The Ouachita telegraph., 1874-01-16
MORAL R0TTENEss OF. THE REPUB.
LICAN PARTY.

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| From sAts04Sew York World.
That $16O0Of public money has gone
to pay for aiandsulets for the wife soi
AttQspeN GeQssaks liams that 476o
ofsPub1ic money mas gone to pay for q
pair Of horses to drag i, and hundreds
of dollars more fori4he trappings, all
being charged to the hessDepartment OF
stice,"-these arg facts which some
Journals appear to think sufficient
ground for expecting that Williams
will not be confirmed as Chief Justice
by the Senate.
But such facts as these are not ex-
ceptional. They are common in near
ly every executive Department. They
are fragrant in the White House. Ever
since the Republican era of corruption
and plunder began, dozen years ago,
they have been growing worse and
worse. During the Lincoln regime the
bills Of merchants for expenditures on
the White House were enlarged SO as
to include paymenKNor the purely pri-
Vate and personal expenses of it's occu-
pants. Tweed afterwards profitted by
tho Lincoln lesson. During the Lin
coin regime, or rather at its close, the
public property was stolen, and pri-
vately sold or sent out West, sswhere it
would do most good" Andrew johnson
was guilty of no such practices, and his
household was presided over by pure
and honest woman. He refused the
gift of carriage and horses rendered
by his political and personal friends.
The Republican party impeached him
and has ruined the political future OF
every Republican Senator who refused
to execute its DEGREES. When Grant
came in, the prostitution OF public
trust to private profit began again, and
continues to this hour; SO that nobody
is surprised to hear that his cook draws
pay as subaltern in the United States
army, nor to see the Chief Justiceship
flung away as if Grant were Shah
tossing cashmere shawl upon the
shoulders Of Court favorite.
There are Republicans who privately
profess indignation at such prostitution
Of a public trust as Grants nomination
of Williams as Chief Justice. But the
public sentiment to which they pay
homage is the sentiment Of the Demo-
cratic party. It is not a sentiment that
now exists or ever had existed within
the ranks Of the Republican party in
suH1clent Intensity to prescribe its
course, to make a formidable split in
its ranks, or to extort therefrom an
honest public protest. The Republi-
cans who profess indignation, who be-
vail tho capture Of their party by
thieves and ignoramuscs, stake nothing,
risk nothing in proof of the sincerity of
their indignation. They do not put
their own political future to peril by a
word Of public protest. II President
Grant were not an attentive reader of
the World and other Democratic jour-
mails, hc might pretend that he knows
no reason for reconsidering his nomina-
ton of Williams. Distinguished Re-
publican lawyers in this city and other
prominent Republicans we're forward
to show their publicspirit, their virtuous
zeal, their civic indignation, when
Tweed, the leader of q corrupt munich
pal ring, whom Democrats have expelled
from their party, whom Democrats
have proved guilty and brought to JUS
tice, and from whom they are to-day
seeking to recover the peoples stolen
money, was the object of their denunci-
alton, and when partisan profit was also
the obvious reward of that public spirit |
and that virtOus zeal. In like manner |
and with the same double reward as
when stealing with mere municipal |
thief, the same prominent Republicans
zea1ously assisted the Democrats who |
expelled from the bench of our State |
courts corrupt Democratic judges.
But we have listened in vain to |
hear from Jackson Schultz or any
other prominent Republican an expres-
sion of patriotic and honest Indignation |
at the Republican carpetbag stealing Of
ten times Tweed's twenty millions |
from the Southern States. The Bar
Association has been silent in the pres
ence of the corruption of Busteed, De-
lahay, and Sherman, silent in the pres
ence Of the monstrous infamy of Durell. |
Mr.. William NJ. Evarts, once so clo-
quent over the crimes of supervisor, I
and the wrong-doing of local judges, is |
speechless While the President nomi- |
mates an incompetent Oregon attorney I
to the chair of Marshall, Taney, and |
Chase, and stands dumb with all his |
clients at his back, while it is possible |
that the Senate may join Grant in
poisoning at the very fountain-head Of
authority tho streams Of national
justice.
If from independent and honest Ro-
publicans not whisper of protest
comes, who can expect from the Re-
publican party single measure OF re-