The Weekly Washington telegraph. (Washington, Ark.) 1871-18??, 1872-03-20
CLARK.

! Nit. W ilidiu L. VARS, sDActltiles
called Gen. Clark. late of Connecticut,
now hailing from Texas. made a speech
in the House on Saturday, in which he
is reported in the Times as having
"vindicated the Republican party in
Texas from the libels of the minority
ku>klux report and the New York
Tribune" That was superserviceable
effort. The chief libel from which the
Republicans Of Texas need deliveranoe
is William I. Clark. Though small
in person and mind, the man is
gigantic fraud. He sits ard votes and
talks and draws pay as Representative
in Congress of the Sd district of Texas,
when he knows right wei! that he is an
I impostor, who has no more right to the
money he draws from the treasury than
any burglar has who opens it with false
keys. He did not come so near an
election to this Congress by half as the
editor of this journal did, who did not
pretend to be elected at all. He under
takes to quarrel with the Tribune, when
his real quarrel is with the simple rules
Of arithmetic, with common honesty,
and with the district on which he has
been criminally imposed. The vote of
that district, as returned from the sew.
eral counties. stood as follows:
d. G. Giddings, 1854; VIM. T.
Clark, 20, 406; L. w. Stevenson, 400.
Yet the State canvassers, by throw
ing out the votes of Bosque, Brazos,
Freestone and Limestone counties, and
1922 cast for Giddings in Washington
reduced the aggregates to 1902 for
Giddings and is, i07 for Clark, and
gave the return to the latter, For
vote by counties, see Tribune Almanac
page "a. Gov. Davis had declared
Limestone county (Which gave Clark
%, Giddings l,l5S) in a state of in
surrec.ion. and therefore incapable of
casting legal vote; but the Legislature,
Overwhelmingly Republican, when
roconvoned soon after the count was
made, formally condemned and cen,
sured this proclamation. The federal
grand jury, which subsequently met at
Austin, and was mainly composed of
Republicans, indicted the Governor and
his accomplices for making this false
return, and they will be obliged to
stand trial like Others accused of felony.
We trust that they will have justice
done them, whatever that may be.
Mr.. Clark asserts that the Tribune
is hostile to him because he is for Grant
and against Greeley. We respond
that the Tribune regards the renomi-
nation of Gen. Grant unadvisable for
the reason (amopg others) that he is
incrusted with such barnacles as this
Clark, and is held responsible for their
frauds and corruptions. Throughout
the South especially, the robbers and
swindlers who have trebled the taxes
and quadrupled the debts of States
already impoverished and distressed
seek to shield their ipiqdities from rep
rotation and punishment by bowling
"Grant Grant Hurrah for Grant,"
Hence large proportion of the over
taxed and plundered masses revolt at
Gen. Grants reelection as booming
them to four years more of oppression
and spoliation by these thieves, Have
they not ressonf
Gen. Clark asserts that many DEM
ocrats and Rebels of Texas subscribe
for and read the Tribune. We are
very glad to hear it, and shall endeav-
or to justify their choice by telling the
whole truth impartially and rebuking
wrong without asking or caring which
party committed or seeks to profit by it.
Thus ye began early and worked hard
to turn John Edwards out of the seat
usurped by him as Representative
from Aikansas-not because he was
a Democrat, hut because he was corr
ruptly, fraudulently returned by Clay
ton & 20. We we're against him, not
because of his politics, but because he
was not elected. Our objection to
Clark is exactly the same; and we
reoret that the House Committee of