The daily Argus., 1874-08-11
HOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DEALS
WITH ITS RAsCALs.
The Republican National Address.

StarkWeather, fatuous wretch, thougn1
it we'll to make one little issue Dy stat-
ing in broad terms that the hepubllcan
uartv is in the habit of furnishing Its own
tnaves We never entertained a very
b;gb idea of Starkweathers character for
truth and veracity since we read his ex-
nlanation of the Huntington correspon-
depce, but this last statement leaves no
room for debate Starkweather manifest
" regards truth as inconvenient at best,
and considers veracity mere vice.
What knave has the Republican party
punished2 What knave has it even failed
to encourage? Look at the signatures to
this very address in which Starkweather
in his mad pursuit of strange issues has
embodied his extraordinary averment.
What party in all our history has been
able to make a casual selection of such
an assemblage of eminent representative
scamps as are put forward to speak for
the Republican party this very instance
There is Starkweather himself. He was
the creature of the Washington Ring.
They gave him the money to buy his re-
election. He begged Huntington to give
it to him without publicity" but public
ity overlook it nevertheless. Did the Re-
publican party rebuke Starkweather, and
hand him over to the devil to be bufeted,
or to the Grand Jury OF the District of
Columbia to be sent to the Albany peni-
tentiary? Alas.no They met in caucus
and selected him as the most fitting per-
son to prepare the issues" and present
their cause to the American people.
Has the Republican party done anything
to punish Simon Cameron On the con
trary, they have given him high place and
great power, that the evil qualities which
have rendered him notorious might be ex-
ercised with unrestralned license. lie is
the foremost representative of the party
of addition, division, and silence, the ac-
complice of Mann, Kemble, and Errctt,
the patron of the rufflans who stuff ballot
boxes and manipulate returns. lie began
his public life by cheating savages, and is
about to end it with the spectacle OF the
second Commonwealth in the Union de
baunched from centre to circumference,
fand literally perishing in the clutches o
powerful and rapacious criminals whom he
has set to govern her He is believed to
have bought every one OF his elections to
the Senate, and to have been the prime
agent in corrupting and debasing the Penn
sylvania Legislature until the very name
has become kissing reproach the world
over. He has communicated to every pol
itician that ever fell under his influence a
deadly taint, and it vas only the other day
that we read the mourntul obituary of one
of the blghted wretches who sold him his
vote as an Assemblyman in 1856. He got
into Lincoln Cabinet through a scandal
Gus sale OF his influence at Chicago, and
was hustled out after year trial with a
frighttul Congressional censure pinned to
his back Did he feel himself punished,
or was he cowed? Not at ALL He went
to Harrisburg and bought seat in the
Senate Then he led Grant by the nose
on fishing excursions up in Pennsylvania.
Then he bel ped Grant in his efforts to
steal half of a tropical island, and to in
augurate hostihties against the unotiend-
ing people of the other half Then logic
ally enough he edged Charles Sumner
from the craftsmanship of his committee
and stands there to-day courtcd, flourish
ing, insolent, unabashed His name is
appended to this very address as one OF
those whom Starkweather might call the
elect. The moral needs no pointing.
There, too, are the names OF Spencer
and Clayton. If there can be picked out
Of the horde of brutal miscreants who OPP
press and plunder the South two more in
famous carpet baggers or Scalawags than
these,we are unable to mention them. Aud
red-headed Bill Stewart, what Of him ?
The name recalls some of the most execra-
bic transactions of the era. The Little
Emma mine, judicial prostitution in Utah,
purchased elections in Nevada, the sale Of
votes and gilded palaces at Washington,
are only a few items selected from the
monstrous catalogue. Further on is the
meaner and humber name Of Piatt, who
earned his distinction by wholesale and
fraudulent tranking, and whose interest in
certain dishonest stone contracts was ex-
posed but the other day on the floor OF the
House. Even Chapman, the representa-
tive of the convicted Washington Ring,
composed Of Boss Shepherd, with a mis-
celIaneous following OF figure head office
holders, corrupt contractors, forgers, kid
nappers, and burglars, emulated
the eifrontery Of his associates, and boldly
added his signature TO Bill Stewards and
Starkweather But the recital Of crimes
committed in the name Of the Republican
party by the identical men who put forth
this very appeal would require volume.
Were any OF these punished? ? Are any
OF their heads shaved? Do they wear
parti colored clothes? On the contrary
they are among the accepted leaders of the
party, and they speak fer it with voice
OF authority ou all other occasions as they
do on thus. Starkweather and Logan and
Cameron and Nipple Mitchell and Clayton
and many others Of the lis, who are too
obscure TO be named, are living testimon.
nies against Starkweather's unfortunate
assertion that the Republican party can be
trusted to deal with its own knaves
Starkweather and most of the men who
sign his addresses were members of the
Congress which Witnessed the Credit Mo
biter exposure. 1t was by common con
sent the most stupendous fraud ever per
hetrated IN America. 1t had for its object
tne swindling of the United States out of
ABOUT hEty millions Of dollars 1t was
comprehensive scheme, we'll laid and fully
executed by leading members Of the Re
publican party The Union Pacific rail
road, as well as the Credit Mnbjlier. was
conducted, with one or two exceptions. ex.
cinsively. by men Of that faith. When it /
was resolved to buy the American Con
gIess' These eminent aud trusted RepubH- I
cans selected distinguished Republican I
member from New England to place tie
shares where they would do the most good
IN the pockets Of the most powerful Re
hulbhcan Senators and Representatives
i ne conspiracy became absolutely irrcsst-
libe. The bribed C0ngresSmeu voted away
the property Of the United States. and the
trbed Directors Of the railroad passed il
on to the bribers, who called themselves
through the whole band ut as ociatcd /
thieves IN the form uf diyi,lends The
business went on TOR years, until the rob ,
perS tell out among themselves. When /
they undertook 10 cheat one of their own
number cut Of lis share of the piunder IN