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...After serving three consecutive terms in Congress, he was defeated last November by Democrat John W. Boehne. And last week he was arrested at Evansville, Ind., charged with having accepted $750 from two relatives of one Gresham Ayer in return for recommending Ayer to be a rural mail carrier.* Venal Lame Duck Rowbottom refused to say anything about the case when he posted $10,000 bond and was released pending organization of a Federal Grand Jury...
...told the judge that Lena "stayed out late." The judge, Magistrate Leo Healy, had forthwith sentenced Lena to one year in Bedford Reformatory. She had been kept there six months overtime and might have been there still but for the discoveries about other Bedford commitments-"frame-ups" by venal members of the police vice squad-which have lately added fresh disgrace to New York City's corruption-riddled judiciary (TIME...
...shoe-string." The decisive vote is the "floating" vote which can be polled only by distributing, or allowing to be distributed, money for the precinct organizers. The money does not actually "buy votes." It is paid to venal "runners" or "workers" on Election Day to fetch their relatives to vote. Estimating that there are 150,000 precincts in the U. S., each averaging 400 voters of whom perhaps two-thirds vote, Mr. Kent reckons that that party wins which has the money to employ ten "runners" per precinct at $5 or $10 for the day. Each "runner" fetches about...
...Mellon. At Tulsa, his special text was Oil, his chief target the Tariff. At Topeka he fell upon President Coolidge and snarled: "Without hesitation I declare that the stratum of the Republican party which has for the past eight years controlled the government is the most corrupt, the most venal and the most vicious body of men by which this nation has ever been afflicted."* At Denver it was "the snoopers and spies . . . like the lice of Egypt"-an anti-Prohibition speech (Denver being wet). The League of Nations took a lashing, too, as the Angel of Vengeance passed...
Probably there are certain evil persons,--no friends of the present Administration,--who derive a soul-satisfying pleasure from reading carefully every shameful account of corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics...