The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-13

his PROFESSIONS AND HIS eoRKs
SEEM 10 PROVE II. &



from an address delivered In Indianapo-
lie By George w. Julian,
"Again, descending 70 smaller matters,
asked why the President, during the
flrst year Of his service, appointed and
secured tho confirmation Of Ex-Governor
Warmoth OF Louisiana a. collector Of the
port OF New Orleans. The prossnt gen.
Grafton IL not familiar with his disgrace
ful career from 1858 TO 1872, bat ths Pres
ident was not ignorant OF IL. He sinned
against right and knowledge and insult
cd public decency In thus honoring q
man who had made merchandise Of his
conscience and self-respect. Why should
q religious President thus turn his back
upon the great moralitios Of life by 80
shameless fellowship with official greed
and political corruptionf
ssiAnd whyssdid he appoint William u.
Leeds last year as Marshal OF the Eastern
District Of Pennsylvania He had boon
tho tool OF Quay In Philadelphia and the
leader Of tho most corrupt ring over
known In that city, and he had been re-
pudiatod BY his own party BY an over
whelming majority fow years before %
candidate for sheriff. And who Ii Mat.
thew 8. Quay, who stood behind him and
50 long ruled the Republican party OF
tho statef He has a national reputation
a. an embezxier and thief, and has boon
openly charged with ponitentIary often.
SOS by the best Republicans In Pennsyl-
vania, who have offered to prove the
charge II allowed TO do 80 In an action
for criminal libel.
"Yet the President turned over the
Federal patronage OF the state for years
In his control. In his recent speech at
Saratoga he said, I'VE must insist that
the morality Of the Ton Commandments
shall be instilled.' BY why instill the
morality Of these commandments II
tho President Of the United States, and
the most religious man who ever reached
his exalted position, makes his bed with
mon who trample them undor footi
~ have already referred TO Gen. Clark
son, who ran the Post Office guilloti Inc
with such remarkable vigor dur ing his
term Of service, without any protest
from tho President. think he is the
gentleman who four years ago sbFibed
two clerks In the Office OF tho Voice, the
organ OF the Prohibitionists, to steal
from their employers their mail list and
hand II over to the Republican commit.
toe, to be used In sending Republican
documents. In recent speech, he says:
i have known many men--I have large
friendship In the United Statss--and
want TO say TO you, gentlemen, that upon
my dying bed, before my family, could
not name two mon moro to be loved and
honored than Senator Quay and Colonel
Dudley. $50 30 far as lam concerned,
II ever have another boy to name 1 will
be glad to confer upon him tho name OF
Quay or Dudley, and this is as an evil
~ hA af1a -
men, He should have added: Let US
prey
"Clarkson evidently believes, with
Senator Ingalls, that the purification Of
politics Is an irridescent dream Poll.
tics, says Ingalls,, lis battle for supre-
macy. Parties are the armies. The Dec
aloguo and the golden rule have no place
In o political campaign. To defeat the
antagonist and expel the party In power
II the purpose. In war II IL lawful to do
ceive the adversary, to hire Hessians, to
purchase mercenariea, TO initiate, to KIT
TO destroy
HThia 10 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 ita
presidinR officer. The Presidents dis.
frict attorney for Indiana undoub tedly
agrees with Ingalls, and Garrison, for ht
tells us that the famous letter Of Col.
Dudley, which should have consigned
him to the penitentiary, has nothing
criminal in it, and indicates simply 1
patriotic interest In the elections, liz
man Ii TO be judged by the company ha
keeps, what shall We think Of the Presi-
dantf
"But what he has done as the servant
OF the men had named has been repeat.
Cd with aggravations in other cases. HI
has made complete surrender OF tn,
Federal offices Of Virginia to ex-senator
Malone, whose teeming political knav.
cries during the past twenty years have
gone far to make the average scaiawag an
honorable man. 1t Is impossible to dc
him justice without borrowing very
expressive word from Carlyle, and defin.
ing his position as the best living repre-,
sentative OF the 'strumpetocracy' OF mod.
I'm politics. And yet Elder Harrison hal
taken him into his Christian embrace AND
made him the trusted exemplar OF reform
In Virginia, in defiance of the wishes o.
the decent men of the state. He haI
shown the same devotion to ex-Senato,
Plat OF New York by turning over Il
him the vast patronage OF that great
state for years, while Whitelaw Reid
smilingly tells us that the President 'haI
given the country clean administra-
ton"