Rensselaer Union, Volume 5, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1873 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

We have heretofore called attention to the difference between Republicans and Democrats in their methods of treating corruption within their own ranks. The Republican party has shown no mercy to its corrupt members, whenever proof could be presented showing the least taint of corruption. They have expelled members of Congress, turned out a great many other officers, and are now engaged in exposing a scheme 'of corruption which is calculated to weaken and destroy some whom they have been accustomed to count in the ranks of their best men. They never stop to inquire the politics of on offioer whom they suspect of guilt. But when has the Democratic party pursued this course? When has it not been ready to shield its own members from merited punishment? Take the case of Bogy. There is little donbt that he defeated Blair for the Senate by the nse of money, yet a Democratic committee of the Missouri Legislature has decided that he is innocent as an nnborn babe. There was one Republican on that committee. He dissented from the report of the majority, and will make a minority report. This looks as though the Democrats had been at theuT 61d white-washing business.—Toledo Blade. A gentleman in Washington, whose coal bills during the present winter hare been unnprecedently nigh, while his thermometer at the same time kept provokingly low, came to the conclusion a short time since that there must be a leak somewhere. So he instituted an investigation, and to his chagrin, that his next Moor neighbor, who was of an economical torn of mind, had “tapped” his fhrnace through the cellar walls, and having attached his own pipes thereto, by the aid of an ingeniously constructed valve, was enabled to luxuriate in mid-summer heat, while his poor neighbor was literally “left out In the cold.” ’ The plan of meeting a printers’ statue of Horace Greeley,' to be east in type metal from printing offices in various Paris of the country, seems sure of success, and the committee invite proposals for tlje model. Somebody makes the sensible suggestion that the- statue represent Mr. Greeley as a journeyman printer working at the case, which would certainly be » great deal better than perching him up in some attitude which would make him look as ts he never did a thing In the world.