Middletown transcript., 1876-04-01
Letter from Washington.
Washington, D. c., Mar. 20, '7e
coNsEor1cur w1LL GO DEMooRAr1c. =


CONNECTICUT VILE GO DEMocRATIc.
A short time ago, Grants Washing
ton Ring sent man to Connecticut to
request the Chairman Of the Central
Committee of that State to make
searching investigation of the probable
result of the election on Monday. April
Sd. The utmost pains we're taken by
the Connecticut Radical official. who
was we'll paid by Grants Ring for biz
labor, and was requested to give the
facts. and the facts only. His report.
which has just arrived, has cast gloom
over Ring circles. He says that be re-
grets to be obliged to state. as the re-
suit Of bis investigation, that the De-
mocratic party will certainly carry the
State by a majority Of about three thou
sand.
A GOOD WORD FOR THE DEMOCRATIC
HOUSE.
The dissemination of news from every
portion of the civilized world to every
other portion, by telegraph, has made
the correspondent commeDter upon,
rather than an ANNOUNCER Of, events
Just at this time, Washington is the
scene of rapidly succeeding incidents Of
vital interest to the country; and to
faithfully chronicle the details of each
days news would take more space than
many times the limits of letter. Many
things of importance occur to which
DO not even allude, because, before my
letter can reach you. your readers will
have become familiar with the facts
through the telegraph But the tele-
graph can Go no more than furnish brief
outlines. and it is still the province of
the correspondent to supply the sub
stance of such information as may be of
special interest to the reader. The
correspondent whom you know. and
upon whose truthfulness you can de-
pend, is of special importance to your
readers at this time, when it is the uni
versal complaint Of our party that the
telegraph has been used against US in
an attempt to create public opinion ad'
verse to the Democratic House. No
Congress has ever labored harder, or
accomplished more in the same length
Of time, than has the present one; yet
the impression has gone through the
country that valuable time has been
wasted, and nothing done. The work
done has been. much Of it, of charac-
ter that renders secrecy necessity =
And, while the House may have ap-
peared to do little. the committees have
labored necessarily. night and day In
addition to the necessary legislation. it
has devolved upon the House to uD-
earth and drag to the light mass Of
RADICAL RAscALITY,
official corruption and malfeasance in
,ffice, without precedent in the history
of any government. The rotten accu-
mutations Of fifteen years of Republican
misrule are suddenly disclosed, and lie
fostering in the public sight. The
abuses and villainies which have been
Covered up and winked at by the Re-
publican majorities of previous houses.
it is the duty Of the present Democratic
majority to uncover, and to bring the
guilty officials to justice This has
been SO we'll done that there are at this
time score of investigations 10 pro-
gress. And the work is not yet bali
commenced. With all that has been
disclosed. the people are not prepared
for the depth Of villany that will yet .e
brought to light.
Who could have believed that men
could be found so lost to all sense Of
honor or decency as to bury the bones
If horses and mules in the national
cemeteries, or worse, to divide one
cody into several parts, putting them
into different graves because they were
paid so much for each grave? And yet
this has been done by men living in the
very shadow of the White House. and
favored with the personal friendship of
Grant. himself
The Land Office has been filled with
jobs upon which thieves. big and little.
from Delano and his son, John. down
10 the chief clerk just dismissed, have
fattened But the day Of reckoning has
come, and the facts will soon be made
public.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR
has created very perceptible stir in
political circles in Washington. by the
publication of letter in f'vor Of Til
den. The fact that Mr.. Blair is not
Tilden man from personal preference.
but from what he conceives to be party
necessity gives more weight to his views
than they would otherwise have. One
,hing is noticeable in connection with
this subject; there is growing dispc-
sition to consider the interest Of the
party as a unit, rather than the inter-
est Of any one section or faction. The
man who can carry the most States will
be the nominee, if these wise counscls
prevail; and whoever be may be. Hen
dricks, Thurman. Bayard, Tilden.
Davis or Parker. he will receive the
united support Of a party organized for
success, and not to be defeated by in
,ernal dissension. And to insure sue
cess beyond the chance Of failure, he
must be the man who can draw the
largest support from the ranks Of the
enemy. Mr.. BLAIR, who was member
of Lincoln's Cabinet, says that TildeD
is the man. and offers strong argu-
ment to prove it, There are men here
to-day. bitterly opposed to Tilden. be-
cause of his attitude on the money ques-
ton; but l believe. from the tone Of
conversation here during the past few
days. that there is a determination to
do nothing that will imperil our success
in the coming election.
THE AUSTIN -ToPOLovAMPo PACIFIC
SURVEY.
The House Committee on Pacific
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