Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-11-02

IL 0peoo0U Iuuy Vl,Up
- poi1rsI purposes in the Mary
fard The espenditures IN the Ns.y
De- Rent since Secretary Robesoass
npfol1tmcaf hss>been 500, 031 Ash
Resa& Aaoissl Porter says. "Our n
w - 50 whclo = worth aofkiA6R
AZ - Hsyes NJ ncsdinated II c.
emmett chiefly By the supporters II
Morton and Cameros aided By the in
Auence o. REssiAeat Grant and in his
letter Of acceptance made promises Of
Civil Service reform, il becomes inter
esting to know what are the ideas Of
these prominent supporters concerning
our present civil service. Morton says:
s'OAfs = tle - eiviliservice on the
planet" Senator Cameroe. whose son
'1ssiaed -Hsyss- sslhiinsAiea- q Ciseia-
natti. says: This Government Of ours
10 . web conducted now - il ever was
since the beg;aning and bslter than any
other government in the world. ] am
for leaving the thing - il has been"
&c. The oaly three Secretaries Who
have distinguished themselves - re-
formers, Cox. Bristou and Jewell, have
been driven from the Cabinet.
Among Gen. Babcoek's bills o. Com
missioner Of Public Buildings and
Grounds and paid out Of the U. S.
Treasury vas one Of SO for the board
Of his dog, and the total cost to the Gov.
eminent Of boarding Gen. Babcock's dog
10 date has been $500 The awards OF
the venezuelan Claims Commission
amounted to 81, 253, $40. The House
Committee investigated the subject and
declared that not single one Of the
awards was justified BY law or evidence
and the Government could not consls-
tently with National honor insist upon
their payment. Mr.. Orth, Republican
member Of Congress, was chiefly in
strumental in getting the awards made
and received for compensation one Of
the certificates Of aw ard of 81 900. The
testimony Of Bluford Wilson, Solicitor,
shows that the acquittal of Babcnck, the
Presidents private Secretary, was due
almost entirely to the Presidents inter-
ference. On one occasion the Presi-
dent called on Wilson and asked what
a certain witness would testify to, and
Immediately afterwards Babcock came
in and asked the same question. Will
son refused the information, but upon
his adding that Of course he could not
refuse the President. Babcock laughed
and said that would do just as we'll, -
thus showing, as Wilson states in his
letter to Bristow, that His Excellency
conveyed at once to Babcock every item
of possible evidence he could have re-
ceived from me. The point Of all this
is, that the President questions me in
Babcock's interest" See Hon. Bluford
Wilson's testimony before the special
committee on whiskey trials. Treasur-
or Richardson made q contract with
Jno. d. Sanborn for the collection Of
taxes withheld-in all about 8. 900 cases.
The contract was made without con-
sulting the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue or any officers Of the Depart.
ment. The amount collected BY San
born was $427 900: the amount retain
ed by him was $2lS, 500; amount just
ly due him would have been $4,000,
so that the Government overpaid him
$2O9, 900. The Ways and Means Com
mitt-e Of the Republican House report
ed that probably all could have been
collected in the usual way. The House
Committee Of the Department Of JUS
tice, after examining at length the &C
counts of John L. Davenport, found
$34, 900 OF the Secret Service fund not
satisfactorily accounted for, and IN their
report said: ut is evident the fund
was used to influence the elections OF
New York city, and we feel compelled
to report that the President and the At
torney-Generals, Messrs. Akerman and
Williams, who supplied Davenport with
$34 900 from the latter fund, diverted
it from its proper purpose to one entire
ly foreign to the objects Of the law
But Why pursue the chapter: Enough
has been enumerated. though not not .
hundredth part Of what might be told,
and the facts are derived from official
sources and from testimony given in the
official investigations of Congress. They
certainly do not reveal - host Of pure,
honest and honorable men," conducting
the affairs Of the Government on the
Republican side, nor such as "shed a
halo Of glory upon the country Of their
nativity" unless honesty, purity, hon.
or and glory have come to have a diff
ferent Specification from what we have
been formerly taught il had.
Now, look at the two pictures, con-
trsst the administra alton Of the Govern
ment as under Democratic and Repair
hcan rule and say (which party is en-
titled to the gratitude Of the country
and the confidence and support Of the
American people When the Demo
cssts bad control The country MAS pros
porous and happy; cases Of dishonesty
and fraud in Government o6scials were
Of rare occurrence, and whea discover.
ed the perpetrators relentlessly prose-
cuted and consigned to oblivion and dis
grace. But now when aa olicial 10 dis
covered to be honest and eyisces = de-
termination 10 prosecute I'll thieves. e.
pecially il the lrai leeds 10 the favor
ties Of the whiae ksvs, ~ 10 driven
from o6ce; -. EilxeW IA kAs Of Bris.
tow Jewell end UekUA ss..l- =
Dishonesty, peculation and fraud in
high places have become the rule. moi
the exception. In fact the present I'D.
ministiation appears to be fraudulent
and corrupt from its surface to its corr
and unless IN antidote 10 applied ana
the sapaty relieved Of the fatal incu
bos taot BON preys upon its vitals, civil
poiiticel snd religious liberty and pros
perity in this Union is lost forever. s.
Democrats to the rescue rememberins