The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1859-10-13
"Pis:Ols and Coffee f0T Two"

We took OCCASION to say in our paper on Fri
day. when speaking of the procligity OF Demo
cratic office holders to steal from the government:
1T is barefaced impudence for a iocooco to
talk about want Of honesty ia 81 office holder
under the preseat adm nistraton. They all steal,
so far as our knowledge extends. and that is
of the causes of the expenditures OF the govern
rent being swelied from forty oIe TO eighty-oie
mil ions per year. We do not say bat what some
Democratic off ce-h oiders strictly honest in
their private dealings, but there = loose Demo
cratic morality, with which ties e'se tseir con-
sciences when they handle the ss-1rnsnpt funds
We intended 20 say in the first sentenSe that it
is barefaced impudeuce for locotoco offce hol
der under the present administration To talk about
honesty. Tney all steal, &c Now our neighbor
must be extremely verdant 10 suppose that We
intended to C arge him individually with stealing.
All Office holders schooIed in Democratic politi-
cal morals have as great skill III hiding aud COW
ering up their stealing as they have III dong the
thing itself We therefore not disposed to
particularze and If the remark does not hit
neghbor he will not appropriate it himself. But
we commenced this article to introduce the fol-
lowing letter from our neig ghbor:
RICHMOND Oct Z, 1859
Hon. ID. p. HoLLowAY-Sir:-ln your daily
paper, Of this morning you say: They ("!ocofoco
Office holders" all steal, tar as orr hnowledge
extends" The inference that would naturally be
drawn from this would be, that your knowledge
would more like extend to the government Office
holder 10 your own town, with whom you have
daily business intercourse, than TO any other; and
IS aul what you are pleased TO term ',ocofo-
co office holder, respectfully ask you to specify
sheren have ever stolen or taken from the gov
erumeat a single cent that did Eot Justly aad le
Ultimately belong to me II l am liable to the
charge of stealing from the government il can be
shown from the accounts of my Office; and in
der that you shall have en opportunity to make
cut the charge against ne, Will give you free
cess to my quarterly account currents and ac-
counts of every description with the government
Those who read your paper would senera!.y,
presume, conclude that you would not charge
men with stealing, even for political effect. with
out some ground for so doing. | think it moth
ny more than honorable and tair than you should
give the reason for charging al who hold Office
under the government thieves. as believe
can satisfy you that such charge is entirely
founded so far as one ofhce-holder is concerned
Very respectfully,
JAMES ELDER.
We will do our Deishbor the justice 10 sag ,ha at
in the remark we bad ailusion TO him. ard that
we believe be is honest any locofoco Office.
no IGer " have evsr known. ard have s..ver si
occasions exprossed our appreciation Q: the maj
uer in which he conducts The affairs OF his Office.
We never heard him chsrged with stealing nor
do we believe he would steal. In the same sense
that Paul said the Galiians were all liars. lae do
not preteud 10 say The Galtilns were all Iocofu-
cos) we intended 70 say the office holders under
The present administration did steal.
But Bro. + der wishes Us TO give our reason for
believing tha: Office holders under the present
admi! il; ration thieves Oar reason is cae OF
+ the best il the world-ir Is because thsy do it
K IS that satisfactory? iias beis4oor ever
( heard of the WIlietS Point ssudie-o tie Utah
frauds OF the Forr Sneilng rascalitg-of the
coal purchased for the uavy-ef the extravagant
prices paid for work the extension OF The cap
itol-of the iuting contracis-ofth the stationery
supplies-the army ard navy contracts? But
Ierhals be does Dot call these things stealing
We'll that's what We said Locofoeo morals vsre.-
II 10 honest, in their eyes, to eaea: the govern
E.eut o.. of millions of money, and then become
very Indignant, if they are accused Of stealing.
! While ve except our neigbhor from the GET
eral rule that loo ifoco ofiee-hoders do steal we
/ do charge that IN sense of the word he is
aot gu iiesS for he defends The party which does
! the thing Whoever saw iiGe il his psper c5u.
! deuning these immense frauds sgaiast the gov
ernlneut We nay at our leisure give o9r neseh-
Dor more specific reasons for saving that certain
! ofce ho dss st a..
/ We had forgotten the extent 10 which xe have
extended this article and viii Only say ia regard
to the letter of our neighbo published above tha:
personally we have no objection to him as
postmaster private eitiken oos . politician
we never knew q more uDscrap1loas fais5ier o
the truth-a more subserrieat tool 10 the hands
of master than he is. and We can prove it anG
are ready to do il