The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-13
GO ON WITH THE INVESTIGATIONS.

The last argument used by Republican or.
gans against the appointment of committees
to investigate the departments at Washing
ton is the cost which must attach to such
matters. These sans organs bewailed but
little the ruinous cost to the country of the
corrupt and ignorant officials whose dishon-
est conduct has made such Investigations a
necessity. Then all was for the party, but
now that it is proposed to look into the man
agement of the different departments in order
to ferret out and trace to the proper sources
| the gigantic frauds that have been committed
in Washington, the organs discover that
economy ise good thing in the National Gov
eminent, and cry aloud against the great ex.
pense which these various investigations will
cause.
These Radical plunderers need severe les
son and the present il just fit time in which
to teach them that the sentiment uttered as
buncombe by their leader-'Lst no guilty
man escape"-will be seriously understood
and effectively carried out by honest men
when they obtain the right and power to do
of large sums Of money to trace the various
frauds which have so depleted the treasury
of the country, but in addition to the lesson
taught in the punishment of the guilty, it is
just possible that it will cause some Of those
who are now feasting on the spoils Of their
infamy, to disgorge at least portion Of these
plumber, and pour fair share Of the contents
Of their laden Golfers back into the treasury
from which they were derived.
1t is not matter of surprise tina. the or
gans should labor SO strenuously in their OPP
position to these investiga atoms, and We may
expect that all possible subterfuges will bs
resorted to in order to Grippe any movement
in that direction; we'll do they know that the
Independent voter Of the country is looking
with very steady and inquisitive gaze into
measures representing the ability and the
animus of the two parties, and while the
Radicals are satisfied that many of the deeper
villainiss committed by Radical partsans for
many years past are SO carefully covered as to
escape the casual glance, yet they are equally
certain that the activity of honest investjga-
ting committees, uninfuenced by promises
Of gold or power, would readily discover
the secrets hidden under the dexterously laid |
covering, and hold up to the public gaze un-
doubted and glazing evidences of the cor
ruption and unftness of the Radical aspirants
for place and power. They know that the
voter will WELD an immense in
fuence during the next campaign, and they
fear and tremble lest proofs of the guilt and
ignorance of their party should be made so
clear as to lose to them forever the support, or
even countenance of their great factor in the
problem of 1876.
The duty of exposing the frauds Of the past
years belongs to the Democratic party, and il
they allow any strategy, persuasion or infu-
Bnce to deter them from an honest and rigid
performance Of the great task. they will have
created SO great burden to be carried during
The approaching campaign that they will be
almost sure 70 stumble and fall beneath its
weight They have been regarded through
out the country as the great rsformers, and
he people are anxlously looking to some acts
If theirs to justify the appella.ion; should they
all to make their title clear they must suffer
he grievous consequences of their neglect or
ack of Judgment They must hold the power
# government by deeds of mighty proves
a the good fight against corruption and |
raud; they have flung to the breeze the ban
sr OF honest government and searching and