The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-05-06
Why the Republican Partv
Must be Destroyed.
from the New York Saa.}

vet TIC UISCoNcIICS tNuS lit Nlauc Ara
in great measure due to accident and
to the reckless habits of officials, who.
from long immunity and consciousness
Of power, exposed themselves to Dc.
lection.
The late Secretary of War impeach.,
ed: the Secretary OF the Navy is like.
~ to experience the same intliction;
the Interior Department is honey
with j"bhery i'll the Indian
Bureau, Land Office, the Pension OF.
flee, and the Patent Office Z: the Post
Office Department is stuffed with
straw bids and collusiyc contracts:
the Treasury under Boutwell, and
Richardson was 4 mass of false en-.
tries, forced balances, Overissues, and
deceptive bookkeeping the Depart.
mcnt OF Justice has been political
machine for presenting opponents Of
Grantism, swindling the Treasury,
and enric|'ins the worst class Of
scoundrels that ever disgraced the
American name and the State De-
partmcnt has been used to betray
American policy and to furnish enor.
NOUS fees for the Secretary;s son.in.
law.
1t was quito. natural with Pres.
ideut who worships the golden calf,
and with a Cabinet made up of sub.
scryient clerks, who were glad to rex.
lister his edicts, that Rings should
have been organized to control tie
political power Of the Administra.
ton. The Rabcodks, Shepherds, Kill,
bourns, McDonalds, Joyces and that
crew, formed the kitchen Cabinet,
surrounded Grant socially and almost
captured the Government. They had
access to all the secrets, suppressed
what they pleased and crushed out
opposition. In Congress the voice Of
tile minority was stif>ed by Blaine,
who as Speaker was a despot. He
had two motives to guide Inn, first
his own success, and secondly the soc.
cess of the party. Though the t9o'
were combined, he made the second
always subseryient b the first. The
Senate was governed by a few lead
c,s. whose rule Of action was to Cite
a clean bill of health to every infect.
ed partisan like Pomeroy aud w.
whitewash every subject Of investip-.
ton like the sale of arms to Fssneey
or the Lect and Stocking monopoly.
Thus the Government has been ruu
as a close corporation, in the exclusive
interest Of ot1iceholders, Rings, co.,
tractors, and rascals. The greater
the thief the more recognized his p
si,ion. Grant set the example It b.
ing guest Of Boss Shepherd, aal
drove through the streets Of the cap
ital with Mcdonald by lis side, wh
is now philosophizing over human
vanities in the cell Of \ penitsntiay.
Grant knew him to be a thief, for ha
friend Ford had told him so Int
that fact made no difference. As
Mcdonald said, the goose hung al.
titu.llem.
The chiefs who were highest in
favor with Grant and his Senate At
Washington planned the conspiracy
by which the Freedman's Bank M
plunderel of nearly all its depodlts,
and the poor negro were cheated OF
of their hard earnings. Henry D.
Cvol<s, Con. o. O. Howard, AaIlett
KiIbourn, John O. Evans, eva
Clephane, Boss Shepherd, W. 5. Haat.
inston, George w. Stickney, J. v.
Alvord, and other familiar Ring
names, stripped this institution d
millions, amt left as ''securitiesH s..
neca stone scrip and other trash, .
which Grant was large stockhol&-
er without having paid a dime II
lis shares. The conspiracy to rob
the bank BY these knaves, fully illun.
mated by The Sun years ago, is Dsv
plain to every eye, and every a.
concerned in it ought to be indicted
The books are INITIATED, tho -.
counts are purposely confused. asd
there is every token Of deliberate
plan to steal the money, in which ~
officers and trustees Of tho hank wess
implicated. It is wholly impoesib'e
that there could have been any hon
est supervision OF any desire to Pro-
tect the unfortunate depositors. u
presence of the debris which is left -
the proof Of organized robbery:
The Government printing Office l,as
turned out to he nothing but tho
same enormous fraud which The Ssn
has exposed repeatedly during tne
last three Of fonr years. fraooaless
books, suppressed entries Of sa's,.
diversion Of public money, and !seaF
ing on all sides, are but part Of y
system which has long made that 9.
fee a scandal and a shame, ana e.
the country millions Of dollars y
has been maintained by corrnptios y
Congress, and would have contan.es
undisturbed but for the change 10 -
House Of Representatives.
! Yet with all these developmeee
and others which are sure to CO.,
the surface has been barely scratches
The bottom facts cannot possibly .
reached and the whole truth kssss
until this Administration is dnve
root and branch out Of power and -
Republican party is crushed into pss'
der. The two are inseparably CO..
nected together, in spite Of any PEI.
sonal antagonisMs which may exl9''
or the individual purity Of some leea.
ers and many followers. Cos1ap!lCn
has SO spread through tho x !.
machinery of Government tnas y.
form is impracticable without ~ ~
heads and new hands. The ffese@
can party must be anaihilated. Inoe
is no other safety.