A Healthy Sign.

New York, 1895

The Republican newspapers of the state are demanding that Assemblyman Eugene F. Vacheron be tried on the indictment charging him with asking and receiving a bribe of $3,000. This is a healthy sign. It is true, as the Buffalo Commercial says, that Assemblymen have been indicted for bribery in Albany before, but were never tried because of the strong political influence brought to bear in their behalf, and the Commercial evidently thinks that Mr. Vacheron will fare no worse than the indicted legislators of the past whose crimes have been condoned. No one will be surprised if it turns out so, for the newspapers have said that Governor Morton felt an interest in Mr. Vacheron, and that, after running away from Albany to avoid arrest, he returned to the Capital on the strength of a telegram from Speaker Fish, and was not an arrested at all, although in the early stages of the case the District Attorney and Chief of Police thought it their duty to send policemen to different places to catch the accused man. Things do look a little in Mr. Vacheron's favor.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 4.