Word: graftings
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...abroad to vote for an independent candidate with a hastily formed and politically irresponsible party so long as John W. Davis stands four-square for these policies with the backing of a party which believes today, as it has in the past, that public office is not a private graft but a public trust...
Charles W. Bryan at Elk Point, S. Dak., declared that "the nation has been humiliated and the world has been shocked at the dishonesty, the incompetency, the greed, the graft, and the corruption that has been uncovered by Congress...
...Government is making great progress toward rooting out governmental graft, including padded payrolls. As an example of what has been accomplished, look at the budget of the city of Valencia, which has had a deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas. Without curtailing the public service, this has been converted into a favorable balance of 1,000,000 pesetas. The Government has gone ahead with the good roads program and the extension of the common-school system...
...Government would have demonstrated a blot on the record of the former Democratic Administration. The fact that not one Democratic official of any prominence has been successfully prosecuted−although Democrats were in office at a time when the large and hasty expenditures of the War made graft an easy opportunity−is one of the best of the campaign arguments of the Democrats...
...Under such circumstances there must inevitably occur mistakes in judgment, instances of favoritism and sporadic cases of actual graft. The committee will have no difficulty in finding cases of each kind. But they signify nothing unless there is reason to believe that graft and favoritism are widespread and chronic in the work of the Bureau...