Year: 1876

your hand on one Republican man or


republican paper who calls thief
thief or desires him turned out of Of
nceI Not one can you see, They do
not denounce the thief, but thew de-
nounce the men who discovered and
exposed his crime.


Only short time ago, the brave
Gen. Custer who met his death at the
hands of the savage Indians, was stuns
to madness, humiliated and removed
from position because he dared to
tell the truth about rascally Secre-
tary of War.


Show me, in the party from whose
loins sprang Hayes and Wheeler. the
Cincinnati nominees, one expression
of indignation at the rascalities cxpos-
ed by the House of Representatives.
Show me that these men are anxious
to punish wrongdoers, and then will
say that there is chance for reform
within the Republican party. But
when they remain altogether silent, or
speak only to denounce the men who
have discovered their party iniquities,
l cannot believe that they mean re-
form.


And just here may mention another
instance of Republican prof1igacy and
dishonesty In the State of Louisiana
there was mulatto man of low habits
and bad personal character, who, by
aid OF Federal bayonets and in utter
defiance of law, became Lieut.. Gov
ernor of the State. BY an unwise and
illegal order of the President he was
made acting Governor, and in 1873 bv
a Legislature chosen without authori-
ty and possessing no legal functions
whatever he was elected to the United
States Senate. OF course his entrance
TO the Senate was opposed, bat the
Republican members of the Committee
on Privileges and elections reported
unanimously in favor of his admission.
FINALLY the report was rejected by tie
Senate, but within the last forty eight
hours this Republican Senate allowed
him $4,000 for salary and expenses to
which he had no more right than any
man in the crowd before me. 1t is not
that this MONEY is taken from the
peoples treasury that we so keenly
feel the injustice of the outrage, but
because 1T is dishonest payment, and
an encouragem emit to dishonesty. If
the money was honestly due him he
should have received it; but he was not
entitled to it, and not one Republican
in the Senate loved truth enough to
say that this dishonest Pinchback
should not take that money flom suf-
fering people.


| What chance has any man in such a
party. When Secretary Bristow tried
to save the money of the people from
the grasp of the powerful whisky ring,
he met his greatest opposition in the
ranks of his own party. He was aman
OF callbre and conscience, and when
he vigorously set his prosecutions on
foot he soon landed some of the in
innate friends of the administration
where they should have been years
ago in the pcnitentiaries of Missouri.


But did the Republican press, the
Republican President, the Republican
candidates-Hayes and Wheeler-or
any Republican who will vote to elect
them encourage Secretary Bristow in
his good work! No! On the contrary
they opposed him, and he has more
friends in one minute in the Democra-
tic party than he had in the Republi+
can party during his whole term of
office.


! AS soon as he hit close to the Admin
istration and enclosed the Presidents
private Secretary, Gen. -Babcock, in
| the coils of the prosecution, the Pre-
sident of the United States came to the
assistance of the whiskey ring thieves
and removed the prosecuting attorney
at st. Louis, because he dared to de-
| nounce the extension of Presidential
countenance and protection to the
thieves of the whiskey ring. The pro-
secution was paralyzed. and next came
the letter of Attorney General Pierre.
pont to the District Attorneys, preven.
ting them from assuring anyimmunity
to witnesses lnclining to turn States
evidence, and dcpriying them of the
only opportunity they had to procure
testimony which would make convic-
tion possible. Not one conviction has
there been since, and there never will
any more as long as the present ad-
ministration is in power.


Pierrepont is now Minister to Eng
land. We have had great cause, be.
leive. to be proud of our Ministers to
England. When his appointment was
before the Senate this charge of inter
ference was brought against him, but
the Republican party deemed him
eminently fit fol foreign representa-
tive, and so he went to England.
Surely such a party cannot be
deemed able to effect the much needed
reforms in our Government.


These are but few examples, taken
from thousands of others, which show
that not one act of reformation has
been performed during the past ten
years of Republican Administration
Babcock, after being technically
acquitted of completely in the whiskey
frauds, is now under bail for alleged
connectionwith the deep & barefaced
conspiracy by which the corrupt ring
of the District of Columbia hoped to
conceal their crimes from the gaze of
a plundcred people. But still Grant
keeps him in position as Commissioner
of Public Grounds, and the public
money is passing through his hands
each day.


Is this decent Governments Why has
not roguery been stopped and honesty
made an element of the Republican
party? Can they produce any higher