Evening journal., 1892-10-08
is HARRISON A HuMBuei
His Professions and His Works Woul'
Seem to Prove 1t.

Hendricks club. indianapolis, on Septem-
tember "A, said Again, descending to
smaller matters, l ask why the president,
during the first year of his service,
appointed and secured the confirmation
of Ex-Governor Warmoth, Of Louisiana
as collector of the port of New Orleans.
The present generation is not familiar
with his disgraceful career from 1868 to
1872, but the president was not ignorant
of it. He sinned against light and
knowledge and insulted public decency
in thus honoring a man who had made
merchandise of his conscience and self
respect. Why should religious presi-
dent thus turn his back upon the great
moralities of life by so shameless a fell
lowship with official greed and political
corruption
"And why did he appoint William r.
Leeds last year as Marshal of the Eastern
district of Pennsylvania He had been
the tool of Quay in Philadelphia and the
leader of the most corrupt ring ever
known in that city, and he had been re-
pudiated by his own party by an over
whelming majority few years before as
a candidate for sheriff And who is Mat
thew S. Quay, who stood behind him
and so long ruled the Republican party Of
the slater He has a national reputation
as an embezzler and thief, and has been
openly charged with penitentiary offenses
by the best Republicans in Pennsylvania,
who have offered to prove the charge if
allowed to do so in an action for criminal
libel.
"Yet the president turned over the
Federal patronage of the state for years
TO his control. In his recent speech at
Saratoga he said: 1--WE must insist that
the morality of the ten commandments
shall be instilled. But why instill the
morality of these commandments if the
president of the United States, and the
most religious man who ever reached his
exalted position, makes his bed with
men who trample them under foot2
II have already referred te General
Clarkson, who ran the Post Office guillo-
tine with such remarkable vigor during
his term of service, without any protest
! from the president. l think he is the
gentleman who four years ago bribed
| two clerks in the Office of the Voice, the
organ of the Prohibitionists, to steal
| from their employers their mail list and
hand it over to the Republican commit
1 tee, to be used in sending Republican
| documents In a recent speech, he
says: 81 have known many men-l have
]
and want to say to you, gentlemen,
/ that upon my dying bed, before my
family, / could not name two men more
to be loved and honOred than Senator
Quay and Colonel Dudley. So
| far as am concerned, if ! ever have
another boy to name | will be glad to
confer upon him the name of Quay or
/ Dudley, and this is an evidence of the
affection l have for the men. He should
have added: Let us prey
"Clarkson evidently believes, with Sen
ator ingalls,, that the publication of
politics is an iridescent dream. Poll
tics, says Ingalls,, is battle for suprem-
acy. Parties are the armies. The Deca-
logue and the golden rule have no place
In a political campaign. To defeat the
antagonist and eXpel the party in power
is the purpose In war it is lawful to
deceive the adversary, to hire Hessians,
to purchase mercenaries, to initiate, to
kill, to destroy.
"This is the Republican gospel, as ex-
pounded by great party leader who has
been repeatedly made senator by the
state of Kansas and repeatedly honored
by the senate of the United States as its
presiding officer The presidents dis
trict attorney for Indiana undoubtedly
! agrees with ingalls, aud Clarkson, for he
tells us that the famous letter of Colonel
Dudley, which should have consigned
him to the penitentiary, has nothing
criminal in it, and indicates simply a
patriotic interest in the elections. If a
man is to be judged by the company he
keeps what shall we think of the presi-
dent2
But what he has done as the servant
of the men / have named has been re-
peated with aggravations in other cases.
He has made complete surrender of
the Federal offices of Virginia to Ex-
Senator Malone, whose teeming political
knaveries during the past twenty years
have gone far to make the average
scalawag an honorable man. Il is i'm.
possible TO do him justice without Dor.
rowing a very expressive word from
Carlyle, and defining his position as the
best living representative of the 'strum.
petocracy" of modern politics. And
yet Elder Harrison has taken him into
his Christian embrace and made him the
trusted exemplar Of reform in Virginia.
in defiance Of the wishes of the decent
men of the state. He has shown the
same devotion to ex-senator Platt, of
New York, by turning over to him the
vast patronage of that great state for
years, while Whitelaw Reid smilingly
tell us that the president has given the