Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-10-29
A BAD RECORD.

0ES'AMlS HARRISON 6 ADMISTsTRATJ0,
UNDER INDICTMENT - ExrRAvA
GAscE, CORRUPTION AND. UTE!
DISREGARD Of SOLEMN PLEDGES.
The iif1e in this campaign is the r..
pubhcalfecord Of the last four years.
1t Is terry bad record. 1t is 4 record
OF wrong long, Of unfair fayoritism in
leglsiatlo and Of scaudalous misconduc,
III adtnin tration, record of reckless
squanderi s; Of the debauchmen. of tn 4
puolc sci &c; of corruption in Off :e
ana IN q TX Office, and Of shameful
maipractlc the attempt to retain
power rega II the popular will.
Inc Administration and the Fifty rs:
Congress cime into power by plain plr.
chase. The Republican Party in 1888
secured its triumph by selling legislation
short.
Abandoning all that it had p,ofesse
aud all that its lesiers, living and deal,
had taught concerning the limitations OF
right in tariff legislation, it framed
platform IN Chicago in which it offered
10 monopolsts sucn tariff rates as they
should desire for their enrichment at the
expense Of the people, in return for con
trlhutions to the camp paign fuud
Inc otter Was accept:d. Toe money
was paid, aud with it the notorious em.
bezzler and corruptionist, Matthew
Quay, with his lieutenant, Dudley, was
set to buy the election. When the funds
ran low John Wananaker purchase an
option on C,binet Office by securing al
additional contribution Of $400, 900
from the buyers of legislation upon
margin.
When the Congress thus elected came
together the Republican majority was
too narrow and uncertain TO do the work
it hal promised. 1t could not deliver
the legislative goods it had sold to mon-
Opoilsts without resort to further un.
fairhess and wrong. 1t proceeded to un-
seat members Of the minority whom the
people had elected and to seat Republi.
cans whom the people had refused to
elect, ar i not a man in all the majority
was brave or honest enough to raise
voice in protest.
When the time came for i dabate the
majority decided not to permit debate,
lest the truth be made plain to the peo-
pie.
The rules of the House were revolu-
tionizcd. A dictator of peculiarly arbi-
trary will was placed iu the chAir who
suppressed discussion, overrode all con-
siderations of fairness, changed the
House from deliberative body into
mere machine for recording his deter.
mination, and thus enacted the measures
Of monopoly which the party had been
pal in advance to pass.
In two short years this Congress squan-
dered au enormous surplus, reduced the
treasury to the sorest straits, laid heavy
olrlens upon the people and upon in.
i,lstry and made determined, though
fortunately fruitless, effort to rob the
several States of the right of free cleo
ticns in order to secure for the Republi-
can Party a longer lease of power. 1t
sol,nt to buy votes for the future by
pension legislation of the most reckless
aul unjust character, whose shadow
hangs like a pail over tue finances of the
country and must embarrass its prosper
.ty for generation to come
The Administration thus elected de-
livered to Wanamaker the Cabinet Office
he had bought, put Tanner into the Pen
sion Office, with his exultant exclama.
tiou, 'God help the surplus y not upon
his lips, and when his scandalous mis-
conduct made his removal a necessity,
put Raum there instead. to work still
larger mischief in less vociferous fash
ion. and to fill the office with specula
tons. peculations and scandals 80 shame
ful that even the Reed Congress coulc
not be dragooncd into palliating them
Aud, in spite of further aud more fla
grant exposure, Raum is in office still.
The Administration came into power
protesting most solemnly its purpose te
enforce the Civil Service law in lette
and spirit, and to extend its scope an'
influence. 1t straly yhtway set Ctarkso
at work to bchead pos,masters at a rat
wholly unprecedented. The Presiden
openly iarmcl out the Federal offices q
spolls to such bosses as Quay aud Platt
aud ouartered his oHu relatives an
partners and chrms upoa the public sci
vice. When the Civil Setvice Commi!
sion discovered the most tlagrant an
shameless abuses IN Baltimore and urge
the removal of numbers OF persons b
name for proved misconduct amountin
to crminality-mlsconduct perpe:rate
IN the name and on behalf o. the A.
ninistration-the whole matter W
jauntily put aside By Wanamaker, ar
the President IN no way in'erfered to r
deem his pledge or 10 free himself fro
the shame of it all.
Dudley was one of the agents IN {
purchase of Mr.. Harrison 5 election, al
he was found out. Mr.. Harrison /
since refused TO hold intimate person
relations with the Blocks OF Fiv
statesman, but through his Attorne
General and former law partner he
interfered with the administration
Justice in Dudley's case, has caused
Judge upon the bench to shield aud p'
tect crime, and has since rewarded q
judge for his corrupt subserv'eney
elesatiug him to 'phigher judicial pc
tion