Litchfield enquirer., 1874-02-12
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL. FoRTY-FIRsT CONGRESS, U. s, House of Representatives.

ter IS as 1olloWS:
 CONFIDENTIAL.
 FoRTY-FIRsT CONGRESS,
 U. s. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C., Mar. 13, 1871. William s. Huntington:
 My Dear Sir-On Friday before leaving Washington I called at your banking house but learned you were detained by illness from business. I hope you may soon be well. Allow me to make sug- gestion, not to embarrass you in the least As you are aware have been nominated for congress, and our election is three weeks from to-day. My opponents are making vigorous effort to defeat me hut spend more money than am able. Could my friends aid me without giving publici- ty to it, it would put me under renewed I obligations to you. I wish this entirely confidential; and in either case, I am, as ever, yours truly,
 H. H. STARKwEATHER.
 The Norwich Courier of last week con- tains MT. Starkweather's explanation of this matter. He says that MT. Hunting ton had about week previously met him in the street and offered aid for the Con- necticut election, saying that Washington Republicans had frequently contributed for that purpose. It was to avail himself of this offer that the letter was written, and we infer from the Courier's article that Mir. Huntington responded to the call. MT. Starkweather says he supposes that Mir. Huntington raised the money among Washington Republicans. That he took it from the funds of the National Re- publican organization, of which he was Treasurer, is not claimed. The act giv- ing the District territorial government had passed month before, but the terri tory was not organized till the June fol- lowing. When the House organized in December 1871, MT. Starkweather was made chairman of the District of Colum- bia committee, and he denies any connec. tion whatever with the Ring.
 Whether Mir. Starkweather favored the bill making the District of Columbia a Territory does not appear. We judge from his silence on that point that he did. We judge from his letter and the Couri- CTS statement that he had been under previous pecuniary obligation to MT. Huntington. While, therefore, there is no proof of actual bribery, it is evident that Mir. Starkweather was about the last man that should have been chairman of committed to investigate the conduct of those very Washington Republicans to whom he was indebted for large and re- peated pecuniary assistance.
 The success of the women's temperance movement in Ohio is a most remarkable one. Large bodies of them gather togeth- CT and visit all the liquor saloons and bars, singing and praying and entreating the proprietors to stop the traffic. They are sometimes insulted and sometimes drenched with beer, but persevere till the seller finally gives mp in despair. Through out the country towns of Ohio this style of temperance work has been going on with wonderful results since New Years. It has been successful in nearly every ir- stance and now outside the large towns and cities the traffic in Ohio is substan- tially closed. Dr. bio Lewis, of Boston. the person under whose advice this work of attack started, has now gone back to Ohio to consult about organized effort in the large places. If, after having done all this hard preliminary work. the wo- |
 men of Ohio had the ballot with which to make the results of their work permanent. they might produce lasting reform. Now, we fear the reform will only be tenn porary.
 BRITISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, for Janua- ry, contains: The Ballad, Its Nature and Literary Affinities; Modern Scientific 1n- quiry and Religious Thought; Inductive Theology; Masson's Milton and his Times; Mind and the Science of Energy; Revis- ion of the Text of the New Testament; MT. Bright's Return to the Ministry; Henry Thoreau, the Poet Naturalist; MT. Mills Aufahio x.l,xy. C<,,.& l-.<