The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1866-12-20
q. Washington Wood-Exchange
on NoW-Yo1k

q. Washington Wood-Exchange
on NeW-Yoxk
ION the morning Of the 10th OF No
vember, 1866, Col. john A. BRrDeLAND
came into our Office, stated that he had
recently made large amount of money
speculating in cotton, that he had just
come from Green Mount Water Cure,
where nc had spent the previous night
with Gov. MoRTox, and he had come to
rs TO solicit our influence in the support
Of the Governor as candidate for
United States Senator. We replied to
his remarks by saying tina. We had no
very radical objections to the Governor s
going to the Senate. bat that the tiicta-
torial course pursued by the Governor
organ at Indianapolis was not very we'll
calculated to bring others to the support
Of its candidate. Col. BRIDGLAxD then
said that the Union papers Of Wayne
county wsuA support the Governor and
he wanted the Telegram to put itself in
the right attitude towards MoRron and
that We could "DRAw UPON HIM, AT NEW
YoRk, FOR THE AMOUNT" We Of course,
declined the proposition, and the Colonel,
after spending an hour or more in pres
sing the matter upon rs, finally with
drew. Telegram.
The above paragraph is from the Tel.
egram Of last week, and we submit to
our readers and the public generally,
that the story is bad on its face. It is
what JOHN PETIT called "self evident
ue." According TO his own showing,
this offer was made after the Telegram
had come out in favor Of JULIAN, when it
was entirely too late 10 buy the paper up
for any good purpose We will state
this proposition and we think every body
will believe il who is acquainted with
GEORGE WASHINGTON WooD, that if
BRIDGLAND offered him bride, he would
have taken it unless he was before
bribed on the other side, and the proba-
bility is, he would do it then.
GEORGE WASHINGTON WooD refuse to
sell out the columns of his paper! The
thing is incredible, and we are sure not
one of his acquaintances will believe it.
All the circumstances contradict his
story. His interview with HOLLOWAY
contradicts it emphatically. Tie Gov
ERNoR asked Mr.. HOLLOWAY TO enquire
the name of his liberal friend who had
offered TO buy the Telegram. If friend
OF the GOVERNOR had made an offer,
why not tell the GOVERNOR the name of
his friend HOLLOWAY believed from
his manner, and what he said, that no
and we believed it, and we believe it
now, and We believed it from the first
But, he says, BRIDGLAND authorized
.,i,u to draw upon him in New York. aud
hc did not limit the amount. What an
imp.udent man! He ought to have fixed
some amount, say five thousand dollars,
beyond which WOOD could not draw;
it was very imprudent to leave himself
at the mercy Of this INSCRIPTIONS W. GOD.
Bah! Bah! Mr.. Woep, You have made
an ass OF yourself
The Telegram Tor several years had
been violently opposed to JULIAN, and
all at once, without any visible cause, it
came out in his favor in an article cvi.
IDENTIFY not written by MR. WooD. and
which We believe was furnished and paid
for. This fact we charged upon him.
and in reply and defence he minated
that friend Of GovERNoR MORTON had
offered him money consideration to
come out in the Governors favor. We
denied this, and for three weeks called
upon him to name the friend. and he has
at last produced the above story.
And now, we beg leave modestly, but
sincerely, to express the opinion, that the
article in the Telegram Of last week. to
which we are replying, is q compound
and concocted affair in which the hand
and genius of the Editor of the True
Republican are plainly visible. IKE !
JULIAN, and WASH. WOODS, united to. |
gether! What a villainous combination
What vile and rascally compound We
think ISAAC has helped to elect BRrpe.
LAND to fill the place which Woop has
assigned him in the story. ISAAC has
not forgotten the little affair on the cars |
when he was ''hsnd and glore" with
BRlpGLANp. and in which he behaved as |
became scholar and . gentleman" |
and would doubtless like to take little
revenge when BxIDGLANp is a thousand !
miles of.
But let US suppose, for the sake Of the |
argument, that Woods story is true
about BRIDGLAND. BRIDGLAND would not |,
have offered to bride WooD unless he |
believed WOOD could be bribed, he |
would not have dared to approach an |
honest man or . man Of good character !
in that way. and if he did, it was because /
he knew his man. But then follows the |
incredible statement that he refused the |
bride. If BRIDGLAEp authorized him to !
draw upon him in New York, withou,
limiting the amount, he could have made
money faster than he formerly did by |
selling whisksy, and that too without |
danger of being indicted. WooD:
WooD ask Us to believe in your .'.piris-