Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-02-01
THE WASHINGTON RING.
The Cry on Mad DOg-The Investisa-
lion a scheme 10 Destroy the Re
PnSIiesr Party.
From INC Cincinnau GazsLte.


From tho Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2g.-Every pos
sible attempt is making to rally forces
and influences enough to prevent the
House from voting for the myesuga-
ton of the District ring on Monday
next. The papers have continued to
make an assault upon all citizens who |
soilntenance those who are trying to
get 1t up. The Chronicle prints letter
Charging that the Huntington letters
were obtained surreptitu0usly by those |
who used them. The story IS wholly !
untrue. Gentlemen having the proper |
legal custody of them furnished them,
and the worst Of it for al now engaged
in CRYING them down Is that there are
more coming, and one well understood
object of most of these papers Is, II
possible, to stop the investigation be-
fore an official inquiry reaches them.
Prom the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-Speaker
Blaine is said to diselaim any knowl-
edge of the purpose for which Judge
Wilson sought the floor, and it seems
that there was not a clear understand
ing between the two gentlemen as tn
the ends Mr.. Wilson had II view; there
is no dispute, however, ON the point
that Blaine did promise to recognize
Wilson fairly. Responsible people,
who are in a position 10 know, affirm
that a Senator who is a member of the
Senate District Committee, was at the
| mains to come from the Senate to urge
| Blaine not to afford Judge Wilson an
opportunity to introduce tie memorial
| and resolution.
The citYpapers continue to denOuhce,
in unstinted terms, those who urge an
| Investigation, and IT is evident that II
the movement cah be defeated, 1t Will
be- The Republican must be credited
with having originated the most novel
hypothesis wherewith to account for
| the animus of those making the charges
that has as yet appeared, in its issue
this morning, though il had nOthingto
the point yesterday. 1t has long ed
itorial. setting forth that most OF the
signers of the memorials were rebels,
| and are Democrats, after which 1t pro-
ceeds to show that the whole movement
is a diabolical scheme to elect Senator
Thurman President of the United
States, as follows:
sMr. Thurman was selected to pre-
sent it. Since the last election in Ohio
Mr.. Thurman has been placed in train
ing for the Presidency. Mr.. jeremiah
S. Black, and two or three other patrl-
OTIS, have been intrusted with the man
agement and direction of the campaign,
the first step IN which is to break down
the Republican party through General
Grants administration. Intentionally
or unintentionally our patriotic petl-
TONERS have been made the cats-paws
of these designing politicians, and at
any risk and at any hazard 1t must be
proven that the gentlemen whom Gen.
Grant and the Republican party have
intrusted with the work OF making
Washington what it should bean
honor, instead of a disgrace to the
Uuion-are as wicked, as corrupt and
unscrupulous as the late Tammany
Ring in New York, the exposure OF
whose crimes killed the Democratic
party This is the game. The
Washington Ring, as 1t Is call
ed, is to be made the offset TO
Tammany, and Mr.. Thurman is to be
heralded to the country as the great re-
former, the pure and spOtless candidate
of a white-washed Democracy IN the
next Presidential election. This ex-
PLANTATION is necessary TO a proper un-
derstanding of the political animus
that underlies and inspires the present
attack upon the District officials.
Washington is supposed to be the most
vulnerable point in the Republican line,
and a demonstration is made upon 1T
for the purpose of overwhelming the
party. viii the Republican majority
in Congress allow itself to be made the
tool of Thurman and Black and the
gang of malcontents who. for purposes
of their own, have consented to be the
mere agents and abettOrs:"
If a Republican Congressman can
vote for investigation after these dread
full disclosures, then he is indeed gone
astray and become utterly dislOyal.
As Judge Wilson is Republican, and
has chosen in the House to espOuse the
cause of the Investigators, and is too
shrewd to be made a cat's-paw of, 1T Is
Inferred that he is to be the candidate
for Vice President on the Thurman
ticket.