The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-10-03
Senator Logan's Great Speech at Indian.
apolis.

ap0lis.
We make the following extract from
Gen. Logan's address delivered recent
ly at indianapolis:
The Democrats. charge us not only
with extravaganza, but with corruption.
! am not here to defend corrupt men;
but 1 think there is. common sense
enough among the people 20 understand
this question: How is the Republican
party corrupt? The man who says the
Republican party, as a party, is corrupt
Is q slanderer, a vilifier of the best peo-
pie and the best party that ever held
thereins of Government [great applause]
q calumniator of not only an honest
party but q loyal and patriotic party
(renewed ~applause]; of the men who,
in spite of those who are nov their
calumniators, saved this mighty nation
from destruction. That there are cor
rupt men in the country, we all know;
that there are and have been corrupt
men in the Republican party, no man
but ar idiot will dispute. So there is
in every organization that exists, or
has existed since the world began. In
every church, in every neighborhood,
in every society, there a some n be
found who does not live up to the code,
and 50 it will ever be. When the time
comes there will be no more corruption
to be found in the land, it will be the
dawn of the l~ong-looked for millennium
Of which we have read. But while hu-
man Governments exist and are con
trolled according to the motives of or
binary human action, we will find men
who Will deceive their neighbors, who
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rob their banks-in short. who will be
corrupt and commit crimes. But do
these virtuous Democrats wish us to
believe that because some weak and bad
men have been found in the Republican
party that that proves that there are no
corrupt men, and never have been, in
the Democratic partyp The true differ
ence between Democrats and Republic
cans IN this matter is, that when the
Republicans detect n dishonest man in
their ranks, they at once proceed to
kick him out. Applause. But when
the Democrats find one VIGOROUSLY dis
honest man in their party, they cover
up his foul and damnable deeds and
hide them from the light of day.
l"That's true" and applause. Why,
gentlemen, they have certainly forgot
ten the history of the past. Let them
go back to the history of Van Buren,,
Of Polk, of Pierce, and of that old pa
triot Buchanan laughter and applausel,
and then ask II there was corruption In
this land. Is it not written in the pages
Of the history of this country that there
were more defalcations during Demo-
cratic times than have ever been known
since, or will ever be known again in
this country ? for the people will never
submit to it again. During Van Bu-
ren's administration, one d%efalcation
followed close upon another. There
were cases in this State, l can name
them II necessary; so it was in my own
State; so 1t was all owe the land. Fol
low on down to Buchanan's time; then
offices were the subject Of trafic-like
sheep in the shambles. That is o fact
well known to any man who then fg-
ured in either OF the parties. But there
is this MISUNDERSTANDING the admins
tration of these patriotic Democrats
who then held the reins of Government,
no man was punished for dereliction of
duty, no one who defaulted as a receiver
Of public moneys, or in any other ca
pacity, was punished. They were per-
mitted to go. Some would leave the
country for q short time and then re-
turn. But you cannot show where a
Democratic President had a Demo-
cratic defaulter arraigned, tried and
punished. We have punished them
wherever found, and the reason why
frauds and populations under the Re-
publican party are SC patent to every
body and so much talked about is be-
cause they are exposed and indicted and
tried, some convicted and sent to the
Penitentiary; others have not been con-
victed, but it is not the fault of the adj
mi~nistration. The Government has Wis
tied upon them the consequences of
their deeds. The Republican party be-
lieve that murder is a crime, that trea-
son is a crime, that shooting a negro is
a crime. (Applause.] We believe that
larceny is a crime, and we punish it;
we punish for murder and for plumber
ing. The difference is that we put our
thieves and murlerers in the Peniten-
tiary-the Democrats put theirs in Con-
gress. Laughter and applause-+shit
'em again."
The best way to see where the great
eft amount Of corruption exists is to
take the facts. / have said to my Dem
ocratic friends that they may name any
department, commencing with the Au.