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Weeding Out The Bad

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
April
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tt has oftcn been said, and truly said, tbat the ropubücan party is capable of 1 urifyiiig tself, aml a fioe illustration of ilui is now bein? made by I'ostmasterüeni'ral laníos. He has commenced by weoding out Gcd. Brady, second assistant postniaster-general, under whose management for years tho star route service has been. As a specimen of how frauds bave been perpetrated under hitn we will give one injianoe suíTicieot to Ilústrate : i .n Viiiita in t!ie Indlan Territory, and _m-, V' w Mi'mc.i, ihin: is a stage route efl lorit(. The contract for this was let iiinuiii. Mr. Brady lncreased tbe rreqnency of service on the route aml Uien Increased Uu comix nsatlon from $6,330 to 150,3íl (Jen. Brady saya he had petitions, and alw recommends from congressmen and others für this purpose. To bo sure he ¦ lid, as to inereasinK the frequency of the mails, but not for increasing the coinpensation so much faster than the service. A congressman, to picase his eonstituents, or perltaps for some other reason, might siga a recomniend to have the mails carried oftener on a cortain route witbin his district, but in signing it he would not make himself responsible for such rapid increa9C d. Brady Las made in compensation. It is right that Mr. James should progress in his good work of purification. Wherever there is fraud and jobbery it should be stamped out, whether it hits in high places or low, above the belt or below it, in the rapubllcan party or out of it. A man who accepts a public trust and betrays it, deserves to be kicked out, and prosecuted in the bargain. Honesty is what the people ask of their public servants.

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Ann Arbor Courier
Old News