Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-08-20
THINGS TO LOOK INTO.

Inc CemanQ mas long 6AlSLeu IOf 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 it will be something if
the later corruptions are laid bare. A
res ponsible 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 collision 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 OFT
man case is another matter that cannot be
allowed to rest.
The charges that have been made Of
public robbery by the supervising archi-
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 criminal IN
durance and fugitive from justice.
Another matter of first importance is
an inquiry into the appointment Of Stan
ley Matthews as a justice of the supreme
court of the United States. There is no
moral doubt whatever of the
that his appointment was procured through
corrupt bargain, and that the proceeds
of the sharp trade were Esed for the pur-
chase of the presidential election of 1880.
An eastern Republican paper, hoping for
the best, yet fearing the worst, thinks it
, wise to make demand that Matthews
should invite inquiry as to the circum-
stances of his appointment, limiting that
he may simulate ignorance of the prosti-
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 tnanciers contrib
= uted literally to the Dorsey cor. upton fund by
which Indiana was carried for the Republicans III
4 October, 1880. 1t is possible that they did 1t
- without the corrupt bargain declared by Dorsey,
s and it is possible that Judge Matthews was both
d innocent and ignorant of the alleged prostltu-
"a ton of his high Office to mean ambition d IN
ordinate greed; but neither Gould nor Matthews
8 can afford to permit the charges to remain I'M
n disputed, when many strongly suspicious cir
n cumstances point to their correctness. Gould
. and Huntington may feel that they can better af
" ford to be suspected than to invite inquiry, but
lie it is not so with Judge Matthews, nor can al
4 honest congress afford to permit a supreme
Judge to be thus accused without investigation
and an emphatic condemnation acqulttal.
p It may be that Stanley Matthews is tina
~ kind of man, but if so, it will be the con
W tradiction of life of political iobbery
p All his political holdings have been Sc
"a cured by means of intrigue that HONORABLE
at men would scorn. He was an active par
4. ticipant in the cons piracy by which tn
10 Presidency was stolen in 1876, aiding an
Of Chandler, who was & leader in that infamJ
10 Matthews was a member of the celebrate
- Wormley conference, and under his counse
rs the debauchery was contaminated that pU
he Hayes into the White House. As a rewar
he for his participation in that outrageou
ar fraud he sought the place in the Unite
is States senate made vacant by John She
H. ~ r
the Fraud in the White House. The OH
legislature had determined to put CARTEL
of into the empty senatorial seat, and Il
81 only way to prevent that consu inmate
rk was to secure from Garfield h
at declination. Efforts we're made to secu
ty, from Garfield refusal of the Office. II
he pressure brought TO bear on him was gres
ed but on the other hand his friends insist
on that hs should not retire. The crisis hi
ore come. In few hours Garfield would
AN elected senator. To gain the place f
ng Matthews during the night of his inauguE
ng day Hayes left the White House and visit
ev- Garfield in his private residence and &
dr. peaIed to him to stand aside. For the fl
ire time Garfield yielded. The president
ng person had asked it. Hayes voluntari
and without solicitation pledged Carrie
Ike that himself and Matthews would honest
ent promote his (Garfeld's) election to the sc
ire ate two years further on, as the successor
DIR. Thurman, if the Republicans should til
His be in power in Ohio. How basely that pied
My was broken by both Hayes and Matthe'
is was truthfully and graphically told in t
to Washington special of the GLOBE Tuesd
ms. mornirg last.
pit By all means let the appointment
ing Stanley Matthews have prompt and he
po 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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