The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-23
A NATIONAL SCANDAL.

Inc resolutions of the Indiana Democ-
racy repeat, with words OF condemnation,
the story of WAEAMAKER's reward for his
partisan services, and the resolutions of
the Pennsylvania Republicans return
thanks to Boss QUAY for his partisan SER
vices, involving the subject of that reward.
With audacious bravado the party Of
great moral ideasn boasts of its triumphs
over the yeomanry of the land, and in
amazing impudence, crowns with its green
est laurels those of its numbers who ex-
hlolt the greatest talent for corruption.
they turn deaf ears and ride rough shod
over everything that stands in their path.
But they do not do this without having the
venality and brutality of their party held
up so plainly before their eyes as to make
them uneasy.
THE HERALD remembers that when Sena-
tor MCPHERSON, of New Jersey, boldly
charged in debate that immense sums of
money had been corruptly raised in the
last presidential campaign, and corruptly
used IN behalf of the Republican ticket, the
leaders Of the majority laughed
al The statement as something
! SO general as to hurt nobody,
and therefore entitled to no serious notice.
But the New Jersey Senator did not stop
at this vague and general assertion. he
went further and gave it q personal appli-
cation to member Of the cabinet. "That
money" he said, ''had been raised among
the beneticiaries of the protective tariff,
chief among them being pious citizen of
Philadelphia, who has since been rewarded
with seat in the cabinet as the price of
his villainy''
These words cut deep and leave scars.
They present not only charge but a speci-
fication. And in a recent interview with
GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND, Mr.. WANA-
MAKER mentioned the sum of money raised
as being above 100000. He says also he
went about collecting it as though it were
for some religious or charitable object As
soon as President CLEvELAND's tariff re-
form message went to Congress and
BLAINE had telegraphed his opposi-
ton to it, the Pennsylvania protec-
tionists rushed forward with their
contributions, and it was a compar-
atively easy matter TO collect whatever
money was needed for electioneering pur-
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party to inaugurate the system of filing
up presidential cabinets with unheard of
material as rewards for financial services {;
but in no examples of this kind of political
auction has there ever been so fragrant a
case as that of WANAMAKER, the tool and
instrument of Boss QUAY
1t may be said that the arraignment by
the Indiana Democracy is an old one that
1t was made two or three years ago origin
ally, and has been repeated day after day
and week after week ever since, till it is
threadbare. This is true. 1t is an old
charge, and has been repeated over and
over again. 1t has never been replied to-,
old as it is. No Republican has ever at
tempted to reply to it. Before Senator
MCPHERsoN's speech, it had only been
made in the opposition press. But when
that speech was made within squirrels
ramble from the White House, and whore
the Senator from Pennsylvania could have
heard it if he had liked, it had passed be-
yond the realm of gossip and deserved to
have some notice Of denial, explanation or
palliation.
! The administrator, the Pennsylvania
Republicans and the Republican party Of
the country may continue to maintain their
silence under it. Silence is confession Of
guilt and 1t is confessed that "a pious cit
izen Of Philadelphia" did buy a place in the
present cabinet with money contributed
for the corruption of voters, and that Pres.
ident HARRISON did give his official sane.
ton to the caime by rewarding the crimi.
nal for what Senator Mcpherson called
his ''villainy." 1t is an ugly bit of history,
but no champion Of the administration has
ever dared say it is not true. Nor will il
De forgotten that the same President HAIR
RIsoN permitted his friends and Office
holders TO apotheosize in their late conven
ton at Harrisburg the same political ''boss'
who negotiated the original scandalous bribe
whereby a cabinet Office was sold fol
bribed votes, in order to secure that boss's
influence for his denomination at Mime.
apolis,