The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-06-21
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swindling the government. Ifese Journals
appear to rest under the conviction that their
marty suffers and loses caste in the estimation
of the people in just that pro-
portion that their implicated representa-
tive men bear to the whole body. Believing
this they seize every opportunity to connect
the name of any democrat, however hulnble,
with the swindling contracts that have
brought some of the managers of their party
INTO disgrace. BY so doing they hope to
render "honors easy or in other words. to
throw a portion of the responsibility OF the
wholesale thievery upon the democratic party.
This course we say is adopted by the smaller
and less Influenza! Of the republican press.
Their success thus far has not been flattering
Their motive IS so apparent that their charges
of democratic completely in the frauds are
met by either iucredulous smiles or derisive
laughter. 1t is asking too much OF the aver
age politician-and nearly all American citl
zens are politicians-to believe that demo-
Gratis are or will be received in the sanctum
sanctorum of the republican council cham
IGIs ilC may w " niAN
accidentally pick up a clumb or W that are
dropped by the wayside by the grand army OF
republican swindlers, as it marches from its
field''of victory, but they are mere suffers, not
the leaders of the al my. The chances OF the
democrats to obtain shares in the huge swind-
ling schemes organized by prominent repub-
can officials are lessened as the applicants for
those shares approach distinction or populari-
ty in the estimation of the people. This is
well known by intelligent republican news
papers and hence we fail to see them engaged
in the ~disreputable business of dragging the
names of prominent democrats i'll the filthy
pool monopolized by Brady, Dorsey d Co.
While some of the ~weakllngs in the Re-
publican party are twisting and squirming
under the weight of the opprobrium that their
conscience scared leaders have brought upon
them and are frantic in their endeavors
to shift a portion of it upon Democratic
shoulders the more stalwart element of the
party face the music and grimly take the con-
sequences. Well informed republicans know
where the corruption had its birth and who
are the responsible parties, and they make no
attempt at concealment. A Washington cor
respondent If a New York Republican paper
in speaking of the Star Route frauds, frankly
and clearly gives the following facts concern
ing the manner in which the " bosses" en-
deavored to manipulate the Postotice De-
partnient in their interests, and why they
failed, He says;
:! After the election of President Garfield
they used all their political influence to effect
his choice of Postmaster General. Then
they exerted their combined strength to Sc
cure through eX- Dorsey and others to
secure in Brady's place a person who would
be satisfactory to them, but there was an
honest man at the head of the department
and he was determined Il at there should be
good men ronn him and the jobbers failed
to get any of their candidates in Brady's
place. There seems to be but one daily paper
in the district which is not under Brady's
control, and the people of Washington are
almost entirely dependent upon outside pa
pers for information concerning the startling
discoveries which have been made. The
fight against the President and the investiga-
tors has ended in defeat. Persons employed
to gather information of crOOkedness quietly
and persistently pursue their way, supported
by high authorities who employ and who ap-
prove their selection
We are told that if Sodon and Gomorrah
could have furnished three godly men those
unfortunate cities would not have been lost.
Had the same number of honest republican
officials of the Postofice Department been
required at the hands of the authorities at
Washington it is barely possible that the
rogues who have been fattening in it would
not have been los.. But only one true man
was necessary to insure their destruction and
o save the department from further spolia-
ion. Who he is and the work that lie sees
before him is thus referred to by the same
correspondent a:
.'In the chair, formerly disgraccd by Brady,
sits all upright gentleman of rare business
ability, who is rapidly becoming acquainted
with all the details of the Contract Bureau,
and vino looks with establishment upon a sys-
TEN in which true business methods seem to
be completely ignored. The Postmaster-Gen-
eral is finding on every hand evidence of cor
ruption and reckless extravaganza. He looks
through the reforms of the present to a reali-
cation of his dreams of a self-sustaining de-
partment and cheaper postage in the near fu-
ture. Energetic subordinates will gather evil
dence which will completely overwhelm the
guilty. 1t is hard for one who gains an in
sight into these records and who studies the
history of previous investigations to escape
the belief that the Postotlice Department has
been the sink hole of iniquity for years, and
it will be no easy task to compute the amount
of the peoples money stolen or thrown away
Here is a candid admission of facts that
would be we'll for Republican journals to
note. There is no beating about the bush to
escape the responsibility. No reaching out
after democrats to beslime Their with the filth
that the Republicans in the Star Route ring
have worn as a garment. 1t is frankly ack'
nowledged that lit is hard Tor one who gains
an insight into these records and who Studies