Daily globe., 1883-08-20
THINGS TO LOOK INTO.

Inc Cemauu mas IOuS 6AISttu 1Of d
thorough investigation of the manage
ment of the navy department. Perhaps |
an investigation now made will not extend !
so far into the past as to probe the |
iniquities that transpired during the eight |
years Of Grant, but il will be something if |
the later corruptions are laid bare. A |
res esponsible man, Mr.. Cramp, directly |
charges that in the contract awarded to |
John Roach for the building of three steel
cruis ers and the dispatch boat, that there
was collusion between Roach, the con-
tractor, and Chandler, the secretary of the
navy, and the charge is made with such
circumstances that until an investi |
cation has passed upon the matter
appropriations must be withheld.
The Brewsterian department of justice
needs the administration of the scalpel
and the putridity that attaches to the
mockeries, and extortions Of that branch
demands thorough and courageous expo
sition.
The mysterious settlement of the Ott-I
man case is another matter that cannot be
allowed to rest.
The charges that have been made of
public robbery by the supervising archl-
tect department cannot be whitewashed
by the pretended investigation recently
undertaken, but call for honest sitting,
help or hurt whom it may.
Time should be taken to find out how
much Howgate stole from the government
and to uncover those who have protected
and shielded him, both as a criminal IN
durance and a fugitive from justice.
| Another matter of first Importance is
an inquiry into the appointment of Stan
ley Matthews as justice of the supreme
court of the United States. There is no
moral doubt whatever of the
correctness of the charge made
that his appointment was procured through
a corrupt bargain, and that the proceeds
of the sharp trade were used for the pur
chase of the presidential election of 1880.
An eastern Republican paper, hoping for
the best, yet fearing the worst, thinks 1t
wise to make a demand that Matthews
should invite inquiry as to the circum-
stances of his appointment, limiting that
he may simulate ignorance of the prostl-
tuition of executive power through which
he reached his judicial robes. This invi-
tation to Judge Matthews to court investi-
cation is as follows
1t is known that Gould and his associates and
certain prominent New York hnanciers contrib
. uted literally to the Dorsey upton fund by
{ which Indiana was carried for the Republicans IL
. October, 1880. 1t is possible that they did II
Al harfra Ho0la hHrn
5 and it is possible that Judge Matthews was bott
] innocent and ignorant of the alleged prostitu
q ton of his high Office to mean ambition ID IN
ordinate greed; but neither Gould nor Matthew:
5 can afford to permit the charges to remain un
r disputed. when so many strongly suspicious cir
4 cumstances point to their correctness. GoulC
-, and Huntington may feel that they can better af
> ford to be suspected than to invite inquiry, bu
e it is not so with Judge Matthews, nor can al
l. honest congress afford to permit suprem
Judge to be thus accused without investigation
and an emphatic condemnation or acquittal.
; It may be that Stanley Matthews is tha
y kind of man, but if so, it will be the con
:. tradiction of life of political jobbery
= All his political holdings have been sc
a cured by means of intrigue that honorabl
+ men would scorn. He was an active pal
!. ticipant in the cons piracy by which th
% Presidency was stolen in 1876, aiding an
: abetting that prince of rogues, Vim. I
# Chandler, who was a leader in that infam.
;s Matthews was member of the celebrate
= Wormley conference, and under his counst
3 the debauchery was consummated that pl
"a Hayes into the White House. As a rewa1
"a for his participation in that outrageol
ar fraud he sought the place in the Unite
$ States senate made vacant by John She
mans resignation to enter the cabinet
the Fraud in the White House. The Oh
legislature had determined to put Carrie
Of into the empty senatorial seat, and t
81 only way to prevent that consummatiC
rk was to secure from Garfield
at declination. Efforts were IL aGe to secu
y, from Garfield a refusal of the Office. Z
he pressure brought TO bear on him was gret
ed but on the other hand his friends insist
on that hs should not retire. The crisis h
re come. In few hours Garfield would
an elected senator. To gain the place
ng Matthews during the night of his inaugul
ne day Hayes left the White House and visit
sy- Garfield in his private residence and 6
ir. pealed to him to stand aside For the f
re time Garfield yielded. The president
ng person had asked it. Hayes voluntar
and without solicitation pledged Carl,
ke that himself and Matthews would honest
mt promote his (Garfeld's) election to the st
ire ate two years further on, as the successor
Dr.. Thurman. if the Republicans should th
lis be in power in Ohio. How basely that pied
,ly was broken by both Hayes and Matthe
is was truthfully and graphically told in
to Washington special of the GLOBE Tuesd
ms. mornirg last.
pit By all means let the appointment
ng Stanley Matthews have prompt and ht
oo- est investigation. Let that transaction
eat proved honest and honorable if it can
sed but if otherwise, "Turn the Rascal OUT
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