The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-04

the Offenders and prevent them in the fu-
ture. 1t is clear to every one that, if the real
purpose OF this investigation was not in rev.
olut1onary manner to attack the title of the
President, it had no purpose whatsoever. 1t
was certain to become what it has become, the
most slckening farce which the country has
ever witnessed. Employing means the most
disreputable, resorting to ways the most un-
worthy this Democratic party, acting through
It's committee, has carried on, in the face of
the country, for days and weeks, a one-sided
and partisan investigation, the object of which
is not to develop the truth, but to exclude the
real history of the transactions which it pre-
tends to Investigate. This scheme of investi-
cation is worthy of comment, not because of
what 1t Will accomplish, but becauseit indicates
the revolutionary tendencies of the party, and
because it proves one other very important
1act TO demonstratiOn-that however wise, or
just, or patriotic the individual Democrat may
be, MS party is infinitely stronger than he is,
ana that we cannot rely, and must not RELY.
upon the private patriatsm of the Democrat as
an individual, for that falls to pieces like a.
rope OF sand in the presence of the great mob
Of which he is a member.
thus admonlshed it becomes perfectly clear
to us that we cannot trust them; that thew
are as reckless and dangerous to-day as thew
have ever been. The closing scenes of this
remarkable House are in entire HARMONY with
the rest of its history Given over to de-
bauchery and drunkenness. the whole nation
ashamed and disgraced, through its represent
atives, in the eyes of the world, its last hours
were scenes of wild revelry. No Democratic
official was sufficiently sober to perform his
official duty. The Doorkeepers and their as
sistants were all drunk, royalty drunk: the
Engrossing Clerks and their assistants were
all drunk-drunk as Princes; the majority of
the leading committees were drunk-drunk as
the Doorkeepers and the clerks : and when the
time came for the ponderous bit of legisla-
ton, in which millions of the public money
had been squandered to be transferred from
the Engrossing Clerk to the body that had
adopted it, for final action, no Engrossing
CLERK, no Democratic messenger. no Door
Keeper, no Assistant Doorkeeper, could be
rallied sufficiently sober to maintain enough of
perpendicular to effect that transportation,
ana recourse was Of necessity had to the only
sober member on the committee, the colored
member, Rainey by name, and he saved the
Sundry Civil Service Appropriation bill. Sober
enough to get ii from the hands of the En-
crossing Clerk to the House, he did the work
of transportation. Had it been intrusted at
that time to a Democratic official the bill
would probably have been lost, for it would
have been pawned midway at some favorite
sample-room resort, and the Government would
have been compelled to have effected the re-
demption.
To those who are especially solicitous for the
protection of The Government credit, and for
such economical administration of national af-
fairs as will enableus to reach the solid founda-
ton of specie resumption, great comfort must
be derived from the exploits of the Democratic
members of the House in their raids upon the
treasury for the payment of Southern claims
A mere mention of this branch of Democratic
industry is sufficient Had they succeeded in
their efforts to the full extent to which they
were made, the tseasury would have been
bankrupted, and no scheme Of national legisla-
ton could by any earthly possibility have pre-
vented it. They have succeeded far enough to
withdraw from the treasury millions and tens
of millions of money, for purposes, as we be-
lieve, altogether unworthy and improper-the
payment of Southern claims, and, in the face
OF which, Democratic professions of economic
administration are made too absurd and too
ridiculous to bear a moments comment.
There arises, of course, in every mind, the
inquiry, How are the dangers which threaten
us to be prevented? How are the evils which
already surround us to be remedied? There is
one great party in this nation which, with all
its faults, is patriotic to its core, and that
need not tell you, is the Republican party.