The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-09-02

not q candidate for President or even
policeman. was in no relation to public
tfice. | had not questioned any other
authority but referred to Mr.. Garheld's
record and there being no other rerly to
ii, il was resolved to attack the Progress
and accordingly the Evening Bulletin
opens out my relation to the celebrated
Pacific Mail Subsidy. They could not
defend Mr.. Garfield and they must assail
me. Personally I have nothing to do
with this controversy. II is simplyWheth'
er brave soldier aUho has sdUed PtnnSyIUG-
MIA from invdsiOn shall be elected TO the pres
idenCy or tVhether plotting politician, whoSe
life has been given up TO simple 8elfshneSS,
shall.
Colonel Forney replies to the Even
ing Bulletin by quoting from its columns
of February 10, 1873, as follows:]
"The attempt to exclude them by de.
claring that they had no knowledge that
they were doing anything discreditable
is very lame. No one believes that these
men, experienced in all the tricks of the
lobby, were of natures so childlike and
simple as not to under tand fully what
they were about. This is especially the
case with those who received loans OF
money from Ames or certificates of stock
or dividends or shares for which they
had never paid a dollar in cash."
do not copy what the Bulletin says
against Judge Kelley, because Judge
Kelley is one of our own immediate rep.
resentatives and because Judge Kelley
himself has a better knowledge of this
man Garfeld's character than the Even.
ing Bulletin and because, further, Judge
Kelley may aho be called upon to show
that Garfield is as hypocritiCal in regard
to finance as he has proved himselft to be
unworthy of belief On the subject of pro.
lection. reserve for future considera-
ton what the Bulletin has said of Judge
Kelley in reference to the Credit Mohil.
ier legislation.
The Bulletin goes on to say, on the 10Th
of February, 1878: "The public will fail
to see the justice of verdict that con.
demns two only of the guilty parties and
exonerates the res"-James S. Brooks
of New York and 0akes Ames, having
both been turned outof Congress for vot-
ing for the Credit Mobilier.
On the Goth of February, 1873, the
Bulletin goes on commenting on the ex.
pulsion of 0akes Ames and James S,
Brooks and referring to Garfield and his
associates it says:
"Thsir blasted forms and regulations
are displayed as warning to simple
minded men who have been looking up
to them as models and endeavoring to
follow in their footsteps"
The Bulletin was not satisfied however
with the report of the Poland Credit
Moblier committee. 1t Itdemanded blood
That committee did not sufficiently cru
city poor 0akes Ames and poor James S.
Brooks, both now in their graves. They
may not have been guilty if the others
were innoCent
There can be no longer any doubt, if
there was any, that the men who threw
themselves in the way of being bribed
were as bad as the bribers or worse. For
had there been no couuptible men in
Congress there would have been no cor
ruption, The men who yielded to the
temptation of Ames seemed to US to be
more guilty than he is who yir lded to the
temptation that they offered as facile and
purchasable legislators"
TIE Evening Bulletin, still insatiate fer
the blood of Garfield and his associates
and still not satisfied With the report of
the timid Poland committee. goes on to
say:
"The eyes of the people have been
stupidity closed to, as they have still more
stupidity winked at frauds that have been
committed in their name in Washington
in Harrisburgh, in Philadelphia, in New
York, in Albany and in every city where
the business of lawmaking is turned over
to scheming specuators. But this scan
dalouS exposure at Washington ought 10
sharpen the vision, to awaken the ener.
gies Of the people, so that they will ex.
ercise the right they have to demand of
their representatives strict accounta
bility as to their votes"
Ga the 2lst of February, 1873, the BuI.
Lettn goes on referring to James A. Gar.
field, the present Republican candidate
for the Presidency, and his associates. My
readers will perceive that the Bulletin
seven years ago was quite as anxious to
pursue Mr.. Garfield, the present Repub.
llcan candidate for President of the Uni.
ted States, as the Bulletin is now, to-day,
to pursue the editor of the PrOqresS for
his course and they will also observe
that what is said by the Bulletin against
Garfield and his Confederates seven years
ago was said by every other Republican
paper and every other advocate of James
A. Garfield in every other city and State
in this country. The Bulletin aCquits
General Grant, General Cameron, Mr..
Chandler, Senator Stewart, and others of
all completely with this great piunder
scheme, but it says that "Oakes Ames
seems to have confined his operations to
the highly moral men in Congress, who
have boasted loudly of their purity and
condemned corruption in the most vocif
erous manner. His success with such
immaCculates as Garfield is significant as
showing that the most suspected men
are often the most innocent and the
most sanctimonious and trusted are most
easily led astray by temptation"
On Tuesday February 25th, 1873, the
Bulletin comes back to the expulsion of
0akes Ames and James Brooks. That
was not enough to satisfy the superfine
reformer of the Bulletin. He says:
ut is making rather too fine distinc.
tion to decide that man who, while a
member of the 4lst Congress, accepts
bribe, ia beyond furnishing the next year
while holding the same office, in the
same editice, by the same authority and
surrounded by the same men, because
few members have been elected and
few of the old ones have been retir.
ed"
On the 2sth of February, 1873, the Bul-
Ietin says:
"The farce is ended and the nation
will regret with mingled indignation and
disgust the action of the House of Rep
resentatives in the case of the members
who are guilty of completely in the Cred.
it Mobilier business"
Not vet satisfied with the expulsion of