Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-02-19
THE PRESIOENT-1HE SENATE
REPUBLICAN DEAD WEIGHTS.

President Grants order for unload
ing" the dead weights of the Republican
party creates a hutter throughout the
country. The Louisiana bill for a new
election in that State is only the first
effect Of it. More than this is needed
and must follow promptly or the party
will sink out Of sight In the pestilential
swamp prepared for il by the demagogues
and thieves. Moreover, the President
himself being, at least in the theory. re-
sponsible for great part of the pesti-
lence, through bad appointments, will
have to undo a great deal of his work,
or suffer for it in the public estimation.
1t Is demonstrated by abundant proofs
that the Holden party in North Carolina
was made up OF local plunderers and a
carpet-bagger ring, and that these, aided
and assisted by the railway corporations,
who were backed by u Republican Con-
gress, are responsible for about SIT ,0O0,-
900 of the recent debts of that State,
most Of it as good as stolen. 1t has not
the cleanest look that the President
made one of this vile coalition Post
master at Raleigh, another of them Gov
ernor of Dakota, another Sollcitor-Gen-
eral Of the United States, and that ex-
Governor Joseph W. Holden is now
holding the Federal Office Of Special
Postal Agent for the State he did 50
much to ruin. These are not eXcep-
tional cases. The same sort of dead
weight appointments have been made
for California and for many other
States. The interests and suggestions
of the thirving corporations have been
all-powerful at the White House; the
welfare If the country has been
treated as a secondary and subordinate
consideration. Ii it were not SO. Tom
Shannon would not now be Collector of
Customs of San Francisco, nor Gray
Surveyor of the Port. nor Bingham Min
lister to Japan, nor an honorable and o
great man like Charles Sumner in dis
grace at the Executive Mansion, while
political craving reptiles of the Senate
have at all times the ready ear OF the
head of the Government. These, and
the like of them, scattered all over the
country, are the deadest and most OBJ
noxious of the dead-weights that need to
be unloaded, If the Republican ship is to
be kept from sinking III the muddy sea,
whore it is L w houndering with tattered
sails, broken rudder and pirate crew.
The people cannot trust the Presidents
sincerity as long as he tolerates such men
in office. 1t is II sign that he desires and
Is assisting the monopolies and Credit
Mobilier rings to rule the country. The
example is contagious. From the White
House it has extended to the Senate, the
House and the departments, if it indeed
did not first reach the White House by
way of the Senate, for long time noto.
rlously in the interest of every monopo-
ly. 1t was an insult to the nation when
Speaker Blaine placed man like Butler
chief defender Of the back salary steal
and of the Credit Mobilier swindle, at
the head of the House Judiciary Com
mittee; another Of them, Averrll OF Min
nesota, at the head of the Indian Com.
mittee: another, Maynard, at the head Of
the Banking Committee; another, Sypher
OF Louisiana, whose seat is a standing
encouragement to fraud as long as he
occupies it, at the head Of the most i'm
portant money committee, and one of the
very worst of the Credit Mobilier lot, SEQ
field of Pennsylvania, ut the head Of the
Committee on Naval Affairs. The two
men who did most in defense of the sal
airy steal of March, 1873-Butler i'll the
House, and Carpenter in the Senate
have been given each the highest posi-.
ton in his respective house. Butler, as
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
may Indefinitely postpone the distribu.
ton of the SIS, 500, 900 Geneva award,
and do a hundred other things in that
shameless defiance of public opinion and
of right for which he is characteristic.
We submit that this is not unloading"
1t Is taking on Of more dead-weights Mt
the very moment when the party ship is
on the point OF laundering from the ill.,
famous freight it already carries. We
assent to the proposition that the Senate
is more to blame for bad appointments
than the President. The Senators do, in
fact, however inconsistent it may be with
the theory of the Government, make the
great mass of Federal officers. The
President may nominate to the office,
but he cannot fill them without the con.
sent OF the Senate. The fate of Williams
and Gushing is a standing acknowledge
ment of this fact. The Senator who rep.
resents the party in power in the nation
rules almost absolutely the appointme nts
for his State. The responsibility of the
bad appointments is, therefore, on the
Senate rather than the President; and il
is to the reform of this body that the
people OF the country should bend all
their energies. 1t is and for a long time
has been the one great clog to the wheels
OF reform,a standing menace to the rights
OF the majority and in utter contempt OF
the well known wishes of the people
Sac. Union, Feb. 4.