Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-10-03

live since the war. To infiame the preiudices
of the people of the Southern States against
Northern men, who go there to 1--we, is
strange way to create harmony and good feel
ing among all classes of the people. know
that many bad men from the North have
found their way into office in the Southern
States since the war.
| GREELEYs CARPET-BAGGERs
But all the bad men in Office there were not
born in the North, nor are they all Republi-
cans. nor do they all support President
Grant. Five of the Governors of the recon
structed States were born in the South, and
five of them are Democrats. Virginia has a
Democratic Governor and the largest public
debt of any of the Southern States, and War
| moth, who is the reputed Tweed of the South.
is loud for Greeley and reform. Attacks are
made upon President Grant as though he was
IN some way responsible for the action of the
| Southern State Governments He has moth
ing to do with them more than any other
man. People there choose whomsoever they
Will to fill the State offices, as they do in other
places. They have elected Democrats in
| some of the States, and in others they have
elected Republicans Complaint is made of
| the President because he allows, as it is said.
| the carpet-bsg State officers of the South TO
| plumber the people, and at the same time he
Is denounced for interfering too much with
| Southern affairs.
CORRUPTION IN OFFICE.
When the enemies of the Administration
have nothing else to say about it, they charge
1t with corruption, meaning, I suppose, the
misuse of the public money. Let us look this
Hlppant accusation squarely in the face for a
moment. More than a dozen investigating
committees have been organized to find some
ground upon which to sustain this charge, but
all of them We mserably failed so far as
they were intended to affect the integrity of
those who compose the Administration.
To fOro
to the French. With much affected virtuous
indignation this attack was made because tn ;
proceeds of those sales were not accounted
| for. But the charge finally dwindled into an
| allegation that the Secretary of War did not
exercise proper vigilence to keep those arms
out of the hands of the French after thew
were sold to private individuals
NO intelligent person can fail to see that
TINS charge was concocted by Sumner and
| Schurz with the view of influencing the Ger
man vote in the Presidential election. This,
| Ike similar attempts, seems to have failed
| What can be said of the good taste of an
American Senator who goes about the coun-
| try endeavoring to arouse the Germans here
| against the Government of the United States
on the ground of some suppose affront to
the Government of Germany? Defalcations
have occurred under all Administrations since
the formation of the Government, and ALWAYS
Will occur. because 1t is impossible for any
President. in the tens Of thousands of men
whom he appoints to Office, to avoid the coca
| sIonal appointment of a dishonest man
| Cashiers and clerks of banks and business
| houses are constantly committing defalca-
| tons IN spite of the vigilance of their en-
ployers, but that does not prove that those
who manage such banks and business houses
| are char cable with corruption, When Tam
many controlled New York city. its govern
| ment was corrupt, because all, from the
M hest to tue lowest, shared in the pecula-
iations and frauds upon the people; but there
| Is no shadow of ground for saying that as to
| the Administration of the General Govern
ment. When it can be made to appear that
any official under this Administration has
been guilty OF embezzlement or fraud and
has not been promptly exposed and prose-
| cuted, and, II possible, punished, some begin
nlng will be made to sustain the charge of
| corruption.
| dREELEY's REFoRMERs
Suppose Greeley is elected, what reasons
| have you for believing that the condition of
| things in respect to this matter will be i'm
proved? Greeley has given his adherents to
understand, notwithstanding all that is said
| about civil service eform, that when he is
| President he will remember those to whom he
| is indebted for his election, whether thew be
| Democrats or Republicans and no man doubts
that he will: If elected, remove from Office
every man he can who opposes his election
on that ground, if no other exists. and fill tn
places SO made vacant with his supporters.
Look at the long AID hungry procession that
Will follow him to the White House in view of
this result. Foremost among these are the
renegade Republicans, the modest men then
follow the Tammanyites, who responded to
Greeley's nomination with a hundred guns.
the pure men: and last, but not least tn,
Democratic politicians, the patriotic men.
All these will press their respective claims for
office upon the consideration of the new
Executive with Babel-like confusion of
tongues.
HIS FINANCIAL THEORIES
Congress, from time to tine, passed laws
reducing the burdens of taxation upon the
people, to which Mr.. Greeley was strenuously
opposed. insisting that the taxes should be
kept SO high that the whole of the public debt
OF the United States could be paid off within
the period of ten years. When the war was
over there was strong sentiment in the
Democratic party in favor of the reputation
of the public debit then it was proposed to
pay that debt IN greenbacks, and now it is
suggested that the revenues NAV be so re-
duoed by legislation as to make the Govern
ment unable to meet its public engage
ments. Can anybody tell which of these
financial schemes will be brought forward if
the Democratic party succeeds Some change
Is to be made. of course, in that event, for
the present financial policy of the Government
is bitterly denounced, both by the Democratic
party and their allies. If they mean ANYTHING
by this clamor, they mean, of course. to- over
throw that system if they can, and introduce
In the administration of the Government a
new and financial policy
Are we to have ii that event the vagaries of
Mr.. Greeley, or the theories of the Democratic
party? Does not every man of intelligence
know that any attack upon our public credit
would force back upon the markets of this
country, with widespread and disastrous re-
suits, hundreds of millions of dollars of our
securities held in the Old World? Does any,
body doubt that if an attempt was made to
destroy our national bank system, which is
bitterly assailed by the enemies of the Repub-
hcan party, or any other radical change at
tempted in our financial affairs, that disorder,
confusion and ruin would fall upon the none
tary of the country.
GRANT NOT STATESMAN
1t is quite common for the coalition party to
say that Grant knows nothing about civil
affairs, but Greeley is great statesman.
This is so lnrespect professional politician
and an inveterate office-seeker. Year after
year his name has been associated with vacant
offices in New York, and twice, believe, he
has been elected. Once he was Representa-
tive IN Congress, and for some reason left
very much ridiculed by his associates. He
was also once member of a Constitutional
Convention, and, because things didn't 90
there to Suit him abandoned bic coat I;I,o