Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-12
NEARING The END.

The general revolt now going on among
the people of the country against the
present maladministratio of the govern
ment by the Republican party as well as
the disreputable methods resorted to by
its managers to prop the waning fortunes
and extend the present sickly existence
of that organization, Is beginning to take
that hopeful form which gives promise of
the early emancipation of the nation from
the dishonest and demoralizing influences
that are exerted by the central power at
Washington on the interests and morals
of every section of the Union. The
nation has been patient in the gigantic
work of purifying the public service and
the political atmosphere of the coun-
try from the demoralizing influences of
"profiigatc power and prosperous crime,"
which grew out of and survived the con,
fict that was inaugurated in Charleston
harbor in 1861 and eliminated in the res
toration of the national authority at APP
pomatox in 1865; but the political indi-
cations are that both the necessity and
period for longer forbearance
on the part of the people in that di-
rectlon, has passed. Reform in the pub
lie service under the auspices of the po-
1tical party now dominating the nation
has been demonstrated to be not only
improbable, but in the very nature of
things, impossible. The villainies of
Belknap, Babcock, Porter, Cakes Ames
and Mcdonald; when taken in connec-
ton with the more recent and high toned
populations of Howgate, Brady,
Dorsey and John Sherman, estab-
lish concatenation of infa-
mics perpetrated by the Republicans,
extending from the collapse of the rebel
lion down to the present time. Crimes
of like magnitude have been committed
before, but never in all the history of this
country was the same Difference paid to
public plunderers and the criminal
classes, as that which has shielded these
men from punishment for their crimes,
and given them conspicuous positions in
the service of the government they have
alike dlshonored and robbed.
That strange fatality which illumines
the budding days of modern
official life with hopes that are doomed
to go out in darkness and dishonor,
seems to be the result of causes grounded
in the practices and tentative govern
mental theories established by modern
Republican theorists for the polity and
rules of action sanctioned by the wisdom
and experience of the founders of the
government. Questionable practices have
become of UGH common occurrence
and attended with so little incon-
venience on the part of those who
have resorted to them in order to increase
the sum of their worldly possessions, that
peculation has become the rule rather
than the exception in the public service
of the country.
The following dispatch in regard to
the arrest of Doyle, the bond forger, at
Chicago, sent over the country by the
agent of the Associated Press at Washing
ton. illustrates the indifference with which
the people have become accustomed to
look on these breaches of puclic trust:
Evidence was adduced before the grand
Jury Yesterday to the effect that 81 900 bond
plate had been stolen from the treasury de-
partment, and that from this plate the bonds
captured with Doyle, at Chicago, were i'm
pressed. 1t is genuine, and its theft may in
volve some prominent officials.
Here is a public confession that the
plates from which this forger struck of
the bonds with which he undertook to
food the country, were not only genuine,
but were actually obtained from those
high in authority in that department.
Who will wonder after this at the
facility with which the difficulties be-