Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1884-10-07
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Our esteemed contemporary, the
San Francisco Chronicle, has started
in to traverse the damaging arraign-
ments OF its party on the ground OF
long continued and phenomenal cor
ruptions made by the Democratic can
didate for Vice-President. 1t does
this just about the time Republican
administration has failed to convict
Republican Star Route thieves who
have confessedly stolen four million
dollars Of the peoples money, while
this same Republican administration
has doled out $l57 900 in fees to its
lawyer cronies as counsel in these
cases for doing the work which Beau
BREWSTER was paid to do. 1t is not
ashamed to do this Notwithstanding
the long record of malversation and
peculation which was illustrated by
such shining exemplars Of Republican
honesty as Bclknap, Robson, Boss
Hessing and other worthless whom
Grant shielded from the disagreeable
clangor OF closing penitentiary doors.
This remarkable succession OF Repub-
lican transgressions, many of which
We're infinitely detailed in the Chroni-
Gle, ought, one would think, to have
deferred it from its brazen course.
Nevertheless, in its issue OF Oct. 4th,
it says;
A morning contemporary OF the
Democratic persuasion has of late had
u good deal TO say, in loose and
vague way, about Republican exrav-
agance in connection with the navy,
and, with great impudence, consider
ing the source, initiates the old rebel
sympathizer, Hendricks, in demand
for show OF the Federal books. The
broad intimation is that somebody
has been keeping false and fraudulent
accounts and that part OF the reve-
nues has been diverted to the private
use of officials. The proper answer
to all such demagogic insinuations is
that, ever since the year 1875, with
the exception OF two years, the lower
branch OF Congress- has been con-
trolled by the Democrats; that this
House has standing committees, whose
business it is to investigate the expen-
ditures of all the Federal departments
that the majority of each of these
committees has, with the exception OF
two years, been Democratic for the
last nine years, and that in all their
most elaborate and fussy investiga-
tons in all these years they have dis
covered nothing on the part of any
one OF these heads of departments to
call for his impeachment, or on the
part of any subordinate that has war
ranted Il charge of larceny or pecula-
ton to call for his removal or prose-
cution.
No one knows better than this wri-
ter in the Chronicle how hard il is for
a committee OF Congress to find out
the shortcomings OF department.
Entrenched behind their ledgers,
which they have deity filled with
false entries, the truth about Republi-
can officials can only be found out
when ii is their interest to turn States
evidence, and that can only be when
the Democrats or or some other con-
testing party shall get into power As
a case in point, take that OF the late
Republican Harbor Commissioners
and the Commissioner OF Immigra-
ton, Bunker, in this State Every
thing was lovely until we elected an
honest Democratic Controller, in the
person OF Mr.. Dunn. From the mo-
ment that official got control OF the
books defalcation after defalcation was
discovered. Every department of the
State government, including the San
Quentin prison, was found to be reek-
ing with corruption. On the strength
OF the discoveries made possible when
Democratic Board of Harbor Com
missioners took hold, the Republican
Secretary of the Harbor Commission
is now in the Penitentiary as the re-
suit OF a verdict of his peers, one of
the Commissioners committed suicide,
while Bunker sits on his swag and
laughs at justice, shielding himself
behind technicality from making
restitution to the State. Who is un-
sophisticated enough to believe that
the people would ever have got hint
OF these enormities il the Democracy
had not rooted the occupants Of the