New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-24
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clean breast of it, Aud thcreupon have nap
| pened two surprises. Senator Morton, to
| whom he made the clean breast, Has sur
| prised and with his surprise there seems to
have been mingled feeling somewhat akin
| to disgust. At this the Hon. Mr.. Pinchback
was surprised Precisely how the two states
men sat and contemplated each other after
| the revelations were made we are not IN
| formed But it could not have been other than
| a most interesting tablcau. The reporter
of the Associated Press informs us that
Senator Morton, having Just heard certain
| damaging reports about the election sent
| for Mr. Pinchback to make inquiries about
! them Mr.. Morton must be u little hard OF
| - hearing" These damaging reports, which
have Just reached him. and which the Hon.
Mr. Pinchback admits to be true. were pub
| lished in the special correspondence OF The
TRIBUNE from New Orleans last Summer.
They have been rife in Louisiana ever since
| the occurrences To which they relate trans
pred and no one has ever. 80 far ~ we know.
denied them But they have only Just reached
the ears of Mr. Morton.
Doubtless Plnchback answered the summons
of the Senator, whom he looked upon as his
lounged about Washington long enough to
learn something of the antecedents OF the
leading Statesmen, and the means by which
they obtained their preferment, he naturally
enough supposed he was entirely safe i'll dis
closing the methods aud processes of his own
advancement IL is not difficult to believe
that he told his little story with quiet
chuckle over his own smartness. and comDla-
cent assurance that the Indiana Senator would
find in it additional reasons for rewarding 50
efficient political manager with seat IN the
Senate 1t is safe to say that he reckOned
upon advancing himself in the good graces OF
Mr.. Morton, and making good his own title
to the name of leading statesman, by relating
how he had cheated everybody and won his
way by cunning rascality. That the revela-
ton should surprise politician like Mr.. Nor
ton bewidered him. That a member of a
Senate in which Patterson sits and over which
Carpenter presides should pretend to be dis
gusted at 80 plain tale was incOmprehensi-
bic. And 80 the two surprised each other.
Upon this state of facts Mr.. Morton has
abandoned the attempt to seat Pinchback upon
the prima fdcis case afforded by his creden-
tias. and has asked that the matter be re-
ferred to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections to make inquiry as to the question
able practices by which the election was Sc
cured. The abandonment Of his case pom
what he considers so slight pretext
has aroused the ire of the Louisiana
gentleman, and he is reported to be
prancing around at lively rate, threatening
damaging disclosures concerning the opera
tons of Louisiana politicians. No doubt he
can if he is 80 disposed tell some very inter
esting stories on that head, as he has been
inside Louisiana politics far enough and long
enough to have gathered q great variety of
valuable information concerning the habits
and practices of the leading persons who gov
ern the State and divide among themselves the
plumber.
1t is too late now to retrieve the blunder
into which his o-confiding nature led him.
The statement in last evenings dispatches,
that his friends deny that he made any con-
fessiOn, is too plainly an afterthOught-in the
| language of the street, "tOO thin" The ex-
PLANTATION that Senator MOrtOn's motion to
recommit alarmed him, and induced his threats
of turning on the Kellogg party, will not do.
| The desire of Pinchback's friends that the
case shall be fought out on its merits will
probably he gratiied, and no man knows its
merits now better than Senator Morton. Pinch
had better go right on with his exposure.
| The only thing he can do to give himself any
satisfaction is to break the party crockery
and that is an exercise which great many
better men than he have found to be very
delightful. There is q bare possibility that the
| Committee on Privileges aud Elections may
vindIcats him without examining the evil
dence that is getting to be common prac-
tice in the Senate, but we fear his clean breast
| of it to Senator Morton is too much for him
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