Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-07-26
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the If rightly INFORMED, Will
his guns and the money of the Government we are
Contested States eect what the eloqaent urgency Of
SSS %sas tss or Of the
are now so arduously engnged In. We TO the |
and utter doubt to the projections Of his mas
Ter He win seen Learn nh af men can 9e o
Never have worthless fayorites political agents been
aGa S6s Never has the
politically controlled; never Of the
executive through the patronage been more nsolenty
e pO h9s poe s %s
n Missouri have an interesting tale to tell Never nave
the country generally become the servants of |
hear Z ci9 service S Reform BY
moekery of the popuar updersJanding barfaced lug
gery attempted uRon Intelligent people, the pros
will show their appreciation OF by commencing the re-
sUBJUGATToN OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. |
And yet, bad all this may be, it is by the
feature of the Bad that policy may have
been which, throwing aside those agencies apt
bring forth fruitful cooperation of the best elements in
the South and to reune the country In national feel
ing delivered the Southern people over TO their plumber
and corrupters; bad the frauds and abuses
have been which disgraeed our public service bad
which, in the highest place. demorazing example
OF stroVe to corrupt leglslaton and trans
bad the contempt OF law and Violations Of the
most dangerous habit under this Administration,
far worse and Of infinitely more alarming i'm
the party noble in its impulses and SO
by Administration and its political managers
and abuses but even the spr to smpae beteS
right and wrong, and call things by their right
rected long have the courage seek the truth
recognize abuses as such has lost the moral ability to
correct them Its aseendency will thenceforward
Of the Republican party under this Administrator Let
us see: Some Republicans undertook in conspicuous
90 bring about their correction You have heard per-
greatly disturbed the equsty of the party managers
THE NETWORK CUsToMHoUsE INVESTIGATION.
fragrant wrongs in the York Customhouse were
revealed, and an investigation insisted on What hap
| penedq The who denounced the abuses viii
fed and traitors to the Republican party
the voice of the people made itself heard and after
leaders perceived that refuse Investigation would
Sa G ev was s p nP' on the q Come e
mittee The investigation was made, mass of testi-
The efforts OF members who virtually constituted them
truth could not be entirely snothered It was clearly
and beyond cayi established that bribery and corrui
house. with its legion of officers had in the
machinery to connect the politics Of the state
Of New-YOrk, and this in the name of the
called the General order business by wnchthe merean,
had een BY the aaa Tn 6
Congress Committees, and by Officers of the Treasury
Department itself, still in full operation, aud that
most benefited by of the favortes
Of the President and having acquired this source
righteous gain the strength Of general introduction
written by the President himself maintained his posi-
against all efforts to correct the evil All this the testi
| tee made its report which is before the country.
| 1t is a wonderful performance. That there was
| Bribery and thevng were bad, but bribery and
nobody in particular blame for it, That the Custom
msde Itself feit in poes could NOT we'll he denied bnt
it had always been and beside WAY should net OIL
the Custom house into political machine right
ALL and nobody to blame and, for the
General business,
arities may have occurred but the enemies of the A
slandering the innogea persons involved and the
traton, there is the And all of this in the
very face of the most conclusive testimony and Leet
ons OF the system, in the General Order business
THE FRENCH ARMS INVESTIGATION.
| An investigation demanded of the sales of
| to French agents during the FrancoGeTman The
who advocated the inquiry held up traitors
to the Republican party, as enemies of their country
| and monsters of wickedness generally Again,
of those who denounced the scandal appointed
made. The testimony showed in the clearest
had been systemateaIiy tramped under Foot that IN
direct Hioaten OF the Orders 81 the War
with wel-known French agents, and that under the
arms had been delivered to such agents after they
infernafions fandn Of the 1STnrSSe1I AZ tI was
proven clearly that sensible could doubt it,
the War Department construed the law for themselves
ana as to their direct transactions with French agents
they had right to do what they did do and nobody to
sibe we are told that laws may be vioated if in tue
than the observance and doctrine of international la
is set upon which If applied to our Alabama claims,
universe But at any cost the Administration must be
protected.
| THE NAVAL AND NEw-oRLEASs INvEsTIGA ATOMS.
Certain charges made against the Secretary of
the Navy. An investigation is ordered 1t is clearly
proven that he paid out large money in direct
violation of the express language of statute. But what
ofY
thought the claimant equitably entitled to the money
construed the law for himself accordingly. Nobody
| Government officers at New-Orleans, of whom at
with seandalous of official power, in interfering
with the politics of the State and other rascaity. An
have reached the public, making it certain that the
and TO the Administration. And what does the
Committee do! II does not report at all trying to
truth IN secrecy The same policy is followed with
Official documents from the war Department venture
to say that the report of neither OF these two nyesga
The people must restrain their curiosity and
all this signify What does it mean that
when the abuses of the Government shortcomings
: matte whiteWashing is cultivated as one of the
the Presdent can ever 50 aSranty franSSress hIs co
stitutona power as he did when ordering the navy to
against any foreign assalant and against his
late the of the and the commands Of public
decency that the officers of the Administration may
public may shown gross and that then
party treason and every source Of ingenuity IS eS
hausted the floor of Congress, as well as
Committed d9s to pect the guilty guilty f parties
What e thai tS see R even sSga en
OF high public station who might be presumed to respect
of Presidential nepotsm thing so disgracefu in Re-
Run that no man with the spirit and PRIDE Of an Amer
end the Illuminating fact without feeling the blush OF
less abandonment of truth and right and deceDcy