REPUBLICAN KKCOHD. AN ABLE INDICTMENT OF HARRI SON'S ADM. NITRATION. Indiana Politic in National Affairs E traraRance ami Corruption The Trade with Plutocrat Some of the "States men' of the Present Regime. Tlie Issue la this campaign la the Re publican record of the hist four years. It is a very bad record. It Is a record of wrongdoing, of unfair favoritism in legislation and of scandalous miscon duct in administration; a record of reck Ices squandering; of the debauchment of tho public service; of corruption in office and in getting office, and of shame ful malpractices in the attempt to retain power regardless of the popular will. The administration and the Fifty-first congress came into power by plain pnr chaae. The Republican party in 1S38 oecnred its triumph by selling legisla tion short. Abandoning all that it had professed and all that its leaders, living and dcml, had taught concerning the limitations of right in tariff legislation, it framed a platform in Chicago in which it offered to monopolists such tariff rates as they should desire for their enrichment at the expense of the people, in return for con tributions to the campaign fund. The offer was accepted. The money was paid, and with it the notorious cor rnptioniat, Matthew Quay, with his lieutenant, Dudley, was set to buy the election. When the funds ran low John Wanainaker purchased an option on a cabinet office by securing Bn additional contribution of 400,000 from the buy ers of legislation upon a margin. When the congress thus elected came together the Republican majority wns loo narrow and uncertain to do tlio work it had promised. It could not de liver the legislative goods it had sold to monopolists without resort to further unfairness and wrong. It proceeded to unseat members of the minority whom the people had elected and to seat Re publicans whom the people had refused to elect, and not a man in all the major ity was brave or honest enough to raisj a voice in protest When the time came for debate tho majority decided not to permit debate lest the truth be made plain to the peo ple. The rules of the house were revolu tionized. A dictator of peculiarly arbi trary will was placed in the chair, who suppressed discussion, overrode all con siderations of fairness, changed tu: house from a deliberative body into a mere machine for recording his de termination, and thus enacted the meas ures of monopoly which the party had been paid in advance to pass. In two short years this congress squan dered an enormous surplus, reduced the treasury to the sorest straits, laid heavy burdens upon the people and upon in dnstry, and made a determined, though fortunately a fruitless effort to rob the several states of the right of free elec tions in order to secure for the Republi can party a longer lease of power. It sought to buy votes for the future by pension legislation of the most reckless and unjust character, whose shadow hangs like a pall over the finances of toe country and must embarrass its prosperity for a generation to come. The administration thus elected de Evered to Wauamaker the cabinet office he had bought, put Tanner into the pen sion office, with his exultant exclama tion, "God help the surplus!" hot 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 tions, peculations and scandals so shame ful that even the Reed congress could not be dragooned into palliating them. And in spite of further and more flag ' rant exposure Raum is in office still! The administration came into power protesting most solemnly its purpose V enforce the civil service law in letter and spirit, and to extend its scope and influence. It straightway set Clarkson at work to behead postmasters at a rate wholly unprecedented. The president openly farmed out the federal offices as spoils to such bosses as Quay and Piatt, and quartered his own relatives and partners and chums upon the public service. When the civil service com mission discovered the most flagrant and shameless abases in Baltimore, and urged the removal of numbers of persons by name for proved misconduct amounting to criminality misconduct perpetrated in the name and ou behalf of tho admin istration the whole matter was jauut ily put aside by Wanainaker, and tho president in no way interfered to redeem his pledge or to free himself from tlx shame cf it all. Dudley was one of the agents in the purchase of Mr. Harrison s election, and he was found out. Air. Harrison has since refused to hold intimate personal relations with the "blocks of five" itatesnian, but through his uttornev general and former law partner he lis interfered with the administration o' justice in Dudley's case, has caused a judge upon the bench to shield and pro ject crime, and hag since rewarded that judge for his corrupt subserviency by elevating him to a higher judicial posi tion. And withia these later mouUis thu country has seen the president organize the civil service 1:1 tj a political UJucLi:;e. mi with it compel his own nomination ror a second term. From the very beginning: Mr. IImiI son has used the appointing power as a means of securing u second term for himself. He resorted at tho outlet to a device justly denounced Ly the elder resideut of his name as wrong nud dun- gerous. lie muzzled the press of his own party so far as criticism of his ad ministration was concerned. He made sore of the support of the prominent Re publican newspapers for all his ambi tious by putting their editors under ob- ligations to ldmsolf for high ofuce, cur rying with it pecuniary rewards, politl ual advantages or social distinction, uc Cording to the known need and desire of each of his bencftchtvt-. In certain directions ho filled the for eign srrvico with incapable men to oblige unworthy interests. lie sect Miznrr to Central America, and kept him there long after tho country had given expression to its disgust and humiliation with the conduct of an American min ister who, in tho interest of a specula tive syndicate, sacrificed tho honor of the nation and the 11a;:. Ho sent Egan and McCreery to Chili, with results grievously hurtful both to the good name and to the commercial interests of the country. To Wanainaker he has added Elkins j as a cabinet officer Elkins, a political , adventurer and speculator, who hod grown rich out of politics without hav- 1 ing won respect enough anywhere to make his name suggestive even of pos- : sibilities iu connection with, honorable office. He made Porter the superin tendent of the census, knowing him to be an already discredited manipulator , of statistics, a foreign adventurer desti- j tute of convictions and in search of a market for his peculiar abilities, a man at that very time conducting business as ' a vulgar wine tout iu combination with j politics, and ready to placard his adver- , tisements in the executive mansion it- i self. He permitted this man to falsify , the census of great states by way of rob- , bing them of their just representation and thus increasing the chances of that party's success to whose service he had hired himself. It is a sad and shameful story of pledges broken; of fiscal legislation bartered for campaign funds; of elections secured by the purchase of voters; of high office made the subject of vulgar traffic; of the public service, including the most. honorable places, prostituted to the pro motion of the president's personal ambi tions; of a court converted into a sanctu ary for the protection of a scoundrel; of judicial subserviency rewarded with high judicial place; of debate suppressed in congress; of a surplus squandered, and of the enormous increase of the poo pie's tax burdens that the proceeds , might flow into the coCers of favored ( monopolists willing to share their spoil with the political organization that made its collection possible. It is a grievous indictment that is here made, but it is perfectly true and it cov er. but a part of tho truth. The speci- ' iicat;on3 will come later. Tho facts will be given upon which every accusation rests. Tho whole record will bo laid bare that record which tho people by their votes in November are to approve or condemn. ! Aud this is not a mere recalling of old errors a recurrence of offenses repented of. The courses that condemn this ad ministration have been continuous. Raum is still at the head of the pension bureau, and that bureau is not reformed or purified. Marshal Airey still holds office in Baltimore, notwithstanding J Commissioner Roosevelt's report as to his organization of the postoffice and cus- j torn house employees there into a band ! of political ruffians, his use of them to carry primaries in the administration's j interest by wholesale cheating and by actual physical violence in which he personally participated. . rn either he nor Postmaster Johnson nor any of their subordinates have been removed, though their conduct was fully set forth and their removal strongly urged by Mr. Roosevelt, a Republican member of the civil service commission; though some of them, according to Mr. Roosevelt's report, deliberately testified to lies; though many of them openly confessed to cheating; though all of them set at naught tho law against po litical assessments, and though they ali professed with more or less of candor the creed of lying, cheating and ballot box stuffing which the testimony showed that they had practiced. These men who, as one of them put it in his testimony, believed "iu doing any thing to win," are still in office by grace of Mr. Wanamaker's favor and Mr. Harrison's neglect of duty. And they still constitute the administration ma chine in Baltimore and Maryland pol itics. In brief, the administration is what it has been. It profits still by the prac tices for which honest men in both par ties have condemned it in the past. It protects its scoundrels and law breakers. It keeps them in office. It uses them in politics. It sanctions their creeds and their performances. It sent them arid such as thorn to Minneapolis to nom inate Mr. Harrison for a second term in spite of any desire the Republican party might have for some other candidate. It still looks to the monopolies it has fostered for tho money with which to carry the election. In their behalf it has not only made laws, but has neg lected and refused to enforce such laws as there are on the- statute books ad verse to them. The coal conspiracy has been formed during this administration. Without let or hindrance it has levied a' tribute upon the people in face of tlie antitrust law. That law makes it the imperative duty of the attorney general, through the district attorneys, to bring criminal prosecutions against all the conspirators; but no district attorney has moved, aud the attorney general weakly protests that he has no informa tion touching tho conspiracy. In tho intc ve:;t of good government it is necer-sury to chastise c!iicii;l miscon duct by defeat. The men and tho party Mow iu powtr maat bo sent into retire ment for tho public good. Onr puUi': life is iuueed cf disinfection. It is time to restore legislation to its proper service of till tho people. The simple facts of these four years' history constitute the most conclusive reasons for refusing to intrust this ad ministration or the party it represents with a further lease of power. It will be tho purpose of this series of letters to lay those facts clearly before the public. -Now York World. TU Proof 1 Everywhere. There is not a true Democrat in the country who is not opposed to what tho Republican leaders cull protection, and who toes not admit it without having "proof" thrust into his face. Harris burg Patriot. M'KINLEYISM. What It Hit Keally Dona for til Ameri can Parmer. If America could sell to Europe as much grain and flour during the coming' year as she has sold during the last year, the immediate future would bo bright enough for this country. But this is not to be hoped for. From now on it is a certainty that our exports to Europe will decline. Even during the hist twtlvo months Europe has not been a good ens totner of America except as she lias been driven to it by crop failure and famine. Her purchases from us, with the excep tion of grain and breadstuff, have de clined, and if good cropu relievo her this year from tho necessity of buying so largely of our breadstuff, it is morally certain that the volume of her purchases from us will materially decrease. The cauro is plain. It is McKinlcy ism. The same McKinleyism which is forcing Europe to seek other outlet for her manufactured goods is leading her to seek other markets in which to pur chase those things she needs. A coun try will trade with thoso nations that trade with her, end America is already beginning to feel in the reduction of her exports to Europe tho truth of this rule. For a season Europo has leen forced to buy onr grain by reaaon of crop failures and famine to an unusually largo ex tent. If it were not for McKinleyism she would have paid us for our grain largely in manufactured articles. Major McKinley boasted that she would be forced to pay in money, but statistics show that since the McKinley bill passed we have sent more money to Europe than Europe has sent to us. Europe declines to lie forced to pay money. The interruption of trade by McKinleyism has resulted in the with drawal of millions of dollars of credit: Many great European institutions which kept heavy balances of money on this side of tho water for the purpose of trade and financial operations have called there balances home. Many mil lions of dollars in American securities held abroad have been sent, back to this country iu erdiuyo for gold.. In other words, Europo is collecting many of the debts which America owej her, just as a banker will require a mer chant to pay notes if ho takes his de posits nway from the bank. One good crop in Europe, one year during which Europe will be able to get along with less of our grain and flour, will show in a clearer light the destruc tive effects of McKinleyism upon the United States. It will show how much that ism has done to estrange the great customer for the surplus products of American farms. Omaha World Herald. A Democratic Candidate. Luther Franklin McKinney, the Dem ocratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire, was born in Ohio, April 25, 1841. He lived on a farm with bis fa ther, and when eighteen years of ago began to teach school during the winter. He served gallantly in the Union army. He graduated from St. Lawrence uni versity, in Canton, N. Y., in June, 1S70, as a minister. His first pastoral work HON. L. F. M'KINXET. was done in Maine, but in 1873 he re moved to New Hampshire. Mr. Mc Kinney was defeated for the Forty- ninth congress, elected to the Fiftieth, defeated for the Fifty-first and elected to the Fifty-second. Well informed politicians consider Mr. McKinney's election to the governorship of New Hampshire almost certain. Nothing to Conceal. Chairman Harrity is right when he I says the Democracy has nothing to con I ceal about this coming campaign. This : is to be a campaign of principle by the people and for the people. There is no occasion for sharp practice there never is and the fight must be open and above board. The position of the party is well defined, and because of its posi tion it asks tho support of all friends of good government. When Democracy has won its victory, as it seems certain it will, the people will know just what to expect. Indianapolis Sentinel. McKinley a Democratic Vote Maker, The Leader believes that Mr. McKin ley's speeches in Nebraska have xnado and will make thousands of votes lor the Democratic party, lne average voter will readily and rightly conclude that if this great spostle of protection can offer, in support of a 60 per cent, tariff ou necessities, no reason nor argument other thau tli3 dish -.west and absurd as sertion that the tariff tax is paid by the foreigner and t:i:;t such tax does not in creaso tho price to the consumer, then indeed must modern protection be ir defensible. Dos Moines Leader. Wliut It Wrong with It? If the McKinley law is not responsible for strike.! neither is it to be credited with averting them. Ever since the law went into operation there have been con tinuous strikes iu protected industries. And inasmuch as the law is made for the protection of labor, the people who are paying the expense of it are quite right lu asking what is wrong with iu l Toledo Bee. t An open letter to women. 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