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Office-Seekers, Passes, and Dead-Head Tickets

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 14, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 19.

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Office-Seekers, Passes, and Dead-Head Tickets

IT is stated in the papers that a “Democratic politician,” who went to Washington in hope to get an Office, said that all who went from California on the same errand went on passes or “dead-head” tickets. Can that be true? And if true, why was it so?
THE papers report that Henry Villard made a total wreck of his immense fortune; that he did not save more than $500,000. Poor man; how sad his life must be!