National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1876-07-26
THE CHAMPION INVESTIGATOR,

When tie ex-Confederste House Of Rep
resentatives last winter started its numerous
Star Chamber investigations the Hon.
Glover, of Missouri, appeared on the sur
face as champion investigator. The Hon.
Glover is person of small mental calibre,
full of prejudice and ignorance, and pulled
out to his full capacity with stale wind of
self-importance, which, at the least over
strain, results in a collapse, besmearing the
cause he espouses and bespattering his po-
litical associates. He formerly sucked the
Government teat as revenue officer under
President Lincoln, then JohnsoniZed IN Or
der to continue hi. nursing, and with the
return of the graybacks to his district his
sympathetic nature espoused their affilia-
lions, and he came TO Congress q full
fedged Democratic partisan.
The Hon. Glover, in order to develop into
a FIRST class Democratic statesman of the
modern school, determined to run an inves-
tigatIng committee himself. He listened 20
those "child. like and bland croakers, Co
lumbus,, Alexander, Counsellor Christy, Paul
Pry Mackall, jr., Thornton Smith and Pro
fessor Wilcox, representatives % of the en-
ergy, enterprise and progress of the N !tional
Capital, and launched forth his celebrated
real estate pool investigation- The result of
his first grand flourish is matter of his
tory. He demanded of private
business firm, having no transac-
tions with the Government, a full ex-
hibit of their private books and papers.
Upon their refusal to comply with this
arrogant and illegal demand he rushed
through the House, without any discussion
upon its merits, a resolution combining one
of the firm to the common Jail. The
Judiciary Department of the Government
released the prisoner of State" from the
illegal and tyrannical Incarceration orderel
at the instance of the Hon. Glover, but
not until seventy-five of his political asso-
ciates in the House were forced upon the
record as opposed TO obeyiDg in time of
peace that scored bill of rights-the writ
of habed3 corpus. For this untenable
position and humilisting record of their
error they now breathe deep, if not loud,
curses against the Hon. Glover. The &C
ton of the court of law punctured the
arrogance of the Hon. NJ. c. from Mis-
souri,, and he became the butt of the House
as an investigator, and was forcibly, charac
terized as stump tailed cur" who had
been looking at a hole that had no rat in it.
The Hon. Glover, however, did not pro-
pose to subside with the ridiculous fasco of
his first effort in smelling out thingG,' he
now determined to out-Herod the Spanish
inquisition, and thus retain his tainted
fame as statesman. The ex- Confederate
House INDUCED the Hon. Glover with su-
thority for his Real Estate Pool Commit
tee to investigate any and all subject
matters and persons on the North Ameri-
can continent with single exception Of
United States Senators) which were not
being overhauled by the other forty nine
star chamber investigations gong on by
order of this immaculate House.
Now the Hon. Glover was happy. He
is, as it were, the residuary legatee of all
the bad smells charged as emanating from
the Republican party. He Immediately
placed his nose at the sewer-traps of the
Administration and inhaled every passing
stink which had escaped the oltactOries OF
the other smelling committees. He placed
himself at the mouth of the political sewer
and nosed about among the filth of scandal,
falsehoOd, envy, vltuperaticn, wholesale
misrepresentation, vile insinuations aod
malignant SANDER, totally VOID OF truth,
strung together by hearsay testimony OF in
famous libeleIs.
He seized kilograms, demanded private
letters, examined private bank accounts,
went into family history as retailed by dis
charged cosby servants, purchased OF
specializing junk dealers the kilograms sold
to them as waste paper by some villainOus
telegraph company, and luxuriated on FAM
lily secrets thus divulged, aud absorbed
from this source enough scandal, when
fully manipulated and perverted for polit.
cal purposes, to satisfy the biIterest par
tisan.
And yet, with his unlimited drag net
spread to It's fullest extent, the Hon. Glover
has made but water haul. He has again,
as in his first attempted glorifcation as an
investigator, come to grief His course
has disguised his political associates. and
the newspaper organs of his party are
puncturing him with shafts of ridicule,