National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-03-15


public nuisance in its present condition.
The Democrats should nominate Marsh for
President. He runs well with Hester CIymer
astrainer. He ran ahead of his railroad ticket
into Canada, and can now give telcgraphic
subpoena four hundred miles and beat it.
While Hester Clymer was weeping over his
report on the Belknap case, Marsh was in New
York packing his brandy flask and euchre-deck
into his valise, muttering to himself, "Some
people are always on rush. 1 could just as
well have waited two or three days longer, but,
then, HEST says dig out, and dig must"
'If Mexico chooses to consider this act of
ours . cause OF war, Gas it would be,) let her
accept it and have it to her hearts content.
If she wanted a few millions of dollars to
reconcile her TO the loss of territory, give h.:
5000, 900 or even $40, 600" These words
came from the lips of old General Gideon
Pillow recently. he wants to shake the
country up and make things brisk. If he can
not get pay for those two hundred and thirty
five mules, he at least wants to break the dull
monotony of the present hard times. He is
very anxious that the Government should
quietly seize upon two of the bordering States
of Mexico, and make the Sierra Madre and
Rio Panuco the boundary between the two
countries. Seize it peacefully if possible, and
forcibly if necessary. Two weeks ago Gideon
was telling the people that all he lived for
was to secure remuneration for his two hun
dred and thirty-iive mules. To-day we see
the dauntless courage of the old man rise,
made plump and round by an unquenchable
thirst for military glory, and demand all oppor-
tunity to rush remorselessly upon the Mc1i-
cans and pocket several hundred thousand
square miles of their rocky bluffs and barren
brazos. Poor Pillow Time may yet place
head on him that will render some good to his
country.
The commercial world looks with but little
allowance upon the man who escapes or en-
deayors 10 escape from the responsibility of a
just debt by pleading the statute of limitation,
and the criminal who escapes the punishment
which law attaches to his crime by keeping
out Of its reach for time is not in the eyes of
society any less criminal. Why should the
sage moralists of the Democratic party at
tempt to have treason, political infamy, or
thieying condoned: If the thief who is par
dOned one day should attempt to sit in judg-
ment upon those who have erred less than
himself the next, would his Judgment be ac-
cepted by the people-should it be If the
felon who returns to the country as soon as
the law has no further hold upon him should
attempt to pass as one of the twelve before
whom lesser criminal Is on trial would It
subserTe the moral tone OF society to let him
alone! We do not think so. The Graphic
misunderstands us. We are as anxious as it
is 10 have all dishonesty rooted out of public
places. and punished to the full extent Of the
law. What we want and insist upon is that
the courts, the jury, or the investigators shall
not be more disreputable than the party tried.
II wholesale charges of corruption are made
by men who are not without blemish let the
parties so charged have at least trial at the
hands of men with sufficient reputation to be
accounted their peers. Are We understood.
The New York Tribune says: s.The most
melancholy instance Of low selfvaIuation has
occurred in Boston, where one Councilman
Shaw has been detected in selling his vote in
favor Of wharf for only 5000. As the great
grantors and grantees do on big scale, so
on little one. Heaven knows where the
probing Of this slough OF corruption will
reach the hardpan of virtue" The Republi-
can party has punished fraud in all branches
Of the National and State government when
ever and wherever discovered. The Republi-
can press has persistently urged this policy.
Not only has it been constant in regard to this
matter so far as it related to official turpitude,
but in many instances it has inaugurated and
prosecuted severe war on institutions outside
of the National and State governments wherein
questionable transactions have occurred
Among these prominently before the public is
the disreputable connection of Jay Gould with
the Tr,6t'as, whereby he has manipulated its
columns in the interest of stockjobbing and
general thieying for several years past. The
bottom to the hardpan Of virtue fell out of the
Tribune establishment the moment the young
editor fell into the tolls of Jay Gould and his
organized body Of public plunderers, and the
concern has been so active ever since in its
systematic work of iohl,ipO and rohblr,, ~