The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-08

cording to the known need and desire OF
each of his bene6ciarses.
In certain directions he filed the for
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 10 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 Chilli, |
with results grievously hurtful 10th to |
the good name and to the commercial |
interests of the country.
To Wanamaker he has added Elkins |
as a cabinet oficer-Elkins, a political |
adventurer and speculator, who had |
grown rich out Of politics without hay |
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 diseredited manipulation |
of statistics, foreign adventurer desti- |
tute of convictions and in search Of q |
market for his peculiar abilities, man |
at that very time conducting business as |
vulgar wine tout in combination with |
politics, and ready to placard his adver
tisenents in the executive mansion it. |
self. He permitted this man to falsify |
the census OF great states by way of rob- |
bling them of their just representation |
and thus increasing the chances of that |
,tx,tc no he ho1 |
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- |
airy for the protection of a 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 flow into the Golfers of favored |
monopolists willing to share their spoil |
with the political organization that |
made its collection possible
1t is grievous indictment that is here
made, but it is perfectly true and 1t COW
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 |
THAR xyofaS II, Not-a,,,1,a, 10
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 ruffians, 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 commissions;
though some of them, according to Mr.
Roosevelts report, deliberately testified
to lies; though many of them openly
confessed to cheating; though all of
Than, cat ut 1nutrht tho la anaipof
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.. Wanamakers favor and Mr.. |
Harrison's 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. 1t
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 it has |
fostered for the money with which to
carry the election. In their behalf it |
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 theattorney 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-
ton touching the conspiracy.
In the interest of good government it
is necessary to chastise official miscon-
duct by defeat. The men and the party
now in power must be sent into retire.
ment for the public good. Our public
life is in need of disinfection. It is time
to restore legislation to its proper service
of all the people.
The simple facts of these four years.
history constitute the most conclusive
reasons for refusing to intrust this ad-
ministration or the party it represents
with further lease of power It will
be the purpose of this series of letters to
lay those facts clearly before the public.
New York World
The Proof Is Everywhere.
There is not true Democrat in the
country who is not opposed to what the
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