Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-08-14
Gen. Dunn's Review of Arthur's Admin.
istration-A Terrific Arrangement Of
the Junketfng President.
Especial to The State !

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WASHINGTON, August 4.-Gen. Dunn,
the well-known member of Congress, pub
fishes in the Post this morning an open
letter, IN which he reviews Arthur's
Administration at length and uncovers his
game for the nomination in 1884. He
shows how Arthur gave himself up to the
railroad corporations and made himself the
organ Of the monopolies, and as to his
junket to the Yellowstone, he declares it
to be wlllful neglect of official duty.
How the President packed the tariff
Commission is scathingly reviewed, and the
veto of the River-and- Harbor bill receives
an equally trenchant criticism.
OF the southern partof the Arthur policy,
Gen. Dunn speaks as follows:
'ln the important matter of the reform
OF the Civil Service the President has made
great professions of zeal. 1 wish that l
could say that his acts and his words coin
cided. The whole country has been scan
fdalIzed by the open and notorious bargain
made with Malone, by which the entire
Federal patronage of the State of Virginia
has been surrendered to that individual
The more reputable journals of the Repub-
lican party have denounced this bargain
from time to time, but have utterly, failed
to impress the President with sense of its
indecency. The grant of Federal patronage
next in amount or even greater, bas been
accorded to ex-senator William Pitt Kel-
logg, of Louisiana, now arraigned under a
criminal indictment before the courts of
this District, and one who has long figured
in the class of carpet bag leaders, who op-
pressed and robbed the South until the
stencil of their villainies sickened every
honest mans nostrils. Congress passed a
law to prevent the packing of the United
States juries by the Presidents marshals,
but we still behold this infamous business
kept up in various States of the South and
the Machinery of the Department of Justice
systematically organized to accomplish the
purpose of political revenge and to restore,
if possible, the southern States to the un-
happy condition where they were first
placed by the reconstruction acts. The
Democratic party by its continued protest
has banished the bayonet from the polls
and legislative halls, but the Administra-
ton by prostituted Judiciary seeks to
keep alive the same detestable system of
terrorism in another form. Republicans
claiming seats in the House of Representa-
tives are rewarded by the Department of
Justice with Government money and arm
ed with official power to prosecute their op-
ponents in the United States courts in order
to exc out an alleged title to the seats. One
case after another comes to the surface of
army officers disgracing their more honor
able comrades, while a foreign minister at
the greatest city in the world humiliates
the whole country by his abject servility
and lack of American spirit. In the very
crisis of the Star-route prosecution one of the
culprits under Indictment is accorded a lu-
crative Government contract to carry the
mails, and another defendant is accepted as
his surety
st is needless to multiply instances of
general official generalization Through
out fifteen States of the Union the great
body of tho respectable white population
are absolutely shut out from official trust
and confidence. The very men whose hos
pitality the President and other prominent
Republicans expect and receive are ezclud-
ed by an iron rule from the humblest em-
ployrnent of the United States Government
unless they will degrade themselves by
pledges to act with the Republican party.
For eighteen years this entire population
has been prescribed. They are not repre-
sented in any department of the Govern
ment except such members of Congress as
they themselves are able to elect. They
hold absolutely none of the prominent po-
sitions in the Army, the Navy, the foreign
missions, the judiciary or the civil service
of the country. This prescription is as
broad and as deep as the spirit of hate and
rapacity can suggest. Even the United
States Supreme Court is packed against
them. They have not upon it a single
member. They are treated as enemies,
taxed as subjects, and the only appropria
tion bill in which they for the first time
were fairly recognized was vetoed by the
President M.