The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-09-01

extremists In the despaIrng days OF sle demo-
cratic party. BiantOn-Dun voted for John f}eR
IN 1890 while he made speeches for Douglass in In
diana He was out OF the country when Leslie
was candidate at a subsequent day. He never
cast but one democratic vote, and that was Tor HO
ratio Seymour He was an actor In the Know
Nothing riots OF 1855, when the immediate con-
stituents OF Charles O'Conor were murdered in the
streets OF Louisville by the bloody Know Nothings.
The Louisville Convention Is a Grant diversion,
and a failure at that, and General Grants party
VIII have to answer for It,
Tale from tho Treasury Departments
How Straight-Outs are Attended To-
The Officials in q SulIen Mood Ia All
hut the supporters of Charles O'ConOr.
LOUISVILLE KY, August 81, 1872.
General Fayette Hewitt, Quartermaster General
oil kentucky. who has just returned home from
Washington, where he has been for several months
looking after the Kentucky war claim, tells an In
teresting story OF actual piece OF electOneeriDg
which took place In the Treasury Department
under his own personal observation. For several
years Virginia gentleman, who resigned a gov
eminent office and went South at the breaking
out OF the war, has been acting as agent
prosecuting claim against the government
amounting to something over one hundred thou
sand dollars. Heretofore he has been subject to
the gr0ssest afrrOnt, and sometimes treated with
absolute lnsOlence by the officials in whose Office
the claim rested. and who Ia considered by claim
ants to be one OF Boutwell's right hand men, He
Is the same parsonage to whose influence with
Boutwell, is attributed the nonpayment OF the
Kentucky claim. General Hewitt and the Virginia
claimant were In the Office OF this Official on tho
morning the news came contradictlng the report
that the democrats had carried North Carolina
When 1t was announced the virginia claimant
remarked that he was ''glad to near It,"
who, your interposed the Official why sor"
''wen,'' said the claimant "bccause It kills
CAN'T you FOR GREELEy9n
''No, l am opposed to Greeley. but not In favor
OF Grant; am for straishtout democratic
From that moment the official commenced to un-
bend and his claim commenced to move. From
claimant found himself treated like prince, and
the claim which he had given up all hopes or ever
getting was pushed through n IN less than n WEEK.
to go through the hands OF twenty-five different
clerks, and which requires ten days time at tho
best, the matter was so facilitated that
THE CHECK WAS MADE OUT
and delivered one afternoon. in less than four
hours. This clever treatment could not be attrb-.
opinion on the part OF the claimant when he heard
the news from Carolina. This whole transacton
passed under the personal observation OF General
Hewitt and he Is ready to vOuch for it at any time
though the above statement was not made on his
own motion, but at the solicitation Of the HERALD
correspondent. He says further that he has heard
OF numerous such cases In the Treasury De-
Parrtment where the Importance OF getting
The General, in the prosecution of the Kentucky
claim has had ample opportunity to watch the p0-
litcal WIRE working In this department.. He says
that before the name OF OCOnOr was mentioned IN
connection with the straight-Out movement there
was general dependency among the officials
eral Grant had been abandoned. News
OF O'COnOr's probable candidacy revived
matters wonderfully and changed the manners OF
the department officials toward democratic claim.
ants to such an extent as to completely dumiound
them. Now, anybody avOwlng that he Is Bour-
bon get his claims through at his own pleasure;
and to such extent is this attery of the straight
outs carried that the supporters OF the admins.
tratiOn have already commenced to complain Of
neglect and inattenttOn.