The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-04-24
POETIC JUSTICE,

NFffN 49,
I'ho last twenty years OF on national
history hps beeu distinguished for moth
ing 80 much as for the corruption which
has become wolLnigh universal, The
church has illuminated bull alter bull
against H. Government has made effort
after effort 10 correct the evil, llll at
last strong body In each Of the great
parliesdiyding the country have ranged
up 0n common line Of civil service
reform, Tweed on the part Of local
democratic organization In New York
furnished tho only illushous demo
cratic example Of corruption, oar
radical friends find II convenient, often,
10 fall hack ON him when pressed too
hard, But Justice has oyortaken the
thief NJ last, and all his ilEgoilon goins
have been dIsgorgod aud he himself is
thoocoupantofalelon'soellf from whence
no should only emerge 10 find eternal
soclusion In that other cell from which
money cannot procure release,
On the other hand, we have n
half hundred illustrlous republicans
who have been stealing on u national
basis Many Of thqmo have been
convicted, aud thog have dropped out
Of sight with but littlo pcrsonal ddlum'
or, At least, but little has been said
which hears hardly upon them
OK individuals The party however
which Is responsible for these mon Ia
rcaping itj reward, II Is true It's man
has been, by frauds almost out OF
reason, loistod upon the country ior
president Yet tho Atcs have propi,
liously provided that he should prove
the first internal check to republican
official fraud, Grant made haste 10 dis.
pose of the Bolknaps, BObcocks, Me-
KEGS and others before his term cx
pirod, and IL was we'll for them that he
did. llaycsis NmNn Indifferent mould
Accepting Office at the hands Of u party
which endorsed the scmiollical fraud,
of Grant, and tho cotcrie Of thicyc,
which he gathered about him, Mr.
Hayes feels that nm effort TO rid hi'
party and the country Of them is du,
from him, and manlully is he doing ii
1t is true we would have preferred tina
u democrat had been selected to do tn,
work, but that, it seems, could not be
and IL would be unmanly and veal
now in the democratic press to with
hold The praise from Hayes which
would have been given lilden for tn,
self same work.
1t is hard to die under any circum
stances, 1t is unpleasant to have til,
common hangman arrange the lcno
which is to send one out OF the world
but how inellhbly bitter must ii be t,
have the office performed by ones owl
friends, This is just what Mr., lIOyo
is doing, He is executing fraud in thu
south. When Ch0mberlan's head fel
in South Carolina an hundred smalle
williams died too, When Packar,
abmdons his insolent professions I,
the government of Louisiana, thous
and lesserrogues will find quiet, and rest
perhaps, under the political daises, Thu
blow that kills is delivered by the hant
Of u friend, and poetic justice consign
the decapitated to a gloom from whicl
no mawkish executive sentiment will
pardon them before the ink with which
their mitimus is written, is well dried
That Mr., Hayes is compelled /,
choose the instruments of this poeti
Justice from the ranks of the dome
cratic party, is also poetc feature o
the situation, and one which adds
horrible pang to the carpet-bag thieve
he has driven out in disgrace. We cal
nov we'll afford to wait the consummo
ton of the reform in the logical ant
sure restoration of the national demo