posthumous President can hereafter sorrowfully 
 verify. 
 
 The reader will observe that there is no question 
 here of policy, tariff, imperialism, gold-standard, free 
 silver or any governmental question upon which honest 
 men might differ : But the pure and simple question 
 is : Shall a band of proven criminals rule the country 
 with their accessorial President to captain the host? 
 
 Now we candidly submit ; That the example set by 
 the crimes of these Judges and the example of the 
 President, is more injurious to public morals and dan- 
 gerous to the life of the Nation than that of all other 
 criminals in the land : That being true, how can the 
 United States be asked to com-nit national suicide by 
 placing the government in the hands of such political 
 desperadoes? Ought they not at least be compelled to 
 prove, by due process of law, the falsity of these alleged 
 
78 PRESIDENT 
 
 crimes before again being intrusted with the peoples 
 rights and property? 
 
 While we believe the virtue and self interest of the 
 people will preserve the Country for years to come, 
 still in view of the general crime and boodling through- 
 out the land, and the fact that the crimes here are 
 traced to the White House with sufficient legal evidence 
 to convict the President and all concerned, we think it 
 our imperative duty to God and Country, to present 
 these facts to the people for their serious consideration. 
 
 Again, when a band of criminal politicians control- 
 ing the State government of New York, use their Judges 
 to rob and ruin a man because he had exposed some of 
 their crimes, and then such criminals are protected by 
 the President from exposure and punishment, for the 
 purpose of retaining their power to elect himself to the 
 presidency, are not such traitorous conditions enough to 
 freeze the blood of freedom, and frenzie the minds of 
 the people? 
 
 And when a man in private life is compelled to plow 
 through the Sea of crime and corruption here told, with 
 the President helping to smother and hide such facts by 
 a misuse of his official power, is it not truth to assert ; 
 That a proper consideration of such crimes and their 
 environments ; petrifies patriotism ; murders morality ; 
 and crucifies conscience in the crucible of crime? 
 
 And then, as a reward of merit for such political 
 Ring work and for future Ring use ; Senator Platl of 
 New York and his confederates so arrange their Na- 
 tional Ring machine, that it automatically grinds out 
 the endorsement of this marauder of morality for our 
 next President ; is it not plain : That if the foregoing 
 detailed iniquity and certain crime, is not sufficient to 
 satisfy the country of its danger, and to enthuse the 
 
ROOSEVELT 79 
 
 people to immediate preservative action, that then noth- 
 ing but ruin can awaken their slumbering and con- 
 fiding natures? 
 
 In other words ; When a band of Supreme Court 
 Judges can chase a private citizen through the State of 
 New York until they rob him of his money and honor : 
 Then in turn he chases them into Four Grand Jury 
 Rooms, where they find unlawful Ring protection, and 
 out of there he chases them into the White House where 
 the President of the United States unlawfully protects 
 them ; and then he appeals such facts to the people, 
 and through the general chase for money and its domi- 
 nate power, such crimes are not redressed but rewarded 
 by the people electing the Chief of these criminals to 
 the Presidency, can we not truly say; then and their 
 civil rights are lost. Tyranny is revived and govern- 
 ment by the people proves a failure? 
 
 In another form : If the Ring Republicans can re- 
 taia the administration of the Country after this expos- 
 ure of their leaders, and elect a President thus proven 
 to be guilty of high crime, then we must reluctantly ad- 
 mit : That the certianty of satisfying greed and obtain- 
 ing money through these Ring thieves, is so well known, 
 generally rooted, and set among the people that they 
 will shut their eyes in the face of all dishonor for the 
 certainty of greed and gain. 
 
 And if one should ask how the President dare re- 
 fuse to investigate these criminal charges against Judge 
 Hazel, when it was his sworn and official duty to do so, 
 one answer would be : That crime personified is illogi- 
 cal and dare do anything when the hope of gain is large 
 enough. And when the hope of gain offered to an un- 
 balanced and aspiring ambition was the nomination and 
 
80 PRESIDENT 
 
 election to the Presidency of the United States, he 
 dared and politically died. 
 
 Another answer is : He apparently calculated the 
 poor, robbed and ruined victim could never gather in- 
 fluence or power enough to cause hina any material 
 trouble if he did so refuse to do his duty. And if the 
 victim did succeed in making any public noise about 
 the matter, the Ring papers would soon degrade him 
 below notice : Besides the great power and dignity at- 
 tached to his of&ce, and tne natural disposition of the 
 people to sustain their President, would be a sufficient 
 answer and defense against anything such a poor and 
 obscure man could say or do. 
 
 OKLAHOMA 
 
 Now, when the President sent these criminal 
 charges back to the accused Ring Republicans of Okla- 
 homa to be the Judges of their own guilt, he actually 
 protected them. And when he did such an infamous thing 
 for those who could not vote to even elect him Presi- 
 dent, how reasonable and certain it is, that he protected 
 these Ring Republicans of New York who could vote 
 for him, and who held his presidential destiny in their 
 hands? And how unconciously he thus furnished the 
 convincing proof of his own guilt and infamy. 
 
 What greater malfeasance in officce could the Presi- 
 dent commit than to make a Band of murder protectors 
 their own Judges? And when he did so to hide their 
 crimes to further his political ambition, is he not more 
 dangerous to the Nation than any criminal the Country 
 has ever known? And does not his protection of the 
 Ring Republican criminals of both New York and Okla- 
 homa prove that he is better fitted for the Penitentiary 
 than for the Presidency? Has he not been weighed in 
 
ROOSEVELT 81 
 
 the scales and found wanting? 
 
 In sending these charges back he emulated the role 
 of a ward heeler, and should he now claim they were 
 sent back by some subordinate, such claim would be 
 false for (even then) the law and common sense says ; 
 the acts of his subordinates are his acts. He is the 
 President and entitled to it's honors, likewise must 
 bear it's burdens, and he will not be allowed to shift the 
 burden of his infamy upon some poor dependent official. 
 
 NEW YORK AGAIN. 
 
 It must be remembered that the Presidential Office 
 is the greatest in the world, and demands the highest 
 order of morality, honesty, learning and ability. And 
 when a man wants that office and can not present any 
 better demand for it than that, of having already be- 
 trayed it's trust by using the power therof to protect 
 Two Bands of Ring Republican criminals consisting of 
 Conspirators, Trators, Perjurers and Anarchists, we do 
 not think the American people ought to acknowledge 
 his claim. 
 
 In this connection we ask : What person could re- 
 spect a President who would pay the price of his elec- 
 tion by secreting the crimes of a perjured Judge and 
 Anarchist from whom he had taken his oath of office? 
 And what inducements would any officer of the United 
 States have to be honest knowing that the President held 
 his office by reason of such an immoral and unlawful 
 purchase price? Can the people afford to stullify them- 
 selves and commit national suicide by electing such a 
 President? 
 
 It is a fa.ct, that the Republican Ring Politicians of 
 New York lead by these high Judges, have committed 
 the Felonies and crimes herein stated. It is also a fact, 
 
82 PRESIDENT 
 
 that President Roosevelt has ratified and confirmed such 
 crimes and made himself a party thereto as herein 
 stated ; And common sense and reason says ; that by 
 their silence when so publicly accused, they have all 
 acknowledged their guilt. 
 
 So it is perfectly plain, the American people can not 
 afford to further jeopardize their blood bought rights by 
 placing them in the deposit vaults of such a band of 
 political burglars. In other words; men who have 
 already violated their oaths of office, trailed the Judi- 
 cial Ermine in the dust, and prostituted the functions of 
 the highest office in the world, they can not be further 
 trusted, whether he be a Jug-handle Judge or a Posthu- 
 mous President. 
 
 The crimes here disclosed are too serious for civili- 
 zation to overlook. Every man, woman and child have 
 a direct interest in them ; because they are likely to 
 suffer some such persecution and injury. Besides if 
 these crimes and criminals are not rebuked and punished, 
 a precedent of Judicial robbery and Presidential infamy 
 will be established, that will soon destroy the protecting 
 vitality and enduring strength of the Nation. 
 
 Under such conditions civil rights and personal 
 liberty would soon be at the caprice of Ring-made 
 Judges, only to be had at the price of absolute fealty to 
 such Ring bosses as Piatt and Quay, with general serf 
 service to the debauching power of money magnates. 
 
 And when sucn times come, which may be sooner 
 than expected, then alas for the God given country of 
 America. Alas ! for the principle of human equality 
 built upon the suffering of revolutionary Martyrs, and 
 sanctified by the assassinated blood of such men as Lin- 
 coln and McKinley. 
 
 Whenever as in this New York case, Republican Ring 
 
ROOSEVELT 83 
 
 politics become so corrupt that it will use its Judges to 
 rob and ruin a man in its Courts, for the small political 
 reason here stated, and then through its political power 
 cause the President of the United States to ratify such 
 robbery, a condition is proven that is appalling to con- 
 template, and absolutely endangers the stability and 
 life of the nation. 
 
 And if the Ring Politicians nominate such a Pres- 
 ident for re-election, will they not offer a premium for 
 crime, and insult the honor and intelligence of every 
 citizen of the country? And could or would any hon- 
 est man who knows of these crimes vote for the re-elec- 
 tion of such a President? What a brazen bunch of false 
 pretenses such conditions would present to the world? 
 And what would the property of the individual or the 
 securities of the nation be worth under such criminal 
 rule? 
 
 And should he be elected President, would not the 
 future criminals plead his crimes as an excuse and de- 
 fense for their own? Would not the poor be justified in 
 robbing the rich and then pleading the crimes of these 
 high-toned Judges and criminals in defense? Where 
 would be the example for the viciou'? to be virtuous? 
 The sinner to be sinless or the criminal to abstain from 
 crime? 
 
 What an endless chain of crimes and criminals such 
 a catastrophe would produce. Nothing in presidential 
 history could compare with such disaster, except it 
 might be Cleveland's Endless Treasury Chain ; whereby 
 $280,000,000 was so manipulated that many political 
 parasites were soon made Millionaires. 
 
 Having herein unhorsed the strenous Rough Rider 
 from the skirmish of San Juan Hill, and cremated the 
 Criminal Ring Republicans of the country, we ask that 
 
84 PRESIDENT 
 
 some of their ashes be taken to the utmost parts of the 
 earth, as proof of the final end of Jug-handle Judges, 
 Ring Politicians, and especially Presidents, who use the 
 power of their office to hide the crimes of partisan crim- 
 inals. 
 
 Now should the President undertake to defend him- 
 self by denying any knowledge of these New York 
 crimes, such denial would be false. Because the victim 
 mailed to him under special delivery stamps and return 
 notice envelopes some of the foregoing Eight letters. 
 Four Books and sets of charges describing these crimes. 
 
 And these letters, books and charges having be- 
 come a part of the files and records of his Presidential 
 Office, common sense and the law will not allow him to 
 deny the facts and knowledge imparted to him by the 
 files and records of his own office. 
 
 Further, hundreds of such books were publicly cir- 
 culated among the Ring politicians of New York and the 
 general public, in addition to which the Ring papers and 
 Magazines often slurred the victim and his book, so 
 these facts and crimes are a matter of National notoriety, 
 to which general knowledge Mr. President would not be 
 allowed to plead general ignorance. 
 
 Novr, it is evident without argument ; That if the 
 matters stated in this book are true, then these Judges 
 and the President are the most depraved and dangerous 
 criminals in the land, and they should be first im- 
 peached, then tried in Court, convicted and sent to 
 prison : But if the book is false, then the victim is 
 equally depraved and he likwise should be tried, con- 
 victed and imprisoned. 
 
 And the Victim repeats ; That he tried to get Four 
 separate Grand Juries in New York to indict him for 
 Libel in printing this Book there, so as to get a chance 
 
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 to judicially prove on his defense that the book is all 
 true. And he still stands ready with evidence and 
 records to prove upon a fair Jury trial that all the state- 
 ments of fact in this book are true, and contends that 
 the comment thereon is just and fair befitting their 
 crimes and that the whole is historically required. He 
 stands pat upon the record, he has no fears and asks no 
 favors. Let the broad-axe of truth hew to the line. 
 Let justice be done though Rings, Judges Governors, 
 Presidents, Victim and all fall. 
 
 NOW, as to Governor Odell, his guilt is equal to 
 that of the whole New York Combine. He is the pivot 
 around which all poLtical crooks circulate, while Tom 
 Piatt turns the crank. He protected these New York 
 criminals in the same way and for personal and politi- 
 cal reasons the same as President Roosevelt did. 
 
 They are an anomalous pair : Odell refused to ex 
 tradite his political friend, the indicted Missouri boodler 
 Zeigler ; while Roosevelt whooped up political bumcombe 
 by demanding the extradition of his political enemy 
 the indicted Missouri boodler, Kratz. 
 
 Thus in a small way they both manufactured poli- 
 tics : One by screening a Republican, the other by pun- 
 ishing a reputed Democrat. One wants to be elected 
 President in 1904, the other in 1908 : Each helps the 
 other, and both use their political power to protect 
 criminals for political purposes. 
 
 As further facts the victim states : That if the law 
 could have a fair operation in the State of New York, 
 he could convict and send to States Prison all these 
 Judges and the President for the crimes herein alleged' 
 against them : But by reason of the Criminal- Ring Re- 
 publicans controlling every thing in that State and Ok- 
 lahoma City ; the law is boycotted : Ring criminals go 
 
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 free ; Justice is dead and buried ; and honor is hung up- 
 on the gallows of infamy. 
 
 ANARCHY 
 
 The wholesale crimes and open defiance of law 
 here exposed not only shows a case of quasi treason, 
 but also presents a case of the worst and most danger- 
 ous kind of secret Anarchy. For the belief and prac- 
 tice of Anarchy is not confined to ignorant, deluded 
 foreigners, who openly disavow all gC'Vernment by law 
 and sometimes go out and assassinate some prominent 
 official. 
 
 But Anarchy means : A defiance and disregard of 
 law, whether openly avowed or secretly done : A con- 
 dition of mind whether individual or collective, that has 
 no respect for the law and is not guided by it. Such 
 is Anarchy in its broad practical sense and meaning. 
 
 So it is seen Anarchy is not confined to the ignor- 
 ant '-reds" of the Czolgosz class, but that it includes 
 these educated Ring Politicians who use the power of 
 their positions to carry out criminal schemes. 
 
 And while Czolgosz was a diabolical criminal and 
 received his just punishment, still he was not so guilty 
 of moral turpitude from his ignorant stand-point as these 
 educated Judges and Governors are from their high 
 stand-point. 
 
 Besides he was not so dangerous to the welfare and 
 perpetuity of the Country as these criminal Judges and 
 Governors are. Because he only assasinated the official 
 but left the law which soon filled the vacancy : While 
 those high officers have assasinated the law of Millions 
 of people, and left nothing to fill the vacancy but secret 
 Crime and secret Anarchy, with governmental destruc- 
 tion fast closing in upon the heels of their criminal wake. 
 
ROOSEVELT a 
 
 And Roosevelt who now fills that Presidential va- 
 cancy fell heir to the same not by the ballots of the 
 people, but by the bullets of an Anarchist ; and then 
 took his oath of office from an Anarchist, then became 
 one of them by using the power of his office to pro- 
 tect a whole band of Anarchists from exposure and pun- 
 ishment because he wmted their political power to elect 
 himself to the Presidency, 
 
 And while the President was thus secretly protecting 
 these Judicial Anarchists of New York, he toured the 
 Country in free Palace Couches publicly proclaiming 
 the equality of the law and condeming all lynching An- 
 archists as governmental enemies. His plain buncombe, 
 hypocricy and deceit is enough to give the world the 
 cold shivers. For all see his personal and political 
 motive, and know that he has one law for the poor and 
 another for the plutocrat, and that these Judicial An- 
 archists are more dangerous to the life of the Nation 
 than all the rape lynchers in the land. 
 
 And as we record his want of moral courage and 
 hence his political deafh, let us spread the mantle of 
 charity remembering that he once stood forth as a mon- 
 ument of independence and a Hercules of personal 
 bravery. But while thus charitable, we must not shirk 
 our duty by failing to vote and remove from power the 
 criminal Ring Republicans of the Country : Because 
 they are the primary cause of all the crime here ex- 
 posed ;. besides they are a menace to honest government 
 and National life. Specifically they are responsible for 
 the robbery of the victim, the crimes of these Judges, 
 the ratification thereof by the President, his loss of 
 office and political death. 
 
 This public Indict nent is enough to stagger mor- 
 ality and call out the cleansing power of the Country. 
 
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88 PRESIDENT 
 
 It is an involuntary trust we have been forced to execute. 
 The people are the beneficiaries and their lives, liberty 
 and property are shown to be in constant danger by the 
 corrupt Judges and other officials the Ring has forced 
 upon them. Even the President himself is shown to be 
 corrupted and coerced by this Ring, We hope and trust 
 that the preservative power of the Country will turn out 
 upon the trial of this Indictment at the next election and 
 convict these Ring Criminals, and thus free Uncle Sam 
 and let him again breathe the air of honor and a man. 
 
 ROOSEVELT was the ideal of many clear heads 
 and honest hearts : And aside from his limelight na- 
 ture and unbalanced ambition, he stood the equal of the 
 average President. And had he stood the test of official 
 duty, relying upon right instead of might, nothing could 
 have divorced him from the hearts and votes of the 
 American people. 
 
 Had he investigated and exposed the crimes of 
 these Republican criminals instead of protecting them, 
 had he stood as a rock of right against their power of 
 wrong, had he done his duty, trusting in God and the 
 people instead of Ring Politicians; Today he would be' 
 honored by his country and elected the next President 
 of the United States. 
 
 But when he protected the Ring Criminals of New 
 York and Oklahoma there was his fatal error. There 
 he allowed himself to be cajoled by the siren song of 
 Ring Politicians, and sold the honor of the Presidency 
 for a mess of Ring pottage. There he deserted the 
 land marks of duty and right, with the hope of sailing 
 upon the Sea of plutocratic luxury and political Ring 
 power. There he threw both consciQj4«And compass in 
 the S-. a, and soon found himself buffejfliig the waves of 
 political death with none to rescue his imperiled ambi- 
 
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 tion. Through his ambition he both feared and courted 
 the political power of these New York crooks : He 
 knew they were guilt/ and that no defense could be 
 made for them : He knew that the investigation of 
 Judge Hazel would expose the whole Conspiracy and 
 place their crimes on record before the world : He 
 knew if he did that, then the Ring would try and de- 
 feat his nomination : So he quivered in the balance, 
 then yielded to their power of wrong instead of stand- 
 ing by his sworn duty of right. 
 
 "What a lamentable contrast : Yesterday he stood 
 npon a pyramid of fame crowned with a wreath of honor 
 and bravery, won upon the fields of deadly strife in a 
 foreign land : To-day, he lies in political death wrapped 
 in the winding sheets of Ring rule and infamous 
 politicians. 
 
 What a lesson the facts of his public life teach to 
 all mankind : While bravely performing his duty at 
 San Juan Hill, he escaped all harm and was finally 
 landed in the Presidential Chair : But while cowardly 
 shirking his Presidential duty, he was shot down the 
 Shute of public disgrace and landed in the grave of 
 Ring Politicians. 
 
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