The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-06-01
NINETEENTH YEAR.

- 1nefc Is just this difference between
democratic party and the Republican party
the administration OF the State Governme,
and We appeal to every candid man Of DO
! parties to bear US out in what 10 say. r
rule Of appointment with The Democracy, DO
J - National and State organization, has up
formly been one Of reward for partizan servic.
fitness and honesty mot coming into the accou
as al. Ever since the advent Of Martin Y,
Buren, in 1886. that party has systsmatis,
politics and made ofRcs.holding trade and
business. Commissions we're and are still issu.
Ia payment for partizAn services, while insu
ordination has been and is punished. Pustir
Into ofics men without talents, without homes,
and without fitness in any sense, Il has alwa,
been their policy to conceal and cover nm !,
wiak at pickin2s and stealings a. long q CO,
cealment was possible. As . party they hay
uniformly on all occasions concealed from th
public eye the unfaithfulness and dishonesty Z
their public officers ~ long as it was possibl
20 90 so. The truth Of this assertion no on
VIII doubt who looks over the long lists of de
faultcrs, both State and National, commencip
With the Swartwouts in 1875 and endipI
with DR.. Eads and others Of the present time
nearly all brought to light by the old Whig an,
Republican parties.
How is il with the Republicans? In thei,
administration Of the State Government the,
have. as party, required not only capability
but faithfulness and honesty in the public SER
vice. Instead Of covering up. they have ex-
posed unfaithfulness, whether Of political
friends or opponents, and expelled all pecula.
tors without fear, favor or affection, from oi-
6ce, whenever and wherever found.
And, strange as it may seem, this very cir
cumstance is attempted to be used against
them. The Legislature of SO having, at the
instance of Governor Grimes, stopped the
Eads leak, undertook with commendable una
nimity to look after the large school fund in
the hands of County School Fund Commission
srs. They did not stop to inquire whether the
exposure was to injure or benefit them as q par.
ty-whether it was to show defaulting Republi-
can or Democratic Commissioners. The object
was to save the school fund to the People of
Iowa, BY looking to its safe keeping.
The law was passed unanimously by the Lc-
gislature. Persons were appointed to look af-
ter this fund, with whose ability and in
egrity no fault has yet been found. They
made an examination OF the books and accounts,
leeds, bonds and mortgages in the several
'fhces, amounting to large sum in the aggre-
ate exposing unfaithfulness and criminal
dishonesty in some, great confusion and disor-
Ter in Others. and saving large sums, stopping
numerous leaks and getting things into a legal
nd Ineligible shape. Now, if we understand
he Gazette and eoadjutors, the great objection
o this was that in few of the counties, two or
hree perhaps, the Republican examiners, ap-
ointed by Republican Governor, under law
assed by Republican General Assembly, ex-
osed the unfaithfulness of Republican County
chool Fund Commissioners. Instead of re-
arding this as discreditable, we look at it as
scided proof Of the honesty of the party and
elieve it will SO be regarded by the People |
the State. A dishonest man may, in spite |
the greatest vigilance, once in while get !
ne public confidence, get into office and abuse
nat confidence. The question is which party |
most deserving of public confidence, the |
ne that exposes or the one that conceals this |
eculation ?-the one that keeps the thief in |
flee, if political friend, and hides his dis
onesty, or the one that kicks him out nolens |
Olens?
So much for general principles-now for q
Nv facts. In the counties of Clayton and Ala
lakee there was over TWO HUNDRED THOU
'EMOCRATIC School Fund Commissioners,
hockingly mismanaged, as the voluminous re-
ort OF Mr.. Rodman, covering several hundred
ages, will abundan.ly show. The Commits
oner Of Tama County, who absorbed after
le expose of his management and msmsnage.
ent of the School Fund, was also DEMO
RAT. These are substantive facts which
le Gazette editor will please put in his pipe and
noke.
In Alamakee County, Mr.. Ross, who is and
ways has been School Fund Commissioner,
I'd in his hands $l13, 900 of school monies aud
curities. Yet his bond, up to the time Of the
,pointment Of the agent, was only 100000
Clayton County the fund amounted to nearly
loo, 900, yet the records, as in Alamakee, were
the greatest confusion. The agent was en-
lged nearly all summer in tracing out titles,
curities, &C., and getting things into an intel
,ible shape. His report filled at least two
lndred and fifty pages Of closely written MSS.
We hundred dollars was never better spent
an in paying Mr.. Rodman for looking after
is large Fund in the hands Of the Commits.
,ners in Alamakee aud Clayton counties. It
fair to presume that one hundred dollars was
we'd for every dollar the investigation cost.
As the matter is now before the public, let US
We full expose-lct the people of Iowa
low who are the thieves. And let them also {
ow why the Eve hundred thousand acre grant :.
ly yielded some six or seven hundred thou
nd dollars, when it should have produced q
e millions Of dollars. Let US compare records
lly and see who will make the most out of it.
eB- The Sheriff of Clayton County passed
'Wu Iuo IlSCSs oA AuVeOoy GsCAiu6s VA MS |
" to F. Madison with one of the ringleaders :
the band Of pirates, the arrest Of whom has
ely caused such an excitement at NcGregor. !
wing deposited his charge in the penitentiary, q
returned yesterday. The Sheriff stated that
Q band to which the prisoner belongs consists
two hundred men; and from the description l
gives Of the modus sperandi Of tho gang, Y
ey we're drilled in Z most admirable system
doing business. A plan bad been formed
the robbery Of the Catholic Church at !
airie du Chien,--from which the thieves ex-
ctsd to obtain silver, &C., to the amount Of :
], 900, but il was frustrated BY the timely ar '
i Of the parties at McGregor.
Dur energetic friends up the river are en- Y
ed TO grea. deal of credit for tho uncom
'mising manner in which they are trapping .
se scoundrcls Al We have plenty Of mate. 6
!, IL ia to be hoped that Burlington will not J,
behind her contemporaries in this good r
rk. I,