Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1876-05-19
why the Republican Party must
be DeAtrOyed.
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why the Republican Party Must
be Destroyed.
From the New York Sun
1t seems almost impossible to find a
sound spot In Grants Administration.
In every department and branch of the
public service, rottenness is found
wherever the searching probe of in
vestigation is applied; and yet the dis
coveries thus far made are III a great
measurA due to accident and to the
reckless habi's of officials, who, from
long immunity and consciousness Of
mower, exposed themselves to dctec
tion.
The late Secretary of War is i'm
peached; the Secretary of the Navy is
likely to experience the same il fiction
the Interior Department is honey
combed with jobbery III the Iudian
Bureau. the Land Office. the Pension
Office, and the Pateut Office; the Post
ofIice Department is stuffed with straw
bids aud collusive contracts; the
rrea ury under Boutwell, and Rich
ardson was a mass of false entries,
forced balances, over-issues and de-
ceptive book keeping; the Department
of Justice has been political machine
for prosecuting opponents of Grant
ism, swindiing the Treasury, and Ell
richipg the worst class of scoundrels
that ever disgraced the American nam
and the State Department hes been
used to betray American policy aud o
furnish enormous fees for the Secre
tary's son-in-law.
It was quite natural with a Presi
dent n no worships the golden cali, and
with Cabinet made up of slbservient
clerks who were glad to register his
edicts, that rings should have been or
ganized to control the political power
of the administration. The Rabcocks,
Shepherds, Kllbourns, McDonalds,
Joyces, and that crew, formed the
kitchen cabinet, surrounded Grant So
ciaIly and almost captured the govern
ment. They had access to ali the
secrets, suppressed what they pleased
and crushed out opposition. In Con-
gress the voice Of the minority was
stifed by Blaine, who as Speaker was
despot. He had two motives to
guide him, first his OWE success, and
secondly the success of the party
Though the two were combined, he
made the second always subserviept to
the first. Tue Senate was governed
by few leaders, whose rule of action
was to give a clean bill of health to
every infected partisan like Pomeroy,
and to whitewash every subject of in
vestigation like the sale OF arms to
France, or the Leet and Stocking mo-
nopoly.
Thus the government has been run
as close corporation, in the exclusive
NJ Of nf1aobo lJarc o0p
tractors and rascals. The greater the
thief the more recognized his position.
Grant set the example of being a guest
of Boss Shepherd, and drove through
the streets of the capital with Melon
aid by his side. who is now philoso-
phizing over human vanitias in the cell
of penitentiary. Grant knew him to
be d thief, for his friend Ford had told
him SO; but that fact made no differ
| cnce; as Mcdonald said, the goose
| hung altitudinem.
The chiefs who were highest in favor
with Grant and his Senate at Washing
ton planned the conspiracy by which
| the Freedman's Bank was piundered
of nearly all it's deposits, and the poor
negroes were cheated out of their hard
earnings. Henry d. Cooke, Gen. o.
| 0. Howard, Hallett Kilbourn, John o.
Evans, Lewis Clephane, Boss Shep
herd, W. S. Huntington, George "
| Stickney, J. ". A!vork, and other fla.
miIiar ring names, stripped this insti-
tuition of millions and left as "securi-
ties" Seneca stone scrip and other
trash in which Grant was a large
stakeholder without having paid
dime for his shares. The
conspiracy to rob the bank by
these knaves. fully illuminated by
the Sun. years ago, is now plain to
every eye, and every one concerned in
it ought to be indicted. The books
are mutilated, the accounts are pur-
posely confused, and there is every
token of deliberate plan to steal the
money, in which the officers and
trustees of the bank were implicated.
It is wholly impossible that there
could have been any honest supervis-
ion or any desire to protect the unfor,
tunate depositors, in presence of the
debris which is left as the proof OF
organized robbery.
The government printing office has
turned out to be nothing but the same
enormous fraud which The Sun has
exposed repeatedly the last three or
four years. Fraudulent books, sup
pressed entries of sales, diversion of
public money, and stealing on all
sides, are but a part of the system
which has long made that Office a
scandal and 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 change in the
House of Representatives.
Yet with all these developments and
others which are sure to come, the
surface has been barely scratched.
The bottom facts cannot possibly be
reached and the whole truth known.
until this administration is driven
root and branch out of power and the
Republican party is crushed into
powder. The two are inseparabIy
connected together, in spite of any
personal antagonisms which may ex~
list, or the individual purity of some
leaders and many followers. Corrup-
ton has SO spread through the whole
machinery of government that reform
is impracticai,le without new heads
and new hands. The Republican
party must be annihilated. There is
no other safety.
Is Don PIatt in His Right Mind