Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-02

OF attalnmenG tnan any WOrlQly uOllOl tudt
could be conferred by any prince or potentate
on earth.
The Investigations of the Potter commit
tee, have revealed this cesspool of iniquity
in all its loathsomeness. moral rotten
ness seems to pervade all classes of the COM
n,unity, corrupting the high and the low
alike. Men occupying high and responsible
positions in political life, have come forward
and confessed the most bare-faced false
hood and unmitigated perjury, and give the
detailssof their shame without blush, re-
senting with warmth any imputation that dis
honor attaches to their conduct. Anderson,
Nash, Darrall, jerks and his wife, Campbell,
Pitkin, Packard and Kellogg have been con-
victed out of their own mouths of atrocious
falsehoods, daring forgeries, open perjury.
Sherman, Matthews, Evarts, Kasson. Gar
field, and the entire coterie of visiting
statesmen have been found dallying with
shielding and rewarding criminals. None
who have ever meddled with the witches
broth of Louisiana politics have escaped con-
tamination. They stand before the world
besmirched and bedraggled with the SCOT
and the filth of the all peryading, pestilen-
tial corruption. Even Eliza Pinkston adds
her share to the already overdowing caul-
dron. In her latest affidavit she testities that
her evidence before the visiting statesmen
was procured by means of undue influences.
and the direct offer and payment OF money:
that her allegations at that time were each
and all false, that her husband was killed
| by negro with whom he had previously
quarreled, and not by Democrats for politi-
| represent her in uries as much greater than
| they really were. 70 the added dishonor OF
those who had suborned her previous per-
| Jury, she asserts that she was defrauded out
of a large portion of the wages of her per
! Jury by one of those who had procured it.
| III all this mass of evidence il
is absolutely impossible even with
the added light of the IN
spring motives of the several Witnesses to
discern the true from the false. s'Truth.'
the proverb says, Giles at the bottom of {
WE'LL" but in this case the we'll is apparently
so deep, and so filled with falsehood, that il
is next to impossible to find the bottom
Even the most astute are liable to be de
ceived-to mistake for the truth some in
geniously constructed lie designed to concea
some deviltry that would be even more
abominable than the means taken to hide it
This universally of falsehood is not an in
yiting field for contemplation. It is stail
upon mankind, a blot upon the escutcheo1
of our country. It illustrates one of the dan
gers that surround us-to what we are liabl
to come by the dominance in public affair:
of bold, interruptions men, and the intrigue
ing of despicable, ambitious, unwomanl,,
women. 1t is the development of vic
dissimilar to that which overthrow the re
public of ancient Rome, but lone the les
threatening to our existence. 1t is vic
that causes US to blush for manhood and t,
for society-an insidious poison that i
gradually but surely permeating the who'll
political and social structure, and that. i
unchecked, will surely encompass cur de
struction. To expose the internal villain,
to the full that the public not already cal
loused by crime may see, loathe and eradi
cate the venomous potion, should be tn
primary object of the pending investigation
The Potter committee should not be mer
partisan agency; it should be moral fore
employed to detect falsehood and to punis
crime. 1t should not be satisfied with th
accomplishment of its original purpose
that is secondary to the greater purpose c
Kidding our political and social system {
the corruption that has for SO long lain fes
tering beneath the surface.