The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1876-01-05
renitontisry reliaie-

Il Development ~ social. intellect
ual and material greatness, l. seems
to be The special Office Of alarge per
ton Of the American press ID impress
these same foreigners 10 advaHce
that we are a nation OF thieves and
I scoundrels-ihat cur officials. from
the highest TO the lowest. are cor
rup;, reckless If tie public good, and
controlled Only by merceuary mo-
tiges 1t is bumiiiatiHg to American
pride and self respect, 10 read dsr bv
day the columns Of some Of the more
noted Of the s0-called 'iudeDeudeDto
Journals Gnd Democratic papers gea-
orally, aud see how they teen with
the most reckless charges against
high aud hoDofed olicials-and thar
too, without the least shadow of
cause, other than morbid sensation
alism, low paruzan malcvoiencc. CT
anxiety to make political capital for
the Presidential struggle. No off,
cial position is so high-no name SO
honored-no reputation so pure as 10
escape the work Of the ghouls.
One day the President is in league
with the Whiskey Ring, sharing ia
their spoils, and promising pardon 20
convicted felons. Next day, it is
Secretary Bristow, who, U0twith-
standing his apparent zeal in prose
cutting the whiskey thieves, is found
to be the private, confidential caau-
sci of the Ring. Next Attorney
General Pierepont is prosdmtins his
high Office in the same direction.
And still again. Secretary Fish is
found 10 be nader Spanish influence,
and on bad terms with the President,
because be won't let the latter rash
into insane war on account Of Cu5a.
II matters not that day by day each
and all Of these miserable ISLANDERS
are autboriatively denied or proven
false. The work Of destruction goes
on.
II Mcdonald. from his cell IN ,de
P~enitentiarv. denies that the Pfcsi-
dent or any Official at Arlington
bad aught to do with the hasker
Ring, forthwith these gboais gloat
over it as clear proof Of the Pres.-
dents completely, q promised PTesi-
dental pardon being the price Tor
McDonald's denial Of his partners
gnil5. If. on the other hand, joyce,
from a like felon's cell, angered be
cause of the Presidents refusal to
i%nterpose in behalf of the Ring,
threatens revelations that viii involve
the Presidents household, these same
ghouls at once ring out 10 full cho-
rus. "Ha didn't we tell you SOP
No wonder the New York Tribune
is moved to denounce this kind of
~partizanship as "scandalous.' The
Tribune has no special love for Pres
ident Grant or the Republican party Il
but it is n high toned Journal, ana
while at tiunes sharply Arranging
Grants administration, it doesn't
hesitate to express its profound coz
tempt for the style of Journalism Of
which we are speaking. Under the
apt head Of politics in the Peui-
Tertiary" the Tribune Of Friday has
this to say on the subject:
The attention bestowed by 4 GER
tain portion of the press and public
upon the convicted whiSkey colspir-
ators in Missouri is scaudalous.
When Mcdonald FIRST wen to jail,
reporters were detailed TO call upon
bin and get bis views not only upon
the question of his own guilt, bat up
on politics generally and the Presi-
dencv in particular. If be bad been
q newly elected Senator and the own
er of several silver mines be could
not have been more deliberately ln,er-
viewed. His opinion Of the EXecu-
tive and his private Secretary was
t~olegrapbed all over the sountry, and
his nomination Of Gea. Grant for q
third term was treated as a political
incident hardly less significant than
the exhortation of Bishop Haven to
the Boston Ministers. Aud NOW
convict Joyce is made much Of jGst
as convict Mcdonald Was. Joyce
does not agree with the other fellow.
He assures an anxious world that
the evidence against Bobcock is
Startling" and predicts that The
entire White House will be badly
~scorched, the President Eot except
ed if only the prosecutor does bis
daty. And scaudal-lovers will wag
their heads with delight over what
they are pleased to call Joyce's dis
closure
There is no reason in the world
why we should pay any more a:ten-
ton to the talk of these men than we
do to the language Of the prisoners
at the Court of Special Sessions.
When q batch Of drunkards aud street
thieves are sent up, you will always
find some Of them striving to propIii-
ate justice by adulaiion Of the Judge,
while Others vent their feelings ia
blackguardism. Any convictin Sing.
Sing, if you listen to bin, will tell
you of conspiraeics Of the police 70
put al innocent man u Of the way,
and couple the most astonishing
stories of the wickedness Of the judge
who sentenced him, with compliments
to the Governor from whom he is Try
ing 10 get o pardOn.--,0ur newspa-
pers as yet Go not trouble themselves
TO report the views Of these Gistiu-
guisbed refuses; but perhaps they
will come to that after a while
Joyce and Mcdonald are moved
by only q impulse 10 their Inter
views; They want to get out Each
takes the course be thinks Elcsi
promising. One c%ajolcs, the ether
threatens. Decent people viii lei
them both alone, to serve their terms
in the solitude a disgrace they have
merited. There is no political capt.
tai to be made out Of either their
praises or their abu-c.-GeHhysbarq
Star and eRtiael.
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