Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-09-10


J, v. Fowler. Postmaster, New ,,u .r
B. c. Sanders, Collector, San Fran 1885,,
P. NJ Whitmore, Navy AGENT. $1,000 90
James Lee, Quartermaster. ........ 6S,SS o4 W
c. E. Irwin, Quartermaster. ........ os,ooo w
Jacob Thompson, Secretary or In or, ooo M |
]. ?. Crutohiield, depositary 6s,O6O %
mint . ........................... 15s.ss7 oa
J. A. Guirot. treasurer branch ~
mint, New Orleans..... oos' 100 10
In 1876 Mr.. Davis, of West Virginia,
offered resolution in the Senate call
ing upon the Secretary OF the treasury
and including the years 1861 and 1875,
with a view of using it against the Re-
publicans in the campaign OF the latter
wear. Senator Sherman offered an
amendment to make the report cover
prior Democratic administrations, be-
ginning with the year 1880. The
amendment was adopted and the reso-
luton so amended passed. The result
was a VOluminOus report covering many
hundred pages and containing great
deal of mighty interesting reading.
Only a very general statement com.
piled from the report was printed, but
the vast column of names and ohclai
figures never saw the light OF day. IL
is scarcely necessary to say that the re-
port was never circulated by the DEM
Ocratic Campaign Committee. II Is
said that in 1880 it was proposed by
certain Democratic leapers to resurrect
this report and use it as campaign am
munition in Ohio, but the movement
was promptly stopped by Senator PEN
dleton. who knew all about the report.
A gentleman who had access to the re-
port at the time it was presented othe
Senate, and made copiOuS extracts from
it 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 falr-mlnded
men to look into the matter and see
which of the two great political paFtless
of the country stand most in need or
reform. While doing the stealing them
selves the Democrats have always from
| the first been ready to charge corrup-
ton and stealing upon their opponents.
| They shout stop thief" to cover up the
| rascalities of their own thieving Off
Gals. They below for reform always
| when out of office. Terribly and fear
I fully corrupt themselves, they natur-
ally suspect all the others of dishon..
! esty. 1t would be well for these self
| righteous Democrats to take a retro
spective glance at the
| PAST HISTORY OF THEIR PARTY
while in power, going back, for in
| stance. to the palmy days of Jackson.
| The defalcatiOn of Samuel SWartWOut,
| Collector of Customs at New YORK,
under President Jackson's admlnlstra-
| ton, according to reports OF commit
tees to the Twenty-tifth Congress, sec
Ond session. No. 212, amounted to the
sum of 81, 224 ,7O5; Jesse Hoyt, Swart-
wout's successor, from 1888 to 1S4f, fol-
lowed the example of his illustrlous
predecessor, and stole from the govern
ment S24S, ST., and, like SwartWout,
was allowed to go scot free: Here,
then, is the sum of 81 ,474 SIT stolen
from the government by two. Demo
cratic officials. under Democratic RUE.
Following along down through the
different new administrations from the
first term of Andrew Jackson to the
end of the most corrupt and thleVlng
administration of James Buchanan, 1t
will be seen that stealing was the order
I of the day in all departments OF the
| government, in verificatiOn Of which a
partial list of Democratic plunderers IS
given below, the Office they held and
the amount stolen by each:
| Iames RrooEs Purser in Nayy. SO, 66t
| p. A. Southall. PurSer in NaVy........ ~ 90
| b. F. Brown, Purser in NaVy.......... % 90;
! Joseph Colston, Purser in Navy....... IS, ~!
r. R! Crum. Ouartermaster.. ....... 294, ~
7. G. Morgan, Collector Customs New
Orleans. 1928
sob M HfMaPs fension Hsaet
Luther Blake, Indian Agent. 1873
r. d. C. Cotton, Indian Agent. ........ 6S,S7
W. H. Ker, Postmaster, New Orleans. $3.50
]. Rutter, Postmaster, Sacramento, - ou
S. F. Marks, Postmaster, New Orleans i7,3i
VIM. A. Linn Collector Customs, ST.
LOUIS. EU,4u
The above, including the SWartwou
S5,571 ,273. This fearful indictmen
ought to be enough to settle all preten
sions of the Democratic party to any
thing like honesty. If they stole at th'
l above rate with the comparatively linn
tied resources of the government a
: that time, what would they do now i
they were again placed in power
Take, for example, the SwartWout case
A defalcatiOn in those days and unde
the circumstances of 81, 225, GOO woult
be equal to about SIC, 100000 now con
sidering the difference in the revenue
! of the port of New York in 1880 and il
7 1884. In view of the above facts ant
the failure of the Democracy to maxi
good the charge of corruption agains
l the Republican party, and the positive
evidence on record of Democratic
knavery and dishonesty, candid ant
honest public men of all parties shoult
unite in depreciation of such a part.
and cast their votes and influence fo
, ways been honest, and whose glorious
record stands out in such striking con
J trast with the overwhelming and IRE
futable evidence of Democratic dishon
esty.
Z CELTIC SENTIMENT.