Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-06-04


guage NAV seem a little harsh; but we hon
estly think the good of the party and
the country requires that something should
be done. 1t is time the Press were speaking
out upon this subject, for we know that too
long a silence has been maintaincd-a ST.
lence which has been seized upon, and con-
strued into tacit endorsement of the
course of Jesse ID. Bright, and his trading
brethren, who have brought such deep dis
grace upon our party and our State. The
people are right on this subject.
The Rockport Democrat, another unre-
lenting Old Line sheet, devotes three col
umns TO most damaging exposure Of
Bright's career, from which we now extract
the following:
We now come to the grand game of Jug
glery by which Bright for time crushed
his great rival, Gov Wright, bamboozled
the peoples Representatives most glori-
ously, (whether by the free use of whisky,
or the freer use of promises of Bank stock
and fat offices, we are at loss to deter
mine, and played smash with our Demo
cratic crockery-ware generally. We were
there all the time, saw the maneuvers, and
know the lick it was done by; therefore
what we say on this head we know to be
strictly true, and can be relied upon. Early
in the session the redoubtable United States
Senator arrived at the Capitol, AMI took a
suit of rooms at the Palmer, and made
himself as comfortable during the biggest
part of two months as ''gin cocktails" and
''eight dollars day" could possibly make
a man feel. Here we find the particular"
lion of Indiana Democracy, in fact, as his
friends are vain enough to think, "the own
er of our party" and the man who it is
supposed by greenhorns, ''carried Indiana
for Buchanan" laying his ropes to beat
tn, sterling Democrat, Joe Wright, for the
Senate. Jesse maneuvered for some five
weeks in the belief that he could crush
Wright openly and above board, and with
an apparent show of fairness. but, alas. he
found out his mistake. He became con-
vinced that duplicity and stratqgem must
be resorted to, and Jesse is not the man to
hesitate at any meanness, when an objec: is
to be accomplished. He therefore opened
negotiations with Gov Wright and his
friends, the finale of which was treaty of
peace, a recon ,aidt;on of all past Difficult
ties. The terms wer, that Bright and
Fitch should go to the United States SEN
ate, and the Gov. be unanim susly recon-
mended to Cabinet appointment. Gov.
Wright and his friends, who were actually
in the majority, scrupulously performed
their part of the contract by electing Bright
and Fitch to the Senate, but, be it said to
the everlasting shame and damning disgrace
of Bright. that at the very time Wright
and his friends were performing their stip-
ulations the friends of Bright, no doubt in
structed by him to do so, were senling let
tcrs and dispatches to Wheatland, implor-
ing Buchanan not to appoint Wright as
one of his Cabinet These letters were
soon followed up in person by Bright, who
visited Wheatland and made verbal pro-
tests against Gov Wright's appointment.
Such unparalleled duplicily, meanness and
political knavery in Indiana. was alone re-
servel for Jesse ID. Bright. Joseph A..
Wright though beaten by such disgracefu
means, towers as far above Jesse d. Bright,
in the estimation Of the masses of Indiana
Democracy, as the Heavens are above the
Earth. While the former will be impressed
upon the grateful remembrarc, of our chill
drcn, the latter will be remembered only
with scorn and contempt.
Mr. Bright has not made more than he
needs by his Senatorial speculation. judg
ing from these extracts. We are sorry
these gentlemen are so infatuated as to trust
blindly to Gov. Wrights political sound
ness,-he has little to recommend him to
the esteem of any man in that rcgard. but
we are glad they show independence enough
to condemn a rascally swindle, although
made by their own party leaders, and for
the party's behoof. ,