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mONDAx, SEPTEMBER 3, 1859.
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Henry Cabot Lodge is Congressman
from one of the Boston districts of the
old Bay State. Mr.. Lodge is man of
culture of the most Bostonisn type. He
has enjoyed the reputation OF being a
man of high character. This Massa-
chusetts Congressman has posed with
some little ostentation as man of broad
and varied learning, and he has aimed
to earn the reputation of being states
man rather than politician. The mere
partisan who preferred party to country
he has affected to despise with very
high-bred contempt. And all of these
pretensions Mr.. Lodge mas generally sus-
tanned by his actions. These aims he
has in some degree reached, these am
billions realized. But at this present
time he is much in danger of undoing all
his lifs has done in these respects. Nor
is this to be wondered at, all things con-
sidered. The present Republican ad-
ADMINISTRATION is very much like the Irish
mans punch, queer bundle of contra
dictions. Mr.. Harrison's high moral
character had much to do with his elect
ion. A great host of good people who
had the welfare of their country alone at
heart voted for the Indianapolis
Deacon in the hope of elevating
the politics of their country on to
a higher plane, and of giving the Re.
public clean, honest, dignifed admin
istration. Yet in spite of this popular
impression of the Republican candidate,
no campaign since the foundation of this
Government was ever conducted by a
more graceless set of political "scsla-
wags" aud no election was ever COM
passed by more fragrant, shameless,
and corrupt use of m oney. When all is
said and all discounts made fer free
trade, protection, and what not the one
thing which above all others defeated
Grover Cleveland was the immense
amount of "boodle" put into the canvass
where ii, did most good. And by another
anomalous circumstance the biggest con-
tribution made to this corruption fund
came through the hands, and was col
lected by the active agency Of the other
pious politician, Deacon John Wanna
maker, of "Cheap-John" overalls fame,
he of Philadelphia.
Another phase of the Harrison cam
paign was the detection of many of the
mugwumps who saw in Cleveland
broken idol, and made of Harrison a
new god. Yet Harrison's little finger
has been heavier in breaking down the
restraints Of civil service reform, than all
of Cleyeland's tremendous adipose.
So instead OF the broad craftsmanship
one would expect from men of the Cabot
Lodge stripe, and instead of the high
tone one might hope from the presen ce
of so pure man as Harrison at the
head of affairs, we find Corporal"
Tanner, of leather lungs and braz en-
tongue, running the pension bureau with
an eye single-to what? To the comfort,
good name and fame of the honest
soldier, to whom a grateful nation is
glad to pay any tribute? Not a bit of it,
but to the squandsring of the nationa
revenue, the taxpayers money, in all
extravagant ways on all sorts of most
worthless pretenders to the name of
soldier! And for what?. To gain vote
by fair means or foul for the Republican
party. So that we may find men like
Congressman Flood, OF Elmira, New
York, threatening to resign his
seat and allow Democrat to !
be returned in his place i'll
Tanner is not officially decapitated; and
the New York Tribune, whose political
swallow is 80 wide that Republican |
camel would not make it gag, says it
cannot justify Tanners methods. Yet
the doughty Corporal is not only retained
in place. but pure Mr.. Harrison fully in
dorses Tanners programme from to
lizard thereof. So to the utmost limits
one might 60 on and show the inconsis-
tency of this Administration, the infinite
distance which performance falls short of
promise, the impossible gulf that lies
between pre- election expectation and
post-elecsion realization.
Why then wonder that Statesman
Lodge, of the Old Bay State, in spite of
all his broad and varied learning, of all
his finished culture, and of all his pre-
tense to statesmanship, is hurried along
in this vortex OF the lowest OF politics,
this whirl o. the narrowest of partisan
policy, and made mere politician, the
ready and willing tool of his party,
and particeps crinsinis with the party in
all its low ends and selfish ambitions ?
His latest exploit in the line of govern
ment demonstrates that he has become
tainted to the core with the worst prin-
ciples OF Quayism, with the lowest ele-
ments of Dorseyism, with the most
nypocritical canting Of Wanamaker's
political creed.
Mr.. Lodges last exploit is carefully Ii
prepared paper on the Rules Of the