Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-07-18

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Mr.. Dodge has beer in Washing
ton, and assures Temperance men
they need have no fears He knows
of the reports Of theGenersls recent
public intoxica,ion. AT such q mo-
ment, and speaking as an officer of
a Temperance society, Mr.. Dodge,
would have denied the truth Of those
reports if he had been able to do SO
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sive, general terms in which he in.
dulges, will convince any thought.
full teetotaler that Mr.. Dodge we'll
knows and feels that he cannot deny
the Generals intemperance.
He has schooled himself into think.
ing that it does not amount to enough
to imperil the State, and hence, let
ting bis party feelings overrule his
temperance principles, he is willing to
run the risk. What we claim is
that, before he asks US to run any
risk, he lets US know the exact facts.
Then we will decide whether to run
it or not.
Mr.. Wilson's letter is ever moro
characteristic, and therefore evasivc.
He, too knows of the reports OF
Grants public drunkenness on par
ticular day in last January. IT we
mistake not, these reports were
brought more than once to his no.
tice. In his letter he says:
Il have seen General Grant in
camp, in his Office, at his own house,
and ut dinner parties where liquors
were freely used by others, but I
have never seen him when I had the
slightest reason to think he was in
any degree under the Influence of
drink"
Of course, no doubt. We car
bring 10000 people in that city of
Washington, who never saw Grant
drunk. There are 100000 in the
North who revcr saw Grant drunk.
We never saw Grant drunk or sober.
But Mr.. Wilson knows we'll that the
country never asked him, as a promi-
nent teetotaller, whether he had seen
Grant drunk. The question was,
"Sir, living in Washington, know
ing the facts or easily able to know
them, what are the facts as to these
alledged public exposures of your
Presidential candidate Z"
Mr.. Senator Wilson undertakes
to answer that question. His an
swer is, he never saw Grant drunk.
If any shrewd lawyer had, under the
circumstances, received from a wit
ness such an answer, he would have
asked no further question, but taken
it for granted, and argued to the jury
that the witness substantially admit.
ted the drunkenness. To US no fur
ther evidence is necessary. Know
ing Henry Wilson, We see in this
equivocation convincing evidence
that he csnnot and dares not deny
that he has heard from trust worthy
sources of this public drunken expo
sure of his candidate. Mr.. Wilson q
c0urse on this occasion is precisely
the same he pursued a year ago,
when, having originated q report as
to the drunkenness of q Massachu-
setts Congressman and afrsid to meet
the consequences. he cquivocated
himself out Of the responsibility.
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constituents admit his intcxicsfion,
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