Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-07-22
Letter From Washington.

IA LA INV uClkL 1IlL1 ARES
AND WHAT DOING.
WASHINGTON, July Is, 1876.
1t has been a good while since
/ wrote anything for the INDIE
PENDENT. There have been sew
eral reasons for this, one of which,
If you have had it as hot at the
ancient Burg as we have had i.
here, you will have no difficulty
in guessing.
There has been a great many
strangers in Washington, this
summer-birds Of passage rest
ing their wings for a few hours
while proceeding to and from the
Centennial. Everybody that Wis.,
its that big show takes in the Ma
tional Capital-at least everybody
who has not been here before.
When / drop in at the National
as l do occasionally, in the expec-
tation of meeting personal friends,
or to hear the political gossip of
the hour, for which that popular
hotel is a sort of headquarters, the
crowd Of strangers fail to compen-
safe me for my disappointment is
not encountering those of my West
Virginia friends who are habitues
of its capacious halls, such as Col.
Ward III. Lamon, the next Cover
nor to be, as / trust, of my native
State, whose society / see you are
now enjoying, III. III. Blackburn,
| esq, and the Hon. Charles James
Faulkner.
I suppose the genial, universal
ly known and well-wished Colo
mel is among you taking notes Of
the situation and preparing for the
canvass which he is soon to inter-
upon, if the Republicans of the
Mountain State shall be wise
enough toInominate himforG Govern
or, as doubtless they will be mex
pectation of the lreinforcements he
can hardly fail to receive from the
ranks of the Liberals and Inde-
pendents.
Blackburn has been looking af-
ter the speculative, but not the
less public spirited interests of the
Camp Scott enterprise, at Phila-
delphia, in which he took stock, or
he was, at least, when l last had
reliable intelligence of his where
abouts.
Mr.. Faulkner left a few days
ago to spend a week at home,
which from the present prospect
means the residue of the session
of Congress, most probably. l sup
pose he, too, is not altogether un-
concerned about the Fall elections,
whether he is to be in the fight
for reelection to the House or not
is a question on which this depon-
dent saith not anything further,
he not being in that worthy gen.
tleman's political confidence. But
here / will take occasion to say
that, while this is true, he and L
are nevertheless on friendly terms
personally.
am prepared to fear that such
of the readers of the INDEPEN-
DENT as may have CHANGED to
read certain illnatured comments
thereon elsewhere were led to
think to the contrary, the letter, /
devoted sometime ago to a cusOry
review of Mr.. Faulkner's chances
for the Senatorial nomination of
his party, had for its drift what
he himself, / have reason to be-
lieve, did not fail to accept as re-
spectful and personally friendly to
him, when he perused in print
what he was notified in ADVANCED
my intention to write.
And here ] may take occasion
TO say that thejournalist who con.
ceives the idea that Mr.. Faulkner
is well-pleased with slurs upon
those who, considering his public
acts and political aims fair fame
and write of them accordingly, as
your correspondent did in the in
stance alluded 20, utterly mistakes
the man. / have the best of rea-
sons for saying that, as a rule to
which he allows of no exceptions,
any would-be-mouthpiece, who re-
sorts TO slang whanging abuse of
newspaper men In his behalf, fills
Mr.. II. with q sense of disgust to
which he never fails to give evil
dence In words fifty and strongly
spoken. IL Mr.. Faulkner were
a public man of far less experience
and ability than we all know to
be his, he could not fail to see the
impolicy ofall low pothouse abuse
flung at his political critics, by
whatsoever resorted to, and instric-
lively exclaim in the language of
one OF old, "Save me from my
friends"
l can truly say that l have never