The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1877-04-28
POETIC JUSTICE.

HLHItEN HIS utcl ilHt4H ELEoilti iUE HpLi-
ing SO much as for the corruption which
has become well-nigh universal. The
church has Illuminated bull after bull
againssit. Government has made effort
after effort to correct the evil, till at
last a strong body in each of the great
parties dividing the country have ranged
up on common line OF civil service
reform. Tweed, on the part OF local
democratic organization in New York
furnished the only illustrious demo
cratic example of corruption. Our
radical friends find it convenient, often,
to fall back on him when pressed too
hard But justice has overtaken the
thief at last, and all his ill-gotten gains
have been disgorged and he himself is
the occupant of a felon's cell, from whence
he should only emerge to find eternal
seclusion in that other cell from which
money cannot procure release.
On the other hand, we have a
half hundred iliustrious republicans
who have been stealing on national
basis. Many of them have been
convicted, and they have dropped out
of sight with but little personal odium,
or, at least, but little has been said
which bears hardly upon them
as individuals. The party, however
which is responsible for these men is
reaping its reward. 1t is true its man
has been, by frauds almost ont oi
reason, foisted upon the country fol
president. Yet the fates have propi.
tiously provided that he should prove
the first Internal check to republican
official fraud Grant made haste TO dis
pose of the Belknaps, Babeocks, Nc,
KEGS and others before his term ex
pired, and it was we'll for them that h
did. Hayes is man of different mould
Accepting office at the hands of a part,
which endorsed the semi-ofiieial fraud
of Grant, and the coterie of thieve
which he gathered about him, Mr.
Hayes feels that an effort to rid hi
lparty and the country of them is du,
from him, and manfully is be doing it
II is true we would have preferred tha
a democrat had been selected to do tn
work, but that, it seems. coul inot c
and it would be unmanly and veal
now in the democratic press to with
hold the praise from Hayes whiel
would have been given Tilden for tn
self same work.
1t is hard to die under any circun
stances, 1t is unpleasant to have th
common hapgman arrange the kno
which is TO send one out of the worie
but how ipeffably bitter must il be I
have the office performed by ones ow
friends. This is just what Mr.. Hayt
is doing. He is executing fraud in tn
south. When Chamberlain head fe
in South Carolina. an hundred smalle
Williams died too. When Packar
abandons his insolent pretensions I
the government of Louisiana. thou
and lesserrogues will find quiet, and res
, perhaps, under the political daises. TIL
blow that kills is delivered by the han
Of a friend, and poetic Justice consign
the decapitated to gloom from whic
no mawkish executive sentiment wi
pardon them before the ink with whic
. their mitimus is written, is well drie
That Mr. Hayes is compelled
:. choose the instruments of this poet
/. justice from the ranks OF the dem
cratic party. is also poetic feature
the situation, and one which adds
l. horrible pang to the carpet-bag thiev
i he has driven out in disgrace. We C,
r nov we'll afford to wait the consumnl
4 tion of the reform in the logical ar
:, sure restoration of the national dem
II cratic party to national power.