The Republican journal., 1873-07-31

A soon a~ the republican leaders dis
covered how strong the popular indIgua-
ton was against the Credit MobilieT cor
luption and the back-pa} steal they ut
once trimmed their sails to catch thi,
breeze, and with desperate audacitY have
sought to make capital by pretending 7"
condemn uutragc9 tor which their uytu
party II exclusively ausWrrahlr
Ohio held the first convention and Sent
| ont the pattrn resolution, which was sub
seqlentlv adopted without altrriuga Word
by Maine Ind iowa Rms httir fact show
the preronccu at thr managers Aud
proves that tine scheme WAS drlihorett.
| deception from the start And now Min
| nesOta has passed the machine resolution
| Is follows:
Resolved, THAT Nc heartily applaud TN,
active measures OF the hate ouer.~> tll ferret
M out ami exposing corruption. We hNp
seen with profound regret ia tho Developments
made thereby, evidence of political and Official
corruption ami abuse Of responsible position
/ by men of political parties To- further personal
! ends, and we demand pure Official conduct, and
| the punishment of unlaithtu public ~cIN ants
| state and national, who having bttraN vd the
| confidence freely extended 10 them, shall not h-
| shielded from the disgrace OF their acts hN ANY
| partnership of ours; and we dcn0unrr an red
| il Mob(er transactions, whatever be- then
| form
| This declaration is identical in I he tnu-
| platforms of Ohio. Maine iowa. and Min
| neSota Stripprd of it, Arttul disguise.
| the attempted fraud becomes oaTmg. mt
| tine taisthouds detect Themselves 1t IT,
not true that the late congress adopird
| any active measure tui trrrttmg ola
| and exposing corruption" An inNcstigu
| tion of the Credit AIobihrr iubbcrl wa,
| forced by the independent press. and when
| the testimony convicted the luost prnui.
urnt Republican chiefs NJ corruption, thr
| "latr Congress refused bN repeated votes
Ia eNpet OF condemn the guilty members
| 1t is not true that meu "0i AN political
| parties We're involved in that iuiquitN
| Ihe late James Brooks WAS the only Dem
ocrat implicated Schuyler Collar, Hen
| ry Wilson, Henry L. Dawes James 4
Garfield, William ID Kelley, john A
| Bingham, Oakes AmrS. james w Pattrr
son, GIenni " Scolied, William r. All
son, James F. Wilson and James Harlan
all leading Republicans and holding thr
| highest places ui huuur and TRUST Nh Tie
| party, are the utru whom thai llUe~tlgu-
| tion branded witt mlamN, and NOT ul.,. of
Them was punished by the late Com
| eresr to Whfrh most ut them belonged
/
very rogues who voted themselves nuo-
cent and who packed the House OF Repre-
| erntatiNce with the most Formidable iobhN
| ever collected there representing all the
| great corporations 10 cotrre 1t verdict by
| terrorism, on IL purchase ii with money
| That i the way the Republican majority
"trrreted out and exposed corruption"
| Equally false is thu. declaration Miid, tN
I tI,.S.. A al a.,
| fetal conduct, and the punishment ol nm
| faithful public men. State and uatinnal.
who having betrayed the confidence freely
extended to them, shall NOT be shielded
| from the disgrace Of their acts by any
| partnership of ours Not a Single mann,
of all the convicted Republicans nus bctu
| htld up /" rrpruhatiou These couN cutlon~
have done exactly the opposite ot What
they profess, by shielding from disgrace
the "mtalthtul public m,u who had Dc
| trayrd their confidence" New York sun