Wilmington daily gazette., 1872-04-16
REEklMc WITH CORRUPTION.

The Democratic Press OF the country have been
aboring faithfully for four or five years to prove 10
the people the fact that the leaders OF the Radical
party were unfaithtul to their trusts, extavagant
and wasteful; and many of them corrupt AMI
criminal in their conduct. But TO all these warn
ings a dotbting, unbelievnG and forgiving ear
was turned as each election day came round And
each succeeding year the controllers of the Radi-
cal party grew more audacious i'll corruption, dis
honesty and crime, until they turned upon mem-
bers of their own party, and it became necessary
for those who would not be crushed beneath the
heel of party to turn upon the ensavers of the peo-
pie and appeal to all good men to unite to save the
community from the wretches who were placing
th laws; the public property and the revenues
nom the hardly taxed people. in The control OF
men of the worst principles; men who are cohi-
monty known as "xoughs" and who consort with
..bummers" and the most infamous characters.
And now, seeing that the people were about to
break through the chains Of party, the most reia-
Bile portion OF the Radical Press have stepped
forward, and with great blair Of trumpe,s sound
the alarm proclaim the evils that the Democratic
press have long pointed to, and actually show the
degradation and venality OF their party leaders to
be worse ana more deestabe than We conceived
them.
Such was admitted to be is the state of affairs
in all the Southern States where the Radical party
has had control: and now such Is the state OF al
fairs in vicinity, our sister city of Phila-
delphia where the ridgd honesty OF plain Quaker
ism used to predominate. We not asking the
re ders to take our word ior tive don't ask them
t., believe extracts from our faithful allies OF the
u mocratlc fold-the 4 Age or the Herald tho
Su. lay Mercury. We point to the great organs
of the Grant Radicals, and the great organs OF
the Reform Associations, w hether favorable to the
Grant or Mcclure faction-or both; for some
"carrying water Oh both shoulders
Let our readers turn to the Press, the Telegraph,
the Post, the Ledger and other reliable newspa-
pers who are now endeavorins to get from under
the load of villainy and escape the contaeion
which must follow an exposure, by retreat which
to say the least looks cowardy and unmany
1t will not do for the controllers OF the great Rad
ical presses at this late day, to say they did not
know the terrible abuses existed year or more
ago which they now complain Of. They knew all
about their party laws; the outrageous actions of
their party leaders, and the enormous sums of
E.oney that were being stolen from their people.
They now denounce these outrages, and declare
that it will not do to attempt longer to conceal
them. The Philadelphia Press pleads with Its
Radical supporters to sustain the effort it is now
making to extort from the corrupt men of its par
ty the machinery which it helped to put in their
hands
We quote from that paper OF Monday. 1t says:
..Wlll it not help General Grants cause to let
eople that his Reuullcau frie ds Il
mand pure, free ballot that they are admon-
ished and armed against a repetition of the con-
tessed and proved frauds in the Fouth Senatorial
district-that they will not submit to the continu-
ance OF rule at Harrisburg that disgraces the
Republican party, that ignores every Republican
prayer for relief and reform, that cooly adjourn S
a Legislature after deltbcratelv refusing 10 pro-
tecs tie eiectce franchise dgdast ne,c atrocities,
and filings US upon the Presidential ocean wthou
guard or guide! We know these things, our
people suffer under them and to be silent about
them would assuredly make the President weak
with all his honest friends, with no compensation
in the dangerous support Of the offending side."
The admissions there are bad enough to destroy
almost any party. But it will be remarked tina,
the paragraph appeals more especially to those in
the locality where the evils exist The Press
however, does not pause at this 1t continues and
makes its plea to the President. 1t exhorts tina,
high functionary to withhold his hand and strike
not the men who are labo.ing to right the evils
DO we want any further evidence TO prove the
completely of Grant with the outrageous election
laws that have been passed in Pennsylvania and
the audaeious and unprncipled men who con.
II oiled the Harrisburg Convention! Certainly
not. The very fact that the Press fears that It's
present efforts to aid the Reform Association will
be denounced treason" is proof that Grant is
willing approver of the "usurpations of our Local
managers" If this were not 80 why de.ya the
Press use such language AS follows, which we cut
flom yesterdays issues EH
..In the organization known as the Citizens
Municipal Reform Association, many active
supporters of Grant: the Republicans who are
contendipg for reform "within the lines of the
party" are devoted TO Grants reelection and
every Republican newspaper that protests against
the usurpation of local managers is earnest in
the same direction. 1t would be sorry sight il
The efforts OF these influences to improve our mu.
nicipal affairs and 10 o,v party were treated
with Indifference. or, still worse, denounced a
treason"
Thus has it been all over the country, to de.
nounce wrong in Radicalism was to incur the de.
nunciation of ''treason' from Washington
THE GEORGIA AINvEsTIGATIoN.--The su boom.
mittee Of the Georgia Le gisature completed theiI
investigations in New York last week, and found
that the books OF the State Treasurer do not show
an increase of Georgas debt to its full extent by
several millions. The increase Of the debt of the
State for three years was sixteen millions
Frauds OF the most gigantic character have bee,
perpetrated by the issue of bogus bonds. An.