St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-09-27
BENEFIT OF REPUBLICAN POLITE
CLANS

No wonder Republican politicians grow
rich. Every pretext is used to make the
government pay personal expenses.
For instance, a number of persons in the
treasury and other departments wished to at
tend the funeral of Secretary Folger, and
pay their expenses out of the contingent
fund. The assistant secretary received the
suggestion with extreme disfavor, but Comp
trolier Lawrence decided that the expendi-
ture might be properly charged to miscel-
laneous appropriation, and intimated that If
the assistant secretary wrote to him for in
formation he should so advise him. But the
obstinate assistant secretary decided beyond
any further persuasion that his position did
not warrant him in expanding 500 Of pub
lie money in chartering a special train to
Geneva, adding that nothing short Of per-
emptory order from the President could
authorize such draft on the United States
Treasury.
In view of similar revelations
from time to time it is easy to see how so
many Republicans are rich at the expense of
the country which they serve with such pat
riotic protestation of disinterested devotion.
The survivors of the families of many public
men in the not altogether remote past, are
poor almost to Indulgence, because those pub
lie men were not so thrifty in railroad bonds
and Credit Mobilier legislation as those of a
later and more speculative day. The Sher-
mans. the Camerons, the Blaines, the Win
doms, and the Grants have all been very
careful, saving men on small salaries-and
their example is full of food for thought out
side the grand old party where such results
are too common to be thought of at all.
The New York Tribune once printed a
statement concerning General Lee which is
worth reading 1t shows that sensitiveness
may be pushed to Quixotic self abnegation,
and even to literal self sacrifice.
When this traitor saw strangers leading the
negroes, and some of his own soldiers and
officers rivalling the carpet-baggers in bid
ding for the negro support, and the old fami-
lies becoming so poor that the boys coming
to his college could hardly raise the money
to pay their scant bills, his physician said II
broke his heart and he grieved himself tc
death. This came of being outside the
grand old party, which has perquisites for its
faithful servitors in the enticing guse oil
government bonds. national bank share:
and railroad stocks, not to speak of ''name
and influence to be used as capital in get
! ting government contracts through the
adroit agency of fnanciers like the sophisti
Gated Mr.. James D. Fish, who could use them
/ TO such profitable advantage.
Poor Republican leaders are scarce
| Thrift follows prominent party adj
h.rence right along. 1t certainly paws t.
I be Window and Blaine, and it pays to bt
big party organ like the New York Tribsp,e
foundered by stock jobbers, when four year.
ago, according to the statement made by th,
rashly indiscreet Dorsey, it was paid $40, 00C
by the Republican campaign committee. 1
admitted receiving the money, defending i
as business transaction, = just as it ia nov
| defending the Fisher Caldwell Mulligan
Blaine matters as ''private business transae
TONS" as if such quadrilature OF roguer,
was an every DAY episode.
/ Public men and leading newspapers Of tn,
grand old party have vitiated the homes
sentiment of its adherents until they hay,
come to regard all sorts of erookedness q.
| justifable in some way, and vote blindly FOL
/ it with rank psrtisanship tainted beyond
saving