National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-06-07

house patronage as foundation, which
will pack the New York delegates fol
him in 1884. He has violated
the Constitution by soliciting the
votes of Senators through favors and CO
ercing them by threats. He has set il
motion the mills of SANDER and detrac
ton against friends and placed the
weapons of his mightiest power in the
hands of malignant Democratic par
tisan. He has a Postmaster-Gen-
eral who accuses him of deceit and
an Attorney-General who commits great
and responsible duties to a person who
has accused him over and again of in
famous crimes.
If there have been any crimes com
mitted against the public Treasury by any
post-office official, contractor or othei
persons, every honest man will be glad
to see the guilty punished. THE REPUB.
LICAN will shield no wrong-doers who
are proven to be such. We have de.
clined to join the mob in lynching and
hanging first, and ascertaining facts after
ward. We consider the course adopted
! by the Administration in regard to al
legged postal frauds as infamous andtyran-
nical as anything in history. 1t was the
! duty of the Government to look for tes-
timony, and, if any could be found to
! Justify indictment, then to proceed with
vigor to prosecute all offenders. Even
the proceedings Of the grand jury-room
are kept secret, because the law shrinks
from tainting the good name of men who
are accused until the testimony is found
! to sustain indictments. But this course
has not been pursued. A malevolent de-
tective, who had been once dismissed from
the service, was brought here and set to
work to build up a reputation for himself
and his chief-the Postmaster-General-
as great Fraud-Finders. 1t was not proof
| they wanted; twas sensation. They spent
a month feeding out to the press old stale
matter, printed by Congress two years
ago, and affected to have made terrible
discoveries. They were especially venom
GUS toward ex-senator Dorsey, the Presi-
dents personal friend, to whose man.
agement as secretary of the National
Committee more than to any other one
cause he owes his election. The
public and voluminous assaults upon Mr..
Dorsey which could not have been made
except by the aid of the Post-Office De-
partment, and which the President could
have stopped any day, were not in the
least in flrtherance of public justice. 1t
was not only not necessary but it was
brutal and dastardly TO attempt to set
public opinion against Mr. Dorsey or any
one else pending the inquiry. The trial
by newspapers is always successful for the
prosecution. Even the President was
once sentenced to stand in the pillory
by that court, and only the great
party exigency OF last year, which
united the fate Of the party with his, pro-
cured him release. Now be employs, or
allows to be employed, a savage enemy of
all Republicans, a reveler in blasted rep
Utations, and professional organizer of
calumny to herald to the country the
great deeds he will do when his gang of
scavengers shall all have returned with
their loads from the devious ways into
which he has sent them.
If the friends of the Administration are
tired of hearing its head discussed as we
discuss him, let them beseech him to
abandon his present course and much of
his present company. Let clean and de-
cent methods be employed in an orderly
manner to reform abuses, and to find
out and punish evil-doers, ifany there be.
Let these take the place of the war
dances and savage yells with which the
public is now entertained. Let him tell
Mr.. MacVeagh that the New York Suns
late correspondent, who piloted the Pot
ter committee in its effort to revolutionize
the Government, is not the man to be
placed where he can manufacture testi-
mony or advertise to the world every
day that he has evidence which may
never appear. If the President likes his
here, and if he is as faithful
to the railroad lobby in other States as
he is in New York, he will find that the
of the country can and will
march on without him, as they have done
in the past when an Administration
sought to debase them and put them un-
der the orders of brayos and mercenarieS.
THE whole tribe of Pomeroy patriots
are now rushing to the front and shout
ing at their best for the Credit Mobilier
candidate. They have come out of their
holes, believing that one of their own
stock may occupy the White House,
and being sure in that event of having
a good time and full swing at the Treas
ury. The pious Colfax is announced
as a candidate for the Senate to
succeed Mr.. Mcdonald. The fitness of
things would be consulted by his cleo
ton, for the party which accepts Gar
field for the first honor ought not to hest
tate at Colfax for any other. They were
both tarred with the same stick. They
we're both bought by Oakes Ames, and
they both swore falsely TO escape the |
penalty of corruption.-A. N. Gibson IN
New York Sun, October %, 1880.
COLONEL SAMUEL 1osT, editor OF the Valley lT- |
Jinidn is N the city. He says that the Readjuster
icket nominated at Richmond the other day is |
certain of defeat. He says that Captain Riddle |
berger was right when he said that the ticket |
would not get $500 votes beyond the Blue Ridge |
Mountains Colonel Ash Harmon another Read |
ulster, says according to Colonel Yost, that the !
icket viii be defeated. 1t will not receive even |
he full Readiusier vote. Colonel YoSt says that |
Republican convention TO nominate straight |
,u3 ticket will certainly be held.-Erening Star
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN has the best |
for saying that the above is a
issue of falsehoods. Colonel Yost SAYS
here is not one word of truth in the |