A NATIONAL SCANDAL.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1274, 21 May 1883, Page 3

A NATIONAL SCANDAL.

•'• ;-- *— r* *■-■-*■ ' The worship of the "Golden. Calf" •is nofejfcefeAn extract practice. "Even a silver calf commands a fair degree of •obeisance. _E)i*as& in point is that of an wontfe' wfflitertfte,- •• swaggering plutocrat named Tabor (of Cbloradq), -who harbeenodoin|^hh^_^a^ain3t the hqriztfn-in; a way.wluc^forsnhlime chee_4 |y>*ejnati«-Wa_£ai^ disregard for -the* fitness; of -things is" •withoot'pai-allel,-' HA? *waa ile^t-.d to iiil anii_te*plre^,-e-mpf thirty days in the : Unitejd ; fltfttes Senate. His. elecfcion was gained by methods which are a reproach. When firmly seated lie spurned. and put away the -wife of, his ydutih and poverty, simply because she wa^^etting oldjland-shonldi her: said, _i_aK9_ way for- youth and beauty^ A few;dajfs before ''the, adjournment oi Congr-fss- te married a Miss M^C6i_ris^

i of Wisconsin. All the circumstances "'-of the courtship i were published in. t£e i newspapers of lie" country,, yet*? 10 I United States Senate freaWa bim with i polifg conside_^t^bn:>.Th_ President {of j ; the"tJniiied'SMt*eß,-wft?ra guest Ift.the^ - offensivji', w&ddihg/. AThe marriage , ceremony was peifformed by a Roman ; Cathoi_o:priesl? 'named Patlier Chapr I pelle, who bias since publisbed a car d I stat^ig that he. had .been.R eceived, ■ thai .he /was not- aware that .the con, i traoiiug parties hjacl been, .divorced , and i that the .seryice was therefore illegal j .and ;i vo|di..,Jor i .the • iMß^^^^\^*^"»W^}^ ,r^* ; b^a*_heres"lmniy td^he^ coniniand of ] the Lord hiniself : " What God hath ■. joined let no nwnpuV^^^Y - 9^*,. the gtoom is very^rich— rich m;gOld,' i that isalL)*/ He. is ignoranti. immoral, and worthless.^ .That such a «»an sh6u^4 ..j.,4n<l jtf&v way into United^ States _Senat? is a. national scandal., > . That offence is cphdoned. as an 'ecc^n-lljipity^is a shameful cbjAnienjtoy; on*ttie;.^ditibiL ! of American.', society. * _^t? tbe *." President of the United i( SJitesfT-should be : .at the wedding, alter the newspaper interviewer t/ jbad arathOnta-^yelyianhounce^^ ' ' pl^the^ftppy' : just . "-3.50* B^piece^Bn6uld. A .-canseJ; every decent A-merican/ fco'^hold . ™]tZ$ ■ •••ilif -iTTfiMm tsoii-u-iM--*- ] i