Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-09-11
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WASHINGTON, Sept. I'm 1875 Mr..
Davis, OF West Virginia, offered resO-
luton in the Senate calling upon the
Secretary of the Treasury for report Of
all defalcatiOns between and including
the years of 1861 and 1876, with the
view Of using it against the Republic
cans in the campaign Of the latter year.
Senator Sherman offered an amendment
to make the report cover prior Demo-
cratic administrations, beginning with
the year 1880. The amendment was
passed. The result was a vOluminOus
and containing great deal of mighty
eral statement compiled from the re-
port was printed, but the vast column
of names and official figures never saw
the light of day 1t is scarcely necessa-
to say that the report was never circula-
ted by the Democratic Campaign Com
mittse. 1t is said that in 1880 1t was
proposed by certain Democratic leaders
to resurrect this report and use it as
campaign ammunition in Ohio, but the
movement was promptly stopped by
Senator PendletOn, who know all about
the report. A gentleman who had access
to it at the time it was presented to the
Senate, and made cOpieus extracts from
1t, furnishes the following interesting
observations:
'Mr. Thomas A. Hendricks and other
leading Democrats having made the
charge of official corruption against the
Republican party it becomes the duty
of all honest and fair-minded men to
to look into the matter and see which of
the two great political parties of the
country stand most In need of reform.
While doing the stealing themselves the
Democrats have always from the first
been ready to charge corruption and
stealing upon their opponents. They
shout stop thief" to cover up the ras-
cality of their own thieviRg officials.
They below for reform always when
out of Office. Terribly and fearfully
corrupt. themselves they naturally sus-
pect all others of dishonesty. 1t would
be well for these self righteous Demo-
Gratis to take retrospective glance at
the
PAST HISTORY OF THEIR PARTY
while in power, going back, for instance
to the palmy days of Jackson. The de-
of Customs at New York, under Presi-
dent JacksOn's administration, accord
ing to reports of committees to the
Twenty-fith Congress, second session,
No. 313, amounted to the sum of $I,225,-
705. Jessie HOyt, SwartOut's successor,
from 1888 to 1S41, followed the example
of his illustrious predecessor, and stole
from the Government $248,871, and like
SwartOut was allowed to go scot free.
Here, then, is the sum of $1,474,577 stel-
en- from the government by two Demo-
cratic officials, under Democratic rule.
Following along down through the
different new administrations from the
first term of Andrew Jackson to the end
of the most corrupt and thieving admin
istratiOn Of James Buchanan, it will be
seen that stealing was the order of the
day in all departments of the govern
ment, In verificatiOn of which a partial
list of Democratic plunderers is given
below, the Office they held and the
amount stelen by each;
Amos Binney, pursor in Navy. ....... $70,561
James Brooks, purser in Navy. $3.50
p. A. SOuthall, Purser in Navy. 40550
b. L. Brown, Purser In Navy 81, $50
Joseph Colston, 'Purser in Navy. 33,369
r. r. Crum, Quartermaster. ....... 294,72g
4. q. Morgan, Collector Customs,
new orleans. ................ III, Z56
G.. w, Hawkins, Quartermaster. 49,. II, 721
Robert Temple, Pension agent. $3.50. 100, 424
Luther Blake, Indian agent. ....... 10, 759
r. ID. G. Cotton, Indian agent. ..... 68,87S
w. H. Ker, Postmaster, New Orleans. 39,64
j. Rutter, Postmaster, Sacramento 1885
s, f. Marks, Pestm aster New Orleans 1886
Vim. A. Linn, Collector Customs, St.
Louis. 2O,4O7
Total. 81, O96, 695
The above including the Swartout &
HOyt defalcations, will make the sum
$2,571,273. This fearful indictment
ought to be enough to settle all preten-
siOns of the Democratic party to any
thing like honesty. If they stole at the
above rate with the comparatively limi-
ed resources of the government at that
time, what would they do now il they