Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1870-08-03
Appalling Corruption of the Repub-
lioan Party.
Republican w ilncss on the stand.

strong articles in the Cincinnati Con
mercidi, in reply to General Comley
the Postmaster editor Of the Colun
bus Journal After prasing som
things from the letter that are rathe
personal and bitter, We make rUor
for the following telling extracts, an
commend them to the attention Of al
honest Republicans:
WASHINGTON, JUNE 27.
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Let us see II was the design q
the fathers 10 frame a Govcrnmen
that IFS powers should be few, and il
duties simple. Recognizing the grea
truth, that the object of the Govern
ment was to keep the peace, thel
sought to so frame its organic law u
to have the powers intervene onll
when the peace was broken. In
word, their idea of self govcrnmen
meant the Intervention of the con
stable. They sought to leave all th,
various avocatiOns and pursuits of hu
manity to free individual effort, see
ing only that the strong should not
impose upon the weak. 10 the Slatet
they gave the care of the local affairs
TO the General Government all tn,
duties requisite to our protection as a
nation.
1t seems, waste of time to repea
these truisms, and yet who recognize,
or believes in them And turning oul
backs on sueh great truths, where are
we At the risk of tiresomc repc
tition Of all that have been writing
for year past, let me say in brief:
Under our present system the loca
/ governments have lost all significance
Throughout the South, under one so
called acts Of reconstruction, the law
of hate, the Legislatures have come
TO be Congressional dependencies,
where ignorant negroes. under the
control Of unprineiplcd dcmagogues,
are made TO steal aud plumber, until
the law maker and the law breaker
differ only in name. In the Southern
States seats in the Senate are but un
highest moneyed bidder, aud into this
Senate are gradually gathering, thro'
usurpatiou, all the political powers OF
the Government.
To the Government thus central
lied come all the business interests OF
the people, save those OF the farmer
and the lab0rer, each striving TO sc
cure laws that will enable it to over
reach the ether. And to this usurp.
cd despotism come all the rogues Of
plunder, through unjust legislation
1t is openly avowcd and generally be.
lieved that no law can pass to the sig
nature of the President that has not,
to use the slang Of the lobby, money
in it,"
The late Secretary of the Treasury
the Hon. Salmon p Chase, informed
the country that in our hour of dis.
trcss aud peril lie was forced to pur-
chase the bankers of the United
States. And to get these capitalists
I interested in the Government that
protected them, he had TO make most
extraordinary terms-l will not say
that they treated the Republic like a
gang of shylocks-but they were so
I treated by the eminent financier who
was then at the head of the Treasd
~, and they accepted the terms aud
I the character 1t is no eSaggeration
to say that Tor the purpose of enrich
ing and sustaining these money chang
crs we pay more than our National
Government cost US Any attempt
to amend, revise, or repeal these terms
considered war necessity aud tenn
poraIy-is met 10y the violent opposi.
I ion of eighty national bankers on
the floor Of the House, and enough in
the Senate TO give the leeches a ma.
jority.
All the corporations, firms and per
sons interested in the iron busincs:
are openly organized into an associa
tion, aud pay into u common treasury
a fund that may be called II corrup
tion fund, for il is used to influence
Legislation Its filthy ngcuts, when
not members, reside in Washington
and are supported handsomely la theil
corrupt business.
The same may be said Of the salt
monopoly Indeed, the same may b
said of every interest that has money
enough to use and is corrupt cnougl
TO use Il.
T, Generally yourmember Of Congress
has his familiar, through whom biz
vote is purchased Sometimes organ
izaiions exist wherein ten, twenty ol
thirty votes are represented by on
agent, who sells out 10y the direction
of the caucus the entire pen full.
We have a corrupt Congress, SD
, pid Executive, and the only arm o
, the Government that remains pure !
, the Supreme Court, and that a Prcsi
dent has sought to pack with crea
lures Of his own, aud the Senat
, strives 10 destroy.
, | say, then, in all sobcrness, that
, we are TO accept the Republic as
; now stands, self govefument is fan
ure. And to the philosophical stu
dent it would appear as it these wer
/ the net results of our boasted institu
lions. Ii may be there is n savint
power yet held by the people, an
that when the worst comes TO th
= worst. this will be brought TO bca
upon the money changers in the ten
pie, and drive them out. But | d
., not see il. While Republican editor
a affect a laugh at warnings like thii
! Democratic editors pretend to fin
salvation in the restoration of thei
party to power.
!. But true reform lies in ignorin
!, party lines and returning honest me
10 Office feel safe in this ] doul