Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-12-08
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

aousc TTlnIef WaXeu nercely all JSSo""J
among the friends of the different candidates
| for the nomination of the Democratic caucus.
The Printer of the last House certainly had on
his side the hearty sympathy Of most Of the
people of Washington not immedistely inter
ested in causing his defeat, who wsrssfew In
number The truth is no other Public Printer
| had ever been 50 useful to Washington through
his business energy, enterprise and liberality
az Mr. Wendell, and il is also we'll known to
oil Democrats Of the Federal Metropolis, that
in affording substantial aid to the Democratic
cause in time of need, he has expended thou
sands, perhaps, where the most liberal of his
predecessors expended hundreds That there
should exist great sympathy for him in con-
test In which, in order to compass his defeat,
he was denounced as being swindler. and for
almost everything else reprehensible under the
sun, Is, therefore, by no means singular 1t is
but just to add that his opponents for the nom-
nation were not his denouncers; but others,
whose approaches through friends for bargains
with reference to the future Of the printing, he
repealed
The proceedings in the caucus last night,
wherein he was beaten by vote of so to 81
several members Withdrawing before the vote
created intense excitement in all the gathering
places for the legion of Democratic politicians
now in the Federal Metropolis.
One hundred and eight members were in at.
tendance when the caucus opened. l22 Demo-
Gratis having been present in the House in the
course of the day.
Aswe anticipated yesterday, the allegation
made by Mr.. Clemens on the previous Saturday
night, in caucus, again came up. Mr. Faulkner
read correspondence between himself and
Messrs. Wendell and Clemens, in which Mr.. C.
declared that an individual whom he refused
to the end to name, had approached him with
an offer that if he would vote in caucus for
Mr. Wendell, or even withdraw from it. his
(Mr. C.'s) mother should be provided for by a
settlement upon her-the person making the
proposition being (as alleged by Mr.. Clemens
an active friend of Mr.. Wendells election
MIR. Wendell, in his reply to the allegation
denied emphatically that any such offer had
made With his knowledge or consent, and de-
manded the name of the individual; adding
that 1t must have been made by some one {: too
lazy to work, too proud to steal, and ashamed
to beg
MIR. Clemens said when the proposition was
made, he referred the individual to the act of
Congress prescribing penalties against ap-
proaches to members for corrupt purposes
The man was in his power, but for the sake of
his family he would not expose him.
The correspondence having been read, vote
for public printer ensued
Mr.. Houston then withdrew the name of Mr.
Banks, and proposed that of Mr. Steadman,
who received 90 votes, the Southern and West
ern members uniting Mr. Wendell received
81 votes, Mr. Faulkner and Mr. Hopkins vot-
ing for Mr.. Harris, Of the Union
TWAS rumored over the city last night that
a considerable number of the friends of Mr..
Wendell, not satisfied with the manner in
which he had been beaten in the caucus, de-.
sign to support him in the House We place
no confidence in the report, however, antici-
Pating that though naturally indignant against
the policy to compass his defeat, essayed by q
portion OF the press anxious for a division of
the printing among themselves, Mr. w. will
not permit his name to be used against the
nominee of a Democratic caucus under apy
circumstances, whatever.
GROWING BEFORE THEY ARE OUT OF THE
WooDs.-Both branches of the opposition press
are Growing Justify over the defeat Of Fernando
Wood, as triumph over the Democratic party
in the city of New York That's ull fol -de.rol.
Daniel +. Tiemann has heretofore been as
staunch Democrat as ever lived He was six
times elected to Office by the Democratic party,
and was delegate TO the late Cincinnati Dem-
Ocratic National Convention As a Democrat
only, he was supported by thousands of his Do
litical friends; and his political opponents who
voted for him, did so with the distinct knowl-
edge beforehand that, if elected, he would
make even a more strictly Democratic party
administration of his trust than his opponent
could be expected to make, surrounded as he
was by innumerable personal obligations to his
personal adherents Of all parties
We perceive that not a few presses, devoted
apparently to Mayor W God personal fortunes,
are making fierce war on the real leader of the
opposition TO him, the Hon Daniel E. Sickles,
by whom the plan Of Mr. Teiman's campaign
isunderstood to have been arranged, and under
whose supervision it was carried out The
truth is, Mayor Wood was credited with being
the real author Of the personal attacks on Mr..
Siekles, appearing within the last few months
in the New York Herafd which furnished the
latter with u justification for his persistent
opposition to the formers reelection. They
were bitter, and, to say the least of them, so
unjustiGable that few men would have failed
to retaliate them as Mr. s. did.
We are no believer in the propriety of oppo-
sing one 8 party nominations; but at times, more
especially where a contest is wholly an inter
party one, as in this case in New York, circum-
stances arise which seem to justify such ap-
parent tergiyersatiOns as that Of Mr. SickIes. on
this occasion. The articles popularity attributed
to Mayor Wood, in tine Herald, against Mr..
Sickles, are known to have shortened the life
Of his mother; under which circumstances to
have sustained him would have been an act Of
christian forbearance for which few will be apt
to credit a New York city politician, who may
be familiar with the genus.
The CoNsTIrUTIoN.-As We predicted. on
the appearance of that instrument in print