Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-07-02
United states Buildings.

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Two years ago, or thereabout, says tn
Indiana Journal, Major Somebody of til
U. S. Army stopped several days in thi
: city to make a selection of a site for Pos
Office and U. s. Court buildings. His de
termination was made known a year ago
Appropriations to erect building hav,
been made. "A disbursing officer was ap
pointed soon after the accession of Mr.
Buchanan. The old buildings on the site
selected were removed two months ago.
The plan for the new buildings was ready
: early in The spring, and contract for thei,
erection made. Now the ground is clear
the season favorable. the money waiting,
ani--nothing is doing. 1t is probably
very idle to ask why this is. for. the ways
OF Democratic officials arc past finding out.
1t is rumored that the first contract has
been found unsatisfactory to somebody or
other, and has been rejected. But it is very
easy to make another, when the country is
tcrowded with men eager for work, and par
ticularly when the pay is cash, and perfect
ly safe. Why is it not done? The dis
bursement ofthe appropriation would be a
real benefit to this money depleted city, and
the rapid completion of the buildings would
be benefit to the Government There is
all good and no evil in pushing the matter
ahead, dyet the ground is there as empty
as the day the last old shed was taken off
IT. The explanation, we presume, is that
some partisan or pet is to be profted by a
careful coldling of the job, that will keep
it in progress for about twenty-five years.
This is the invaria5le course in all sucb
cases We doubt if single government
building, commenced within the past ten
years, anywhere in the Union, can be found
completed to-day. Government work is
never done, for when done there can be no
more fat profits made off it by contractors
and officials, who divide stealings. Ap-
preparations are made by Congress, abun-
dainty large to do the needed work. The
contracts are let to good partisans who al
ways pay heavily to carry on election cam |
paigns. Arrangements are made between
the contractors and the officers controlling
the work to share the profits. And as the
work once begun, cannot be abandoned. ey-
cry year sees an item put into the Deficien-
cy Bill for Completing this or that work.
which is never completed, and comes up
the next year for exactly the same help as
before. Thus constant fund is maintain
ed to pay offgood party tools, to Increase
the pay of officers, and to furnish the sin
cws Of war for elections The country is
made to provide the means for carving ON
Democratic campaigns. This sort of op-
Grafton Is now regular system. 1t sup
Piled the funds that elected MIR. Buchanan.
and 1t is the best weapon that the Demo-
cratic party possess. A corruption fund"
made by taxing contracts like this in our
'ity, and by skinning the salaries of Clerks
S just as well known to exist in Washing
on, and to be disbursed by the party's a.
'ents, as it is that the capital is there
And the contract here we have no sort of
doubt, is to be "coddlei in" exactly the ;
anne way. 1t will be nursed from wear to
ear, for about five or ten years, taking
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lfty thousand dollars or so every year, out
If which the Indiana Democracy will draw
'bout ten or twenty to import Irish votes,
md supply Campaign Documents. Be-
ides the work viii furnish prctext for
having at least two hundred Irish from Gin :
'innati and Louisville here, for election day.
the benefits the United States /,
are to produce arc so manifest I;
md vast, that he must be singularly igno- !,
ant OF Democratic practices and honesty 8
Who expects these buildings completed any
ime within the next five years. They {
must do service in the next Presidential 6
at least < ~ 47afl a-rshj
How long will freemen submit to have
heir voices stiaed in thisway, by men who /
'ught to be inthc Penitentiary? The poor, =
gnorant Irish who suffer themselves to be /
made tools of by the unprincipled scamps, q
IRE not SO much to blame as the dishonest
condrcls who receive bribes from still h
nore corrupt party leaders to do their dir d
y work. The people will be reused from s.
heir lethargy ere long, and the reckoning
hey will have with theI corrupt oficials
will be terrible one. The raecals had 81
'etter take warning in time and escape \
rom the vengeance Of an outraged people L
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