Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1873-08-27
THE LAST DISGRACE.

This is the caption of an article in the
New York Tribune detailing the Carpan-
ter scandal. Senator Carpenter, it will
be recollected went into the Senate in
1869 from the State of Wisconsin. 1t
was his first term in Congress, but he
showed talent, and he soon gained the
favor Of other Senators, particularly
thos. of the Republican party. He is
among the few Congressmen who have
had the audacity to stand before the
public and defend the salary grab; but he
did it. He is now President OF the Sem
ate pro tenn, and in case of the death or
inability of the Vice President, or where
he might be called to fill the Presiden-
tial Office, this man Carpenter would per-
form the duties pertaining to the second
office in the land. And should both
President and Vice President be removed
by death or rendered incompetent. Mr..
Carpenter would become ex-officio Presi-
dent Of the United States. The particu-
lars Of the eminent gentleman's immoral
conduct have not been developed, but
that they are Of most damaging nature
will appear by the following from the
Tribune:
We are not in the midst OF a hot cam
paign, and as there is no reason for at
lacking private character or retailing
political scandal or seaside gossip SC
there Is no excuse Tor supprr ssing the
truth When its publication Is needed, and
no pretext for attrbuting it to partisan
ship or prejudice Distinguished public
men, Representatives and Senators in
Congress, have had the etfrontery 10
stand up in Congress, and before their
constituents, and undertake to defend as
shameless breach of public trust as ever
was thrust in the face Of decent people.
and Instead of hot outburst of indig-
nant denunciation, there has been only a
sort Of sick-at-the-stomach turning away
from the low-fung seli-seeking gang.
Rascalities have been developed in all de-
partments of the Government that should
keep our prisons more than full were
justice done; legislation has been bought
and sold, and corporations have in the
most deliberate and unblushing manner
bought seats in the Senate for their re-
tanned attorneys; the legislature has be-
come market place, and the polls an
arena for violence and bribery; and We
settle down to ..our lower standards of
morality, our debasing tendencies and
constantly deteriorating moral sense with
complacent calmness as to the natural
and inevitable.
How far shall We let this numbness
OF perception, this utter deafness to all
sense of shame, carry us? Granted
that in the ierceness of our money!
getting passion We may put conscience
out Of court entirely, and sacrifice every.
thing to the main chance, shall we stop
at that? Or are we to have sitting at
hearths as household gods all shames
and crimes? The last great scandal,
touched lightly by the press, but hruited
everywhere now, is not of avarice and
greed. but OF intemperance and lust.
Open, public, brazen, TAINTED in the
faces of decent wives and mothers, and of
pure daughters and sisters, a shame,
ioul-fronted, sickening and beastly. Be-
tween the sensual sot. of brilliant INTEL
wv cut Nie tosOclatlOnS ana depravtd
habits, whose lately set himself and par
amour on public exhibition in this CITY
and at Long Branch-bstween him and
the Presidency of the United States are
but two lives, and one OF them of frailest
tenure. Is the nation drunken that il
sees this large disgrace paraded under
It's very eyes, and takes into its nostrils
the stencil of the offense, and makes M
sign OF nausea? Has dead and buried
dencency no resurrection? Who and
where is the clear thinking statesman~
no, not statesman, common man-eyerv
day man-hari-1sted. rough and hearty
but honest way down, true to wifi. and
family and his own manhood, who will
roll away the stone from the sepulcher Of
public virtue? The time calls out TO,
him. Th. souptry waits his coming. A
nation bowed down with the sham,
brought on it by its trusted servants, with
its face in the dust, pays in its anRuisl
for some CONFUSION that shall rend tn
heavens aud purify the air.
And the United States Senate-what !
ito duty7 Has It any ssli-Ssspeet lsft7