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National Republican., 1876-12-14
MIR. pon Cameron.

rFrom the Philadelphia City Item.l
The tree that bears the best fruit receives
the,,most stones, says the Persian proverb. The
New York Sun writes that 'sDon Cameron Is
the directing spirit of the Administration, and
the most confidential adviser of Grant in all
bis acts. He is cool, calculating and unscru-
pulous, with q natural taste for plotting and
ipdirection. His has been the controlling
mind and hand In all this villainy In the South,
and he will not shrink while the army is at his
command, and Sheridan and Sherman are In
full sympathy with his schemes, to strike even
more audsciously than has yet been witnessed.
He induced Grant to order the troops to Wash
ington, and he has more than once signiied
in unmistakable terms that they would be used
If there was any occasion to require their en-
ployment."
Here, where the Secretary is best known,
the above attack will cause surprise. For
more than twenty years we have regarded
Mr.. Cameron as good citizen-a quiet, esti-
msble, enterprising, patriotic gentleman, gem
orally well beloved. He has been engaged in
active business, and, having made large for.
tune, was intelligently experimenting It when
called to the War Office at Washington. How
they can call such q man plotter, q schemer,
and unscrupulous is beyond comprehension.
1t is plain that they do not know him. Now,
once for all, permit US to write that Mr.. Don
Cameron has been q distinguished leader, an
implicitly-trust and largely followed leader,
in this State for twenty years. No one has
given more literally to the party, and no one
has asked less of It than he. Modest, retiring,
unselfsh, he has at all times been q ready
helper to others.
Like his distinguished and much respected
father, (Senator Cameron,) he never turns
his back on friend or foe. He is educated,
thoughtful, sagacious, practical, brave; he is
thoroughly up in books and men, and here,
where he is best known, everybody respects
three or forty five years has been useful and
honorable, and therefore we are the more sur
prised that any one should assail him. But
they assailed Washington and Lincoln-theY
assail Grant. Why should the intrepid Came
ron be spared especially as they think they
already see that he is possible candidate for
the Presidency one of these days.
National Republican., 1876-12-14
POLITICAL,
POLITICAL.
Cronin must be the usufruct spoken of.
Did Tilden inspire Grover? 1t looks SO.

Cronin must be the usufruct spoken Of
Did Tilden inspire Grover? 1t looks SO.
Ten more dead niggers; keep tally therei
Is that what you call Speace, /" Mr.. Hampton?
The Democrats of Florida go Of at half Cooke.
MI. Eyarts sincerely believes that Hayes was
fairly elected.
Won't somebody put stopper on Tarbo1? He
is threatening big speech.
'If there is q skin game going on, ;" says S. J. T.,
"count me in. In fact count me in anyway"
can elector In Iowa to vote for Grant instead of
Hayes.
why doesn't W. Hampton. ESQ.,, of South Caro-
lima, follow the example Of Don Carlos in offering
his impatient sword 70 Russia?
lecture. "My Visit TO the White House." He
prefers to follow Mrs Pinkston.
{ It used to be-" says q distinguished Demo.
viii Siiibe Two chairs for the Prisidints." "
This reported negro conspiracy in South Caro-
lima is apocryphal. The only plot Ssmbo has
much chance Of getting into down there is
burial plot. .r...
There is an unmistakable reaction of public
sentiment in favor Of retaining the electoral sys
better than they knew.
Governor of Oregon in regard to the Federal
election is simply ministerial and that he has
no discretion about selecting the electors.
Senator Gordon now turns up as Tribune cor
nent men, through the columns Of the New York
papers, is new phase in journalism and politics.
Already the encouraging effects Of 1tlden's
victory in New Jersey are visible there. No less
the First revenue district Of that State last
month.
What has become of the awful disclosures that
Tweed had IN store 50 dreaded BY Tildsns fagls.
lation cannot hurt him politicallyi and now let
Abram S-Hewitt.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

WE crave attention to the complete and
graphic description of the gambling houses of
Washington, which is presented In our COL
umns this morning. The public of Wash
ington is so constituted that it needs
protection from this class of criminals.
There are an unusually large number of
young men here, who are employed in the
Government Offices, and it is for them that
these gambling bells are most alluring. 1t
seems strange that the business of gam
bling should be carried on so openly when
the law upon the subject is so explicit.
Gamblers seem to thrive best In hard times,
because when it is difficult to obtain money
by legitimate means men are more easily en-
ticed by the tempting, though remote, prospect
of winning money on the turn of card.
Whenever a raid is contemplated upon
these establishments the gamblers
always receive warning In time to close up
their houses and get out of the way. This
fact warrants the belief that is frequently ex-
pressed that the gamblers are in collusion
with the authorities. 1t is to be hoped that
now, as public attention has been, and will
continue to be, drawn to these gambling dens,
that they will be effectually and permanently
closed, and the thieving blacklegs who run
them will be brought to justice and punish
ment,
National Republican., 1876-12-14

Abram s. Hewitt once more appeals to
the American people. He announces,
through the medium of the National
Democratic Committee, that Samuel ].
Tilden has been elected President of
the United States. In his pronuneia-
nento he drops the casual remark that
it remains for the two Houses, in the per-
formancs of their duty, to give effect to
the will of the people, which, he says,
expressed in the Constitutional mode by
a majority of the electoral votes"
leaves no possible doubt of
Democratic triumph. This position
of Mr.. Hewitt leads us to remark that it is
unfortunate for him, at time when he
is asking the people to take his word in
preference to that of the President that
Mr. Tilden's forces should compel him to
put his name to 80 flauntinga perversion of
the truth as the National Democratic Com
mittee's pronuRciamento. The assertions
in the document are unfounded in fact and
dangerously foolish in the face of the truth
that one hundred and eighty five electoral
votes have been cast for R. B. Hayes, the
Republican candidate for the Presidency
What then, does this last manifesto meanf
Mr.. Hewitt and his confreres know the
solemn truth that there is an under
current coursing through the body polite
of the Republic, bearing calamity on its
chatting and restless bosom. He knows
that documents like this pronunoiamsnto
are only calculated to stir up strife and
bitterness which, if encouraged, will
lead to fratrici6al and devastating war,
and leave the fabric Of Republican
Government ruined and dismembered.
Two great authorities are up now, and
neither are supreme. The deciding gladi-
atorial contest has but just commenced in
the Council Chambers of the nation, yet
enough of the popular feeling tainted with
q spirit of hostile sentiment has been ex-
hibited to show the grave danger in the
leaders of either political party inspiring
in the popular mind opposition to the Con-
stitutionsl result of the election as it may
be decided by Congress. The crowniDg
glory of the Republican party and its lead
ers In this perilous crisis is that they have
counseled only measures of peace. If
therefore, any troubles should arise; if
the clash of legal difficulties should un-
happily end in an appeal to force, let it be
remembered, American patriots, that the
Democrats have had exclusive control of
the appeals to arms and violence. They
alone have urged opposition to the decision
of legal and constitutionslly created
authorities. They alone have
preached ''our candidate or fight"
They alone have defended the
infamies Of Southern outrages, and famed
the fame Of contention. We cannot believe
that they are yearning to Cross blades once
more with their old foe; but If their incit-
ing and abetting strife, if their revolution
ary action forces it upon US, let awful re-
sponsibility rest upon their heads.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

The House then resumed consideration Of the
bill heretofore reported from the Committee on
Judiciary to declare the
BURLINGTON AND MISSOURI RAILROAD
q branch Of the Union Pacific road.
Mr.. CROUNSE, Of Neb., said that since the
edge that there was large interest here in op-
position of the bill and that every expedient was
10 be resorted to to defeat 1t.
Mr.. fRYE, Of Me-, said the bill was an out.
rage. If IL passed it would reduce the revenues
of the Union Pacific road 30 that it could not
comply with the provisions Of The act Of last ses-
sion. This road now wanted all the advantages
Union Pacific without Increasing any Of It's OBJ
legations or responsibilities.
Mr.. KASSON, Of Iowa, presented telegram
from prominent business men Of Iowa protesting
against the passage Of the BILL as IL would dis
eriminafe against other roads connected with the
Union Pacific.
After further discussion the bill was recon-
The SPEAKER announced the following
APPOINTMENTS ON COMMITTEES
10 fill existing vacancies, viz: Mn. ABBorr, OF
CARR, of Ind, TO Private Land Claims. Mr..
WILSON, Of W. Va, to Elections. MR.. RIDDLE,
Of Tenn, to Pensions. Mr.. CULBERsoN, of Tex,
to Mileage. Mr.. HUMPHREYS, OF Nd, to Ac-
counts. Mr.. FINLEY, of Fla, TO Railways and
Canals. Mr.. FIVE, Of Me-, to Railways and
Canals. Mr. WARNER, of Conn, to Coinage.
Mr.. FRAsKLIN, Of Mo-, 70 Expenditures Of the
TO Expenditures Of the Department of Justice.
MR- STANTON, Of Pa, to Expenditures OF the
War Department. Mr.. SAYLER, of Ohio, to
Rules. Mr.. WILSON, OF Iowa, to Rules. Mr..
wArrRsoN, Of KY, to Ways and Means.
The House then, at 4:io p. m, Adjourned
National Republican., 1876-12-14
LosT-eoVERNoR eRoVERs CHARACTER.

The following clause from the law Of
Oregon is as plain as it is mandatory:
"The Governor shall grant = certificate of
election to the person having the highest num-
Der of votes, and shall also issue q proclama-
tion declaring the election of such person."
This leaves no room for the exercise of
Judgment on the part of Governor
Grover, and yet, usurping his legal powers
as chief executive of the State, he granted
q certificate of election to the person
receiving the smallest number of votes,
after the people had decided by a majority
of eleven hundred that another person
should cast the electoral vote. Thus pub
lie servant overrides the popular will of
sovereign people by an arbitrary reversal
of their verdict at the ballot-box. But this
outrageous usurpstion of power was but
foreruDner of a more infamous act. After
bold violation OF his oath by usurping
functions not conferred upon him by law
he pretends to justify himself by misrepre-
sentiDg the statutes and misquoting the
authorities. And yet yesterday in the Sen
ate of the United States one of its most
distinguished members, Mr.. Bsyard, said
that he would not condemn the action of
Governor Grover, because he had borne .
"good character and reputation for great
"number of years." On the same princi-
pie one might assert that felon should not
suffer the penalties of the law because, for
sootb, he had once been q missionary.
Governor Grover may have borne good
character in the past for many years, but
when he in partisan spirit ignored the
verdict of sovereign people and usurped
his powers, in hopes of securing q triumph
not fairly won, he nullifed that character
so far as integrity and honesty are con-
cerned, and no one knows this better than
Mr.. Bayard of Delaware.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

AFTER searching constitutional authorities
and consulting eminent members of the legal
profession, Governor Hayes says: 6" am now
satisfied that have been honestly elected
President of the United States, and 1 fully ex-
pect to be inaugurated." )" As q proper ad-
denda to this it might be said that thirty
millions of people who have profound inter-
est in the maintenance of the Republic will
see that the Governors expectations are re-
allied.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

THE New York Herald virtually throws up
the Tilden sponge when 1t thus discourses ed
itorially upon the situation: "In all human
probability Mr.. Hayes will be our next Presi-
dent, and if the Democratic party is patriotic
and magnanimous enough to accept this re-
suit when it finds that appeals to Congress
and public opinion cannot prevent #, there is
no reason for fearing that he will not treat 1t
with fairness and Justice" n
National Republican., 1876-12-14

GENERATIONS yet unborn will not fail to
accord thanks to President Grant because of
his timely interference in thwarting the wicked
designs Of the Tilden Democracy, and thus
averting all horrors Of sectional domination.
The splendid service he has rendered the
country in the past three months is scarcely
ecnpsed by the victories of yicksburg, DON
aldson and Appomattox. -
National Republican., 1876-12-14

THE rowing Democratic commission sent to
Columbia, South Carolina, by the House
have discovered that Hayes and Wheeler
carried that State without the shadow Of Q
doubt. They now express surprise that Dem
ocrstic Associated Press agents in South
Carolina never had the honesty and decency
to inform the public Of that fact.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

Mr.. CRoNIN, of Oregon, is coming here
with that vote for Tilden. So says the tele-
graph. Mr.. Cronin is q very great man,
and It would be sacrelieious to compare
him to anybody short Of king. And
like that famous king who marched his army
of ten thousand men up hill and then
marched them down again, so with Mr..
Cronin. He will bring that vote for Tilden
here to Washington, and he will carry It back
again.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

TIE Army and Nary Journal acknowledges
the receipt of subscriptions for the widows Of
Clusters command aggregsting 81 OILS. Mrs.
Custer, in gratitude, writes: ain behalf of
those kind hearts who remember the brave
and those they loved, accept my grateful
thanks" % II
National Republican., 1876-12-14
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OF THE CHARACTER and reliability of the
usual run of sensational news transmitted by
special correspondents from this city to such
papers as the Baltimore Gazette, the follow
ing, an extract from special of yesterday to
that journal, is fair specimen.
sSilas NJ. Patterson, son of Senator John J.
Patterson Of South Carolina, went South just
about the time the trouble between the Return
ing Board and the Supreme Court Of South Caro-
lima was anticipated, with the sum OF $210o, with
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Like father, Ike son."
The above is q most unmitigated fslsehood.
The young man who is the victim of this out
rageous attack is the son of Senator Patterson
"a mere boy of 17-and is employed In the
branch printing Office Of the Treasury. The
only absence from his Office since last Sep
tember, as the records Will show, was for
few days under leave to visit the Centennial.
He has not been South, and therefore the
story that he "went South just about the
time the trouble between the returning board
and the Supreme Court was anticipated" is
untrue. He has been faithfully at work at
his office since election day, with tho exception
Of two days at different times in addition to
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The Gazette, for some unaccountable reason,
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case 1t will, of course, make due correction, in
Justice to the young man and his family.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

THREE of the Republican members of the
House of Representatives at Columbia, s.
c., who went over to the Wallace cabal, have
repented of their folly and returned to their
own fold. Mr.. Tilden's empty bar'ls had no
temptations for them.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

say. We hope, however, his talent in this
direction has been abridged by merciful
Providence, for when people fall industrioualy
to work slicing and mangling each others
throsts in promiscuous manner it is quite
evident that it will be dangerous to be safe"
in any largely populated section of the coun-
National Republican., 1876-12-14

GENTLEMEN of the Gordon-Lsmar-S Single
ton-Randall-C Cox stripe must feel rather un-
comfortable since they have observed the
Presidents determination to preserve the
peace of the country at all hazards. "Let us
have peace"
National Republican., 1876-12-14

DIPPING into the future we see q point in
the neighborhood of March the 4th when Mr..
Tilden's chances and the present House of
Representatives will peter out together.
National Republican., 1876-12-14

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House OF RepresentatIves.

House OF Representatives.
On motion Of Mr. SOUTHARD, Of Ohio, the
bill for the organization Of the
TERRITORY OF oKLoHAMA,
which was the special order for to-day, was post
.poned until the third Wednesday in January.
Mr.. HALE, Of Me-, asked leave to offer for
reference bill to enable the citizens of the State
of Colorado to cut and remove timber from the
public lands for mining purposes and for the con.
struction of residences.
Mr.. HALE said he offered this bill for refor.
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The SPEAKER reminded Mr.. HALE that de-
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Mr.. SPRINGER, of ILL.,, objected to the intro
duction Of the bill.
under which the people of Colorado lAbored.
The House then resumed consideration Of Mr..
BLAND's bill to utilize the product Of gold and
Mr.. DURHAM, of KY, advocated the adoption
OF the substitute, proposed by MI. BLAND. pro.
making It a legal tender for all debts.
Mr.. WILLARD, of n ich., member of the sill
sion Of Congress, said he had hoped that the the
question would not be pressed until after the sill
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restoration Of the old standard Of the country,
the American silver dollar as IL was established
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has greater supremacy In trade and business
than any other coin.
It was of greater sppreciative value than the
Or tns Of
better purchasing medium. At no time has the
silver dollar ever lost It's purchasing power. All
National Republican., 1876-12-14

TIE Chicago Tribune still insists that Mr..
Morrison did go over to Mr.. Gsrfeld's seat in
the House some time since and say "that the
people would be cutting each others throats
within hundred days" Just what ability
Mr.. Morrison possesses as genuine SURE
enough prophet It is not In our province to
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At4 o'clock, on motion OF Mr.. HAMLIN, the
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O'Clock, adjourned.
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