Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1880-05-29
Investigating Republican Rascalities.

lnVeSJlgaLlng kepuDllcan KaScaliJies.
The figures of the expenditures from the
Senate Contingent Fund Illustrate the so,
investigation of the exodus, which provided
large number of small Southern Democrats
hs d little ese 30 The K
logg investigation, which supplied the rare
ff En IS cos
$1,000. The investigation of charges against
Senator ingalls,, which seem to have fallen to
the ground, cost S6, 400. Mr. Davis Committee
the Treasury bookk eeping, which spent
two years in vain effort to substantiate vari-
ate speech, cost $500. The Committee to in
quire into and report upon the Rhode Island
tee on Civil Service and Retrenehment in
Rhode Island, cost almost exactly the same
to say that each Of these ' in"ulies e WAS wholly
unnecessary, and that the money spent upon
them was utterly wasted-NeD York Tribune.
In every instance the Committees re-
ferred to were necessary to unearth Re-
publican rascalities. As to the Exodus
Committee, more Republicans than
Democrats were provided with means
to make trip to Washington, and in
one instance it is reported that Hon.
John G. New, a distinguished Republi-
can of Indiana, and Chairman of the
Republican State Central Committee,
mate the trip, pocketed the & means,"
again, and we presume poeketed the
means" second time. During the
period the Committee was engaged in
| the investigation, numerous Republi-
cans asked to be called to Washington,
just to make the trip, for they admitted
that they were not in possession OF
| important information. The Exc
dus Committee has been of great
service to the State of Indiana,
and to the country, for it has been
proven that the leaders of the Repub-
lican party in Indiana and elsewhere
went into it deliberately to import pau
per negroes for the purpose of voting
the Republican ticket. In the Kellogg
case it has been shown that he owes
his place in the Senate to frauds and
perjuries as Infamous as those which
seated Hayes. The Davis Committee
has demonstrated that the most as
founding frauds have been perpetrated
in the Treasury Department, to cover
up which, erasures, alterations and mu-
tilations were resorted to. One item Of
$240, 000,0O0 cannot be accounted for.
In the Ingalls, case, it was Republican
fight throughout. He was charged with
bribery. It was shown that he owed
his place in the Senate to bribery, but
technically it was not shown that the
money came through his hands, and SO
the Kansas man escaped by the skin
of his teeth. That he was guilty, a
large per cent. of his constituents be-
lieve. To raise investigating commit
tees to unearth Republican scoundrel-
ism has been in order for number Of
years, and good many villains have
been compelled to take back seats.
And still another investigating COM
mittee is demanded to overhaul the
crookedness of another distinguished
Republican official This time it is
the late Secretary of War McCrary,
who left the Cabinet of the Presidential
fraud to take upon himself the honors
and responsibilities of Judge. He is
is now charged by the Chattanooga
/ ly interested in a fraudof 800, 600 upon
the Government. A Chattanooga dis
patch of a late date says:
The Times of this city will tomorrow morn
ing charge, upon documentary and other
proof, that Secretary McCrary paid 800, 900 on
a fraudulent claim of one Williams, former
contractor. under the War Department, on
Mussel Shoals Canal The charges are specific
that the Secretary paid this money against the
Chief of Engineers had disapproved the claim,
and that he paid it on a trumped-up report of
by McCrary to approve the claim The Times
offers to make each and all of these allegations
good before a competent committee of Com
gress, and designateS some of the witnesses
and documents it wishes to have examined.
| He further alleges a belief that McCrary was
a partner in the law firm which worked the
claim through the Department.
There has been very deep and decidedly
bellicose feeling here and all along the river on
[ this subject, but circumstances have SO far
combined to keep the matter quiet. The occa-
sion of the initial ventilation now is n Wash
ington telegram in the Cincinnati papers OF
the 4th, which admits that the claim and its
payment were parts of one and the same job
and charges the onus of the theft on the
Engineers Department, which is purely SLAM
derOus.
just what it will cost to investigate
, this charge of rascality it would be diff
ficult to name, but the investigation
ought to be had, and if McCrary is
. guilty, as he doubtless is, he should be
punished to the extent of having his
judicial ermine stripped from him. 1t
is still in order to investigate Republi-
can rascalities, and if the people would
be relieved of the burden, they must
, keep rascally Republicans-out of Office.
Indiana State Sentinel.