Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-19
TURN THE RAsoALs OUT.

Ever since the uemocrhuc aomlnlhlrs-
tion took hold Of the rslns of govern.
ment the spolls- hunting bourbons have
been shouting, "Turn the rascals out. ="
In nearly every democrats newspaper
the word rascal was made synonym for
q republican office.holder. Whenever a
republican was superseded By democrat
startling headlInes were used to inform
the public that another rascal had been
turned out. No matter how excellent a
record bad been made by the republican
office-holder, he was almost Invariably
branded as a rascal. Even when A, U.
wyman, than whom moro honest man
does not exist, resigned from the treas.
urership of the United States, and
his accounts were found straight, even to
one cent, although he had been the Gus
todlau of millions upon millions Of money,
the Denver Ne,US referred to him as
"Another rascal turned out"
But the rascal business has become a
little mouotonous. VIII some demo
cratic statisticlan please inform us just
how many raacals, In the literal sense OF
the word, have been discovered In the
great army of republican ofice-holderli
It Is true that here and there rascslly
office.holder has BEEN found, but the per-
centage of rasclls among the republican
Office holders Is about fifty times smaller
than 1t Is among democratic office.
seekers. Since this fact rs becoming
pretty generally known and proven we
hear less and less of the spoils-hunters'
war cry: "Turn the ra'csls outl"
Hardly dsy now pavses without the
discovery Of horse-thlef, an embezSler,
murderer, an ex.convlct, 6runksrd
or q totally unfit or Objectionable person
among the federal appointments made By
the democratic administration. There
was Meier, who was credited to Colorado,
and appoln ed to foreign bsrth, 1t was
soon discovered that he was drunken
hummer and dilreputable man In every
respect. There was Judd, also of Colors-
do, who Is q self-confeased horse
thief, and now in jail. The
recently appointed postmaster at Lincoln
Center, Maine, is an embszzler, and was
prevented from entering upon the dis.
charge of his official duties by the bars of
the jail in which he is confined. Meade,
who was appointed postmaster at Hazel
hurst, Mississippi. was participant in
the murder of Mathews at that place.
A newly appointed postmast ar in an Iowa
town has been proved to be an ex. convict.
Two recent federal appoin |ees In Cinoin-
natl are known to have served two terms
for crime, one In the Workhouse
and the other In the penitentisry.
Even the president has charged that enc
of the federal judges appointed by him is
totally unfit person, highly recon-
merded to him by influential politicians.
And now comes Mr.. Exum Saint, Of
Indianapolis, who has been named for a
position In the pepoion bureau servics.
Investigation shows that Mr.. Saint Is far
from being a saint, and that he has an
Indictment hanging over hls head In the
United States dlstrict court. We ven
ture to say that if the records of oil the
democratic appoiutees were carefully
searched it would bs found that the list
of rascals would be hundred times
longer than that which could be made up
with the names of republican raacals. tits
true that the administration has been I'M
posed upon by petitions, politicians, and
spoils hunters, but nevertheless the dem.
ocratlc party Is responsible for the impo-
sitions that have biea practlcsd. Tho
exposure of democ catlc rascals has had
the effect of cau,ing cessation OF the
.tsreotyped daily exclamation, "Turn the
rascals out" Before it la again applied
to republicans, we hope the respectable
democrats will weed out the rasca $ from
among their own ofice-seekiDg ranks.
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