The daily gazette., 1875-10-12
upon solid and substantial basis. For
the present | submit to you and your
readers the following extract of Judge
Ihurman's speech recently delivered
at Cleveland, in Ohio

aSauers tne following extract of Judge
Ihurman's speech recently delivered
at Cleveland. in Ohio
HARD MONEY DEMOCRAT.
Is there man who has not heard Of
the y mon Pacihc Railroad Company and
tle Credlt Moblllere Is there one Of you
VINO ooes not know by sworn testimony
that BY the frauds of these companiea
principally ruled and governed by GER
tam mem bers of Congress, the people of
the Unite't States are absolutely certain
to lose not less than $50, 900 900? Has
any OF you forgotten that over 1886. .OO0
were used by this company to procure
the passage OF an amendment to the
railroad charter by the corruption ~
members OF Congress-an amendmen.
tnat surrenders the most important
1shts OF the Government, and in the
end entailed upon the people the loss 10
which have refcrredP Is it necessar,
for me to produce the proof taken at thu
dast session OF Congress that over $780,
Wv were employed by the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company to procure from,
congress an immense public subsidy
Must l read to you the testimony given
Defcre Senate committee few years
| SINCE, to show that bribery of New YORK
custom House officers had become an
| established usage? Or is it Necessary to
more than mention the prosecutions by
the Government of merchants great and
| small. charged with defrauding the rev
enue out of millions by smuggling or
otherwise-not one Of which frauds or
1 offences could have been commit ed had
| not Government officers assisted in its
| commission2 Have you not heard of the
practices OF the whisky rings, defrauding
| the government ont of unfold amount9
| OF taxes, through the conniyance and
with the aid of purchased revenue OIL
| cials Must | do more than remind you
| that the official reports of responsible
| ohcers OF your army and the statements
Of disinterested private citizens have
,clearly shown that, through the fraudu-
lent practices OF Indian agents and con
tractors, large numbers of Indians whom
| the Government Is bound by treaty stip-
ulations to support have lately been on
the very verge of starvation, and the
country thereby menaced with an IN
dian war? Is it not an indisputable fact
| that the appropriations for the Indians
and the Indian Bureau are annually
about $1,000 900 more than they were in
1850, anu that the frauds End pecula-
tions of Indian rings" in colr sion
with Government officials, millions of
this money are every year embez zled
Have you not heard how frand, bribery
and corruption existed in the Postoftic.,
Department, under the very nose, so to
speak, of the Postmaster General him
sslf-frauds and offences so gross as to
necessitate not only the dismissal of the
detected officials, but also their criminal
prosecution in court of justice? Have
you not read Of the frequent thefts In
the Treasury, from the abstraction of q
> 1 tPlHiny of frontinnol o.
larceny of over $4,000 in a lump? Need
do more than refer to the long list Of
Il defaulte-s in almost every branch of the
public service, and whose defalcations in
the last fourteen years amount, at the
lowest computation, to millions of dol
lars? Must again remind you that not
even the Department of Justice has been
free from taint, and that, under the late
Attorney General, officers whose duty it
was to prosecute the guilty were greater
criminals than the men they prosecu-
tied ?"