Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1873-02-06
WHAT is YOUR OPINION?.

WHAT IS YOUR OPINION?.
The Cleveland Herald expresses
our sentiments exactly in the fol
lowing:
We have been asked by a cores
pendent indignant at the Credit
Mobilier developments before the
Investigation Committees at Wash
ington, "What is your opinion r' 1t
is fair question. and shall have a
frank answer.
We are disguised with the whole
thing. The matter has been unwar,
rantably magnified, and exaggerated,
and-we grieve to say it--such ex-
aggeration, is due to the foolish,
short sighted course pursued by some
of the gentlemen whose regulations
have been called in question. In the
abstract, there was no reason why a
member of Congress should not in
vest in the Credit Mobilier stock, so
long as it could not influence his ac-
tion as Senator or Representative,
and so long as the Credit Mobilier
was supposed to be an honest instit-
ution. In looking at this thing, we
shall plant our feet upon the stand
point they occupied when the trans
action occurred. The Pacific Rail
road was considered the greatest
enterprise of the age, and its COM
pletion deemed the most important
Of consummations, Everything con-
nected with its early history seemed
straight and square, and honest,
Now had all these gentlemen who
have been drawn into this investiga-
ton, made perfectly clean breasts of
it; had they anticipated Oakes
Ames's version of the matter in such
particulars as have, by corroborative
testimony, been shown to be true,
and mad they told, frankly and with
out cross examination, all they knew
about it, this present tempest would
have been confined to tea pot. If
witness desires credit for honesty
before court and jury, he should
not appear to hold anything back
for opposing counsel to pump out of
him We have known witnesses in
law suits to beat the lawyers on the
opposite side by letting out every
thing; thus taking the wind out of
the sail of cross examination.
1t is TO be regretted, exceedingly,
that such course was not PURSUED.
No man--at least no generous, hon
est man---believes those gentlemen,
now implicated by this palpable at
tempt at concealment, took stock
from any improper motive. And
had they sought to bring out all the
facts; had they been their own wit
nesses in the case, and lett nothing
to be suspected except what they
could disprove, their good names
worId not have suffered in the esti
nation of those who are unwilling
to believe anything and everything
dishonest in our public men.
So it comes to pass, in our opin-
ion, that there is more noise about
the connection of Senators and Re
presentatives with the Credit Mobi-
iier scandal than the actual facts
in the case warrant. The gentlemen
now so unhappy in their own con-
sciences, and so unenviably
before the public, have
brought the trouble on themselves,
by being made towards through the
dread Unpopular clamor, when they
should have know that more thar
half case is made out in favor of s
man when he tells the whole story
himself, and what of blame rests up,
on him is buried out Of sight by /:
charity that always is begotten BY
| frankness and candor.
| An Affecting Scene.
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