Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-15

government, one of the constitutional
advisers of the President, has been ex-
posed in the detestable cGense of
selling the patronage of his Office x
Whether the Republican party shall
survive the misfortUnes that have over
taken it, is question that the Cincin-
natl Convention will do much to decide
From the Milwaukee News.
But it was reserved for one of the
highest and brightest ornaments of the
Republican party in office-for a Cabi-
net officer-for one of the truly loyal
ministers of the government, to become
a partner with an army sutler-to share
the profits of selling bad whisky, shoddy
tinery and bogus jewelry to soldiers,
settlers and Indians on the frontier.
SO shabby piece of official corruption
probably never before was exposed or
occurred in any country.
From the Chicago Tribune.
There is a moral and lesson in this
terrible fall which may be and should
be taken home to the hearthstone of
every family. The cause of this wreck
is domestic extravaganza; fashionable
recklessness of expenditure and rivalry
in social display. This
system of social waste and extravaganza
can hive but one end,-bankruptcy or
crime, with all their consequences; and
there can be no reformation until soci-
ETY. shall recognize wealth as disreputa-
bic that is not the product of honest
toll and skill.
WHAT PROMINENT MEN THINK
SENATOR EDMUNDs said that the ex-
posures were terrible and scathing."
SENATOR CAMERON repeated the words
"Terrible, terrible p "This comes"
said he, "from Grants system of ap-
pointm ents." He had frequently told
him that he ought not to put obscure
men in high positions He always had
lot Of these unknown characters
around him. "The only way for peo-
pie to live" said he, els within their
means"
CRAGIN, Of New Hampshire, was
very much cast down. He was afraid
that the disclosures would lose his state
the Republicans in the approaching
election.
SENATOR LOGAN made no concealment
Of his regret at the Secretary's down.
fall. He characterized it as most
terrible calamity, and said that his res
ignation ought not to have been accept
ed by the President. "Mr. Belknap
ought to be tried, impeached, and sent
| to the penetentiary, the same as my
self" said the Senator, eff I were gull
ty of the whisky charges, as alleged by
the Independent press" Mr.. Logan
went on to say that he and his wife had
been criticised because they did not
make more display in society and give
frequent receptions. He was opposed
to the reckless extravagancies of fash
ionable people in Washington. He be-
lieved in plain living.
VICE PRESIDENT FERRY says it is a
very sad thing and great shame to
think that a man holding such high
position of trust could not prove true
to it. He felt very much detected
about it, and thought it was likely to
have bad effect at the coming cleo
tons in New Hampshire and Connecti-
cut.
SENATOR WALEIGH expressed himself
in most emphatic terms as disguised,
and thought it was simply part Of the
outcropping of the Shepherd Ring. It
was just such men as this who had
loaded down and embarrassed the Re-
publican party which had achieved
such grand results, and had been so
glorious in principles and men. It was
burning shame that it's glorious re-
cord should be so pulled down and
dragged into the dirt.
THE ENGLISH PRESS.
Disclosures after disclosures, charg-
es after charges, varying in degrees of
truth, but with the same reply and I'M
toward character, have lately darkened
the commercial, religious, judicial and
administrative institutions of the United
States. Some have proved false, others
true, and more await evidence, but the
general effect, beyond denial, has been
and is to bring the blush Of shame and
anxiety to the faces of all honest Amer
leans, and to make the countless
friends of the Republic in this country
silent and sorrowful when it's enemies
rejoice over these recurring revela
tons. "-Ielegraph.
"Happily the countries are few
where SO gross an abuse of trust would
be possible. Standard.
This event is more grave because it
is confrmatory of the suspicion which
has long prevailed among the Aneri-
can people. Even we Europeans can
not but be struck with the altered tones
in which the Americans speak, if not
Of their institutions, at least of the men
who have the present direction of them"
Times.
The American political life seems to
be In anything but healthy condition.
It refers to the whisky frauds trials, the
Emma mine scandal, the downfall of
Belknap, and says that these scandals
lift the veil from the class of society
which it was hitherto pretty generally
supposed had as yet escaped the i'm
purities of the social strata below, and
they lead one to fear that some of the
worst vices Of municipal government
may be percolating into the federal adj
m inistration "-NeWs.
A Calf Story.
The Waco (Texas) Examiner says: