The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-12
A Change Imperatively Demanded.


publicans. They were prosecuted by
Republican Judge, and acquitted by
Republican jury: But the country has
seen greater crimes not only condoned
but approved by the party which has
held continued possession OF the Gov
ernmeht ftf twenty-five years.
The scandals 6f Grantism did not
weaken the hold of the President on his
party The Treasury Ring, the Navy
Ritg; the ,Post-office Ring, the Army
Ring, the Indian Ring, the Land Ring,
the Pension Ring, the Printing Ring,
the Whisky Ring, the Washington
Ring, all fiourished under Grant, and
some of their yi!lanies were traced quite
to the door of the White House itself.
Babcock was indicted, when Private
secretary Of the President, for compile
ity in the Whisky Ring. General
Craft saved him from the penitentiary
by direct Executive interference.
Black Friday was one Of the incidents
of Republican misrule. Credit Mcbilier
was an illustration of it. The Freed
ii1an's Bank was robbed and Quilted by
Republican philenthropists, who shed
tears over the suffelfngs Of the colored
brother and stole the savings Of liie wife
and children. The San Domingo job
was whitewashed by conspicuous Re-
publicans. Republicans looted the
Navy. The Emma Mine exposure. the
corrupt Venezuelan Commission, the
fraudulent Mexican claims, the plumber
of Indian tribes, the speculations in
public loans, and the collusion in the
departments with outsider thieves swell
the Eepttoliean record. ~ -,o,,s.o-efT
When Republican Congress passed
the salary grab and the baek-pay steal
they only Kept time to the quiekstep of
robbery, with Secor Robeson's marine
band furnishing the music. And after
indignant public opinion compelled a
retreat from that barefaced, scheme OF
spoliatioI, the doubled salary of the
President was preserved as a special
compliment to Grant. 200 s. : - ;t.I79
The jobbers, the ringsters, the plunder-
ers, the adventurers, and the thieves
who invested the White House demanded
third term for Grant. i The third-term
conspiracy failed only because the party
feared q crushing defeat If the expert
ment was tried.
Great corporations are now control.
ling legislation on many matters in
which they are interested. They have
corrupted and packed courts, and they
keep Republican sentinels posted along
the avehues leading to all the depart,
ments.
Repeated Investigations have shown
that the great ledgers of the Treasury
have been mutilated, that balances in
volving many millions of dollars have
been forced, that erasures and inter
polated figures exist by thousands, ant
that books of account have disappeared
The Presidency was stolen in 1876
and some of the beneficiaries of thai
crime are most CONSPICUOUS in pretend
ing to deplore the failure of justice in tk'
Star-route cases. -tE4
The party that applauded the Grea
Fraud which carried Hayes into th'
White House and Sherman into tn
Treasury, and appropriated all the pro
ceeds of the crime, did not scruple, fou
years later, to support candidate who's
whole public career was stained witt
| jobbbery.
The men who committed the. crime
in this long catalogue, or their creature
and Representatives, are still in Office
They hold the fort, and resist all intru
sion. They know how to turn asid
dangerous investigation. They soun'
the alarm at the first approach of tn
enemy. They mount guard by day an
by night over tine records. They knoS
how the Navy Department was fire
four times within a few weeks. -A
There is no possibility of reform, O
of publication of the public service
while this condition of things exists
All the essays and rules of Eaton, Greg
ory and Thoman are worth no more fo
that purpose than the chattering of $
many monkeys in menagerie. A
other issues sink into insignifcanc
when compared with the magnitude &
this question. First of all, the countr
must have change of party, the il
fusion of new blood into the manage
ment of public affairs, and clean hand
in every branch of the public service
N. Y. Sun.