The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-26
why the Republican Party Must be
DESTROYED.

why the hepuDl1can Farty Must be
Destroyed.
II seems almost impossible to find n sound
spot in GRANTS Administration. In every
department and branch of the public SER
vice rottenness is found whenever the
searching probe of investigation is applied
Ind yet the discoveries thus far made are
IN great measure due 10 accident and to
phe reckless habits of officials, who. from
Bong immunity and consciousness of power,
exposed themselves TO detection.
/ The late Secretary OF War IL impeached ;
me Secretary OF the Navy is likely to ex-
psrience the same infection; the Interior
Department IL honeyoombed with jobbery
N the Indian Bureau, the Land Office, the
pension ONCE, and the Patent Once the
Post Office Department is stuffed with
straw bids and collusivc contracts; the
Treasury under BOUTWELL, and RICHARD
DOW was mass Of false entries, forced bal
ences, overissues, and deceptive bookkeep-
ing; the Department of Justice has been a
political machine for prosecuting oppo-
nents OF Grantism, swindling the Treasury,
and enriehing the worst class OF scorndrels
shat ever disgraced the American name /;
and the State Department las been used
20 betray American policy and TO furnish
enormous fees for the Secretarys son-in-
INV.
II 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
Kings should have been organized to con-
n q h..
con. The BABcocKs, SHEPHERDS, Kill
DoUREs, McDoNALDs, JoYcEs, and that
crew, formed the kitchen Cabinet, sur
rounded GRANT socially and almost cap
cured the Government. They had access
90 all the secrets, suppressed what they
pleased and crushed out opposition. In
Congress the voice OF the minority was
stined by BLAINE, who as Speaker was a
despnt. he had two motives To guide him,
eTst his own success, and secondly the sue
cess OF the party. Though the two were
combined, he made the second always sub
servient to the first. The Senate was gov
orned by a few leaders, whose rule of
ection was TO give a clean bill Of health TO
every infected partisan like PoMERoY and
20 whitewash every subject OF investiga-
tion like the sale Of arms to France, OF tho
LIFT and STOCKING monopoly.
Thus the Government has been run as
. close corp ration, in the exclusive inter-
est OF o.iiceholders, Rings, contractors,
and rascals. The greater the thief the
more recognized his position. GRANT set
the example Of being guest of Boss SHEP-
HERD, aud drove through the streets OF
0hn al hs .f,l
s-hn 10 n"w philooophl1inH over human
vanities IN the cell OF a penitentiary.
GRANT knew him to be a thief, for his
Friend FoRD had told him SO; but that
fsct made no difference. As MCDONALD
nid, the goose hung altitudlem.
The chiefs who were highest in favor
with GRANT and his Senate at Washington
planned the conspiracy by which the
Freedman's Bank was Dlundered Of nearly
MI its deposits, and the poor negroes were
cheated out of their hard earnings. HEN
ny ID. COOKE, Gen. o. .. Howard, HAL
LETT KILBoURN. JONI O. EVANS, LEWIS
CLEPHANE Boss SHEPHERD. w. =. HUNT
nseroN GEORGE w. SrIcKNEY, j. w. AL
Word, and other familiar Ring names
stripped this institution OF millions, and
left as " securities" Seneca stone scrip and
other trash, in which GRANT was q large
stakeholder without having paid a dime
Tor his shares. The conspiracy to rob the
bank by these knaves, fully Illuminated
by The sun years ago, is now plain TO
svery eye, and every one concerned In II
ought to be indicted. The books are mu-
SLATED, the accounts are purposely con-
fused, aud there IL every token of a delib-
synte plan to steal the money, in which the
Officers and trustees OF the bank were i'm
plicated. IL is wholly impossible that
ehere could have been any honest super
vision or any desire TO protect the unfor-
eunate depositors, in presence OF the de-
ortS which Is left as the proof of organized
Eobbery.
The Government printing Office has
turned out to be nOthing but the same cnor-
nou- fraud which The Sun has exposed re-
peatcdly during the last three or four years.
fraudulent books, suppressed entries Of
nlcs diversion of public money, and steal
Ing on all sides, are but part of the sys-
sem which has long made that office n
scar Val ana a shame, and cost the country
millions Of dollars. II has been maintained
by corruption in Congress, and would
have continued undisturbed but for the
shan in the House OF Representatives.
Yet with all these developments and
stheI which are sure to come the surface
has been barely scratched. The bottom
facts cannot possibly be reached ana
the whole truth known until this
Administration is driven root and
bran out Of power and the Re-
publican party. is crushed into powder
The two ard inseparably connected
together in spite of any personal antag-
snisms which may exist, or the individual
purify or some leaders and many follow
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