Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-12-24
SENATOR VEST AND HIS TRADU.

lily z NlleiepTeSent oeildtoi rest III
This is confined to three classes. LIST, T
he chronic grumbler and fauit-finder, "
Who never sees anything good in any r.
hing which is not a component part T
IF himself. 2nd, q small remnant OF 7
,ppositions to him for his present U
position which has been nursed III 7
till it has developed into i'll =
viii, malice and rancOr, of the most I,
vexatious and coutemptuOus sort. t
5rd, the disappointed applicant for {
favors under the present a~dmlnlstra-
whose exceeding slender ablll- :
ties have not entitled them to any ,
recognition from the Missouri dele
CATION, whose duty it is to mdorse
applicants for such favorS. Ii is the
duty of the press to keep the public
informed as to the conduct OF its
public servants, but when it desccnds
to reckless and malicious SANDER this
duty is abused, its ends perverted
and an i~ncalculable amount of mis-
chief done. Were it always known
just what actuates this vituperation
and rancorous criticism it would not
become necessary to disclose what is
at the bottom of it, nor to put a stop
to it for it would then, as the snake
which bites itself, die of its own
poison.
Their professions Of support to
the administration and purity in Of
fee are simply a ~hypocrlticsl howl
and are belied by their every utter
ance. Were their numbers as great
| as their falsehoods, they would bring
more disgrace upon the Democratic
party than they are capable of charGs-
ing to the conduct of Senator Vest
and his machine" They accuse
him of engaging in office brokerage
and using his influence with the adj
ministration to procure the appoint
ment of corrupt and dishonest men
to office. Yet, outside of their bold
and naked assertions, nothing exists
to prove it. They say that Col. Joe
Hickey is there and he and Senator
Vest are controlling Missouri APP
pointments. We have it from a reli-
able and direct ource ''that such
charge is absolutely false; that Col.
Hickey was absent from Washington
the whole of last summer and has
never addressed Senator Vest in any
way as to any appointment
Some of these Vest-abusing papers,
in writing of the recent debate in the
Senate on the rule excluding whisky
J from the Capital, have sought to gar
BILE his remarks and place him or
the side of whisky, when in fact he
only denounced the proposed rule AZ
countenancing espionage and as q
n Epiece of hypocrisy. He wished tc
Y have the rule so amended as to pun
ish senators as we'll as the humble
employees of the senate and voted t.
have the rule so amended as to punisl
the former as well as the latter.
In order that there may be Ii
further credit given to the fails,
4 statements made as to his remarks IL
that debate we give them below a
k taken from the Congressional Record
They are as follows:
"A1r. VEST. I wish to say a wort
on the amendment. | have no com
" mittee-room and have no persona
n interest in this matter but there i
one thing in this rule which L hav,
always opposed, and that is the sys
l. TEN Of espionage, of informers
q which seems to be embraced with,
the provisions of this thirteenth rule
Every Senator here knows very wei
that his clerk or his doorkeeper VIII
er sees Understanding the case to exis
with a jug Or a bottle or a flask il
his committee-room, under the pre-
visions of this rule must inform upo
him, or he will be put out of office
" We know that Will not be done, an
;, we know no Senator would tolerat
it. If this rule Is enacted ther
'e ought to be an amendment to it tbs
any member of either House or an
:, emp,oye who connived at keepin:
: liquor in the Capitol should be e,
y PEELED. Let us apply it to Senator
is and Representatives, and do not lie
us, if we propose to go into wholesal
. prohibition, put it OIL the humble en-
Is ployes of the Senate and escape on.
i'll selves. We know very we'll that an
v Senator who wants alcoholic stint
. lants in his committeeman will hay
them and we know that he would il
G. fict the ~severest punishment with
lie his power on any appointec of h
who would inform on him. All
ask is that equal justice shall
melted out to all. I am opposed m,
self to the spirit of the whole thin:
al [ believe that it will do no good ;th,
-, it encourages hypocrisy, and that it
simply an attempt of which no Sen;
he tor would he guilty. 1t is tamperir
be to a fanatical spirit in the country c
this question, to which l for one wi
never give my counsel
Immediately after these remarl
Senator Cockrell offered an amen
ment in accordance with Senat
., Vests suggestions.
We are unable to keep our reade