New Orleans Republican., 1875-11-20
LET NO GUILTY MAN ESCAPE. y


dent through Secretary Bristow, is but {
repetition of the Presidents policy from
his first Inauguration. Corruption ha:
never found favor in his sight. Corrup
men are everywhere squirming under his
injunction. Men claiming to be Repub
licans have in some places been found
guilty of malfeasance in office, and they
are going to the wall. Among the many
thousand places of trust and profit to be
flled in administering the government, il
is not strange that a few men should be
found dishonoriEg the confidence reposed
in them. The salaries of government
officials are nominally not larg5. and
being guaranteed for no length of tipe,
do not attract men OF the greatest talent
or most tried virtue An honest and very
capable man should always be able to do
better than to accept government employ
ment and bury himself in routine official
business beyond the possibility of making
name for himself Thousands of honest
men come and go III public life, and they
| are not heard from; a bad man now and
then comes to the surface, is talked about,
and it is the pleasure OF Democrats who
have no good word for any good Repub-
lican thing-to place them as representa-
tive men. 1t does not matter if Des
Anges, of New York, or Joyce, of st.
Louis, is put behind prison bars, the enc
mics of the government will not recognize
any virtue in the efforts made to suppress
crime. 1t is too much to expect that they
will ever state a case fairly.
Whisky rings TO use the language of
Mississippi editor regarding free schools,
''are monster evil. They are made
possible in Repu blican circles by the
money of Democrats. Our distillers, rec
tifers and wholesale liquor dealers, the
only men who can be charged with de-
fraudiug the government through crooked
whisky, are Democrats; their lines have
not fallen in pleasant places, and they
are anxious for D4rloC ratio administra-
ton. By accident, or rather through the
murder of President Lincoln, the South
once secured since the war Democratic
interlude il the national government, fur
nishing the murderer and the murdered
man 5 successor in office. We need not
go out of New Orleans for an illustration
of the manner in which the Democrats
then reformed public service. We had
Perry Fuller as collector of the port, and |
General Steadman in charge of the inter- |
nal revenue Off oe. Whisky rings were
unknown in those days, and good honest |
whisky then paid tax Of two dollars per |
gallon to the government, and sold in |
the market for ninety cents per gallon
The profits of the distillers were figured |
out by Democratic mathematics small
gains were assured by large sales. re-
turn to such an administration is earnestly
prayed for by those who prey on the gov
There is no operating whisky ring here
now, at all events. About the time the
1istilleries were closed here, Special
Agent Brashear arrived, and reported to
the department that new supervisor
was very much need ed in Louisiana, in
place of Colonel Cobb. Various infuen-
:ial persons So far agreed in that report
rs to strongly rec ommend Brashear for
he place. The name of Mr.. Brashear
las since figured unpleasantly in the st.
Louis ring indictments. He may be en-
irely innocent of all completely with the
BAD men of ST. Louis We wish to hold
IL men innocent until they have been
hown guilty. While the President is do
ng his utmost to let no guilty man es-
ape, the honest men of all parties should
.ssist his purpose. There is no objection
o calling thief by the name of thief.
10 one wishes to hail burglar in his
louse and inquire what are his politics
before shooting him. Republicans are
rying to punish few criminals; the
whisky makers among that class must
ufer also. Democrats charge that Cen
raj Babcock and others near the Presi-
lent have been bribed to keep the hands
If the law from the manufacturers of
rocked whisky. 1t is not shown that
uch protection has ever been given
trough their influence, and the charge is
me as contradictory and shallow as could
veil be made for political effect. Let the
IKE fall where it may, so long as aimed by
ustice. Slander is not reform, nor are
Democrats rafnrmarl