The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-08
roLlrICAL snAMELEssNEss

which can enter into political struggle
ex-senator DORSEY went there with a
quarter OF million dollars, and won but 1t
was victory for the which DORSEY and the
Republican party have not had any great
room for gloryipg-so coniessedly and motto
riously was it the result of gross political
corruption. Since that time the ex-senator
who carried the heavy purse in that cam
paign has fallen under the grayest
charges of robbery, in immense amounts
of the national treasury. Not only is 1t
| said to be an indisputable fact that this re-
| publican leader is Il yeritable criminal in
| the matter Of the star routes, but 1t is
charged that not all the money was ex-
pended in Indiana which had been sent nor
was any of the surplus returned to the ma
tonal committee, by which it was raised.
And yet, in the face of these disgraceiul
charges, this notorious record, Dorsey re-
mains the secretary of the republican ma
tional committee, continues to figure
as one of the recognized leaders
of a great party. 1t Is but evidence OF the
low political standards now set up in the
United States. Now comes the announce
ment that Hon. JAY HuBBELL, representa-
tive for the ninth Michigan congressional
district, has been elected chairman of the
republican congressional committee. OF
this selection the Courier-Journal has this
to say; "The republicans have selected
Mr.. JAY HuBBELL, of Michigan, to be the
chairman of the republican congressional
committee. HuBBELL was secretary OF tho
committee in 1880, and is the man who
wrote to GARFIELD, earnestly asking that if
he was elected, he would sedulously protect
BRADY, Dorsey, and the other star-route
thieves. HuBBELL is thoroughly identified
with the thieving gang, but the republican
leaders are perfectly satisfied, rs they are
with the retention of DORSEY, the star
route thief, as secretary of the national re-
publican committee" The Courier
Journals structures are rather severe, out
in the olden time it would have been inn
possible to place u man in such position
with even the suspicion of questionable
transactions resting upon him. All these
, movements are indicative of the growing
disregard by the public of the private or
personal character public men. In con-
gress and on the various committees, in
the lobby and in Office il is becoming too
common by far to see men. utterly devoid
of personal standing, grossly sensual and
Il, ul, Il, Il.
grace to the country. When such
characters rs Dorsey and HuBBELL,
ORTu and RoBEsoN, and WILLIAM
Il. CHANDLER, who has just been made
secretary of the navy are continued in high
position, public standards politically, and
political ethics generally have degenorated
| alarmingly from Il former timo-not
to mention the fact that none of
them are recommended by any in
| tcllectual superiority. CHANDLER, in
deed, who is now one Of the presidents
constitutional advisers, is distinguished by
nothing SO much as his partisan rascalty
in connection with the shameless theft OF
the presidency in 1876. His full reward
has be on long in reaching him, but it has
come nj last. II is not ut all remarkable
that Europe, as she reads the American
press, daily freightcd with scandal, sensa-
ton, crime, official misconduct, should re.
gard us as the worst sort ofpcople. 1t is to
be hoped something will transpiro which
will arouse determination OIL the part Of
the voting masses to raise the standards
for qualification for office, and u state like
Texas, with personally honest and capable
officials and representatives should daily
congratulate itself Nothing can more Sc
riously affect legislation or the great inter
ests of nation, than the personal charac-
ter Of its representatives, the men who
make the laws. Distinguished ability even
does not exert half the influence, and it is to
be regretted that so little of either Quolif-
cation exists at present in this country. 1t
is disgracefully tue that the only question
ever investigated with reference to can
didatcs for official position is their fidelity
to party" merely this and nothing more"
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