The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1869-01-08
The Tenure Of once.

forth now just such dcnunciat ions,
IN the form Of confessions, from the
republican press, as tho democratic
press has always from the first given
it. The Chicago Post ultra radical
says Of it's workings: a.. F..
''Therc is corruption everywhere.
The civil service is SO corrupt that
it will not bear handling, and the
military service is fast becoming
speckled with rotten places. Con-
grcss is bought up directly or in
directly. or both. in the interest Of
a monstrous tariff, that impoverishes
the working classes, drains the
country of bonds and gold to pay
the balance of trade with Europe,
and offers inducements to smuggling
BY which the revenue is robbed of
a hundred millions year."
The Post processes to believe that
Grant as President will commence
a cleansing of the Augean stables,
but if he has the disposition to do
SO, with the Tenure of Office Bill
continued in force, his effort in that
direction will bear q much closer
resemblance to the labors of SYST
plus than to the feat Of Hercules.
The New York Times unscrupu-
lously radical says:
"The Indian ring will be strong
enough to prevent all attempts to
break it up. The whisky ring is
strong enough to secure impunity
for its members and wage war upon
the Government officers who de-
tect, arrsignand seek to hold them
responsible for their acts.''
OfGrant's efforts to cleanse the
Augcan stables it adds:
eff he strikes at the whisky ring
he will find Senators and members
of Congress, who have had the sup
port of the ring, and who have filed
the revenue Offices With its agents
and its tools, throwing every. pos
siblc obstacle in his way. And if
his assaults become too formidable
he will find the party rings coming
to the rescue, and shielding inter
csts. which, they will assure him,
are too powerful to be neglected or
dcspised.
The New York Tribune in view
Of the developments of official cor
ruption under its working, confesses
to the list of wrongs it enumerates
us follows
"Appalling corruption in all
branches of the service. "Thieves
and plunderers from the first have
been in Office in Louisiana. Sub
ordinates in collision with them to
carry out their schemes Of robbery
'.Oyer forty licensed dlstillerics
running in New Orleans, during the
last fiscal year, and the Govern
mcnt not collecting enough to pay
the salaries of the store-keepcrs. F."
..Oficers Of the different districts
1cagued together in perpetrating
and covering up immense cotton
frauds. amounting to millions. -
1.-THE judge Of an important court
openly charged with being unfaith-
full to his trust ''Customhouse
officers and internal revenue officers
colluding together in fraudulent
shipments Of whiakey." "Men hold
ing small s.laried Offices suddenly
become rich, some buying planta-
tions and valuable stock, others
valuable city property; some spend
ing tens Of thousands upon fast wo-
men, and others losing still larger
sums at the gambling table and
horse races, and pay forty thousand
dollars to get elected to high Con-
gressional post, filling certain New
Orleans Offices from top to bottom
with the negro legislators, and pay
ing them $s day for doing 10th
ing
These charges are neither ours or
those Of Democrats, but are made
by these within the ring Of rotten
ness, and who are supposed to know
just what they are prating about.
From United States Senators, down
through the entire range of officers
aill hunters, there is, as the
chlcago Post says; a putridity too
great for handling
There is therefore little reason to
hope, that whatever Grants efforts
may be to 'sclcanse the Augean
stables that he will be able to
more than get his official spade
through the crust, while the great
mass of rottcnness will remain i'm
bcded in stratum too deep and
firm to be stirred by his lilliputian
efforts.
Tnc radical leaders arc in q ter
riblc state of worriment over the
fact that General Grant will not
give information as 20 how his cabi-
net is to be constituted. AS every
Republican of any prominence de-
sires, and thinks he ought to have,
position in that body, the Gene
rails rnIicnnce on this subject is