The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-09-26

: Special Correspondence Gin. Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Sept. I6.
a campaign speaker who attack
others torshorteomings and imprope
scis should be careful that his ow
record is perfect, At least, in regar
to the matters he presumes to crit
else. So also party orator, befor
be attacks the opposing organization
for supporting improper and scan
dalous measures, should examine tn
record of his own party to see whethe
it does not deserve equal denuncia
ton. 1a.
In neither OF these respects ha
Senator Thurman exercised common
prudence. He has attacked indiyid
usl Republicans and the Republican
party in Congress for certain measures
when the record show Democrats il
both houses to be equally responsible
and he has charged the Republican,
with being unworthy of public conf
dence for conserving together to dC
Whist the DemOcrsts could have pre-
vented had they but lifted their little
fingers in oppOsihtion instead OF rails
ing bothhands to secure the objection
able leeistion.
An examination into the course o
legislation upon any particular meas.
ure IS a tedious matter, either in the
Congressional Globe or in the Journals
or the two houses. The record OF 8
bill which excites opposition is not
continuous, but interruptions OF bus
mess at sll steps, references to COM
mittees, amendments by those, and
then by both houses, next the actions
in conference, and finally the reports
from conference and the struggle
over them, are all scattered about in
tle Globe and the journals, until il is
Impossible, without great labor, to
obtain a connected and complete his
tory and fix the responsibility of in.
dividuals for the part taken by them.
y close following of the official
record through these parliamentary
labyrinths proves the untimely frost
which cuts off Senator Thurman in
his bloom. That part of the record
slready published left Mr.. Thurman
the last Democratic rose Of the salary
grab season He was in full flower.
The back pay frost had nipped every
other Democrat in the Senate, but be
was still unscathed. And now comes
the record and ruthlessly sweeps
away this only and lonely flower OF
comeliness in the garden Of Demo,
cratic Senators.
The votes hitherto printed show ed
Senator Thurman always present, and
always voting on the right side OF the
salary steal. On some of the test
votes few Of his party associates
stood by him. At length he was de-
serted by all but Mr.. Cssserly, and
then be found himself alone-the only
Democrat with q perfect record
against back pay.
All the heated discussions and
printing of votes upon the measure
had left Senator Thurman unharmed.
He had returned his back pay, and it
certainly looked safe.for him to sally
forth for bold attack upon sll grab
bers.
But the record discloses the one
rent in bis armOr. Back of Edmunds,
test resolutions, which have been held
Up IS the central points in the stru G.
gle, was a resolution introduced by
Wright Of Iowa, TO send the whole
bill back to the committee OF confer.
ence, NTH insfruetions 10 strike ont the
amendment containing the increase OF
salaries.
Had this proposition been adopted
either in the Senate or House Ail here
at the time agreed that it would have
effectuslly killed the salary grab.
Here was test vote, and q chance
for Mr.. Thurman and all the Demo.
Gratis 20 defea. the Objectionable meas
ure. But just here Mr.. thurman
failed; just here he who had cone IN.
scathed through the rest OF the battle
suddenly fell-or rather, iDgloriously
surrendered.
The danger of defeating the in.
crosse was great. And Mr.. Trumbul
sought to avert it by a division. Sc
he raised the objection that 8 COM
mittee Of conference could not be
instructed. Ard although Barclays
Digest, which is accepted as authori-
~ by both houses. said: ga com.
mittee of conference may be instruct.
ed like any other committee," all W be
desired to raise the salaries accepted
the way Of escape offered by Trum.
bulls objection, and voted with bin
to oyerrule the presiding officer whc
had decided against the salary grab
bers, and with Barclay.
Hele it was that Mr.. Thurman
failed. Here it was that, though
present, be dodgsd, leaving only Mr.
Hamilton, OF Maryland, to represent
the Democratic opposition to salary
stealing, and with thirteen OF his asso-
ciates TO vote openly against this GER
tain method of killing :he grab.
And so it appears, when the record
OF all the votes relating to back pay
are examined, that rot one Demo.
cratic Senator has q clear record in
the mstter-some surrendered early,
some later, but sooner or later all
went over 10 the assistance of the
common eneWy-that is, TO those,
both Republicans and Democrats,
who, through this salary bill, stole
the peoples money.
THURMAN's ANTI SALARY SPEECHES IN
THE SENATE.
The tone OF Senator Thurman
speeches in the campsign would lead
everyone TO suppose that he mus
baTe made valiant fight on the fool
OF the Senate when the iniquity b,
psints in such dark colors was undel