The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-05-25
a"e %" MONROE, LOUISIANA, SATURDAY, MAY Is, 1889.

NAY Is, !.
southern Democracy, the Inter ocea,
says: -'' '''' '' '-''l
. isLet US tell the Daily States ssme
thing = We have men who arc Willing
to bribe and men who are. willing 4
be bribed in, the North. We watct
them and we catch them; we imprlsor
them. BY this means briberyis made
to play very trifiing part In oar cleo.
lons.'''ai "sr,i Yi4 sai sa,o9isu - at'
The confession Of the LATER. Ocean
that, while bulldozing il the evil In
Southern Democratic practices, and
bribery, the vicious princfpie Ia North.
eru Republican politics. b truthful and
accepted az the standard by which the
methods Of the, two must be judged.
But 1t is silly for that really able jour.
nal 10 attempt, as It does In the fore
going quotation from tite cOlumns, to
dwarf thag tremendous proportions to
which systematic bribery has been
carried by its party, and, to pretend
that, because a few Doodle aldermen
and H Democratic bsllot-box stp6er
here aud there. have been convicted,
bribery, the most degrading and de-
testable of all crimes in free country,
il punished and suppressed tn the
North. Indeed, so far from such
being the case, the present Republi-
eau administration, a. absolutely 90 -
was that of Hayes, Il founded on q
gigantic scheme of bribery; aud so far
from any Of the bribers being impris.
oood lfhroo f,,. eNks ~ q h . IA .nn ~ eph \.
President has been devoted 20 rewards
ing them with the Il rnost Lucrative
offices, in the most exalted positions, In
the Republio and. the, ,Hsrrison admin.
istraticn presents the dissusting spectas
Gle Of scantinontous personal piety
linked with brazsn-faced public de-
of the civil service = Prssi-
dent ton rig ghte0usi to travel on Sunday,
yet rewardtng with, honors and Offices
the scheiners, who secured hts election
by notorious bribery and the purchase
Of the notes and souls Of enough of the
human cattle that inhabit Indiana aud
New York to secure his election.
80 Tie existence of the Harrison admiu-
istration to-day indicates the magnt-
tuds To- which bribery has been carried
by the Northern, Republicans in con-
trolling elections '"f i' "'''7''. -,
But, says the I-O., twe watch them,
(the bribers), and we imprison them"
And this tho I.-O. asserts in face of the
fact that Wanamaker, the Post Master
General, in the late campaign, raised the
largest corruption or bribery fund that
was ever. gathered together by any
one tnan before. him /; Ia faceof the fact
that Clarksop, First Assistant II. NJ G.,
in the interest OF Harrison's election,
engineered a burglary that ought to
have sent him to the penitentiary; In
face of the fact that John jarrett, the
ideal of o briber and c0rruptlonist, has
just been promoted to u fat consulship
in England; in face of the fact that
Quay, who has done more to debauch
Am erican politics than any man Of his
day, is the head Of the Republican
party, that "Blocks OF Five" Dudley
is in the full enjoyment of his liberty,
and the confidence and honors of his
party, and that Judge Wood who
opened IL way for him to Escape the
peuitenliayy, is quite likely to be re-
warded with the seat on the Supreme
Beach Of the United States, vacated
by tho death OF Stanley Matthews,
" no had himself been appointed to il
as a reward for his services In stealing
the electoral vote of Louisiana In 1877.
And these are only few Of the most
conspicuous examples Of the manner
in which the Northern Republicans
are, according to the 10, watching
and imprisoniug their bribers. sh
1t was lruihfully said by one of the
great statesman and philosophers Of
England, that s'the great thieves
(neaning hribers and corruptionisls)
of the nation do more, and less repara.
bic, mischief, by the practices they In
troduce and the examples they set,
than by the actual robberies they COM
mit;" and concedlng, as we do, that
bulldczing exists in the South as an
extra-judicial preventive of the con.
tamination OF our civilization, and
knowing, as we do, that bribery is the
common, open, and most powerful po.
litical device of the North Republican
party, we do not hesitate to say, that
the stealing OF the Presidency In 1877,
and the corrupt practices, by the whole
sale employment of which Harrison
was elected in 1888, have done more to
demoraiize American politics, aud
have struck more serious blow at the
life of free institutions, than the reck-
less slaughter by the bulldozsrs Of the
whole negro race in the South would
have done. ,.. I'D
Let us tell the Inter Ocean some-
thing: Every step OF mankind from
n, rhur lam pr tvrapux, IN war ri ri uffi1u