The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1876-05-17
Why the Republican Party Must BIZ
Destroyed.

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It seems almost impossible to find
sound spot in Grants Administration.
In every department. and branch of the
public service rottenness is found
whenever the searching probe Of in
4vestigatioo is applied; and yet the
discoveries thus far made are In great
measure due to accident and to the
reckless habits of officials, who, from
long immunity aud consciousness of
power, exposed themselves to de-
/ lection. - - n.
The late Sect etary Of War is ia
peached; the Secretary of the Navy is
likely to experience the same inf1ic-
ton; the Interior Department is hon
eycombed with jobbery in The Indian
Bureau, the Land Office, the Pension
Office, and the Patent Office; the Post
Office Department is stuffed with straw
bids and collusiye contracts; the
Treasury under Boutwell, and Richard
son was mass of false entries, forced
balances, overissues and deceptive
bookkeeping; the Department of JUS
tice has been a political machine for
prosecuting opponents of Grantism,
swindling the Treasury, and enriching
the worst class of scoundrels that ever
disgraced the American name and the
| State Department has been used to be-
tray American policy and to furnish
enormoua fees for the Secretary's SON
in-law.! ~ ~ = h''3 ~; ~ IL b. ~
/, It was quite natural with President
who worships the golden calf, and with
a Cabinet made up of subservient
Clerks who were glad to register his
edicts, that Rings should have been or
ganized to control the political power
of the Administration. The Babcocks,
! Shepherds, Kilbourus, McDonalds,
Joyces, ard that crew, formed the kit
f chen Cabinet, surrounded Grant social
ly and almost captured the Govern
ment.. They had access to all the So
crets, suppressed what they pleased
3 and crushed ont opposition. In Con-
gress the voice Of the minority was
: stifed by Blaine, who as Speaker was
a despot. He had two motives to guide
him, first. his own, success, and sec:
ondly the success of the party
: Though the two we're combined, he
made the second always subservient te
? the first. The Senate was governed by
e a few leaders, whose rule of action wal
, to give clean bill of health to every
! infected partisan like Pomeroy, and tt
whitewash every subject of investiga
> ton like the sale of arms to France, O.
i the Leet and Stocking monopoly
:, Thus the Government has been rul
I as a close corporation, in the exclusive
s interest Of office-holders, Rings, con
t tractors, and rascals. The greater TIL
= thief, the more recognized his position
s Grant set the example of being CUES
t of Boss Shepherd, and drove through
: the streets of the Capitol with Melon
aid by his side, who is now philosophi
zing over human vanities in the cell o
penitentiary. Grant knew him to b
a thief, for his friend Ford had toll
j him so; but that fact made no differ
e ence. AS Mcdonald said, the COOS
y hing altitndlem.
$ The chiefs who we're highest in favo
5. with Grant and his Senate at Washing
ton planned the conspiracy by whic
the Freedman's Bank was plundere
: of nearly all it's deposits, and tile poo
; negroes were cheated out of their har
g earnings. Henry D. Cooke, Genera
,r 90. Howard, Hallett Kilbourn, job
h O. Evans, Lewis Clephane,, Boss Shep
. herd, w S. Huntington, George "
:. stickney, J. w. Alvord, and other fs
! miliar Ring names, stripped gthis inst
tuition ofmillions, and left rs "securi
ties" Seneca stone scrip and Sot're
lo trash, IN which Grantl sWas 81 larg
y stockhelder without having paid
e dime fot>his shares. The,conspitacy
r. rob the bank by these knaves, fully j
lie Illuminated BY the sun'years ago, is no
ID plain to every eye, and every one cor
rs cerned in it ought to be indicted. Tt
D. books are mntilated, the accounts a,
,ee purposely confused, and there is ever
", token of deliberate plan to steal tt
= money, in which the officers and truI
]. tees of the bank were implicated.
- is wholly impossible tllat' there coul
! have been any, honest supervision
n any desire to protect the unfortunat
* depositors, In presence of the debr
n which is left as the proof Of organize
b. robberyadi 81 it@...1 ~ s,tiati I
ri The Government Printing Office HI
he turned out to be nothing but the san
to enormous fraud which the Sun has g.
nd posed repeatedly during the last thr
it or four years Fraudulent books, So
70 pressed entries of sales, diversion
N, public money, and stealing on
ii, sides, are but a part of the syste
ca which has long made that Office a sea
it. DIAL and shame, and cost the count
ill millions of dollars. It has been mai