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...public questions for fear dissension will rupture their social group and they will be accused of being 'political.' They are dodging a clear duty. . . . Corruption in high places is revolting, but the condition that will prove fatal to this country is lethargy in local government; deterioration and graft in the police force of your city; leniency and political pull in state and county courts, and indifference and lack of personal possessory pride on the part of each citizen in the affairs of his local government...
...administration of President Grant was marred by grave scandals reaching into the Cabinet itself; the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur were filled with such serious patronage scandals that civil service reform was forced through by an indignant country; the administration of President McKinley saw the graft and rottenness of the War Department and other bureaus during and following the Spanish-American War; the Administration of President Taft stirred the country with its Ballinger episode, and that nation is now shocked by the events which have occurred since March 4, 1921. On the other side...
...Daugherty investigation was devoted chiefly to calling ex-employees of the Department of Justice and trying to establish that certain alleged war graft cases had not been prosecuted for political reasons. One of the witnesses brought in the name of Secretary of War Weeks who, it was asserted, had withdrawn a case from the Department of Justice instead of allowing a claim for $5,000,000 to be prosecuted...
...judge, and to pay $25,000 additional when the nomination was confirmed. He declared that no beneficiaries were named, except "the boys." ¶ A special agent of the Department of Justice testified that his investigations had been blocked when he started to dig too deeply into certain alleged War graft cases. ¶ Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of the late Jesse M. Smith, continued her miscellaneous testimony. Her most sensational remarks dealt with a "deal" in which five men made $33,000,000 in a few days. She did not care to reveal their names and the Committee did not press...
...come to Washington and care to inform yourself more fully, I shall be glad to place at your disposal information gathered by the Citizens' Federal Research Bureau, which I have founded for the purpose of stamping out the wholesale graft of all kinds that has been going on in the Federal Government...