The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-08-01
Democratic Investigations Threatened.

The Boston Herald Oem.) intimates
that the Democrats are preparing to go
into their old business of investigating
as soon as Congress assemblies, and that
two or three subjects are already indi-
Gated upon which it is proposed to ap-
point nosing committees. Among these
is the Star-route prosecution. However
sharp-nosed the Democratic investiga-
tors may be they will find nothing in the
records of this corrupt and shameless
conspiracy to rob the Public Treasury
that has not already been made public
by Republicans. They may criticise the
time and money expended upon their
prosecution to no purpose, but their
criticisms will fall short in indignation
and intensity compared with those al
ready made by Republicans. They may
denounce the Star-route contractors and
the officials who connived with them to
expedite the service, but what can they
tell the people that is not already
known? They may hire the SER
they know of the prosecution and the
money that was thrown away upon it,
but even these men, urged on by revenge,
can not tell more than has already been
told. There is not Republican paper
in this country of any prominence that
has not pronounced the whole Star-route
business as rotten to the very core.
What more can a Democratic Investi-
eating Committee do?
That any Democratic politician or set
of politicians is going into the investi-
cation business as a matter of abstract
principle, or to satisfy any promptings
of honesty or virtue or reform of Civil
Service, or any other service, will not
be believed by any one who has eyes to
see or ears to hear. Their only purpose
is to make hue and cry to influence
the election, and further than that there
is no danger that they will ever go. To
do SO would be to stultify themselves
and arraign their own policy of spoils
and their pet theory of the place for the
man. Fortunately, in this policy of in
vestigation they will only overreach
investigations before for the sake OF
making electioneering capital, but never
have carried them through to the end
There never yet was an avenue of cor
ruption which Democrats sought to ex.
plore that they did not find Democrats
in it before they got halfway to the
other end of it. There never was g
muck-heap of infamy, however small,
but an exploration of its contents would
find a Democrat somewhere in the
very center of it, and usually one sc
prominent that further exploration
would be abandoned. If the Democratic
pseudo-reformers attempt to investigate
. the Star-route business they will fine
the Democratic features of it long be-
fore they are fatigued over the work
and may expect Republican help that
as the Herald says, will 'smoke ou
some of the Democratic participants IL
the frauds whose connection with the
contracts caused the Democratic Post
Office Committee to hush the matter w
in the Forty-fifth Congress"
There is no danger to be anticipated
from Democratic Investigations. Their,
is no danger that they will throw tn,
boomerang that will inevitably return
upon them with crushing force. They
may make feint of investigating some
, body or something, as they have dom
before, and they may succeed in gettins
out garbled reports for campaign pur
poses, and make pretense of virtuou
: indignation and holy horror, but it viii
be of no use to them except to veil thei
own purposes and blind the people o
this country to the carnival of corrup
: ton which will ensue in case such
calamity should happen as their getting
: full possession of the Government AM
: the public purse Chicago Tribune.