The Placer herald., 1874-07-18
liUMBUGGERY.

class of journals Of to-day, and the effronter,
with which they assert falsehoods can onl,
I've accounted for from the fact that ever,
pare motive Of their nature has become par
lyzed from overdoses Of monopoly patron
age. No sentence that can he framed Of words
is omi',>a, if it will give plausibiity to ihei
unholy cause, whittier it expresses truth O.
The opposite. AS an example of this hum
| buggery, we noticed in late issue of a Ger
tain railroad Republican paper, the following
eth Republican putty has shown that the
road to reform is through its organization
| In the name of common sense, we would ask
! ow, where, and when did the Republican
party show this fact? Was it hy elecing
the mennest man in the country TO Office
and through them securing the appoin' men'
of others with, il possible, less conscientious
%crupIes? Was it by their acts promoting
fraud, pecul,ion and stealing in all the De-
pariments Of Government? WIS it hy open.
ing up great fields for swindIng the Treasury.
's the Indian Bureau, the Credit Moblier
rhe back salary the District of Columbia
iad tie Custom Houses? Was it 10y plum
derng the Treasury thro, gh the Navy De-
partment of vast sums of money with it,
knowledge and consent? Was it by indors-
ing officials who have sold Offices for money,
md ehcour ged those who have pOcked
money appropriated for public purposes:
Was it by stufiing balIoi-boxes aud cheatns
n the count of votes thereby defeating Il e
popular will? Was it by using the national
roops 20 protect brignnds engaged in plan
derng the South? Was it by overrhrowing
State governments that they might have
bette: opportunities TO steal? Was it b.,
holding detected thieves to their heat, de-
daring they should not be deprived of THEN
fat offices? Was it hy promoting to higl
positions men who have been found guilty If
brihe taking? Was it by encouraging prof
legacy, dishonesty, and an insoent contempt
for The wishes and interests of the people
md The opinions of honest men? Or was il
because they have impoverished the count,
hy extravagant subsidies to railroad corpora
lions, and otherwise foslered and cared tol
hem until they have become sufficiently
powerful 10 rule the people against their vii
nd most sacred interests? If the Republi-
can party has shown that Through it il the
road TO reform it must be by some or all
of these things, for most assuredly these arr
The acts which have most distinctly charac
'e''-ea Il. Tho~o 10 ling tho Repulli.
Tan party is an adapt at, which problbly il
the cause of is hunky journals making tucl
assertions as the above, an that is stealth,
popular issues from lis opponents, and callin,
them by Republican names A fact whicl
more than amy other goes to prove. conclu
svely, that it has been party of polio,
and not principle, from the tir-t. Were it moi
Tor this it would have been dead long ago
Is it deserved 1t is useless TO refer in thi.
connection TO these steals in the past, as the,
ire now pretty well understood hy the
masses, which circumstance more than an,
other assures us that it has had its Iun. l.
attempted to steal from us our popular can
dldate nd our platform, in this county. last
kh. But the people detected that poi cy'
not sentiment governed its actions ana de-
feated it. The same affectatons now char
acter'zes its actions in the East. 1t is crowd
ing 'Is platforms full of Independents sen'i
'nent, though the same it denounced literal,
'"t short time ago. But the same snsp'-
''on or detection of its insincerity tha: de
ea'ed 1t here will efeat it there, and taki,p
VI III all, they mig ut as well give up. The,
ME side is a lrer dy turned mp. and another
ear VIII viii ess their last founder.