Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-09-12


does a man. or party, with such a
record rs this, denounce others for
entertaining the same views. The only
thing of which Senator Morton can
justly complain is the fact that the Dem
ocratic party stands by its convictions
and does not change with the wind as
he does He continues:
But the Democratic party does not
need to justify itself by the utterances
OF the Senator. however conclusive, on
the subject of negro suffrage. only
quote him against himself to show how
unreliable has been his leadership to
men Of principle. We appeal to the
tleplorable condition of the South for
the justification of our position on the
suffrage question. Bankrupt States,
beygared communities, wasted prov
inces, plundered cities, and deserted
fields are our witnesses. The Senator
says, in his speech here week ago,
the Democracy in the the South means
n conflict of races Even if this were
true, which it is not, who would he to
blame for it so much as the Senator
himself? In his speech at Richmond,
Ind. he proclaimed that the establish
ment of negro suffrage and negro State
governments in the South would result
in war of races, and as soon as con-
vefient afterward proceeded to assist in
doing that very thing. If the war of
races is there it is his own handiwork."
The speaker advocated thorough re-
vision of the tariff and a reduction of
duties to basis of revenue only, as the
most direct and adequate means of Sc
curing cheap transportation. If rail
road companies continue to pay an ex-
orbitant price for their iron and steel,
tie farmers will have to foot the bills
in the augmented rates charged for
transportation.
A large portion of Senator Morton's
speech was devoted to apologies for the
startling corrupt MS unearthed in his
party during the past two years. He
placed great stress upon the assump-
ton that they discovered their own swim
dies, for which in behalf Of the Yarty he
claimed great credit. In reference to
thisclaim, Mr.. Voorhees, said:
The people are not so much con-
cerned as to how frauds are discovered
as they are in regard to the fact that
they exist. The fact that man has a
fatal disease preying upon him is more
important to him than the physician
who discovers it. If it be true, as Nor
ton virtually admits, and the history of
the times abundantly proves, that the
administration of the government in all
its branches by the Republican party
has become so corrupt that every
examination, whether self made or not
reveals immense official dishonesties,
and it takes the time of one-half its
leaders to investigate the other half,
then indeed has the time come for the
people to rise, irrespective of party, and
sweep the Auyean stables. But poor
as the plea OF the Senator is on this
point, he is not even EMIT led to it's
benefit, for it is not sustained by the
facts. He enumerates the Credit Mo-
bilier, Sanborn and District of Column
bia frauds as discoveries made by the
Republican party, and for which punish.
ments were meted out to the guilty.
Nothing could be more spurious than
such claim. When the impartial
story of these times shall be written.
the credit of arresting the public atten-
ton to the gigantic frauds of the Credit
Mobilier Company will he awarded to
Horace Greeley, who, in his speech at
indianapolis, while candidate for the
Presidency, made the first exposure of
its stupendous schemes. This led to
agitation, and the subsequent investiga-
tons, not in accordance with the
wishes of the Republican officials, but
against them. Public opinion once
having seized the facts given by MIR.
Greeley, force every step of the subse-
quent proceedings. No credit what
ever is due on this subject to the re-
publican organization, or its leaders
They simply quailed before the storm
and Travelled with the wind because they
could not do otherwise.
"Having shown, however, that the
Senator claim of discovery is totally
unfounded, how shall we gravely con-
slider his pretentions that the Republi-
can party has punished those whom
it has exposed? Punished! Who has
been punished? Were all those mem
bers of Congress who held stock in the
Credit Mobilier punished by being re-
appointed by the speaker to the chair
manships of all the leading committees
of the house? Was John A. Bingham
of Ohio, punished for his shares of this
stock by being appointed minister to
Japan? Was Richardson punished
when he was taken in his disgrace
from the Treasury and appointed to an
exalted judicial life office; and was
Senator Morton inficting punishment
on him when his confirmation was car