The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-05-05

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their places with view to the performance
OF their duties. but only as bases of operation
against the public purse. while, if we were
fairly rid of these men, the general presence
OF new men in ONCE would be equivalent
to revival of national vitality. New men are
apt to come into Office with good impulses
which soon yield, however. and then the neo-
phytes are worse even than the old rogues;
but with general accession Of new men, COM
ing in upon the heels of moral revolution
which had driven their predecessors out be-
cause of their evil propensities, the change
would probably operate with more lasting
benefit.
In this way the Credit Mobilier exposures
were great advantage to the country. They
covered some men with shame 80 deep that they
could feel it themselves through the rhinoceros
hide that usually covers the conscience Of
politicians. Others scarcely less deeply in
volved remain Drawing it out, but not without
constant remembrance of their scars. All
the corruptions shown by the Sanborn investi-
CATION, the unimpeachable evidence they fur
knowingly assisted the robbery of the public
treasury, and. further, the revelations Of the
imitation battle, which have marked distinctly
for the public instruction the men who were
foolish enough or false enough to sustain that
suicidal policy-from all these we may have
assistance towards the same desirable end Of
driving from public life the men who now
disgrace the country. We have not, of
course, any notion that many men of this
class will retire of their own accord but we
expect to see the parties that nominate them
beaten at the polls wherever they are opposed
by men who, being new to public Life, may
afford at least some promise of improvement;
and when defeat has come often enough in
this salutary way the political committees
themselves will even outrun the public de-
sire in their hunger and thirst for fresh ma
terial.
With party lines clearly drawn and well
recognized party issues at stake the people
who would sustain one or another side Of o
party division cannot usually afford to dis
criminate too nicely as to their men. They
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didate because they do not thoroughly like the
man on their own ticket, for what may seem
the small deficiencies of their own candidate
are esteemed of far less evil than the success
Of the principles maintained by the other.
This helplessness Of the people is exploited by
the political managers in the filing of every
Office, even up to the Presidency. But as the
finance issue seems less imminent what are
the subjects Of difference between the people
that are of any consequence by comparison
with the benefit of having honest representa-
tivesp Surely not the dead issues Of opposi-
ton to slavery and the vigorous prosecution
Of the war" which was the great thunder Of
The republican party, though that thunder
now would scarcely turn sour barrel of small
beer. No; there is no issue Of moment if the
financial issue fails us; and, that failing, it
seems highly probable that the universal dis
gust with the vile practices of republican
may give us roll of compare
lively new names in public life, and any
change of that sort must necessarily be great