The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-04-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
April Sin, 1876. }

The Republican Congressional
Committee is admirably organized
for its criminal work of endcavor-
ing to foist some thief, or thlcfs AS
society, upon the people, as their
rext Prcsi dent. This Is pretty
rough language. But truth, and
the exact idea soaght to be express
cd, call for it. Certainly, no man
who is not the friend and associate
of Grant, Bclknap, Babcock, Ian
daulet Williams, Creswcil, Robson,
Delano, Shepherd and other men OF
like kidney, can get the Republican
nomination. No honorable man
would accept it, if hampered by
such associates 1t is certain that
I Grant will have the power to dcs-
/ ignate the nominee, if he is not a
candidate himself, and that he will
not hesitate to use tins power is
equally certain. Tonominatc their
man being an easy matter, the next
thing will be to elect him; and to
this point the Republican Congress
sional Committee is bendiag all its
energies even at this early day.
They recognize the fact that Meth
err party can win unless it carries
the State of New York, and they
are to-day bending every energy to
secure that state. This is the mean
ing of the Conkling movement in
New York; ConkIing being the in
timate friend of Grant, and the chief
representative of the thieves ana
scoundrels who have held this ma
ton by the throat for the past eight
years. His strength ii New York
is derived from his control Of the
Federal patronage there, lnclud-
.ing the principal Custom House in
the country. Whether he shall be
the Re. subIican candidate for P.csi-
dent, or moi, lie Will not fali to use
the immense power in his hands tn
secure that state, if possible, for the
Republican party. While | do not
believe that this effort viii succeed,
1t will not do for the Democracy
TO lose sight of the nature of the
combination they have TO fight, or
of the tact that, if, by any accident,
or mistake, the thirty ii electoral
votes of New York are lost, ace shall
be beaten. Now is the time to 90 to
work. The Democratic House is
doing its part no. ly. If the people
will second its efforts, and, resolv-
ing to sink sectional differences,
will send their delegates to the Ma
tional Convention, instructed to
vote for the man most certain To
be elected, on the great ISSUE OF Re-
form in every department of the
Government, we shall inevitably
achieve success.
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,,
the Organ Of the White House Ring,
editorially alludes to the Belknap
crime as "a simple accident of ad-
ministration," and thinks that, Gas
long as man is human and liable TO
steal, there will be corruption and
fraud-even in the purest systems "
This is a very graceful sort of apol-
ogy for the iniquitics OF Grants Adj
ministration, and there is somethin.
gained when the Republican press
admits that there has been any cor
ruptiOn in their party. But such
philosophical dispositions on the
inexpugnability OF political 'cussed
ness" will hardly induce the people
to continue the Republican party
in power In short, ait is too
ethereal"
The same paper continues to be
very much agitated over the con
tinued imprisonment of kiibourn,
the contumacious witness, by 1rde.
of the House. KilJourn still refus-
cs to speak but as long as there is
any danger that he may be fortsd
to answer the questions put to hin,
there will be no rest for his confcd-
crates, who are hanging on "the
ragged edge of apprehension, lest
their operations may be made pub /
lie. 1t must be something very ter /
ribIe they are so anxious to conceal; !
and the fact already known, that /
Grant and his son were interested T.
in the Real Estate Pool, leads to /
the belief that It is the precise char
acter of their connection with the |
swindle which it is deemed so essen
tial by the Ring to cover up.
THE SPENCER EsTIGATIoH
is rapidly drawing to Il close III
view of the character Of the evi-
dence, the result is easily anticipat-
ell. 4 few months ago, 4 commit
tee of the Alabama Legislature
made n similar investigation, during
the progress of which, testimony
was addueed plainly showing that
Spencer and his friend hadus cor
rupt means to secure his election.
The evidence was of the most con-
elusive character-so conclusive, in
fact, that the Legislature felt war
ranted in hoping that even a Rcpub-
lican Committee ofthe United States
Senate would be convinced, after Il
slight invcs igation, that Spencer
had no valid claim to his seat. No
one cOuiu nave Deen inDfe aSIolliSn-
ed than General Morgan, the coun-
sci for the Legislative memorialists,
and his associates, when, on placing
upon the stand the very sams wit
ncs.cs who made damaging state
mcnts against Spencer before the
legislative COMMITTEES, they took the
''back track )" absolutely and posi-
lively denying that they had ever
made any such $; atemcnts as those
at ributed to them in the report of
the Legislative investigating com ,
mittee. One witness, Moulton, for
merry postmaster, and now deputy
collector Of Internal Revenue at Mo- ,
bile, sworc positively that he did
not know OF any improper use Of