Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-07-01
xuAr raE Issue Is.

There has been and continues 10 oe
much talk about the absence OF an issue
n present politics in this country.
There is no lack Of issue. There are
many questions of more or less impor-
;ance that must be discussed and re.
erred to the people for their judgment.
But there is one issue which overshad-
ows and co~mprehends them all-that IS
sue is an honest, clean-handed, efficient
administration of the affairs of govern.
ment.
When the time comes the people will
select their servants with reference to
facts Of history. 1t will not be INN
teresting at this time to refresh the
memory by an epitome Of some OF these
facts that will have to be weighed in
making up tho popular judgment.
In this summary the New York Sun
offers food for the citizens Of the United
States which they, without regard to
party, should take down and digest:
The Star Route defendants were Re-
publicans. They were prosecuted by .
Republican Administration, tried by .
Republican Judge, and acquitted by q
Republican jury. But the country has
seen greater crimes not only condoned
but approved by the party which has had
continued possession OF the Government
for % years.
The scandals OF Grantism DID NOT
weaken the hold Of the President on his
party. The Treasury ring, Inc navy
ring. the Postofice ring, the Army ring,
the Indian ring, the Land ring, the PEN
sion ring, the Printing ring, the Whisky
ring, the Washington ring, all fourished
under Grant, and some Of the villainies
were traced quite to the doors OF the
White House itself. Babcock was in
dicted, when Private Secretary OF the
President, for completely in the Whisky
ring. Gen. Grant saved him from the
p~enitentiary by direct Executive inter-
ference.
Black Friday was one Of the incidents
Of Republican misrule. Credit Mobilier
was an illustration Of it. The Freed
mans Bank was robbed and Quilted Dy
philanthropists, who shed tears over the
sufferings Of the colored brother and
stole the savings Of his wife and chill
dren. The San Domingo job was white
washed by conspicuous Republicans.
Republicans looted the navy. The
Emma mine exposure, the corrupt Vene-
zuelan Commission, the fraudulent Next
cam claims. the pluuder Of Indian tribes,
the speculations in public loans, and
the collnsion in the departments with
outside th;eves swell the Republican
record,
When a Republican Congress passed
the salary grab and the back pay steal
thew only kept time to the quickstep
Of robbery. with Secor Robeson's ma.
rine band furnishing the music. And
after indignant public opinion compelled
! retreat from the barefaced scheme Of
spoliation. the double salary of the
President was preserved as a special
compliment to Grant.
The iobbers, the ringsters, the plum
derers. the Adventures, and the thieves
who infested the White House demand
ed a third term for Grant. The third
term conspiracy failed only because the
nartv feared = crushing defeat if the
experiment was tried.
Great COrDOrAtlOQ6 arc uOW CUubkOlA-
inc lsc;slat;on on many matters in which
thew sre interested. They have cor
ruptsd and packed courts, and they
keen Republican s~entinels posted along
the avenues leading to all the depart
ments.
Repeated Investigations have shown
that the great ledgers Of the Treasury
have been mutilated, that balances in
yolvins many millions of dollars have
been forced, that erasures and intel
polated figures exist by thousands. n
that books Of account have disappeared.
The Presidency was stolen in 1876.
and some of the benefciaries of that
crime are most conspicuous in pretend
ing to deplore the failure OF justice in
the late Star Route cases.
The party that ~applauded the great
fraud which carried Hayes into the White
House and Sherman into the Treasury,
and appropriated all the proceeds OF