Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1881 — Tardy Admissions. [ARTICLE]

Tardy Admissions.

The coolness of Republican leaders and organs in admitting the rascalities of the party long after the time has passed when the admission will do any good, is one of their most prominent characteristics. Tears ago, when Franklin J. Moses was Governor of South Carolina, thanks to the power of a corrupt administration to Override the popular will in that State, the Democracy all over the country denounced him for the corrupt scoundrel and thief liqr showed himself. At the time he was a necessary adjunct of Republican power; and there was not a whisper against him in that party. On the oontrary, he was upheld and applauded by the party just as Mahone and Riddleberger are now, and the stories of his scandalous and admitting what a rascal he was, the Republican organs are cheerfully admitting it. The New York Times says of him: “Speaker of the Assembly, he engaged in a career of corruption, bribery and robbery, which has had ao parallel in this country. He made ‘no bona; ’ of his rascally intentions. If ho wonted money, horses or any species of property, he demanded these of'the men who sued for his influence in the passage of bills in whioh they were interested. He procured the enactment of a law whioh Sve him as Speaker unlimited power to aw upon the State treasury, and from that day his warrants, taking precedence of all other demands, wereplentiful as the leaves of the forest He owned a money mill. Having issued nearly $2,000,000 in pay certificates as Speaker: it was obvious that Gov. Moses would rule the State with all the profligacy 1 and extravagance that he had shown m his less influential position. There, was al*., most no limit to this map's recklessness. He seemed utterly devoid of moral sense. He levied toil on every public and private legislative measure ‘with money in it’whioh required bi* signature. It is a matter of record, for example, that valid claim of held by a banking oompany agataafctfce

State, oould not be paid until $25,000 was handed over to Moses. He involved one of his underlings, Humbert, in a scheme bv which the State was plundered of $29,000, and what seemed to be a grand larceny was attempted hgaUlst the State, and when the officers went -to arrest His Exoellenoy they found him intrenched in his palace guarded by the wicked doings were stigmatized as “rile partisan slanders ! ” But a few days ago this same Moses, fallen from his high estate, brought up before a New York police court, charged with larceny. Ho is clearly of no further use to the Republican party; and, now that no special harm can come to the party, or any good to the cause of decency, by State militia. He gave away pardon’s like holiday baubles. Pimps, blacklegs, criminals of every oomplexion, were pardoned by telegraph, by letter, by verbal . orders to jailers, and with a freedom which promised immunity to crimo so long as the offender owned in Moses a friend” The frank admissions of Dorsoy’s rascalities are in precisely the same vein. His star-route jobbery was pointed out long ago ? but he was then too useful to the pasty. He was using his plunder to carry States for the Republicans, and it would not do to admit that he was a thief. Now, when the admission is not needed it is mode with ostentatious frankness. It will be the some, probably, when Arthur’s administration, or some other, turnovers the corruption in the departments during Hayes’ term. Every Republican organ in the oountry trill come out with the fullest account of them, and labor most industriously to show that it knew all about tho corruption when it occurred —Detroit Free Preaa. ,