Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1874-10-01


Government, and have the best
chance to peculate. Second. It has
been the especial labor of the present
| administration to detect and Dunish
peculatiOn. Some cases have been
found.
He was a great statesman, as well
as a great poet, who made Cassius
say:
I'm such a time as this it is not meet
That every nice ofense should bear his com
ment.'
However specious that theory may
sound, many great rulers have been
compelled, in turbulent times, to
| practice upon it. William III. was
an honest magistrate. He had a
world to fight, and he was compelled
to be very Ienient toward the treasons
of GodOlphin and Marlborough. He
was slow to punish the embezzle-
ments of Torrington, and he never
/ did punish the manifold rascalities of
! Oxford. During the struggle and ex-
| citement which attended the rebellion
some bad men found their way into
! public emp1oyments. Mr.. Lincoln's g
administrat ton was too much occu-
pied with graver matters to keep
strict watch Of every individual Of
fender. The administration which
succeeded was quite as unprepared
for that duty. Congress was then
much absorbed in the great work of
reconstruction, and the President was
not happily fitted to criticise official
misconduct. Butthe present Admin
| istration has no exemption from that
work. If it is not attended to now,
| the Administration, and not the
! times, must be held responsible. But
it is attended to. 1t is prosecuted
with that infiexible energy which
| President Grant. Some offenses have
been exposed. And every time a
rogue has been punished the opposi-
! ton has shouted: "See how corrupt
Republicans are!" 1t is as if,
whenever surgeon removes a tumor
from his patient the mob should
! shout: 3" How very rotten the doctor
must be!n So this unfinching re-
form is prosecuted at the risk of this
twofoId peril: First. Every time we
remove rascal we lend plausibility
to- Democratic calumny. Second.
4 Every time we punish one we. make a
Democrat. For a few years that
party has been recruited, not only by
those knaves we have dismissed from
office, but by still larger mum Der
i who have been unable to get office.
It is not impossible that by this pro-
cess they may i'll time recover a ma
jority. Good men cannot, without
uneasiness, contemplate the possibili-
! ty of the country once more falling
into the control of that party, when,
in addition to the devils which always
paralyzed it for any noble effort, it
shall have been reinforced by all the
unclean spirits expelled from. the Re
publican party. ....
INTERNAL REFORM.
The success which has attended the
effort of this Administration to effect
internal reform is forcibly indicated,
but only partially measured, by these
facts: .,-...--.
First. In thirteen years it has not
once been forced to resort to loans eX-
cept by the exigencies of war. Our
rivals in popular favor, as has been
seen, repeatedly resorted to loans in
time of peace.
Second. In six years taxes have
! been remitted at various times
amounting to more than three hum
dred millions annually.
Third. The principal of the public
! debt has been reduced in the same
time by the sum of three hundred
| and fifty-fve million dollars.
Fourth. The Treasury note has been
appreciated from 76 2-1O per cent,
its gold value in March, 1869, to SO 2-10
per cent, its gold value in March last.
Fifth. In spite of the financial dis
asters which overlook the country in
September, 1873, the public debt was
diminished nearly five millions
during the fiscal year just ended.
Sixth. The cost of the Government,
excluding expenditures for improve
ments and disbursements made neces-
sary to meet obligations imposed on
us by the rebellion, was less per capita
during the last fiscal year than during
the year ending June 80, 1850.
Bad men, doubtless, are still left in
the Republican party, as bad men are
in the Democratic party. So good
men are in both parties. The differ
ence is this: In spite of the bad men
in the former, it has in thirteen years
raised the country higher in true
national greatness than any country
was ever raised before in the same
length of time; while, because OF
bad men in the other party, the coun-
try constantly declined in character
i and dignity while it had control. A
party better than either, loftier in its
aspirations, wiser in its methods,
bolder in its endeavors, is unquestion-
ably desirable. Such party might
be attained, if the wise, the upright,
and the patriotic in the Democratic
ranks would unite themselves with
the like in the Republican organiza-
ton. But it is impossible to frame
such party by reinforcing the effete
4 Democracy, which has not achieved
a single noble end, nor set before the
country a single noble aim in forty
years, with all the reckless advent
urers and hungry place-hunters who
in former years fiOcked to the Repub-
lican party, not to aid its enterprises,
but to fatten on its strength. .+
ELECT REPUBLICANS. --
| You are about to select Representa-
tives to a new Congress. We earn
estly entreat you to send the truest
! and ablest Republican you have. But
we entreat you to send Republicans
and not Democrats. You will send
one or the other. No matter what
the individual may call himself, or
what disguise he may wear, he will
be a Republican or a Democrat.
There is at present no room for any
other style in our politics. If you do
not mean to retrace the past you will
select Republicans and not Demo-
Gratis. If you mean to go forward in
the future, you will select Republicans
and not Democrats.
OUR MISSION NOT ENDED,
1t is sometimes said that the mis-
sion of the Republican party is ac-
complished. If by that no more is
meant than that the party has dis
charged every trust heretofore COM
mitted to it, we admit it. 1t has been
thought when one was found faithful
over few things that that was a
good reason for trusting him with
more things. Can you do better than
Especially since you must employ