The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-08-29
Corruption the Disease of Radicalism.

Corruption the Disease of Radicaiism'
The papers are loaded with details OF the
eorruption and venality of the Grant party
Beginning with the head of the party, we
have gift,taking and ofin-gir'ng between
the President and his pets-we have mn
deity to public trusts, venal'ty OF tue gross
eat k;nd. shielded and nourished by the Al
m;nistration-the President descending 10
she ,eye, of the coarsest and most unscrupu'
Inns Notwithstanding >for the sale OF his
honse with BowES, of Washington, Tor
$40 600. and FORGETTING his word to Bowen
that he might sell to committee, Tor pres
ont 10 General SRsRaAS, at SGo,ooo. DO" ~
is hushed sp by 81, 200 worth of ESecu.'e
uatronase-and so oD--aud so on VIII
ted;ous list of dshonorable transactions ti'a'
IS painful to every man who f'as Tue 'ea's'
tride Of country In his breast.
Bowgs charges that the President, ailci
,,is election, in his conversation about the
Gale of the house, blurted out scheme ne
had on his, mind-viz., for Congress TO pass
. law restoring him to the position of Cen
eral Of the Armies after he had served his
term az President. Nice "little derange'
sftento of offices that would be, by winch
the President would displace SHERMAN and
receive his St7, 900 per annum until he died
Look from the President in NIL directions
at the utter corruptncss and dishonesty OF
his followers. Look to South Carolina,
where every Radical nominee for pubic
Office. and every Radical who has held one
since the war, have been publicly charged with
immortality, bribery, corruption, and thet',
and 30 charged by their own party. LOOK
al all the southern States, where without eN
eeption the GRANT party is rotten with vii
hjny. Look to New York city. at the custom
house rings. Look to the rings everywhere
especially in Congress, where the public
money is syphoned out of the Treasury
into pockets that have been elevated from
poverty to wealth. See how public money
Is used for influencing elections i'll favor OF
GRANT, and how the kuklux legislation is
smpIoyed to stiile the voice of the people
The papers TEEN with these things, beyond
all precedent, and the proof is damning
fine public mind Is weafied with thelI
yoluminousness as well as their enormity.
This disease Of corruption taiDts all that
eoquette or daily with GrantiSm. The as
sumed straight-Outs are infected. They
found their way by the back stairs to the
Headquarters of the GRANT party, and immc
diately their high spirits were bowed into
the dust, aud they begged to be allowed to
distribute some Of the GRANT clcctioncerlng
documents and to have their way paid to
Louisville. That il, they acknowledged to
fine GRANT men that their object was to hell
TO elect GRANT, while they were pretending
TO the public that they were going to Louis
VILE for another and very different pur-
bose. thus initiating the trick of those men,
years since. who had their way paid from Phil
adelphia to New York to vote, but who as
stunned to be "pipe-ayers." SO these
"Straight-Outs are "pipc-ayers" in a
new form. They take the 6 bounty" Of the
GRANT party, and have thus. under an alas,
undertaken to fight against the liberty OF
their feIlow-ctizcns.
Is it not deadly epidemic: this corruption,
that all who get in the way of it must surely
full under it? Could the higli-minded and
virtuous "Struisht-Outs :" in any other wa!
become degraded into "pipe-laycrs!"
1t is 4 fearful disease. 1t lns spread oVcl
the whole land, and taints the atmosphere
The great Liberal-D Democratic party are fight
Ing this monster disease, and will destroy it
They are led by one against whom no wills
per of dishonor has been heard, whatevc
may be said of his public opinion. They ar
the people-tiie solid, incorruptible people
who have all the real burthens of Govern
ment to bear, and upon whom chiefly fall tn
evils of misgovernment. They will Fri
umph.
-