New-York tribune., 1881-10-27
THE INFARIABLE RESULT

1t has been remarked heretofore that n
strange fatality seemed to attend every attempt
al Democrats to investigate Republican ad-
mlnlStraticn ana iastcn upon their opponents
the proofs of official misconduct and fraud
For, although they have investigated with
ccaSeless energy and no end Of Zeal have sent
committees into all the departments with ple-
nary powers to overhaul everything from the
dusticst pigeon hole to the freshest waste has
kct and have always set their inquiring noses
in directions in which it was supposed to be rs
impossible to uncover n Democrat as it would
bc to find an Esquimau at Panama, il has
somehow happened that it was always a Demo
crat who, when the scent got warm, rose up and
went round the corner damning the committee
The Investigations, numerous and searching as
they were, never succeeded in fastening official
misconduct upon Republicans. This may not
he proof positive that all Republican officials
were absolutely honest. Ii may be, in spite of
it. that they We're all sacbiDg the Treasury
daily. Bat III the light of the Investigations it
must be admitted that if they were doing it the
people would have to look somewhere else than
to the Democratic party to find it out. Demo
ciats fishing for Republican rascals never caught
their hooks in anything but the seats of their
own trousers.
II was never disputed, of course that the Re-
publican party contained rs victorious armies
and successful parties always do, camp fol-
lowers who were solely bent on plumber But
the people had seen the Republicans them
selves take in hand the business of ferretting
out and punishipg them, or driving them either
into retirement or over to the Democracy. And
the people, seeing the marked contrast between
the successful efforts of the Republicans on the
one hand to purify their own party and give the
country clean, wholesome and honest adminis-
tratIon, and the dismal failure of the Demo-
Gratis on the other TO make party capital ont of
the evil-dOings Of their opponents, wisely con-
cluded that the safe way was to trust the Re-
publicans to administer the Government hon
csly and wisely The public Judgment in this
regard has been justified and vindicated by
what has recently happened in the Post Office
Department. The case of the Star Route frauds
is one in which one Republican administration
discovering abuses which had grown up under
another, began immediately without any at
tempt ut cOncealment or any evasion of TO spon-
sibility, to prosecute and root them out and
punish the authors OF thcm Straightway the
party which had been in possession of both
branches of Congress while these frauds were
in progress, which had had full power to in
vestigate them and had made just such investi-
S"oo'iS ~" ShiSh P"iouil, Will VIC purpose OF
bringing their opponents to grief, set up the
cry that here was more fraud and 1more cor
ruption," and an additional reason for bringing
the Democrats to power to insure honest gov
ernment.
Well nOw-isn't it queer I? isn't it a singular
coincidence q-these very frauds turn out TO
have been known to the head of the Post
Office Department in the last Administration
who was q Democrat, had always been Dep,o
crat, had voted the Democratic ticket at the last
Presidential election, and was taken into the
Cabinet in pursuance Of visionary notion that
prevailed momentarily that the Southern Demo-
Gratis could be conciliated by such action 7