Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-07-19
A Change Imperatiyely Demanded.

A Change ImperatiyeIy Demanded.
The Star-route defendants were, Re-
publicans. They were prosecuted by
Republican Administration, tried by a
Republican Judge, and acquitted by a
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
eminent for twenty-five years.
The scandals of Grantism did not
weaken the hold of the President on his
party. The Treasury Ring, the Navy
Ring, the Post-otfice Ring, the Army
Ring, the Indian Ring, the Land Ring,
the Pension Ring, the Printing Ring,
the Whisky Ring, the Washington
Ring, all tiourished under Grant, and
some of their viilanies 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
Grant saved him from the penitentiary
by direct Executive interference.
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 by
Republican philanthropists, who shed
tears over the sutferings of the colored
brother and stole the savings of his 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 collision in the
departments with outside thieves swell
the Republican record. '-
When Republican Congress passed
the salary grab and the back-pay steal,
they only kept time to the quickstep of
robbery, with Secor Robeson's marine
band furnishing the music. And after
indignant public opinion compelled a
retreat from that barefaced scheme of
spoliation, the doubled salary of the
President was preserved as special
compliment to Grant.
The jobbers, the ringsters, the plumber
ers, the Adventures, and the thieves
who invested the White House demanded
a third term for Grant. The third-term
conspiracy failed only because the party
feared a crushing defeat if the expert
ment was tried. ..'-e
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 avenues leading to all the depart
ments.
Repeated Investigations have shown
that the great ledgers of the Treasury
have been mutilated, that balances in
many millions of dollars have
been forced, that erasures and inter-
polated figures exist by thousands, and
that books of account have disappeared.
The Presidency was stolen in 1876,
and some of the beneficiaries of that
crime are most CONSPICUOUS in pretend
ing to deplore the failure of justice in the
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 pro-
ceeds of the crime, did not scruple, four
years later, to support a candidate whose
whole public career was stained with
iobbbery.
The men who committed the crimes
in this long catalogue, or their creatures
and representatives, are still in office.
They hold the fort, and resist all intru-
sion. They know how to. turn aside
dangerous investigation. They sound
the alarm at the first approach of the
enemy. They mount guard by day and
oy hight over the records. They know
how the Navy Department was fired
Jour times within few weeks '.'
There is no possibility of reform. or
IF publication of the public service,
while this condition of things exists.
All the essays and rules of Eaton. Greg
,ry and Thoman are worth no more for
hat purpose than the chattering of SO
many monkeys in a menagerie. All
,ther issues sink into insignifcance |
when compared with the magnitude of |
his question. First of all, the country
must have a change of party, the in
usion of new blood into the manage
nent of public affairs, and clean hands |
n every branch of the public service
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How the People Can Get Even.
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