Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-07-02
THE REPUBLICAN.
n0RRY 0lLANusl EpIsTLE.

the Investigating ommittee-~A tshvh
the Candidates--',r< <anitauon oi me
Grant aud Colfax Club.
Being in Brooklyn again, and able
TO deliver my correspondence with.
out mail or telegraph'c assistance, !
can write TO you again.
| was in Washington last week
Butler had his eye upon me, and any
thing | might have written to you or
Mrs OLanus would have been seized
before it left Washington and incor-
porated in the documentary evidence
of the Impeachment Investigating
Committee, and goodness knows what
the consequences might have been.
So didn't write.
Butler went around toall the banks
in Washington TO see how much mon
ey had on deposit.
He was very much disgusted at the
result. SO was Though it was just
what expected
| hadn't money enough to buy a
New York AssemblymaD, let alone a
Senator of the United States.
But one ofmy telfgraphic dispatches
had been seized, which brought me
under suspicion.
Brcvity is the soul of economy in
telegraphing, so had condensed my
message 70 the following;
To TIrus 0'BLIouE, Brooklyn;
WASHINGTON, May rs.
d. laid out, Anthony eaved, P. 0. all right
g. L..
/ was subpened before the Mana
gers TO explain this nefarious dispatch,
which was clear and conclusive evil
dence of corruption as Butler read it.
"B," he said meant laid out
on impeachment "Anthony cavcd, T"
meant the Senator from Rhode Island.
"P," stood for Pomeroy, the "O," he
couldn't see through.
As an American citizen with inalien-
able rights Tat first refused indignant
ly TO explain this strictly private dis
patch; but when Butler ordered the
Sergeant-at-Arms to lock me up in
Winnie Ream's studio with bust of
Licoln, my courage failed me and /
deciphercd the dispatch, which refer
red TO my personal prospects for Post
Master Of Brooklyn; Boggs was laid
out, Anthony Campbell had given up
and gone home, and that / was all
right for the Postofiice.
So thought, but like the Impeach-
ers, l was disappointed.
Butler was not satisfied with this
explanation and threatened TO send
for Boggs, TO see if he couldn't pump
contradiction out of him.
1t wouldn't have been the first time
shat Boggs had rode into publicity on
pump.
Alter this narrow escape | curbed
my cristolary zeal, and avoided the
Postottice and telegraph while | re-
mained in WAshington.
Since Wooley has been provided
with free lodgings in he Capitol, sew
eral families who complain of high
rents have offered their services to
the Managers as contumacious wit.
nesses, but as there wouldn't be apart
ments enough in the Capitol to ac.
commodate them without turning
Congress out OF doors, the offers have
been declined.
Butler thinks witnesses without
capital are not worth lodging in the
Capitol But a witness worth TWEEN.
ty thousand dollars is not to be lost
sight of, aslongas there is any chance
Of getting ut the money.
| called on Grant and congratulated
him on his nomination, aud assured
him of the Weeksville Grant Club,
which intended TO join as soon | goI
home.
In that charmingly terse and non
committal way he responded "Mar
shall Browns pups have got theil
eyes openw
After this explicit response there
can be no doubt that the devotion Of
the W. G. G. will be recognized wher
Grant is President.
/ then called on Colfax and assured
him that he had been the choice o
Weeksville from the start, that th,
resolutions endorsing Fenton wer'
merely complimentary, out of graft
tude for the pardon of q relative o
the Secretary OF the club, who, having
no funds of his own at the bank, ha,
used the name of gentleman VIII,
bad, on q check for q thousand dol
lars, for which the prejudiced crimi
nal authorities had sent him to Slug
Sing.
/ also reminded Schuyler that he
and were brother typos. He was q
printer in his carly life, and you u,
doubt remember with gratitude how
/ came to your assistance atthat tim,
of the printers strike, and set up
portion of my epistle.
/ meant TO have followed it up an,
become a regular printer, but whei
Mrs. O'Lanus heard that you wer,
employing young ladies to set type sh'
objected.
She saidit wasn't proper for a mar
ried man to be setting up with tb'
girls.
As Grant has so eloquently expires
sed it, said, "let us have peace" ant
dropped the case for the pen, which i
mightier than the shooting stick.
Colfax and were old friends afte
this introduction. l told him tha
his rulings in the chair had alway
elected my warmest admiration, AM
as Ben Wade had been found want
ing, no filter man for promotion coul'
have been selected, and that | had III
fullest conviction that he would 20 u
in November next with the entir
ticket
Colfax was very afable, but b