Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1872-08-19

| ABOUT RkCORDS.
Mr.. John L. FarnswOrtb, there Is no doubt,
alludes 10 himself and his present political
associates when he says that "rccOrds are
very ugly things" Retormors like Farms
worth should have no records, excepting
good ones. That Farnsworth Il Co. arc la
mentally deficient Ia that respect IL painfully
evident. For Instance there Is Doolltte, who
is or was few days ago playing the highly
respectable away down East DoOlittc's vic
tuous soul burns with honest indignation
against the corruptlouists whom he sees In
power He Is anxious 10 sweep them all into
the ocean, and, like another Peter the Hermit.
has entered upon a wordy crusade against
"tho rings that have fastened themselves
upou the country" DOOlittlc would be q trG-
mendous power only that ugly Counatty
cotton record oomesup and the silver-tougucd
orator Is driven To an eternal silence. Then,
there Is Farnsworth himself. His record Is
so "ugly that 1t cannot be fifty character
lied without gross proclamation, and as the
REPUBLICAN Is respectable, high.tOned
journal and never prOiane, we must be eX-
cused from saying anything further about It,
| Theodore TiltOn, another Of the reformers,
would bo a tower Of strength In the movement
only that every time he opens his lips gu the
subject that ugly record" made at the
Parker House In Boston, which led TO his
dismissal from the Independent is remembered
by some malicious people. Even Mr.. Gree
ey himself was uukind enough to refer TO It
In letter on free love to Mr.. gilton which
was published not many months since.
Kupalricks zeal 10 the cause Of re-
form Is only surpassed by his infamy In
the army and In a foreign country as the
representative Of the United States. lie
has brought ono or two libel suits against
newspapers that have ycnturcd to print what
Is go well known, that he had introduced to
society In Chill woman not his wife. We
are amazed at his impudence and audacity
In daring to contradict what Is so easily sus-
ccptible Of proof. We arc anxious to give
the sOre-headod general a chance to bring a
suit against the REPUBLICAN, and TO that
end we charge: that he led a life Of the most
uublushlng infamy In the army, and kept
around his headquarters women Of ill-fame
dlsguised 10 male apparel. We charge this
against General Fitzpatrick aud dare him to
contradict It,
| Horace White Is another Of the pure
minded patriots who talks about reform.
Horace's record Is not the best In tho world.
He and the present editor Of the other Trt-
bune were members Of whisky ring In
this city some few years ago, aud real
lied handsome fortune 10 specializing
In news stolen from Que Of the commit
tees Of Congress. Horace Greeley has de-
nounced another of his rcfOrmers as a man
who robbed his Government while he repre-
| sented II In a diplomatic capacity. Then
| there Ia Reuben L. Feuton. The New York
| E1cniHJ Post, when FentOn came To Wash
ington as the successor of Mr.. Morgan,
called upon the heads Of departments TO is
sue an order excluding him from the Gov
ernment offices. We might add to this list
number Of Names But what Is the use? The
country knows them thoroughly from Nc
Clure down TO tho end Of the list.
Charles Sumner Is almost the only
decent man In the ranks of the Lib
eral Republicans whose record Is not,
US FarnsNorth says, an ugly thing" There
may be others, but VIC cannot recall their
names Just nGsy. How the massachusetts
Senator can cast his fortunes and acknowl-
edge association with them Is certainly
strange and unaccUuntable.
These arc the men who arc now screaming
about honesty and purity, and abusing men
infinitely better and puror and more patriotic
than they. These are the men whom the New
York Nation denounces as "5Omo Of the worst
characters In the country" Tho Nation Is
right and knows whereof it speaks II the
control Of the Government shall ever come
into their hands II will be one Of the greatest
calamlti0s that could possibly happen to II,
Whenever one Of these fellows is alluded to,
rs we have just alluded to them, and Us VIC
intend 10 allude 10 them again and again,
shout goes up about the personality Of the
'Grantpapers.' They have brought 1t all Upon
themselves. They were the first to introduce
personality into the campaign. The President
Of the United States has been abused by each
aud every one of them In the cOarscst and
most brutal terms They have treated every
man Of prominence in the party and of emf
hence In the country who ayOws himself for
General Grant In the same way-Senator
Morton, Senator Conkllng, Senator Chandler,
Wendell Phillips, Gerrlt Smith, Mr.. Garrison,
Mr. White, Mr.. Blaine, Mr.. Wise Mr.. Lyons
and a thousand others. No eplthet has been
too vile to apply to these gentlemen, all be-
cause they prefer General Grant to Mr..
Greeley; because they elect TO stand by the |
Republican party and refuse to join in the
campaign of calumny against the soldier who
saved his country and the honest, fair aud
honorable President who has done more for
republicanism than any man living. The case |