New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-01-09


they are the most stringent prosecutors
of defaulting opponents, and the most in
dulgent protectors Of their own men.
The Democracy has made great mistake
in supposing the Republicans object to
investigation of congressional or other
abuses, where they are suspected to exist.
We say to them, 60 ahead; ''Let not a
guilty man escape" An honest farmer
should not be charged with the rattage
in his granary. It is impossible that
where there is grain there should not
be vermin to destroy it. To have
held the government for SO many years,
there must have been abuses of which the
Republican party was ignorant. It would
be very bad reasoning to expel Republican
principles from power and install party
which has no principle at oil, except an
integrity which vaunts itself when out OF
Office, and Tweedles away the public
money whenever it has the chance to
do so. ....
Again we say to the outs: Prosecute
and expose every guilty man. If he be a
Republican, we shall hail his exposure and
aid in his denunciatlon. We shall
do so the more zealously because of a
double Indignation against any man SO
base as to throw upon his party rtspon-
sibility for the money he may have stolen.
The very principles established by q
bloody war may be imperiled or repealed
on account of few miserable millions
stolen by miscreants who would sell the
political birthright of the white and COL
ored Republicans for personal gain.
''Let not one guilty man escape" Ger
tainly we shall applaud every conviction.
It will not reflect upon the Republican
party that percentage of thieves have
passed in among the party appointments.
We have too much respect for the Demo-
cratic party to insinuate that it is re-
sponsible for Tweed, Connolly, Genet and
the Democratic officials who allowed them
to come and go as they chose. We give
the Democracy credit for believing that
they blush with shame at presenting in
the person of Democratic Senator the
centennial thief who has robbed more
millions through political agencies alone
than any public man of the century,
Warren Hastings included. America sur
passes in the productions of all enter
prise, and the centennial thief, nurtured
in Democracy, is now on his tour, defyipg
all comparison and competition by any
political thief in Europe.
Certainly, gentlemen, let no guilty man
escape, in or out of Congress. You will
render an invaluable service to true Re-
by so doing. It will not,
however, follow that a party which has
principles shall be evicted for
one that has none, nor that party whose
has been manifest when they
had no chance to plumber should be the
proper successors of convicted thieves.
It has been reported that an individual,
often himself in the hands of justice, has
been employed to aid in the conviction of
offenders. We do not doubt he may render
service, but we should by no
means recommend his employment in a
iduciary capacity. Your detective is ex-
tremely useful, but his services are usually
dispensed with when their object has been
attained We shall, therefore, welcome
with great sincerity all the aid which the
Democratic detectives may render in car
rying out President Grants arrests and
but with that service we will
dispense with them. The Democracy owes
% the country the duty Of reforming all
abuses, but to demand the government of
the republic as compensation for per-
'orming this duty is consideration which
aone but Democratic detective would
nave the hardihood to demand.
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