The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-08-16
The Origin Of the Republican Scandals.

dals which have made the Republican |
party both odorous and odious, owe
their exposure to Republican jealousies |
and quarrels. Usually it is the opposing
party that does the exposing, but in this
instance the Democrats have been
spared the trouble, their antagonists
taking it upon themselves, and. display
ing the soiled linen of the family to an
astonished and disgusted public with as
much nonchalance as if it were white as
the driven snow and sweet as the bed of
roses. All that Democrats have had
to DO has been to hold their noses, open
their eyes and make the most of the
political advantage thus gratuitously
bestowed. AS far back as 1861, when
the war had just begun, Secretary Cam
eron was suddenly invited to leave the
Lincoln Cabinet, for reasons not then
specified. But it soon leaked out that
the veteran Pennsylvania statesman had
been ''improving his opportunities
rather more vigorously and exclusively
than other statesmen of his party;
equally hungry for spoils, thought fair,
and that in his greed for contracts he
had omitted to ''grease" those who
needed greasing in order to stop
their mouths. So the Cameronian
scandal crept into the light of day,
the first. in long line of such, but
considerably smaller and less infamous
than the majority of its notorious sue
eessors. The systematic stealing which
was a familiar feature in military and
naval affairs from 1861 to 1865 seldom
escaped the eternal vigilance of Repub-
licans who failed to get their share, and
the would-be thieves, unless meanwhile
silenced by a judicious application of
hush-money, fastened to expose the
real thieves and demand their punish
ment. And so it has been ever since.
Take the immortal whisky ring as an
illustration. If the fingsters, who were
all Republicans, of course, had not in
sisted upon making their conspiracy to
rob the Government a very close cor
poration, it might have remained unre
vealed much longer than it did. But
Republican outsiders, no more honest
than the insiders, determined that if
they could not have cash they would
have revenge, and so gave Bristow the
points he worked up-not as they ought
to have been, bttt as well as he could
with the combined forces of the ring
and a Republican Administration against
him. Belknap's dealings in Indian ageii--
cies and traderships, which hustled
him out of Grants Cabinet, and
came near bringing his Impeachment;
were first proclaimed by certain Repub-
licans who wanted agencies or trader
ships for themselves or their friends
and did not get them, therefore pro-
ceeded to ''get even" by denouncing
the too monopolizing Belknap. "Laun-
delet'' Williams was slaughtered in the
same way and for the same reason, and
if Robeson had been as generous in his
division of the plunder as he was i'm
pudent in acquiring it half his doings
might have gone down to posterity IN
much better shape. The ineffable in
famies of Republican reconstruction
would not have been fixed in history
half as firmly as they are if the white
and black Republican rogues in the
South had not quarrelled over the pro-
ceeds of their roguery and told on each
other. If every carpet-bagger could have
been a United States Senator, Governor
OF State Treasurer, and every negro
could have had all the land anC
mules he wanted, the Republican per
formances in Southern States during
that dismal period would not be as wei
and widely known as they are. And i
the Republican visiting statesmen
and returning -boarders, who cheated thu
American people out of their fairly elect
ed President, had not been embittered b,
mutual jealousy and suspicion tina
crowning Republican crime would no
be as clearly set forth as it is for th'
execration of future ages. If there hat
been enough of the Star-route 8" slush
to go round the circle of Republican
politicians the Star-route swindle nigh
still be on its legs, and if Dorsey ant
Brady had not been dragged into cour
by disappointed Republicans we Nigh
never have known how Garfield obtaine'
the Republican nomination, how tn
$2,000,000 Republican campaign fun,
was raised, and how the Republican
carried Indiana in 1880. And if Repub
lican Malone had admitted Republican
Dezendorf to an equal partnership il
!, the distribution of Federal offices, doe
have told how Republican voters wer
manufactured at the Norfolk Navy Y ard
and how much it cost to ''repair tn
Pintap
The cases we have presented, thoug
not one-tenth of the whole number, ar
sufficient to show that Republican ras
hhNO DCCh PiONONt pllS eSSti
: mony of Republican witnesses-th wit
nesses being, so far as intention is con
cerned, as bad as the criminals-an
that in no instance does the proof c
these rascalities depend upon Demo
cratic testimony. We may, therefore
with utmost propriety call the Republi
can party a self-convicted party; an
: if, with such self-conviction befor
them, the people do not furnish prope
condemnation at the polls next yea
, then they deserve to be saddled, bride
, and ridden by Republican rascals
the end of time.-St. Louis Republican
"A somewhat fashionable youn
t man recently entered a railway cal
: and, passing by several seats contain
: ing each but one male occupant, pro
5 ceeded to where young lady Sc
, alone, and asked her if the vacant ses
: at her side was engaged. Answerin
t in the negative, she offered him the il
side seat near the window, which h