The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1876-10-21
DoNALDsoNyILLE LA, SATURDAY OCTOBER 81, 1876

foreign vote" From this statement
it would seem that Mr.. Tilden is q
little more of a Know Nothing than
Governor Hayes, and this is hoisted
on his own petard.
Aud now two more great reformers
come to grief. That man of great en-
gineering fame, who built corduroy
roads from the mouth of York river
almost to Richmond was not satisfied
with the reputation thus acquired,
but must needs take new departure
for an engineer and embark in the
moth exterminator business. Gen.
Geo. B. Mcclellan has become stump
orator for Tilden and Hendricks. Mis-
fortune seems to have "marked him
| for her own" He did not win much
fame in the art of war, tbs true, but
| such has been the fate of many res
pectable warriors, from Falstaff down,
but the country will hardly be pre-
pared to learn that he has been sell
ing the weight of his mighty influence
for filthy lucre to Cowles g. Co. of
Philadelphia, who were anxious to
furnish the country with moth ex-
termiDator and thus preserve the
army clothing. This company it APP
pears entered into contract with Gen.
Mcclellan to pay him five per cent.
on all sums received by them from
the War Department for their exter-
minator. This was in August, 1872.
On November20, 1872, Geo. w. Brega,
a member of the firm of Cowles g. Co., (
authorized Gen. r. B. Marcy, McClel-
ian's fatheT-in-law to haud Gen. Me-
Cleilan new agreement, whereby
the commission was doubled from
five to ten per cent. This relation
ship supplies the apparent meanssI
through which Gen. Mcclellan is abIesI
to use any influence worth paying for.
AS Gen. Marcy was the Inspector
General of the army of the United |
States, and was appointed member
'f the Committee of Inquiry into the
lsefulness of the moth exterminator I
ne had every possible facility for at
ending to the recommendations of T
lis son in law on this subject. Gen,
Mcclellan received of Cowles & Co..
IN their moth contract S4375 10.
which looks very like IL whale instead
# Il moth.
Many things in this world that look
bright, pretty moth,
Only dazzle to lead us as astray"
Mr.. Dorsheimer, another refprmer
nd candidate for Lient. Gov. of New
Iork, Mr.. Tilden's right bower, while
J, 5. District Attorney fell into the
anne error that Mr.. Tilden did. from
ither defective memory or Il want
t knowledge of the common rules of
rltimetic. An examination of some
t his accounts in the First Comp l
rollers office shows mileage charged !;
II Journeys never performed bills !,
Or services never rendered charges {
nplicated and Implicated, and charges J
" attending Courts on SUNDAYS. !
'hese fraudulent charges were dis q
llowed at the Treasury, but Mr.. {
orsiieimer made the usual oath to
Il. Well may these Tildenites bel =
Nv for reform. Wherever they have i
nd the opportunity they have nearly j
| been Tweeds on u small scale. :, y
The campaign has fully opened in
ew York State. Between now and :.
e l4th inst, there will be held in u !,
MT State 296 Republican meetings, v
I'd addresses delivered by 382 speak !, y
Mr.. j. Davis, late President of the =
lost cause" hut now in London, has
lclared for " Tilden and Reform
e says in the event of Tillen's cleo
m he will take up his residence in
asllington. He has no desire, how cs
er, to enter the Cabinet, but hopes ct
be the "power behind the throne" pl
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