The daily gazette., 1880-08-13
HOW THEY VIEWED IT THEN
CRITICIsMS OF THE LEADING PHILA-
DELPHIA JOURNALS ON CREDIT MO-
BILIER IN 1878. 'i'i3 1nE axle

BILIER IN 1878. 'il,' anS axle
We yesterday gave several extracts
from the EosBSng Bullstin, published
when the facts in regard to the Credit
Mobilier frauds were fresh before the
nation, and we deem it no moro than
just to the selfhumiliated Bulletin
and to the public, to give like extracts
from all the leading public Journals Of
Philadelphia, as follows 4 3sia Il
ALL au1LTY-DIFFERINe ONLY IN DE-
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Public Ledger, Ind, Feb. 20, 1873. - oi f.
J. If Oakes Ames is guilty of bribing
or otherwise corrupting his fellow
members (and the evidence shows that
he is) then some of, them must have
been bribed or CORRUPTED. 1t will not,
do to point only to James Brooks, for
he had no transactions with Ames.
The portion of the great corruption
fund traced to his guilty possession
passed to him not through Ames, but
through Durant. Brooks, therefore,
is not the man that Ames is to be ex-
PEELED for bribing. There, are at least
five other members Of the present
House with whom Ames had dishon-
orable and -corrupting transactions,
and one other person then a member
and now the Vice President of the
United States. The guilt of each and,
all of these may differ in degree from
that of Ames and Brooks, but it is
only difference in degree. There is
not one of them who made public de-
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"Credit Mobilier" who did not falsify
the real facts by prevarication or by
suppressing essential truth, Oh by false
suggestion, Or by direct falsehood-
proved to be falsehod by the record
evidence. If these members
did not feel that their Credit Mobilier
transactions were dishonorable why
did they resort to plevarication and,
concealment in their first denlals, now
shown to bear the essential elements
of falsehood in every line? Their
whole conduct shows guilty knowledge.
The Poland report makes very strong
and just comment upon the grossly i'm
proper and corrupting nature of these
transactions, but when that report
comes to the punishment of the impli-
Gated members it begins to limp and
halt as to all of them except Oakes
iAmes and James Brooks. But there
is not a word in that part of the report
which exhibits the dishonorable and
corrupting nature of the act in taking
the stocks at all under the circum-
stances, that does not apply to all those
who took it as well as to Brooks and
Ames. What has been re-
vealed Of the individual dishonor of
members in the Credit Mobilier trans
actions has been placed before all the
world too plainly to be ohliterated by
any application of "white wash"
THEIR MEAN, TRICKY, FALSE DENIALs.
! From the Public Ledger. Ind, February,
%, 1873
Then came their mean
tricky, false denials, shifts, evasions and
fast following explanations of their ex-
plantations. every change in which
showed more and more their own sense
of their own culpabihty. There never
was an instance in which men holding
public trust were more thoroughly
covered with proof of malfeasance III
Office. The guilty knowledge OF all
tn Sc men was as visible as the plunder
of the government moneys was stupend-
GUS. And Congress Furnishes all Ibis by
passing Its partial resolutions of censure,
lettidg the guilty go free upon the false
pretense of having no Jurisdiction, This
is so transparent a sham that it, will
command the belief of no one possess
ing the commonest intelligence. M ,i, 4
THE DELIBERATE AND wiLFUL LYING.
From the Evening Telegraph. Rep. Feb
The bribe4taker u is as
guilty as the bribe-giyer, and Mr.. Ames
decidedly objects to being made scaps-
goat for the sins of other people. In
this last proposition we most decidedly
agree with Mr.. Amss. For him TO work
corruption with his Credit M0biliera
stock there must have been corrupt
material for him to work with, and
admitting that the accused parties, from
.he Vice President down, were ignorant,
of Ames' motives in the first place, what
can be said in extenuation of the de-
liberate and wilful lying they have in
dulged In from the time an exposure of
this infamous business was first limited
at, through the whole progress of the
investigatiohaup to the present moment
To expel Ames and let
these men go unpunished will be an
outrage which, ii there is any regard for
public honor left in the nation, will not
be permitted to pass unpunished. 81
ALL SHOULD BE ExPRLDED. -
From the Inquirer, Rep, Feb. 20. 1873. a
Congress should not only expel Am es,,
the bribrr, and ames Brooks. the brib-
ed, but every other mem ber upon whom
the taint OF this great scandal tests! =. Z,
THE oNus UPON THE COUNTRY. 90.
From the Enquirer, Rep, Feb. q, 1878. .
The responsibility of Congress is at an
end in this business. liz has been re-
manded to the country, and if again the.
con, ictad members are returned to the
places they have disgraced, she onus of
1t will be upon the country, 'hI B..
THE NOTORIOUS, DOWNRIGHT nyING. 81
From the Norlh American ,Reps Fee IT'S
n n u Aud 1t may be properly add
ed in The same lines that much dissatis-
faction exists In the community that all
of the arguments and debates have oveil
looked point more universally con-.
demned than the crimes alleged, and
more susceptible of proof-the notorious
downright lying of some. of the individf,
uals inculpated. They may or may not,
them could certainly, be convicted out of
their own mouths of fragrant falsehood,
DESTROYED SOME OF THE PEOPLES
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