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Show IjIIj scandal The oil leasing investigations now occupying the attention of the nation, na-tion, have progressed far enough at I h 1 .-. time to show how rotten the proceeding was. There is no use to cry politics or no political. Fall, the man who got the money, and Dohcney, the man who paid the money, belong to opposite op-posite political par'ics and each was a power in his respective party. But the Republican party being the party in power, or at least nominally so must stand the big end of the responsibility. re-sponsibility. The only possibility for it to succeed suc-ceed in the coming campaign, is for it to take the lead in the prosecution prosecu-tion of the guilty parties, without regard fo rfriend or foe, and give their house so thorough a cleaning that no suspicion shall remain. There is no crime which s'rikes so hard at the roots of our government as the crime of malfeasance In o ce. No punishment I?. too severe for the man who betrays a public trust. . |