Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — Navy Department Frands. [ARTICLE]

Navy Department Frands.

[Jap Turpen in Logaosport Pharos,] Grover < leveland is by no manner of means the man I take him to be, if as President he would allow an officer so convicted as Chandler is, to remain in his Cabinet. The case is now prominently before the country, 'an each of the Republican factions carry a tatooed man to the polish Th» Journal, however, ot a recent date publishes a number of extracts from the press that clearly exonerates Mr. Chandler and convicts Mr. Hendricks of slandering an efficient public serv an t. The following from the Terre Haute Express is a sample: Mr. Hendricks was anxious to slander a member of the President’s cabinet, and he did so by charging that the Secretary failed to investigate the matter of fraud after he had been informed that fraud existed. That was the poiift of liis speech, and it was meant'to reflect upon the integrity of the Secretary of the Navy. But when Mr. Hendricks is shown that he is mistaken he does not say a word of explanation, but delivers himself of a. general charge against the department. The editor who edits the Express. Mr. George M. Allen, is himself a member of the department, at £1,500 per year and perquisities. Voting the Republican ticket, writing things for the >erra Haute Express, and drawing his salary from the Government, is the gifted Mr. Allen’s only avocation in the wide, wide world. Has the general Government any to pension a fellow for services to the Republican party, however brilliant his’ genius? If it has, then the position of Mr. Allcm fails to furnish additional reason why the party now controling the Federal offices should How many more .Post assistant paymasters, stationed all over the couutry, to distort truth and debauch the public mind, are there? Here is a man paid out of the National Treasury to run a Republican paper in i erre Haute, i he ofiice he holds was created exclusively in the interests of the party. No page of modern history, in any civilization on which 1 ever stumbled, reveals grosser corruption, t hat such practices have been allowed to exist this long is a sad commentary on the temperament of the Times. The Terre Haute Express is not a disinterested witness.