The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1879-07-10
An Honest Administration.

In the debate in the Senate on last
Thursday, senator Salisbury having
made reference to the corruptions of
the X publican party, Senator Win
dom said: Three years ago i had
the honor to ask the Senator from
Delaware TO name a single individual
single Republican official, whom
the thirtythree Democratic investi-
eating committees had proven to
have stolen one dollar from this gov
ern -nent. He failed TO do so at that
time; he has had three years to think
1t over: repeat the question" To
which Senator Saul bury repeated
his general charge OF corruption,
when Senator Window said: Now,
Mr.. President, the Democratic party
have had control of the House Of
Representatives for four years; il had
during one Congress thirty-three
committees in the field Investigating
every conceivable thing; it had TO
back 1t all the money OF the Treasury,
for nobody withheld appropriation. !;
1t Gould summon witne ses from the
ends OF the earth to testify to Repub-
lican corruption. In view of all tn, sc
facts and In view OF the fact that the
honorable Senator from Delaware
has to day again reiterated upon this
floor in his place. and as Senator
and upon his official responsibility,
as take it, that millions have been
stolen by Republican officials, / ask
him IL 1t is quite fair. IL 1t il quite the
thing to do, TO refuse TO name a sim
gle instance. 4 assert here that the
Senator from Delaware declines to
answer, because he cannot name one
man whom these committees have
proved to have stolen one dollar.
Aud i state further that IL the Sena-
tor from Delaware can be Induced by
any possibility TO venture upon the
effort to name one man. will chow
to him that his Democratic commit
tees:have squandered moro than a
thousand dollars for every dollar they
have proved TO have been stolen by
any Republican official. / make that
challenge in my place. / challenge
the Senator from Delaware 10 answer
II he can. IL be cannot; If he insists
upon keeping his seat without at
tempting q reply, iosist that the
country will answer that the Senator
from Delaware has been drawing up
on his Imagination, and that he can
not answer.
To this broad challenge, extended
to the woulc Democratic side of ths
Senate, the only response clicited
was in reference TO tho San Domingo,
the credit Mobilier, the Belknap and
the whisky frauds. In the first three
named transactions, II is not claimed
that the government lost one dollar,
aud In the last, the whisky frauds, il
issusceptible OF proof that majority
OF .the men engaged in them were
Democrats, and that all the men en-
gagged in ferretting them odt ard
prosecuting them We're Republicans.
The Republicans ought not TO be
held responsible for the frauds CON-
mitted By Democrats upon revenue
laws. whether by Mr.. Tilden in
fraudulent income returns, or by the
whisky distillers OF the West. We
have then the challenge OF Senator
Window remaining unanswered:
That while the Democratic Congress
has put thirty-three smelling com
mttties at work, and expended mil
lion OF dollars under the pretensc OF
disclosing fraud, yet not one solitary
item OF corruption has been brought
Ia the door Of the present administra.
tion. No higher eulogy could be
pronounced upon President Hayes
and his administration. 1t is estab-
lished by the records and evidence OF
the men who have been pursuing him
from the day he was inaugurated
that his administration is SO far one
oil the purest the government has
ever enjoyed. In view of the utter
failure OF these tbirty-three commit
ties TO disclose any frauds or defalca-
tions. Is 1t not about time the poIiti-
clans and newspapers who are howl
ing and charging upon the Republi-
cans the Republicans fraud and cor
ruption should be set down as CON-
mon liars and defamers ?-Inolianap-
oils Journal
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