The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-05
TaE ADMINISTRATORS Rrooap.

The probability, or possibility, OF Presi-
dent HARRIsoN's denomination suggests q
review of his record while president.
The first care of the administration was
to reward the monopolists who had furn-
ished the money to elect the president.
Nearly every section of the MCKINLEY bill
was written by manufacturers who had
ian ak to grind" These brazen monopo-
lists demanded as their prerogative the
pleasure of writing the confscatlon act
that was to transfer vast amounts from the
American public to their private Golfers.
The manufacturers who supplied Mr..
Quay with the millions of money by
means of which he carried the
election were business men. The
"fat" had been "fried' out of them,
in the language of prominent Repub-
lican; they had supported the Republican
party; it must now support them. The
MCKINLEY bill was the logical and actual
result of this condition. A few sharp
turns were given TO the thumbscrews of
tariff taxation. AS result. while the fav-
ored trusts flourish and grow more inso-
lent, the American people have suffered
from a period of extreme financial disaster
during period in which production has,
on the whole, been greater than ever be-
fore
Another act of the administration
was the rewarding Of WANAMAKER-
the only man II all our history
who has succeeded in buying a
high cabinet Office for cold cash. QUAY
told WANAMAKER the election could be car
ried ''if he had money" The latter raised
the immense fund of $4OO, 900, saying of the
expenditure Of this vast sum that he
didn't want to know where every dollar
OF it went. my responsibility, said
WANAMAKER, in referring 10 this transac-
ton, ceases when furnish a good article
at fair price" Mr.. WANAMAKER raised
the largest fund and was rewarded with a
cabinet Office, which thus has every ap-
pearance that it was put up at public
auction and knocked down to the highest
bidder.
In spending portion of the corruption
funds raised by WANAMAKER, w. w. Dup
LEY Of Indiana was detected in the act of
giving ''the assistance necessary to hold
the fioaters and doubtful voters and gain
enough of the other kind 20 give HARRISON
and MORTON 10000 plurality" He further
advised the persons to whom he sent these
letters to divide the fioaters into "blocks of
five, and put a trusted man with necessary
funds in charge of these five, and make
him responsible that none get away and
that all vote our ticket" DUDLEY was
placed on trial Judge WooDs, in his orig
inal instructions to the grand Jury, said :
1.-THE latter clause OF the section makes
anyone guilty who counsels bribery But
in his revised instructions to the jury, the
judge said: ut results. of course, that the
mere sending by one TO another of a letter
or document containing advice to bride a
voter, or setting forth scheme for such
bribery, however bold and reprehensible,
is not indictable.n Thus DUDLEY escaped.
The president rewarded the judge by ap-
pointing him to the position of United
States circuit Judge.
The civil service appointments under
President HARRISON have been what the
president himself had previously desig-
mated as that other frank and bold, if
brutal method of turning out men and
women for political opinion The ap-
pointment of STEVE ELKINs was one of
the latest samples of this s'method.n
In the pension bureau the maladminis-
tration became SO fragrant, and the scandal
GUS revelations became SO frequent that
TANNER, the presidents first appointee as
commissioner Of pensions, was removed.