The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-09-23

eign service with incapable men to
oblige unworthy interests. He sent
Miner to Central America, and kept him
there long after the country had given
expression to its disgust and humiliation
with the conduct Of an American min
lister who, in the interest Of specula-
tive syndicate, sacrificed the honor of
the nation and the flag.
He sent Egan and McCreery to Chill,
with results grievously hurtful both to
the good name and to the commercial
interests of the country.
To Wanamaker he has added Elkins
as a cabinet officer-Elkins, political
adventurer and speculator, who had
grown rich out Of politics without hav-
ing won respect enough anywhere to
make his name suggestive even of pos
sibilities in connection with honorable
office. He made Porter the superin-
tendent of the census, knowing him to
be an already discredited manipulation
of statistics, foreign adventurer desti-
tute Of convictions and in search of
market for his peculiar abilities, q man
at that very time conducting business as
a vulgar wine tout in combination with
politics, and ready to placard his adver-
tisements in the executive mansion it.
self. He permitted this man to falsify
the census Of great states by way Of rob-
bing them Of their jnst representation
and thus increasing the chances of that
party's success to whose service he had
hired himself
1t is sad and shameful story of pledges
broken; of fiscal legislation bartered for
campaign funds; of elections secured by
the purchase of voters; of high Office
made the subject of vulgar traffic; of
the public service, including the most
honorable places, prostituted to the pro-
motion of the presidents personal ambi-
tons; of a court converted into sanctu-
ary for the protection of scoundrel; Of
judicial subserviency rewarded with
high judicial place; of debate suppressed
in congress; of surplus squandered,
and Of the enormous increase Of the peo-
pies tax burdens that the proceeds
might fow into the Golfers of favored
monopolists willing to share their spoil
with the political organization that
luduG It's COIl6CtlOu IOSSLDlS'
1t is a grievous indictment that is here
made, but it is perfectly true and it Gov
ers but part Of the truth. The speci-
fcations will come later The facts will
be given upon which every accusation
rests. The whole record will be laid
bare-that record which the people by
their votes in November are to approve
or condemn.
And this is not mere recalling of old
errors-a recurrence of offenses repented
of. The courses that condemn this ad-
| ministration have been continuous.
Raum is still at the head of the pension
bureau, and that bureau is not reformed
or purified. Marshal Airey still holds
Office in Baltimore, Notwithstanding
Commissioner Roosevelt's report as to
his organization of the postoffice and Gus
tom house employees there into band
| of political rufians, his use of them to
| carry primaries in the administrations
interest by wholesale cheating and by
actual physical violence in which he
personally participated.
Neither he nor Postmaster johnson
nor any of their subordinates have been
removed, though their conduct was fully
| set forth and their removal strongly
urged by Mr.. Roosevelt, Republican
member of the civil service commission;
| though some of them, according to Mr..
Roosevelt's report, deliberately testified
to lies; though many Of them openly
confessed to cheating; though all of
them set at naught the law against po-
litical assessments, and though they ali
professed with more or less of candor
the creed Of lying, cheating and ballot
box stuffing which the testimony showed
that they had practiced.
| These men who, as one of them put it
in his testimony, believed sin doing any
thing to win," are still in Office by grace
of Mr.. Wacamaker's favor and Mr..
Harrisons neglect of duty. And they
still constitute the administration ma
chine in Baltimore and Maryland pol.
itics.
In brief, the administration is what it
has been. 1t profits still by the prac-
tees for which honest men in both par
ties have condemned it in the past. II
protects its scoundrels and law breakers.
1t keeps them in Office. 1t uses them in
politics. 1t sanctions their creeds and
their performances. 1t sent them and
such as them to Minneapolis to nom.
mate Mr.. Harrison for second term in
spite of any desire the Republican party
might have for some other candidate.
1t still looks to the monopolies il has
fostered for the money with which tc
carry the election. In their behalf ii
has not only made laws, but has neg.
lected and refused to enforce such laws
as there are on the statute books ad
verse to them. The coal conspiracy has
been formed during this administration
Without let or hindrance it has levied a
tribute upon the people in face of the
antitrust law. That law makes it the
imperative duty of the attorney general
through the district attorneys, to bring
criminal prosecutions against all the
conspirators; but no district attorney
has moved, and the attorney general
weakly protests that he has no informa,
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