The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-01

reform, rctrenchment and faithful SER
vice---the emptiness of which trauscends
u possible the lack of virtue which Is
found In such apostles as Oliver p. Nor
ton and Simon Cameron and the hosts of
greater or lesser links which are bound
together by the mutual hope OF rule and
plumber instead OF service and honor.
Dear readers. deem US not too severe.
We could with truth substantiate more
than we have charged these masters
with. But in spite of their strength and
wealth of pelf. the best delegation
of representative which are fresh
from the people, did something
| more last session of Con
gress than join in the empty cry Of
reform. rctienchment ami faithful SER
vice :" they successfully fought some of
their reformatory measures through, and
saved to their constituents the people
a moiety of $50 900 900 which the corrupt
managers and members had consigned
, in their minds the wide-gaping peck
cts of their mutual friends: 1t il "a we'll
| established fact that for years the salaries
of nearly all the federal officers have
grown larger and larger, and that ostcn-
sibly for the compensation for the oner-
| Gus duties of Office. but In reality to fur
| nish an assessment margin tor the crea-
| ton of II Republican corruption tiuld, to be
assessed on the officers from the highest
| to the lowest grade. and when collected
TO be applied by managers for the cor
! rupt purposes of unlawful eicctioneering
and bribery. which has been the almost
| universal custom of the masters" for at
| least eight years. The chief directors of
political affairs in The Republican party
are not only guilty of the corrupt practi-
ces OF money brides. but TO this hour
have exercised in addition, military ter
rorism wherever they deemed
the ballot could be thus con-
trolled to aid in the eontinu-
ance OF their official existence. False
hood, bribery and terrorism, they have
used, and are now using rcmorselessly
tor the purpose OF deceiving, buying and
frightening the uniniormed. the needy
and the weak into voting their continu-
ance in office. Witness the late "bayonet
order OF the masters, to place from
seven to eleven thousands regulars with
in the borders of Louisiana, Florida, Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina. These are
the states where the government tools,
great and small, have swarmed from the
beginning-and where, too, in conse-
quence, murders, assassinations and riots
have been rife. In other southern states
where the government masters have not
intcrmeddled, there has been as small an
amount of those crimes as there has been
in the model New England states. Bribery
and falsehoOd are aptly illustrated by
Gen. kilpat-ick's confidential letter to
the negatively good and positively BAD
late income tax payer, Il. b. Hayes,
Simon Cameron's candidate for the con-
tinuance OF Grantism. In that letter
hc 0uuCuilcts 10 inc I'LL
maculate and easy-going negligent tar.
paying standard bearer that the only way
TO carry Indiana for him required them
to tell untruths-a.,d inconsistent ones
at thai-to some OF the people, ana buy
others of them, who, like David's brig
ad., are in debt and out of favor with
their creditors. He proposes to tell the
lndianians that 1.-The war WAS failure -
that the South must be bound hand and
loot. and then sOundly whipped. Trust
the Democrats hew the war is fail
urc.' This, in the lace Of the oft-repeat d
declarations 10 the contrary, is quite a
hard to reconcile a. Hayes sworn state.
ments concerning the amazing iiuctua-
tons Of the annual values OF his '.perso-
nal property but the fellow Is so good
natured, innocent, and Csrelessly ncgli-
gent when. he goes TO swear, that we
must set ii down 10 the goodness" Of
hi heart. NERIrAs