Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-10-04
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cd Immediately BY tho President "wi;h
great regret !" that this acceptance
enabled him to escape conviction on
his trial by the Senate, on tho ground
that il had no Jurisdiction ; that ofthe
twenty-six Senators who voted to ac'
quit him, oil but one were Republi.
cans; that within n few days after
this disclosure, President Grants Ad.
ministration was commended by the
State Convention of Ohio, which pre-.
senlcd the namc OF Gov. Hayes as n
candidate for the Presidency, in terms
Of higher praise than II found for its
own candidate that the National Con-
vention at Cincinnati cordially endorsed
the President and his Administration
that Gov. Hayes, in his letter of &C.
coptance, announced his full and hearty
concurrence in the platform adopted
that no Republican State Convention
or National Convention, nor has Gov.
Hayes, ever expressed the slightest
disapprobation of the crimes of the
Administration.
A CABINET OFFICER AWAITING iMPEAcH-
MEsT.
The records proue that the Secretary
of the Navy has, for years, violated
very many of the laws governing his
action without rcbukc or rcmonstrancc
from President Grant that for years
his former business partners, the Cat
tells, levied blackmail upon those seek.
ing to obtain contracts with the De-
partment, and that during th, same
period his bank account with the same
Cattclls, shows mach larger transac'
tions than could have been founded
on his salary that he has had his pri-
vato furniture manufactured in the
workshops of the Government; that
he put in peril an enormous sum of
Government money in the attempt to
prevent the ruin Of bankrupt bank
ing house, and that $1,000 Of this
amount has never been recovered that
his Department was found TO be honey
combed with fraud, and run as polit-
cal bureau; that the navy yards were
crowded with men before election, who
were discharged Immediately after
wards that the House of Representa-.
tives authorized the Judiciary Com
mittce to consider the propriety of his
impeachment, and il will doubtless re.
port in favor OF such step at the
opening of the next session that the
Republicans reported and voted for u
resolution whitewashing Secretary
Robeson, although there were few Re-
publican journals whichdared to defend
him; that the single Republican mem.
Der, Mr.. Burleigh, OF Maine, who had
the courage to sign the majority re-
port against Secretary Robson, was
defeated for denomination, suffering
the same fate as Bristow at Cincinnati
and Evarts in New York that Mr..
Burleigh's defeat was everywhere
known to be due to his fearlessness in
exposing Republican rascality.
WHERE THE CAMPAIGN FOR HAYES Is
RUN.
TIE records proue that under Re-
publican Secretary of the Interior,
frauds equally upon the taxpayer and
tho Indian have been committed with
impunity, amounting annually to hun.
dreds OF thousands of dollars the
perpetrators went unpunished, and the
chief perpetrator, Columbus Delano,
retired after years of service with
handsome testimonial from President
Grant; that under this same Secretary
OF the Interior, pension frauds were
committed amounting to 100000
which were exposed by Democratic
House, but the perpetrators of which
are still unpunished by tho Republican
Administration that Columbus De
lano's appropriate successor, zachariah
Chandler, has been placed at the head
Of the National Republican Commit
tees, and is managing the campaign
for Gov. Hayes, presenting a spectacle
of the neglect OF official dcccncy in high
places never before witnessed in this
country.
A DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE.
The records prore that Attorney-Gen
eral Williams, while at the head Of the
Department Of Justice, supported hi,
private carriages and horses out of tn,
contingent fund Of the Department
following in this the example of almost
all the Republican officials; that will
another Of President Grants Attorney
Generals Mr.. Akerman, he diverted
s34, 900 of the funds of the Department
to election purposes in New York-i
proceeding for which the President
and the two Cabinet officers have beer
censured by a Committee OF th,
House that with the connivance o
another Atiorney.General, Edwards
Pierrepont q letter was written u
District-Attorneys during the trial o
Gen. Babcock for conspiracy, to pre-
vent conclusive testimony isshown BY
the testimony Of Bluford Wilson, lat,
Republican Solicitor of the Treasury
that the letter which Mr.. Pierrepon
said was not TO be made public, wal
given to Babcock's counsel and mad,
public by him 4; that President GRAM
took pains to ascertain the evidenc,
against Babcock from Mr.. Bristow ant
Mr.. Wilson, who could not refuse tc
give it to him, and communicated it tC
Babcock; and that largely by mean,
of this prostitution of justice, Babcoch
escaped conviction.
A DIsGRAcEFuL DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
The records proue that under the Re
publican Administration, now nearly
closed, the diplomatic service Of the
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