Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-31

d;stant coast, holding all officials in
their mower. Out. Robssoning Robson
and out. Belknaping Belknap, it held it's
sure and undisputed sway. With a
firm but careful hand its operations
we're skilfully concealed.
LIKE PROFESSIONAL THIEVES.
Said the Louisville Courier Jonrnal :
III Sargent receives the caucus nomi-
nation OF his party for reelection to the
Senate, the men who indorse him will
simply be lost to shame. Sargent has
been running the Mare Island Navy
Yard, among other Government institu-
tions on the coast, exclusively Tor his
own benefit, and his appointees have
been men who were more like profess
sional thieves than anything else.
HRC CAUSED THE PARTy's DEFEAT.
The Springfield (Mass.) Republican
said, on the Slh of September. 1877:
The attempt to punish the San Fran
cisco Chronicle for its savage onslsughts
on senator Sargent and his associate
bosses has come to an unsuc-
cessful conclusion. Mr..
Hayes would have swept California at
this election by several times the major
ity be had last fall. His administration
8 ems to have been defeated now be-
because it was represented by Sargent,
and Sargent was backed by Sherman.
PoETIC JUSTICE.
Speaking of the certainty that Sar-
gent would not be renominated to the
Senate, the st. Louis Repa6ticaR said,
on the llth of September. 1887:
He has filled the position with much
less honor than ability He is not a
brilliant man, but is perhaps little
more than smart one, so that il he had
been a more scrupulous politician he
might, by the weight of his personal
influence, have delayed the downfall OF
his party upon the Pacific coast. He
has, instead, contributed more to Its
damage than any other one man, and
there is. therefore, somewhat OF poetic
iustice in the fact that he is the first
notable victim of his own misconduct.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR DROPS HIM.
In December, 1851, and January, lSS2,
there was report that MIR. Arthur de-
signed appointing Sargent Secretary OF
the Interior, which called forth such a
storm of indignant protests from press
and people OF all parties that Sargent s
name was dropped in haste from the list
of eligibles. Before it was known that
Arthur had decided not to give the ap-
continent to the tool of the land grab.
bers, the railroad corporation and the
Federal ring, the Detroit Free Press
said, on the Slh of January, lSs2:
Obiec tionable as many of President
Arthur's appointments have been, on one
score or another. there is no one OF them
which has been or can be condemned as
the appointment of Sargent will be II he
persists in making it.
OPINION OF s'HARPER's WEEKLY"
Harpers Weekly of the 2Sth of the
same month says:
All the unpleasant stories about Mr..
Sargen,'s public career may be suscepti-
BILE of satisfactory explanations. The
scandals of the Navy Pay Office in San
Francisco and the statements IN regard
to it made before the investigating com.
mittee at the kittery Navy Yard; the
trick of the "tape.worm tickets, as they
were called, which resulted in law re.
curing uniform ballots, the mysteries
of the desert land act, the advocacy OF
the gift of Goat island, in the harbor OF
San Francisco, to the Central Pacific
Railroad, for which he was burned in
efiigy-all these things may be explained.
But what public necessity can there be
for calling into the cabinet gentleman
for whom such explanations will be i'm
peratively required, and of whose pub.
lie career these are the only incidents
which are remembered?
A CURIOUS REPUTATION.
In its comments on the proposed ap-
pointment the Chicago Tribune said:
Mr.. Sargent has curious reputation.
He is known chiefly as the author of the
Desert LAID act and the Inventor OF the
tapeworm ballot.
FRIEND OF BOSS SHEPARD.
Said the Providence (R. l. Star on the
3lst of December. 1881, speaking OF Sar-
gent:
As a member of the House of Repre-
sentatives and of the Senate he was
conspicuous friend of the notorious Dis
trict of Columbia ring when Boss Shep-
ard was at the head of it, and he was ac-
tive in naval affairs at a time when the
most questionable transactions IN that
department took place and the greatest
extravagances were indulged in.
THE LAND GRABBERs' ALLY.
The Boston Globe expressed its lack of
confidence in Sargent on the l4th of
January, 1882, in the following language:
The reputation of Senator Sargent is
not such as iustities the reposiDg IN him
of an important public trust. \ He
was ever the friend and faithful ally OF
the land grabbers, who have robbed the
lDe0u!e cs millions of acres of land. His
support of the back-salary grab, the
Credit. Mobilier swindle, the audacious
demands of the Central Pacific-all mark
him as a man not to be trusted.
The foregoing are but brief excerpts
from articles of the same tenor which
would, if given in full, fill pages OF the
Chronicle, and they show that this paper
is but one among the multitude OF re.
spected and influential journals which
regard Aaron A, Sargent as an untrust,
worthy, improper person to sit In the
halls Of national legislation, the consist
ent friend and defender of every iniqui-
tous scheme to rob the public treasury
for the benefit of political bosses and the
servile tool of the railroad corporation
and the land grabbers.-San Francisco
Chronicle (Rep.).
nrrss Wind len lion.