Why Lindholm Fled

August W. Lindholm, Deputj Secretary of State under Jochim departed with his accounts short about L2,000. It nqw transpires that he held an insurance policy upon which he could realize #2,700 at any time. With that amount of ready money within his reach, he might have easily straightened up his accounts with the state and the whole matter cóuld have been hushed up and no scandal created. His partisan friends would, no doubt, have gladly come to his assistance for the sake of the party. Inasmuch as he did not do this, but chose instead to flee the country, it is suspected that there must be some other reason which induced him to leave home, wife and children, and everything which a man holds most sacred. What can that reason be? He was the confidentof hischief,Secretary Jochim. He undoubtedly received the returns of the vote on the salaries amendment, and as the chief of the department when the compiling was done, he must have watched the progress of the canvass. Ordinary interest in the affairs of his benefactor and superior as well as the duties of his official position would demand that much. To suppose that he did not thus interest himself in the returns is to believe him lacking in common sense. The inevitable conclusión is therefore that he scanned the returns and knew before anybody else that the amendment had been defeated. He must have known later when the announcement was made that the amendment had carried that the figures were "fixed." Under these circumstances, with the trial of his chief rapidlyapproaching on the charge of making a false public record, is it surprising that he should be suspicioned of fleeing to avoid giving information in his possession against his chief? His flight would certainly seem to lend strong probability to this theory. If this theory is the correct one, he has probably removed by his flight one of the strongest links in the evidence of the great fraud against the ballot. Probably the surest, and in fact the onlyay, the people can satisfy themselves that they are finally through with the whole pilfering gang, will be to turn them all down, and supply their places with men of honor and of standing on the ides of next November.