The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-24

country has seen the president organize
the civil service into a political machine,
and with it compel his own nomination
for a second term.
From the very beginning Mr.. Harrison
has used TIE appointing power as q
means OF securing a second term for HIM
self. He resorted at the outset to a de-
vice justly denounced by the elder presi
dent OF his name as wrong and danger
u He muzzled the press Of his own
party so far as criticism OF his admins
tration was concerned. He made sure
of the support Of the prominent republi-
can newspapers for all his ambitions by
putting their editors under obligations to
himself for high office, carrying with it
pecuniary rewards. political advantages
or civil distinction, according to the
known greed and desire Of each of his
beneticiaries.
In certain directions he filed the
foreign 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 hui
initiation with the conduct Of an Ameri-
can minister who. in the interest of a
speculative syndicate, sacrificed the
honor of the nation and the flag.
He sent Egan and McCreery to Chilli,
with results grievously hurtful both to
the good name and the commercial in
terests of the country.
To Wanamaker he has added Elkins
as d cabinet oiiicer-Elkins, a political
adventurer and Spectator. who had
grown rich out of politics without hav-
ing won respect enough anywhere to
make his name suggestive ever Of posi-
bilities in connection with honorable of
flee. He made Porter superintendent Of
the census, knowing him to be an al
ready discredited manipulation Of stats
tics, a foreign adventurcr destitute of
convictions and in search Of a market for
his peculiar abilities, a man at that very
time conducting business as a vulgar
wine tout in combination with politics,
and ready to placard his advertisements
in the executive mansion itself. He per
mitted this man to falsify the census of
the great states by way of robbing them
of their just representation and thus in
creasing the chances of that party's sue
cess to whose service he had hired him
self.
1t is a sad and shameful story of
pIcuSes DTOheH, VI IlsCdl lcSlSidtlOu DdT-
tered 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 promotion of the presidents per-
sonal ambitions: of a court converted in
to a santurary for the protection of a
.scoundrel; Of judicial subserviency re.
" arded with high judicial place; of de-
bate suppressed in congress-; of a surplus
squandered. and of the enormous in
crease of the peoples tax burdens that
the proceeds might flow into the Golfers
of favored monopolists willing to share
their spoil with the political %organiza.
ton that made its collection possible.
1t is grievous indictment that is here
made, but it is perfectly true and it
overs but a part of the truth. The
specifications will come later in the
course of these letters. 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.