Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1872-11-02

seas, anu 6tICtCuGS OUT ilcT MINUS tU Us
for protection !? We're not the plainest
provisions of statue law rudely vioIa>
ted when the Government permitted
the sale of arms to the French in
their war with the Germans Presi- |
dent Grant wanted San Domingo, but
could not get it, and because Senator
Sumner opposed his act which was
contrary TO law, he stabbed him in the
back, aud now the Radicals cry gut be-
cause Sumner does not lend his aid to
elect on unconstitutional ruler. To
obtain from the tyrant Baez the sale of
the island in dire ct opposition of Her
ldW. President Grant treading uuder
foot OUR Constitution, assumed the war
making power and employed our naval
forces to uphold this would be vendor
of his country. and to menace the
friendly Republic of Haiti Oh! what
an honorable administration this has
been. God knows We love such honor>
able men! Are they many men in
this ward thoroughly satisfied with the
ma amer in which our political affairs,
at home and abroad have been managed?
If not, can Radical chains keep them
silent! Can they not throw of the
trammels of party and expose the cause
of a movement that embraces the whole
country in its principles
| Lcok at the way in which the money
matters of the nation have been cared
for The populations aud defalcations
occurring during the reign Of our
President, are unequaled in the history
of America. They amount to millions
of dollars. And my Republican
friends, if they are present, Commits
tee OF Investigation, appointed to
inquire into the management of the
Civil Service composed of your own
Republican party, reported to the
President last December, that it is
calculated by those who made careful
study Of the facts, that efour,h of
the revenues of the United States are
annually lost in the collection, aud for
n large part of that loss system of
the service which is fatally unsound
may reasonably be he'd responsible. "
These are the words of your own
Republican Committee And yet no
barrier is placed in the way of these
robbers aud these gigantic swindles-
When Grant chooses to raise his
clenched hand and put stop to things
personally annoying, he can do it.
Ii seems to me when he is not
concerned that hand hangs by his side
paralyzed aud dead.
Now how is it, that when Liberal
Republicans and Democrats use their
voices and their pens to cry aloud
against this official rascality that
appropriates for its own nefarious ends,
about 100000 of Government
funds annually; that the members of
the party in power fight with might
and main to steuI the current of their
influence, and hurl in their faces the
vilest abuse 1t is because, sir, the
promise made by the President, when
be was honored with the civic Crown,
to hold his Office but for one term and
r to decline a reelection, has been
broken up and he now uses the vas,
political machinery of the Government,
as no other Chief magistrate has done
since America began her glorious
course, to keep him in his lofty place
For this reason the Radicals in
, Congress have trampled under foot al
f measures introduced by patriotic and
wise men, looking TO correction ot
$ existing evils.
0 To effect the Presidents reelection
3 became the chief aim of the Admins
y tration aud the means chiefly relec
b ON were these very men who had beer
so guilty-these trained bands of Office
o holders-equally interested in the
s perpetuation of his power. To expos,
to the broad blaze Of the light of day
: the base acts of the guilty, among thes,
z political soldiers, would be to crush
D their ranks aud their influences, ant
3 shock the whole nation by an ofiicia
u turpitude hitherto undreamed of
$ Without their aid, how could thei
: Caesar enjoy the luxury of secont
d term, and they re>insert their itchin!
}. palms in the full measure of the public
IS papt
Nothing vas done, therefore, L
. arrest this flow of national disgrace
y and We behold a spectacle that shoul'
. be humiliating to every lover of hi
;. countryside spectacle Of SOM
= of these very men, marching from on
end of the land to the other, besprlnk k
III l;rr with tha;e na,nsonns praisa fh
: reeking, ranking corruption the.
. themselves have fattened ons an'
g shoutisg aloud fov their retention il
g Office, and Civil service Reform
. Civil.service Reform, indeed, sir
q Civil service Reform by such as they
Why, sir, take single example Q
d figures. At the little town of New
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