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Show !'! iifwSH During the first Cleveland campaign the cry HI j'liiffiHI was Republican corruption. All through the cam- B1m rlll Sfli paign the slogan raised by the New York Sun 8 pSti 9H I "Turn the rascals out," filled the whole atmos- B H PHI phere of the Republic. When the Democracy took '' !il HI charge sixteen investigation committees were ap- iff H I pointed to unearth corruption in the several de- B 'dill Mil partments. Not one could find a wrong, and they y li 81 I were obliged to report their impotent endeavors. H 'Pi H I Now for use in tlie campaign Mr. Gorman tries R ' Hn H to attach a demand for a postofilce investigation t' ! hjT ffi i B llH HI as a rer a M or raismS revenue. He knew B k4 ji H wou, e str'cken off, but he wanted it for cam- f inlfl 9 paign purposes. This, too, while the postofilce B 'f lilr HI frauds have been under investigation, with a .' iiil Democrat, appointed by a Republican president, B fil-lSB I ie' nead al1 winter. Have the Democracy no B ; rllli claim for recognition except what suspicion they !. C'Kn nvte aSanst their opponents? |