The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-04-18

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ton" Qor the Assembly, says our Republican
contemporary, the Daily Times of this city,
''is reported to have been secured by free
expenditure of the money of Erie'-that
Winans sis an adherent of Senator Fenton,
and owed his first nomination for the Assem-
bly, to the influence of that political chief,
who, in turn, owes his place in the United
States Senate to Tammany Hall and the Erie
ring" Itappears, furthermore, from our afore-
saidindignant and chopfallen cotemporary, that
Winans, down to last Friday night, was held
by the Assembly Republicans as one of the
very staunchest and trustiest of them all;
that he was remarkably conspicuous in the
''round robin" against Tammany; but that,
'unknowing to himself, two men appear to
have been preparing for him the path of
treachery;" that ''the one was his political
sponsor and the other was his employer"
that ''the one was United States Senator
Fenton and the other was Jay Gould;" that
''these two were closeted together for two
hours on Friday, and that at that interview
there is reason to believe Winans was Sc
lected to take the bribe of Tweed, said to be
seventy.five thousand dollars cash down, with
the additional bribe thrown in by the Erie
ring of five years tenure of position
worth five thousand dollars year" May we
not ask, "How is that for high ?"
A Herald correspondent at Albany, in his
very. interesting letter of Saturday last upon
this business, gives substantially the same
facts of the gossip afoat touching the alleged
buying and selling of Winans. Our corre-
spondent gives the rumor that Winans was
offered fifty thousand dollars and a five
thousand dollars per annum sinecure for five
years, if he held firm; and that make it
seventy-fve thousand dollars down and let
the sinecures go and 1 am yours, was the
answer said to have been made" Our COR
respondent, however, says further, that eff
Winans were poor man there would be but
one opinion as to the motive power which
flung him into the ranks of the Democratic
party; but it seems that he is rich and lives
like nabob at Albany, and 'that the real
power behind the throne" in this belt of
Winans ''is, in the opinion of many, the Erie
Railw way; because Winans is an employe of
the road, was elected by its influence, and
can be elected by it again, no matter what
ticket he may run on; and that "the Erie
folks owe the Democracy q debt of graft
tude for having choked to death Good
richss plan to put an end to their rascali-
ties"
Here, then, from two intelligent sources at
Albany, wholly independent of each other, we
have the opinion that the Erie Railway had
much to do in this alleged purchase of
Winans. On this basis, however, of mere
money consideration, this bolt of his from
the Republican camp to the Democracy is
nothing more than the repetition of the old
familiar story of these last twenty-five years
of Albany bargains and sales. On the other
hand, MIR. Winans rises to the dignity of a
great political intriguer upon the theory that
in going over to Tammany he acted under the
advice and in the interest of Senator Fenton,
and for the purpose of administering deadly
blow to General Grant in New York as the
Republican candidate for the Presidential
succession. This theory, too, is so very plau-
sible that we cannot resist the temptation to
recite some of the historical facts which go to
support it.
publican factions in this State are the Fenton
faction and the Conkling faction. The New
York Tribune has been from the beginning
and still is identified with the Fenton faction;
the Times has been and still is anti -Fenton.
These facts may account to some extent for
the specific indictment of Senator Fenton by
the Times in connection with this Winans
affair, and also for the peculiar doubling and
twisting of the Tribune on the round robin.
For our present purpose it is enough that
Winans is political pr0tege of Fenton, and
that Fenton has become dissatisfed-yea,
disguised with General Grant and his admin
istration. In being ruled out of the Custom
House by Mr.. Murphy and Senator Conkling
the truth is, we fear that Senator Fenton is
ready to repeat the third party movement of
Martin Van Buren, of 184S against the admin
istration and the regular Presidential candi.
date of the dominant party. Mr. Winans,
therefore, as Fenton man, has probably been
acting under the advice of his political guide
and friend in the desertion of his party al
Albany and in thus turning what otherwise
would have been great victory in behalf OF
the unity and harmony of the Republicans
of New York into decisive victory for Tam.
many Hall against General Grant and his
administration.
THE COMING REVOLUTION OF LABOR
From the N. Y. Times
1t is narrow and imperfect view of the
Paris revolution, which is taken by many Of
our contemporaries, that it is merely an out
break of the discontented spirits who always
congregate in Paris 1t is true it is move
ment of the French working men of that
city especially, and of the Rouge wing of thai
| body. 1t will have its own terrible and gro
tesque French characteristics. 1t will pro
claim words of love and perform deeds o
blood 1t has in effect already declared the
belief in God superstition of the past anG
religion a chimera; it sacks churches anc
| plumbers priests, yet its proclamations and
orders will be filled with gushing expressions
of universal philanthropy and promises of the
kingdom of love and fraternity. The beau
tiful monuments of Paris, which commemo
rate French victories, are too redolent OF
blood and violence for these gentle enthu
siasts, and yet they will soon mark ever,
threshold with its bloody stain in an absurd
civil strife, and shoot their own best country
men who may be suspected of opposing theil
ambition. The streets of Paris will run will
blood, while the walls will be covered will
GDiches of fraternity and good will.
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