The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-21

numbered eases of plainly proved fraud
and corruption in high places, aud see how
the indicators were dealt with.
SECoR ROBEsON il still Secretary OF the
Navy. sklmming the soas In public vessels
converted into pleasure yauhtc, enjoying
the uubouudcd confidence OF our Rcpub-
hcan rulers. Boss SHEPHERD aud Boss
GRANr--ns may he fully attcstcd 10y The cir
cunstancc of GRANTS being II secret bcnc-
flciary of the Washington real estate pool
and fully and cordially sustained by the
Republican party, represented at Wor-
cestcr RonEsoN deliberately puid out OF
the public treasury the sutn Of niuety odd
thousand dollars TO the SECoRs, not only
without authority of law, but i'll defiance
of "a law which expressly forbade 1t, aud
he did this on the false pretencc of
satisfying a claim which the records
showed 20 have been already paid
and fully receipted for. Was he hunted
aud punished? Were any Of his accom-
plices hunted and punished7 Not ut all
No member OF Congress, no committee,
no executive officer, ever took a single step
even TO recover back the plumber. Gu the
contrary, II committee, raised ostensiblv
TO investigate this Infamous Transaction,
did its best to hide the facts, and white
washed the robbers. RonEsoN went I'M
scathcd, and the wrath which, according
to the Worcester platform, his party should
have visited upon him, was turned upon
THE SuN for publishing the evidence Of
his guilt and exposing to the people the
thievsh corruption of one Of the highest
Of their servants.
The Union Pacific Railroad Company
and the Credit Mobiier committed the
most stupcndous fraud on record. Fifty
millions is the lowest estimate of the
booty. One hundred millions would not
compensate the public loss in property and
money alone, to say nothing of the fright
full injury of an unpublished crime of that
magnitude But this enormous steal re-
mnius unatoned for in any way. The
members OF Congress who participated
in ii, retain their shares of the plumber,
and they are not hunted and punished but
houored and advanced. A resolution even
to censure them was voted down, which
implied that their political associ-
ntcs considered the kind Of bribery
aud corruption which they practsed at
least innocent and perhaps meritorious.
Z OLFAA Is Ill luil tOlliDuiilOHs HIS nhANl :
certificate Of virtue in ms pocket, and is
their model of Il Christian statesman.
PATTERSON is IN good standing. BINGHAM
Is Il foreign minister, and the rest were
chairnon of the most important commit
| tees of the last House. appointed by
| Speaker himself suspected OF partioipa-
ton in the steal, ana certainly known TO
have mixed the whitewash for the COM
mttee TO apply. And WILSON presdes,
and DAWES Is Chairman of the Committee
on Resolutions, in this very Republican
| convention which promises TO "nunt aud
| punish" official corruption, Imagine the
sneer that would curl on the lips of CAKES
AMEs if he were alive to sec!
The cases Of RoBEsoS and the Credit
Mobiherists are sufficient to Illustrate the
system. and It is unnecessary TO recount
the history of rings upon rings and rings
within ring. which have sprung from the
IONS of the Republican party. and under
/ its auspices and protection preyed upon
the people from one end of the country TO
the other. Which of them has been hunted
and punished? Which of them has been
hindered in its operations by Republican
onicialsy Which of them, indeed, failed TO
| divide its plumber with the corruption
funds of the party itself. and to be shield
ed sustained. and encouraged in return
Was it the Military Ring or the Indian
Ring, or the Washington Ring, or the
Whiskey Ring. or the san Domingo Ring, or
the Post ONCE Ring, or any one of the rings
of caipet-baggcrs ana thieves who have
trampled and pillaged the entire South
| They all grew and flourished under the
party's nursing hand. When one Of them
was broken and crushed by the popular
wrath, il was a calamity to be mouined.
When IA CoLFAX, IA SHEPHERD, IA BULLOCK,
n CLAYTON, or CASEY fell. he was be-
moancd and lamented by the party
whose leaders loved him, because he
was of them. When that party re-
forms, it must begin by amputatnG its
most conspicuous members and disem-
bowelling its trunk. We have no no.
ton that it will ever begin; and if those
sanity personages, DAWES and WILSON,
really contemplate the hunting and pun
ishing of rogues, so solcmnly promised ut
Worcester, we have only to advise them 10
compose their countcnanccs for the great
est political funeral that was ever oele-
| brated.