The Grange advance., 1874-02-04
ADW MATT! CARPENfee HAS BEEN
r.. VINDICATED.''
The n. Y. Tribune again de1les The Cred.
it MObilier Statesman from Wis.,
COnSin. '',"$*a
WHY DON'T HE VINDICATE HIMSELF IN
THE COURTS ?


Hon Matt. Fl. Carpenter:
Presiding over the 1. S. Senate TO-
day is a vlndicated man-a man known
by the Senate itself to be morally and
socially a stencil. It was Mr.. Matt
Carperter. who having achieved a pre-
en,inence OF notoriety in Washing gtou
and made shameless exhibition Of his
vices and its associations in the princi.
pal cities Of the Union, having swung
himself loose from all the forms and ap.
pearances of propriety when visiting
with a committee in an official capacity
the city Of New Orleans having parad.
ed himself III New York in company
and under circumstances so public as to
demand rebuke, and still so shameful
as to escape comment and having swag-
gered into the company Of decent men
and women on the Long Branch boat
and at the West End Hotel, Haunting
with his companion such signs Of lewd-
ness as published their shame, with no
sense Of it's shamefulness; and having
been expelled from the West End Ho-
tel for this very reason, and publicly:
rebuked by the Tribune for his dis
graceful conduct-it was this man-
sneerer at public virtue and corrupter Of
the public conscience, who makes licen-
tiousness pursuit and purity his quar-,
~, defender of Salary Grab and Mobi-
lier speculation, proAigate, spendthrift,
and debauchee, publicly glossing over
the abstraction Of unearned money with
the spendthrift's plea of lavishness on
his own vices and carelessness of the
vices of others, and finging himself,
greasy and foul, at the public's head
this disgrace to his State and scandal to
the nation, who came to the Senate and
demanded to be vindicated. Vindica-
ted," indeed! His place for vindication
was in court Of law and before jury
of his countrymen, to which the l,ib-
asae invited, and almost unanimous voice
of his own party press urged him.
But he went to the Senate, and
though the majority in that body stood
committed by all its party platforms to
hostility to the Salary Grab and Credit
Mobilier swindles, and had made capi.
tai out Of the nomination by the Demo-
Gratis for Speaker of the House of man
who drew pay under the act which
Matt. Carpenter voted for and publicly
defended, they, without SO much as a.
Buckingham or Frelinghuysen pro-
testing, vindicated" him by electing
him to their highest Office. And what
sort Of vindication was it The Tribune
had rebuked him for public scandal.
1t had, held at arms length the whole
affair, and in decent phrase expressed
the profound disgust Of respectable peo-
pie at disgraceful spectacle which was
unfit for description and yet too brazen
to 60 unrebuked. The argument for
his election to be President pro tenn. of
the Senate was that he could in no 9th
er way be vindicated from the scanda-
lous charges which the press Of the
country had takenjpp and circulated.
Did the Senate ask if they were true !?
not a hint of it. The Tribune was
ready and is ready to-day to prove by
scores of witnesses all and more than
was ever intimated as to his conduct on
the boat at Long Branch, and his be-
ing registered under false name and
turned away from the West End Hotel
But no inquiry was ever made. Not
even the correspondent who was made
a scapegoat in the matter was asked a
question. Mr.. Carpenters colleague,
Senator Howe, who in the capacity of
attorney, exhibited the talent of pro.
curer obtained from cundurango quack
and a carpet-bag Senator whose last
public act was an attempt to sneak into
the Senate with crowd who were be-
ing sworn in, but being discovered, was
driven out-two certificates that Tri6-
enc correspondent had confessed to them
that he had lied. To these were added
President Grants certificate that Car
penter was sober, and one Of room
clerk that he was not turned away for
the reason stated. Upon this array Of
certificates, the Senate vindicated Mr..
Matt Carpenter, and he presides over
them to-day, to their; eternal shame,
While The Tribune offers to them, or
any of them, evidence indisputable and
abundant to the truth Of the charges
from which they vindicate him.
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