The daily gazette., 1876-12-28
They BeIieV e in Tilden.
WESTERN MEN o \ TIE STU ALTON.
senator C"penter'$ Opinion Of Judge
Ducil- -Bond-(tore,noy Grorey
strongly Endorsed at Home
GEN. GRANTS LINIE IS wAvERIxc AGAIN

WASHINGTON, December 25.-The
national capital has been unusually dull,
even Tor Christmas day. There is u
number of senators and representatives
IN the city, but as if surfeited with polt-
lcal excitement, they seem to have stu
dlously avoided all public places to-day.
There were at no hour of the day or
evening above half dozen people in
any OF the hotel lobbies, and with the
exception of the Ebbitt not politician
was TO be found among the few loafers.
At the Ebbitt, Senator Kelly, of Oregon,
and j. Don Morrison, of Illinois,, chatted
for an hour. They discussed the polit-
ical situation with good deal of zest
and both appeared to take quite a rose
colored view of the democratic case.-
Senator Kelly asserts that the stories
about popular indignation in Oregon at
the action of Governor Grover are all
manufactured out Of the whole cloth. If
there be any preponderance of public
sentiment it is on the side of Governor
Grover, and he knows many republicans
who applaud the Governors action sim
ply because they believe it blocked the
game Of the unscrupulous radical leaders
namely, making tile president of the
Senate count in Hayes despite the pro-
test OF the House of representatives.
Don Morrison is one of the shrewdest
politicians in the West, and as he has
brought his family with him, and comes
for the remainder of the winter, it may
be taken for granted that he believes Til
den will be inaugurated on the 4th OF
March next.
He represents the feeling in regard to
the present situation among all classes in
Southern Illinois as very intense. The
belief he says, preyades the masses oi
both parties that Tilden is fairly elected
and, excepting the politicians, the repub.
licanS are quite as free in their denuncia.
tion ofthe doings Of the carpet-bag re-
turning boards as the democrats are. Ex.
Senator Carpenter has expressed himself
very freely in regard to the action o
Judge Bond in releasing the members o.
the South Carolina returning board aftel
they had been committed for con
tempt by the Supreme Court of that state
Bonds conduct, he says, isonly equalet
by that of Judge Durell, of Louisiana, il
assuming jurisdiction in the Kellogg
McEllely coIteSI III 1910. OulTell Hat
no more right to interfere in the case thai
Bond had in the case of the Supreme
Court of Suth Carolina Us. Chamberlain
returning board, and both of these Judge
Carpenter thinks, W ID go down to postdfH
as twin judicial frauds. Mr.. Sherwood
of Toledo, Ohio, formerly repnhlical
member of Congress from that district, i
in the city and is very emphatic in hi
condemnation of the programme Of In
Iadical leaders of his party. Iesa1sth tha
the best men in the republican, patty. il
Ohio believe Tildell is fairly elected an,
will not tcountenance or uphold the schem
to count in Hayes, in defiance Of the yer
dict Of the great majority of American
treemen. Its the opinion of those %
the Presidents friends Mho are not bite
partisans that he is again wavering in hi
determination TO force the inauguration
| of Hayes. . ...5.- ......