Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1864-06-24
Correspondence Muscatine Daily Journal
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Blair Tribe Come to Grief Mr..
Chase Standardization and HOlEO-
aUay-etc., etc.
WASHINGTON CITY, June IS.

! Chase STANDARDIZATION ana .40lO-
aOay-etc., etc.
WASHINGTON CITY, June IS.
Your readers may have observed that
for some time the affection of your cor
, respondent for the Blair family has not
been intense. Damon loved Pythias
more, Orestes, Pylades, also, not to men,
ton David and Jonathan. So the fact
of the Blairs coming to grief causes no
lamentations hereaways. If there be
any who want to go into jeremiads
about it, let 'em jeremiad. 1t is not our
funeral. el.... f....t
The Blairs first came to grief at Balti-
more. The question of the admission of
the Missouri radicals had several sides
to it. In the first place, the special
friends of Secretary Chase demanded
, their admission. The outside pressure
J from them was very heavy. 1t was con-
, coded by almost all that Mr.. Chase was
entitled to this much consideration at
the hands of the convention-that his
known radical sentiments, his ability
and craftsmanship deserved recognition
and approval. Then, Mr.. Frank Blair
had gone out of Congress Safeguarding
) Mr. Chase like a pick-pocket, and it was
thought the Missouri renegade deserved
the cut direct for his insolence and cal
jimmy in this matter. So friendship for
Chase and contempt of Blair were two
strong elements in the question. This
it was which made the majority for the
radicals so overwhelming-440 to 4. But
for this, the radicals would indeed have
, been admitted by a large majority, but
not by so nearly unanimous vote, and
it is not certain but the conservatives
would have been granted the courtesy OF
seats in the convention instead of being
) contemptuously kicked out Of it. Mr..
Chase had more friends in that cOnven-
l tion-which, call it by whatsoever name
you please, was to all intents and pur-
poses a radical convention-than any
man in America, except Mr.. Lincoln
: himself. Moreover, the members, or at
S any rate a large majority of them, ac
lively sympathized with the Missouri
radicals, and not even Abraham Lincoln
I could have brought influences to bear
which would have changed the result
The convention thought proper, and
: think most wisely, to give the Blairs a
cut direct not only, and to sustain Chase,
t but to give courteous hint to the Pres
:, ident that the Clayb banks of Missouri
= might go to the ''demnition bow-wowsn
at once.
D The next day after the adjournment of
: the National Convention, at the Balti-
more City Convention, the Blairs again
= We're completely thrashed, by the pass
age of a resolution expressly and point
y eddy condemning them. Congress
| turned out Frank, the other day, and
: gave Knox the st. Louis seat, and it
f will not be long till the fiery and some
a what bloated young man will have his
y straps legislated Off his shoulders. That
is the general opinion, whereat almost
everybody rejoices. l am well assured
> that Montgomery will walk Spanish out
of the Cabinet, but | regret that it may
not be as soon as it ought to be.
ID. p. Holloway, OF Richmond, Ind,
is, as your readers know, Commissioner
of Patents. In some respects he is a
D good officer. He writes very readable
. reports, for instance, or has very reada-
bic reports published over his name
He is right good fellow, socially, too,
> and-"a temperance man. So far so
. good. But he is one Of your oid-line
: Wings, one of that school of timd poll
. ticians who have so long cursed Indiana
and kept it all the while III Il sea of doubt,
never being able to carry'it except under
e the most fOrtuitOus circumstances. =
George w. Julian, representative in
Congress from the Richmond district, is
quite different man - bold, radical,
t straightforward. He is, in fact, one of
the ablest men in Congress, whether as
speaker or practical legislator, and is
certainly, by general confession, head
e and shoulders above any of his col
leagues in the Indiana delegation, not
excepting ColfaX and by no means Lane,
of the Senate. Julian has recently
: been re-nominated, beating Gen. Sol.
e Meredith, a sympathetic chum of Hol-
loway's, by very large majority. And
! now the Patent Commissioner refuses to
: support Julian. He can have no reason
for it under the sun, except the unrea-
e sonable one of personal spite. / should
look upon the defeat of Julian as q great
calamity, and Mr.. Holloway is most GER
tainly belittling himself in the estima-
ton of good and true men here. In fact,
a delegation Of Senators and members
called upon the President day or two
ago, and demanded the peremptory dis
: missal of the Commissioner. The exec
utive cid not say he would remove Hol-
loway, but he did say he must support
Julian. This morning, he does support
e him ''heartilyW There is Commission
). er Holloway for you. Three thousand
dollars and stealings make big thing
Whether Holloway shall remain Com
Q missioner or not is a matter of utter in
. difference TO most men, but it is certain
y that in this great crisis of our national
; affairs, the country needs the counsels,
and the Legislative wisdom of George
-, w. Julian.
. The Iowa Association has sent to the
Sanitary Fair, so soon to commence at
u Dubuque, some seven hundred dollars
in cash, and Photographic albums, auto
Z graph books, etc., which will probably
increase the donation to a thousand dol
;. lars. The Iowanss ojourning here were,
J with but few exceptions, quite gener-
= Gus in this regard. The most of them
q: contributed not grudgingly, but gener-
S ously. Some refused to give, a few,
perhaps. with good reason, others out of
!, unmixed stinginess. They ought to be
'blowed up" sky high, and turned out
: of governmental employ forthwith.
t Fred. Bridgman, Esq, of your city,
y gave ME a call this morning. He is
stopping at the Avenue House, and pur-
poses remaining in this ungodly city a
}. day or two longer. Heaven have mercy
r on him! We sympathized together over
o the death of the gallant Major John, in
telligence of which had just reached me
in your daily of the l4th.
f | cannot close without congratulating
y you on the enlarged and improved APP
n pearance of your excellent diurnal,"
f and you, friend John, especially, in Sc
e curing as your associate so good and able
h journalist as Mr.. Davis. The JOURNAL
y must now take rank with our best pa
4 pers, and do most heartily wish for it a
| Iorf I'd iva
e of usefulness. LINKENsALE.