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

CIANS.
No wonder Republican politicians grow
rich. Every pretext is used to make the
government pay personal expenses.
For instance, 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
troller 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 special train to
Geneva, adding that nothing short Of per-
emptory order from the President could
authorize such a 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 constituencies
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-bsggers 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 it
broke his heart and he grieved himself to
death. This came of being outside the
grand old party, which has perquisites for its
faithful servitors in the enticing guise OF
government bonds, national bank shares
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 financiers 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
hsrence right along. 1t certainly pays &c
be Window and Blaine, and it pays to be
big party organ like the New York Tribune,
foundered by stock jobbers, when four year:
ago, according to the statement made by the
rashly indiscreet Dorsey, it was paid $40, OOC
by the Republican campaign committee. L
admitted receiving the money, defending il
as business transaction, just as it is nov
defending the Fisher-C Caldwell Mulligan.
Blaine matters as ''private business transae
TONS" as if such quadrilature of roguery
was an every DAY episode.
Public men and leading newspapers of tn,
grand old party have yitiated the hones
sentiment of its adherents until they hav,
come to regard all sorts of crookedness a.
iustifable in some way, and vote blindly fo
it with rank partisanship tainted beyond
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