Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-01
MANIPULATING THE CREDIT MoBnIER,
FOR PARTY ACCOUNT.

. ..... =. q. - FOR PARTY ACCOUNT.
LII n tTke 4dpese, of This city advises people to
read the Credit Mobller testimony. 1t assures
them that they win be well repAid,T as the
facts described are "discredtable, dishonorable,
IL H,a trsqusntly dishonest and are sure to give
the reader pain" There's no accounting for
tai VIsa'tess some rea for instruction, some for
tertainment; but to be advised to read carefully
sHf shines dscreditable dishohorable and dishonest
hUlxia order TO be certainly well paid by pain, is it
must be conferred singular suggestion! ,,.
tsgJ &C Whist especially remark however, is that
"a 1e alp the Democratic newspapers hope to make
partisan capital out Of this investigation isnor-
ing tho facts that ii was begun at the instance
.n,, of Speaker Blaine, by the Republican House Of
Representatives, and has been conducted by q
,hRspdbliean Committee and further that no one
has been shown to have 80 dscreditable q
connection withthe manipulation of the Credit
Aobiter,- as Mr.. James Brooks, who was not
- AdR5 member Of congress, but. Trustee of
the interests which the Credit Mobilier injured
as a Goyernment Director of the Pacific Rail-
road. These facts remove the whole matter
~ 81 tousof theamits Of pere party questions and
s- we hase no doubt, whatever that the people
have SO regarded it. Experience showed that
the. Samana Wrangles, in the Senate, and
thu numerous Investigating Committees of
the last Session Of Congress- did no harm
AS, of course, they should MOTTO the Re-
s.ispublican organization. They were recognized
ssv Aa proceedings which resulted from causes not
partisan 10 their character, and which must be
distorted and falsi6ed, in order to be applied to
party account ST Il - Us
Very unjnstly the Democratic papers, general
IA Ely show extraordinary anxiety to drag in the
mire the names of all the public men, who in
any way have been associated with the investi-t
4 gstion, without, discriminating among them
:" zfiiolding Credit Mobfier stock was an offense
Ta7Fs many or the gentlemen named are proved
fobe Innocent even of that Senator Wilson
whom the sAdcerttser charges with dabbing
tiE $40 IN It, and to whom the Reading Eagle, an
81, other Democratic paper, chooses to refer
.al ol asa Credit Mobiler Swindler, is clearly
IN shown never to have owned cents worth, and
to have promptly caused the return of tha
% which, at their silver wedding, some friends had
given his wife. Perhaps the motive of the gift
was bribery; perhaps this was the underhand
and roundabout way which Mr.. Oakes Ames
chose. to reach Mr.. Wilson; let us admit
1o this, and what then Simply this-Ltdt il |
Jdtted Mr.. Wilson regarded the owner
ship ofthe stock, even by his wife, as possi-
ply liable to objection, and he had it
handed back to the donors The explana-
ton of the transaction, the Advertiser terms
Pecksnfian hypocrisy, that is to say, false |
% hood and deceit-but, apart from its desire to
make partisan capital and the ssneral anxiety |
already noted as shown by the Democratic /
newspapers, to besmirch to the utmost every |
good name associated with the business |
there is no motive for applying such a |
term to Mr.. Wilson's very clear and
complete refutation of any wrong doing ON his |
part As for other gentlemen. including Mr. |
ColfAx and Senator Patterson, their error in /
holding in Credit Mobiher stock-if they did hold |
it, and If they did, therefore, err-is less serious
than the apparently contradictory statements in |
which they have involved themselves and It is /
these last which their best friends most /
pain Perhaps they can be duly expained-and |
surely every charitable and fair man will hope
they may be-but, when it is considered
that the Republican party, in the Nation at large
relegated Mr.. Colfax to private life, last June /
and that the Republicans OF New Hampshire did |
not re-elect Mr.. Patterson to the Senate last
Autumn, but chose another to fill his place after
March 4th certainly the Republican organiza-
tion cannot receive any serious injury by a fail.
ure Of all explanation offered in their behalf
The Credit Mobiler inquiry will DO a good
work. 1t will be salutary lesson to our public
men. 1t will check if it does not repress the
growing tendency to corrupt and unworthy polit-
ical methods among the masses. Public men
are what the people make them and when scum
is rising to the surface you may be sure there
are impurities beneath.