, 1876-05-13

AAu 0iAA eo successfully tA4u c4eCluaI
r crushed it thet it has never rnised its hea
since he placed his foot uponit- He remen
} bered that this same vigorous, radical Ke,
tuckian had served fer time in the subord
nate position Of Solicitor of the Treasur,
and though unable to accomplish much on
ins to the weakness and ineHiciency of th
) head Of the Treasury, he left a record benin
him Of ability and zeal which commende
him to the President as fitting man to tax
charge Of the most important OF al the va
rlous branches of the Government.
| Up to this time there had been genera
depression in the Republican party. It
absolute supremacy had been broken. Demo
cratic Governors end Legislatures wer,
ffaunting their power in majority Of tht
Northern States, and the popular disconten
was nndiminished, and party prospects were
never SO gloomy 11r. BR1srouT, backed by
the President, at once introduced a new
| system. He found iunumerable Offices thaf
were mere 6inecures, created to furnish
patronage to members Of Congress. These
he discontinued. He found in and around
oil the public Offices host of id1ers, dead
heads, and loafers, having nothing TO do but
| draw salaries. All these be dismissed. He
found many Offices filed with worthless md
incompetent men, and these he weeded out,
| filling their places with men capable and
honest. He entered the corrupt Custom
Houses at Boston, New York, PHILADELPHIA,
and elsewhere; he applied the knife vigor.
ons}y, cutting off the useless, expeliine the
rascals, and putting honest men in posi-
tions OF trust. He attacked the system of
smuggling, then in full blast with the
connlvance Of the revenue officers, and broke
it up to large extent He crippled the
general smuggling across the Canadian bor-
der: In all this he Was smashing the
machines. Every person he touched was
machine operator; every abuse or fraud he
broke up was machine production. He
found the country flooded with counterfoit
money, and that crime was having its own
way almost unchallenged He thereupon
unccremoniously threw the whole rotten and
corrupt Secret Service force out of his de-
partment, and sent to Chicago for the man
who, as head of the municipal police force.
had won national reputation for fearless
ness, efficiency, and incorruptib;1ity. As
each step made by him in this grand work of
systematic reform was made public, it excited
the hostility of the machine politicians,
who have arrayed themselves IN open per
sond hostility to him. But at the same time
it has been hailed with hopeful confidence
by the great body Of the Republican press
and people, who have been inspired with |
new zeal at tue prospect TINT the Republican
party was not given over irrcdeemably to the
corruptionis:s It gave promise that there
was power within the Republican party TO
reform all abuses, repress all Frauds to pun
lsh all crimes, and 10 purify the public ser
rice.
Confidence in tho Republican party dates
It's revival from BR1srow's drastic applica
ions to the Civil Service That confidence
~as fully recovered and confirmed when he
lnally greppled with the hydra whisky CON-
and, HERCULES like, strangled the
monster unto death. Desertions from the
Republican party have been arrested. The
,reat body Of Republicans, who in DESPAIR
lad held aloof, or who had in 1874 voted
llrectly to accomplish a change,-the only
vay then open for reform, come back.
3yen this county, Of which Chicago is the
entire, which in 1874 had given Democratic
aajority, and is represented by three Demo-
rats in Congress, has recovered its faith and
onfidence in the Republican party, and,
nth BRIsrow Us its candidate, will give its
Id $4,000 Republican majority in 1876. e
he recent elections all show that, '
18th the great and vigorous re- t
rms carried out by this intrepid G
entuckian, who spares no thief, and has no d
ore sympathy for Republicans detected in t
lme than with any other criminals; who L
IS purified the revenue service from the Il
down to the humb1est Gaueer, G
ere is 10 longer any distrust of the Re- 3
'blican party, and there is no longer any p
casion to vote with the Democratic party Il
force reform in spite of the machine q
lders. fl
While this recovery of confidence is gen. .oi
n, it largely rests upon personal conf 81
nee IN BR1s1ow, and that his style of ad- di
nstration shall be continued. Should tha ST
publican party select as its candidate for III
Presidency man like Cox61Hc, who is co
cluslvely machine man, that confidence til
Il be rudely and violently shaken. Bnt if ca
1srow be nominated, twill not only include fr,
Fry Republican in the land, but also a ou
&c portion Of the best class of Democrats, pc
I will lead to the establishment Of re- vi
'ctable white Republican party at the tn
ath,-an element Of political strength for be
re powerful than carpet-baggers or ad
ltary force, and of which the Republic SCI
party has always been deprived in that 60
ton. To nominate BR1srow is to insure q r
things,-victory at the election and hon. Br
? in administration. Br
to
TIE VoN H0LLEN DEFALcAuDH. Be
he revelation of the fight of GEoneE Won Fn
LIEN, the perfunctory City Collector; as a Bn
Lit OF defalcation estimated as high ~ Co,
o,ooo, is the latest addition to the munic- ma
nf EhfoorYo ~ 81.