Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1910-04-06
G. 0. P. IS FAIRLY
REEK|NG WITH GRAFT
Republics Party staggers Under
the Burden of Robberies Conn
mitted by Own Agencies.
MILLIONS IN THE TOTAL LOOT
Sugar Frauds and the Chicago Cases
cited-ohio and Pennsylvania
Are Other Examples

S3Icu-OQ1o ana F0uusyAVauAh
Are Other Examples.
The Republican party throughout
the United States is Keeling from the
effect of series of heavy blows which
are SCATTERING the organization
through which it has controlled the
national and many State governments
for sixteen successive years. Some of
these blows are of political nature,
but most of them take the form Of
graft exposures Practically every
graft exposure Of the last ten years
has uncovered Vaccinations OF Re
publican machine intrenched in office,
growing fat of public property. Right
now these exposures are at climax
Uninterrupted power, fostering conf
dence, is shown to have bred corrup-
tion of amazing extent, in the nation,
in the. State, in the municipality.
Secretary Ballinger of the Depart
ment of the Interior is defending HIM
self from scandalous charges OF COM
plicity in land frauds brought by the
former chief forester, Clifford Pinchot.
Into the investigation President TAFT
himself has been drawn as q defender
OF Ballinger.
The sugar trust is shown to have
stolen immense sums from the govern
ment by fraudulent weights, the New
York Suns estimate of the thefts' be-
ing $3O,O0O.000. and while underlings
are prosecuted the big offenders go
free. The charge is not denied that
for year after full information of
the thefts was placed before the Re-
publican national administration the
sugar trust went on robbing the gov
eminent unchecked.
In the New York State Legislature
Senator Aids, Just after being elected
leader of the Republicans in the SEN
ate, was accused of being bribe-taker,
and Senator Ben Conger brought proof
to sustain his charges OF wholesale
corruption. extending over years, in
the Republican legislative organization
Of New York. Laws have been bought
and sold as in public market.
Chicago has contributed its share to
the exposures Of graft, the conviction
OF Inspector Edward Mccain for TAX
ing tribute from divekeepers being one
OF the most notable cases of successful
prosecution Of police corruption in his
tory.
Pennsylvania, rock-ribbed Republi-
can State, whose capitol Is monu-
ment to the corruption Of It's Repub-
lican bosses. is still in the grip of the
party of plumber. Philadelphia, where
it is estimated Republican freebooters
have divided $5O,000,O00 in the last
decade, has not shaken OF the ring,
which is as old as the city itself, and
the great strike which is now paralyz-
ing that metropolis is traced directly
to the grating politics.
There are few Republican grafters
in penitentiaries; there are more OF
them at liberty, but down and out, dis
graced. Chicago has furnished two
convicts-John A. Linn and John A.
Cooke. Washington has furnished two
more, United States Senator j.. R. Bur
ton of Kansas and United States Sena-
tor John H. Mitchell of Oregon. Cooke
and, Linn helped themselves to the
funds of their offices as court clerks.
Senator Mitchell was convicted OF
completely in land frauds, such as are
involved in the Ballinger-P inchot CON
troyersy. Senator Burton was con
victed of attempting while Senator to
get postal fraud order removed from
a get-rich-quick concern.
Senator Chauncey Depew still sits
as Republican Senator in Washington,
but the disgrace of the insurance scan
dals causes him to hide his head. and
no more Is his jaunty smile pictured
in the press or his comment printed
as the witty utterances of "promi
nent Republican" He is not wanted
on the stump in any political cam
paign. The yellow dog fund" Of
$1.200,0O0. the house Of mirth" at AL
bany. and my pestiferous friend UP
the river are all being recalled by the
Aids scandal, which gives pungent
point to recollections of the insurance
scandals
OF all the scandals for which re
sponsibility has been fastened on the
Republican party the greatest in
money involved is the sugar trust
smuggling case. After paying $1,000,
900 to the government in settlement
of evaded duties, the trust saw foul
of its former employees Charles Ke
hoe, Edward A. Boyle, Patrick j. Hen
nessey and John NJ. Coyle, sentenced
to years Imprisonment for under
weighing frauds. Then the big mer
in the trust sat back and laughed al
their punishment. The gigantic ma
ture Of these frauds, is told in records
in the custom house.
Albany, N. Y, has long ''enjoyed the
reputation" of being the legislative
graft center Of the country-it is not
able that Republican majorities have
ruled in Albany with few lapses-tht
latest being the Aids scandal. grow
Ing out of a charge that the man hon
ored by the Republican Senators a.
their leader had taken $1,000 bride
for supporting bill wanted by bridg,
companies. Confederation has beer
given in the inquiry to the general be
lief in organized barter of Legislation
by the Republican machine of New
York State. When the investigation
of the charges now pending is ended
there will come another into genera
legislative graft. and Republicans o
New York are shuddering at the pros
pect.
Gov. Harmon of Ohio is giving ,
practical example of what Demo
cratic administration can accomplish
He has appointed a legislative graf
probe commission which has uncover
ed amazing graft scandals, which wen
unchecked under Republican rule
Wholesale grating in State printing
contracts is disclosed.
The Worst to Come.
President Taft, standing between
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