The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-06-28
Radical Honesty.

been illustrated in the impartial exc
cution of the laws; in its faithfulness
honesty, and economy in the collection
of public revenues, and in the expen
ses of the Government" etc.
AS a companion piece to the above
showing the honesty of Radical office
holders, we present the following
from the Buffalo Courier, embracing
one "day's report Of official crime
the one day being the day previous te
that on which the above resolution
was adopted by the Ohio Government
officers:
In our dispatches of yesterday there
is not moro than an everage gathering
of items concerning official rascality.
but there is enough, nevertheless, &c
set people thinking as to the character
of the men who now represent tho
Government of the country.
In the first place, we have the news
that Colonel Clifford Thomson, late
chief clerk in the internal revenue bu
reau, recently sold, for five thousand
dollars, advance information as to the
| New Yo.k Central tax decision, by
which means certain parties were ena'
bled to secure themselves against less.
The facts as to this case, q Tribune dis
patch informs US, were communicated
to the President. and the righteous
wrath of that terrible upholder of the
public virtue may be imagined from
the fact that ''the resignation of the
chief clerk of the internal revenue de
partment- promptly followed"
Next a Mobile dispatch announces
that MIR. G. l.. Putnam, the Postmas-
ter of that city, has besn arrested on
an Indictment presented by the grand
jury, charging him with bribery
This is one of Mr.. Grants recent ap-
pointmcnts, and it was made against
the protest of the few respectable Re
licaBs in Alabama An honest man
is said to have been removed, and the
place was given to Putnam, who had
been convicted of appropriating pub
lie moneys to his W use while he was
connected with the State Government.
Bribery is q mild form of turpitude
for a Southern Republican"
Thirdly, We have the cheering in
formation from Washington that the
ex collectors Of internal revenue have
only stolen about $1,000, 900 "There
is due from ex-collectors of internal
evenu nearly So, 000, 900, which it is
expected will have to be collected by
suits against their bondsmen." We
will lay one small wager that it will
not be so collected, and another thai
no attempt so to collect it will be
made. If Mr.. Grants administers
ton has ever made such attempt, we
have not yet had the pleasure of pub
fishing the fact of a dollar of stolen
money having thus been recovered for
the Government. On the contrary,
the public have seen the Administra-
ton actually conniving at the escape
of defaulting officials, and consuming
to the impunity of any number of their
bondsnen. The worst penalty OF
theirs under the Grant regime is the
discovery and publication of the thiefs
insanity. We have no doubt that a
verdict of insanity to the amount of
three million dollars will finally be
brought in the case of the eX-collecors.
The moral rottenness of the present
Republican party is shown, not so
much by the frequency of crime among
its prominent and official representa-
tives, as by the impunity with which
crime is invariably committed by that
class. Still cleaning from our yester-
days dispatches, we find an added il
of this fact in the announce
ment from Washington respecting the
bigamist Bowen. 1t is not only sta
ted that this man is to be promptly
pardoned by the President, but also
that he will speedily regain his seat in
Congress!
AS still additional evidence of that
sshonesty," the makers of the platform
pirate about, read the following from
the New York Tribune:
An outrageous black mailing trick
is often successfully resorted to in
Washington, and should be understood
by all inventors, especially by those
who apply for extensions or renewals
of patents. The lawyer, in common
with the public generally, having &C
cess to the records of the patent Office,
prepares a list of all applications made
for renewal or extension of patents,
and files with the commissioner q no
tice of protest on his own account
then acquaints himself with the
particulars of each case, and writes to
the applicant that notice of a remon-
STRANGE has been filed there; that he
has been employed by the persons
whose interests are affected by the
proposed extention to argue the case
before the commissioner but that, as
his clients are disposed to deal fairly
with the applicant, he (the s%elf-con-
stituted lawyer thinks that the case
be amicably compromised and
the applicant saved much trouble and
expense +; he adds, perhaps, that a fail.
ure to settle the matter before hand
will probably result in q refusal of his
petition for extention. The lawyer is
"not at liberty to name his clients"
but will be glad to communicate to
them any proposition which the appli-
cant may make. If the inventor is
timid, as is often the case, he will
agree to buy off the imaginary remon-
strant and the Matchmaking lawyer
pockets the money. If, on the other
hand, he feels sure of his case and
goes to great expense to collect evil
dence and present it in the strongest
possible light, he finds, when he comes
before the commissioner, no opponent.
One of these swindlers has made a
large fortune in this way, but their
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