The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-03-06
REPUBLICAN CRIMES.


Ex-Attorney General Wayne Mac
Veagh throws bomb into the Repub-
ican camp in the shape of an arraign-
ment of the party for its crimes. In
reference to the Pennsylvania Repub-
licans he says: "They have allowed
their state and municipal treasures
to be the plaything of machine poll
ticians, and to be prostituted time out
of mind to their personal advantage.
They have allowed their metropolis
to be the prey of men who, in them
selves or in their chosen subordinates,
have exhausted almost the entire
calender of crime, while they masquer-
AIDED in the name of the Republican
party and protested that their crimes
were necessary to its preservation.
They have stuffed ballet boxes. They
have forged election returns. They
have stolen the taxes. They have
stolen the water rates. They have
stolen the receipts of gas. They have
stolen moneys appropriated to the re-
pair of the highways. They have
even descended to steal the moneys
appropriated to the relief Of the in
sane poor. And they have done all
this in the name of the party, whose
first great historical achievement was
the election of Abraham Lincoln,
name which has become a synonym,
wherever the English language is
spoken, for plain, downright honesty
What is thus said of Republicanism
in Pennsylvania might be repeated as
to it's record in all portions of the
country. What Mr.. McVeagh com.
plains of is sadly true, and while his
own state shows how great have been
such political crimes, he might have
instanced more glaring frand, affect
ing directly the people of every state
in the union-that federal robbery
out of which he accepted share Of
plumber. No man knew better thar
did he the fraudulent claim of Mr.
Hayes to the presidency, and yet ht
accepted place in his cabinet, ant
enjoyed the fruits of fraud. He wen
to New Orleans as one of the visiting
commissioners to get the Packard
government out of the way, so tina
false returns might be made. Thi'
was the purpose of the visit
and while there he had presented
to him in their most degrading lgh
the foul means by which elections
were carried, or pronounced carried
by Republicans. But we are glad t.
see that Mr.. MacVeagh can begin t.
see the crimes of his party, and tho
IL nos the O'6nnze 40 r 1T tie.I vi
i'll his own state. his declaration ough
to silence those of all Republicans il
their false accusation of southern pee
pie. Suppose it is admitted that tn
white people of the south have, in Gel
tain instances, reSorted to unfair mean
for controlling elections, it may b
asked, are what the differences in me
tives leading thereto and to the crime
TO Republicans The southern
states had been given over b.
federal power to the basest an
most ignorant political con
troll; they determined to make
grand effort to re-establish decenc
and purity IN government, and wher
improper political methods were neces
sary to effect such ends they may hav
resorted to them. They had bee
attacked by the basest methods, an
to whip the deEil we are told to US
fire. The end aimed at was the re-es
, Establishment of honest and capable sci
government, and this they achieved
These very practices to which MI
MacVeagh refers in Pennsylvania
were practiced in the south for pur
poses of plumber. But for the degrade
ton of people and states; and tn
good people of the south corrected tn
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