The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-12-11

cain sending money, state THE POST OFFICE
| to which the paper is sent.~aA
Other Examples of Party Panderine
to Crime.
We last week alluded to the contrast
which the case Of Tweed afforded TO that
of the Maine public robbers in the paper
credit business. who are still mwhipped
otjustlcc. Other and quite as conspicuous
examples will occur to the reader who
shall exercise his memory Without the
shadow of reason the prison doors have
been flung open to Paymaster Hodge, who
plnndered million from the treasury.
and he has been restored to Washington
society
Another case is that of Joseph F. Mar
! Ger, treasurer of Philadelphia, who robbed
the treasury of that city. The public
and press Of Philadelphia and the whole
nation hailed this visitation of Justice
as sure sign Of coming reform, then
as now SO earnestly desired, Just as the
press of New York and the nation hail the
visitation of Justice on Tweed Judge
faHSon. VINO passed sentence on Marcel
did 50 in terms appropriate and emphatic
He said:
| cannot let the occasion pass without ey-
| pressing an emphatic condemnation of YOUR
| ofenSe. The missapplication of public money
has become the crime of the age. If not
destroy onr r insttnfio r''N wien WI, h
comes money-crllshed by corruption its vitality
In NV onininn the mmhIie ar .,i5 NIL, m
for your otiense and others of similar char
gared with foo much indtarenc 49, W W., wa
need Is a higher and purer political morality
proper use Of nmhc Money "t tb im.N 70 im n M
Grated. 1t was the lack of this which made
Reyond ,his we sao notb;na in ox+o,,,o,;o,, %
Your case The people had coniided to you the
trust. You should have Guarded the door Of
! .,ir treasury even As me rherlblm protected
the flaming sword against all who approached
tha ha n1 ~ nua posi' t a. iilelner OF
tee gave you ample opportunities of knowing
I'm view iw Of a y" the ,' fct s nf against me ght
do less than impose the full penalty of the law.
Nafeer was sentenced 10 pay the costs
81 'he nr"Secl'llon ana 'mn at fhr"" HIM
VI wa ''''''''''' "'i'''''' '".' "'so 10 serve
WV, 'N'''' '"'' I'''''' '''o'''ie III 'o'''''iS
NV ~ ''' l>''' III ''e '''''e PRISON.
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= P0"o' ~ '''o Ia" ~ N''"i'''e ''Nel ANA
f'o'eV' '''' i'''''''
VI "'' was >e"'e''ee' 10 ''e eN'iei'ie
p'''''''' VI NV ''" IN MS '''s'' |" pay
iine Vi h'e h'tiloleu 'lo'tsaiiu "oilars 10
'iie commonwealth lof 'he use OF lhe
county oeslaes the costs OF the prosect-
'loh' ana to serve ten years and nlne
'lioillha III SOLITARY confinement ut labor
lhcse events occurred no longer ago
than the spring OF last year President
"f'hl was Immediately afterwards noml-
mated LOT fe-electlon. Each OF the crml-
haiS hao personally ana through his rela-
yves s'rohS polltlcal influence IN Penn
'ylVahla Backed by other BIRDS OF the
same leather they applied for pardon to
the then Governor Geary, but were refused.
On the eve OF the October election in
pennsylvania, when might determine the
presidential election, Grant was summoned
by these parties from Long Branch to
fhiladelphia' whefe ne was met by Senator
SIMON cameron and United States Dis
trlct-Attolney Swoope, and after consul
tation by the trio, SWoope lett that night
Tor harrisburg bearing request from
president Grant to Governor Geary to
his bidding and in the morning returned
to his presidential master, the head of the
republican party, with the desired pardon
of the two criminals whose robbery was
on a scale almost unparalleled
A fair statement of the case leaves nc
doubt whatever that the pardon of Marcel
and Yerkes was the work of President
Grant for partisan purposes to aid il
securing his own election 1t is not nee
Grant in Tins na,vartino tbo ;nananca n
his high Office by his solicitations made