Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1884-03-06

need to be taught anew in the choice OF
public servants, and place hunters and
,spoilsmen sent to the rear, with the
wicked doctrine of rehabilitation OF
which such low estimates of public duty
form q part----AnsericGa2 Register. a.S
Let There Be Investigation.
Congress has now been in session two
priaton bills are approaching compile
ton. The Committee of Ways and
Means. is supposed to be engaged in
aperfecting some tax reform. Mr.. Sher-
man has measured off two or three
yards of bloody shirt preamble. and the
Senate has appointed q committee to
investigate an election row in Copiah
County, Miss, and . fight between me-.
sgroes and white men at post-town in
Virginia. But as vet, we have heard of
mo proposition in the Democratic House
to investigate the assaults of the Repnb-
llican party on the very Life of republic
an Government.
7 The Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of Justice, of which Mr..
Springer is Chairman. has in the pur-
suance Of its dut es found it necessary
to inquire into the Star-route prosecu-
tons. 1t is met at the threshold by the
pretense that any information supplied
by the Department. to the Committee
would defeat the ends of justice" as
prosecuti ons are still pending. The
people know that the prosecutions al
ready undertaken have been barefaced
frauds desi gned to facilitate the es apo
of the defendants and used as a means
of still further plundering the Govern
nent under the cloak of legal fees TO rs
sistant counsel. They know that Gar
field commenced and Arthur continued
the protection of Dorsey. the agent who
had done the practical work in pur-
chasing their election, and of Brady, the
Star-route official who had squeezed the
bribery fund out of the pockets of the
dishonest contractors on the strens tn of
Garfield's begging letter Hence the
people are fully aware that an Admins
tratfon IN league with the Star-route
thieves and a beneficiary of its frauds
can have no honest intention to prose-
cute any Star-route suits to successful
issue. Yet it is evident that the whole
power of the President, of his Cabinet
and of q convenient District Court is to
be used to embarrass and defeat the in
quiries of Mr.. Springer's committee.
This makes it all the more necessary
for Congress to start Investigations
without any further delay into abuses
and outrages which concern not Mis-
sissippi county or . Virginia post town.
but the people of the whole United
States. 49, @d3 ss Fl s5g5# ss.
u 1t has been admitted by the ex-
Secretary of the Republican National
Committee that in the election of 1880
the State of Indiana was carried for the
Republicans by bribery and corruption.
Investigate! 's -
It has been admitted by Republicans
that corruption fund of 100000 was
raised in New York City, which was
carried to Ind ana and used to '.induce
men to change their opinions and their.
votes" Investigate!
It has been charged that the present
United States Minister to France bought
his appointment with the share he con-
tributed to that fund and his efforts in
securing other subscriptions Investi-
gate!
1t has been charged that two prom
inent spectators interested in suits be-
fore the Supreme Court of the United
States involving millions of dollars,
pa d 100000 toward Garfield's cleo
C1oh OApS,uSCo III Couo1dCl dGIOA VI Al0
pledge to make appointments to that
Judge friendly to them was actually ap-
pointed in conformity with the bargain.
Investigate! Y"
Investigate it, because, if true and
capab e of proof, it shows that the very
foundation of the Government. the High
Court which is the final arbiter of the
Constitution, is tainted and unworthy
of the public confidence. ASSOC
Surely it is more important to ascer-
tain if the President no DIS his Office by
fraud and if seats on the Bench of the
United States Supreme Court are sold
for money than it is to inquire who is
responsible for an alleged election out
rage in Copiah County, Miss. Surely
the people are more interested in inqnir-
ing whether the diplomatic Offices of the
are made the reward for
money supplied ito corrupt the ballot
box, whether the officers of justice are
bribed to let public robbers go free and
our Federal Courts, marshal
ships and commissionerships are filled
with thieves, than it is to ascertain
negroes or white men were
drunk when they commenced the Dan
vile fght.-N. 7. World. s iesst:t@
The other night, at Hampstead, L.
l.. at a social party wealthy widower.
Valentine, was notified by q
pretty young lady, Miss Annie jackson,
thati was leap-year, and that if . lady
asked him to marry her. he would nave
to do it Or buy her a dress. He sensed
the situation, told her to put on her
bonnet and cloak, and they drove to
Roslyn and were married. = rOoklyn
Union. : aa*sa sit isl5.:5 q e> 3G
DIR. George Englemann, the ST.
Louis botanist,, made notes of the
weather several times . day for period
Of forty years. Recently he
finished pamphlet on the meteorology
Of that part of the Mississippi Valley.
The day a. ter it was returned from the
printer DR.. Englemann died. He was
known in scientific circles throughout
the world. -St. Louis Post.
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