| Show TIlE BLACK RECORD We published a day or two ago the account ac-count of scandal No 9 published by the NewYork World as part of the black record rec-ord of the last Congress The fifteen scandals scan-dals are here enumerated Tho mention of each will recall various facts that must be more or less familiar to our readers The Republicanmajority in the Congress I Con-gress is responsible for the following long list of outrages upon the people of this nation I Scandal No Selling protection and excessive ex-cessive profits to monopolists for money used to elect a President Scandal No Rewarding the raiser ot a corruption cor-ruption fund with a position in the cabinet of a President Scandal No Expending the money thus procurel in the open purchase of votes Scandal No 4 Utter disregard of civil service reform pledges and a galaxy of disreputable appointments ap-pointments for discreditable party service Scandal No Shameful administration of the great pension bureau for the benefit of pension pen-sion sharks Scandal No Prostituting the most honorable honor-able public office in the world to a purely family affair Scandal No 7The President of the United States as a gifttaker and tool of real estate boomers Scandal No Stealing the representation in the United States Senate of a new slate Scandal No Creating states of mining camp i for tho solo purpose of retaining partisan parti-san control Scandal No Evicting Democratic members mem-bers of the House of Representatives for the same reason Scandal No Usurpation of power by a speaker to Insure the passage of partisan measures mea-sures Scandal No 12Disgraceful scenes and gross vulgarity in the House the direct result of the speakers action Scandal No 13 Making a fraudulent census for partisan advantage through a reapportionment reapportion-ment of congressional representation Scandal No 14Government officials looting government lands regardless of a very mild rebuke re-buke Scandal No Squandering the money of an overtaxed people to get rid of a troublesome surplus No 1 refers to the MCJXIXLET tariff law which was passed to reward the manufacturers manufac-turers out of whom tho fat had been fried which was necessary for carrying the election No 2 refers to the rewarding of JOHN WANASIAKER with a cabinet position posi-tion he having raised the magnificent sum of 100000 to swell the corruption fund No3 refers to the purchase of the vote of Indiana by Mr DUDLEY as disclosed by the blocksofiive letter Nos 4 to 8 are already al-ready familiar and are not easily summarized summar-ized No 8 refers to tho stealing the Montana Mon-tana Senatorships No9 to the admission of Idaho and Wyoming and so on It is a terrible but just arraignment of the party responsible for the evil acts and the worse ones that were attempted by thd last Congress i = = = = = 5 V |
