Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-03

are not bad when they enter the party. but af-
wards, following this rule of private SELFISH
ness, have come to look upon themselves as the
party, and az necessary to the existence of the
government, and have reached out with the
arms of the devil fish all over this land to
bring in people who are honest 10 the sup
port of party that il dishonest at heart, to
do some miserable and Contemplate things.
And here Is where lies the danger of every re.
public that is founded upon the free acqui-
applause.
SPIRIT OF sELFIsHNEss.
Now, when this spirit of selfshness operates
in this way, (and as it operates in private house.
holds, so 1t will operate in the great household
of the republic,) when for long
course Of years 1t has had
this effect upon the leaders of q party, tell
you that as q natural consequence and as
natural result they almost always go astray;
l dont care to what party they belong. This
principle of aelfshness in private life and in
parties is, of all agencies that effect the human
mind, the evil that should be most guarded
against, not only in the life of q citizen, in
the life of a household, but in the life of the
greater household of the Republic.
1t is, then, the following of this principle
that leads party away that has been long in
power. 1t gets to running in particular rut
and it goes astray almost involuntarily, until
Outrages are perpetuated that are unbeara-
BILE.
After it has departed one step it is easier to
depart two, it is easier to depart three, and not
a long time elapses before the ship is swept
far away from its moorings. say, then, that
the Republican party. having held power for
more than twenty years in this country, has,
upon general principles, held it long enough.
(Applause.)
If this principle of selfishness, political an
bition and lust of which have spoken has not
taken hold of the party and has not colored its
action and has not made it proper that it should
"step down and out" and to be succeeded by
another that will follow like hound upon its
trail to see where it has robbed or wounded
the republic then it is because the Republican
party is more than human, and has had the ad-
vantages of some transcendental principle of
purity that does not belong to ordinary men.
(Applause).
But, not only do I say that the Republican
party, in the sense that I have mentioned, has
been corrupt and is corrupt, as an inference
from the principle have already stated, but /
say that as matter of fact it became corrupt,
and that fact is susceptible of the clearest
pro0f-susceptible of proof that is irrefragi-
BILE.
PROOF OF CORRUPTION.
It would not be possible in such a speech as
would be proper for me to deliver here tonight
(for did not come here to deliver set speech
that should be the creed of any party, but sim.
ply to speak spontaneously aud my own SEN
timents) it would not be possible for me to
go over the whole ground and give all the in.
stances and follow out the history in detail so
that can take you from the fountain down to
the place where it has thrown its muddy waters
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party became corrupt may appeal to others,
and it will save me the trouble of adducing
proof and following this matter step by step,
in order to fix the charge upon it. In the city
of st. Paul there is the Pioneer Press, which
confessedly stands at the very head of the
newspaper press of the Northwest, if not the
newspaper rress of this long and broad ooun-
try. Now the Pioneer Press is professedly an
independent paper, although it is accused of
having strong Republican proclivities; but as l
have watched it during its career of independ-
ence, / am happy and proud to say that upon
many occasions it exhibits breadth and
length of thought and criticism
of the actions of men and things
that not only resulted in divulging and estab-
fishing proofs but resulted in the veal of the
republic. Note, not more than two weeks ago
the Pioneer Press in a labored article said that
the Republican party in 1876 was corrupt;
that it had become 80 before under the admin
istration of Gen. Grant. It said that joyce,
Mcdonald, Babcock and a score of others were
plundering the revenues of this country as
they came from the product of Intoxicating
liquor; that they were turning them ostensibly
into their own Golfers but used them in fact for
the purpose of carrying the election of certain
persons in this country. And it said that the
head of the administration, who was Gen.
Grant, if he did not actively participate in this
fraud and corruption. at least looked negligent
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injury and disgrace of the country. (Applsuse.)
PENs1oNrNa GRANT.
Again. and more than all this, in order to
show, it seems to me, how corrupt Gen. Grant
had become, in subsequent article
this same paper said that Gen. Grant, under
the tutilage of men like these, having
left office, and perhaps while
he was in it, had lent his great name, which
they said belonged in all its glory to this re-
public, to wild. cat schemes and wild cat specr.
lations that are only intended for the emolu-
ment of those who stood at the head of them,
and really worked out the result of d efrauding
everybody else, not only in this but every other
country; and it recommended, in order that
Gen. Grant might be Withdrawn from this ne
farious practice, that he should be pensioned
by the government, or that he should be let
into some high Office with a salary sufficient to
support his luxury and extravaganza for life!
What ia the purport of all this? It is a clean,
clear admission of the corruption of Gen.
Grant. and Of that part of the administration
certainly that was revolving around him. But
then it announces this other curious and In
genious principle, viz, that when a man has
been entrusted with high Office and high
command in this country, and desires to be
dishonest, and is bound to be dishonest If you
will let him alone, that You had better pension
him to make him better man! daughter
and applause.) Upon the same theory, when
one of your acquaintance here steals
q horse, and is committed to prison
You should go at once, with solemn and kind
ly countenance, to the governor and tell him
you want this man pardoned; that you have
pensioued him 30 he will commit no further
crime. daughter.
Another evidence of the corruption of that
administration was this: That at the last Pres
idential nomin alton it was fairly and openly
conceded by the Republican party, from one
end of this country to the other, that the party
had run into ruts of corruption; that it had
disappointed the great hopes of the country
and that it needed to be halted right
when and where it was. But they told
us they hoped we would not hurl it from
power, for they still had virtue enough to re-
party and still hold the power that had guided
its vitals. This is what the Republican party
said. Now by some means or other, the party
assembled to power again, and in 1877 their Presi-
dent was inaugerated. They had admitted their
corruption, they had confessed their sins, but
they objected to sitting in sack-cloth and ashes
beneath the willows of Babylon; they PREFER
ed to stay in Jerusalem and see If they could
not by deep contrition, thereafter present
purer heart and purer wing to the republic.
Great applause.)
Now, did they do it? From that time up to
this, has there been any Improvement in the
party? Has there been any whatever? claim
that there has been no Improvement for the
last four years; that the party has done nothing
that it has promised, but on the contrary hiss
done many things that it ought not to have
done.
THE PRESIDENTIAL FRAUD OF 1876.
At the very commencement of this present
administration great wrong was perpetrated,