Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1876-03-25
letter Fro m Washington.

AN UNPROFITABLE DEMOCRATIC
BROOM--GEORGE H.PENDLETON' IS.
DOwNFALL-HIS GENEALOGY-
INDIsCRETION OF A PARTY ORGAN
THE FAULKNER CADETsHIr--A
"RARA AVIS
WASHINGTON, March 22d.
The broom ofinvestigation which the
Democracy set to work so hopefully at
the commencement Of the session, does
stt give the same promise of sweeping
clean that it did at the start. Unlike
one Of those new breoms that are pro-
verbal for sweeping clean this old broom
has not effected much. Nor is 1t expec-
ted to, now that 1t unintentionally, and
therefore unexpectedly, caught against
the Sims OF the would be President and
Democratic idol, George II. Pendleton,
to say nothing of such minor obstrac-
tions as Roberts, OF North Carolina. 1t
ELECTED no applause from New Hamp-
shire, where the Democracy have sadly
realized the predicameut of him who
said, "Save me from my friends and
will take care of my enemies" 1t is one
Of those brooms that is destined to prove
decidedly
A NoNPAYING INVESTMENT,
as did certain patent sweeping ma
chine tried, a little while ago, on the
streets Of Washington. which new lies
high and dry and useless amongst things
rejected, because found wanting in ca
pacity to do the wondrous money saw
ing work predicted of it.
lam sorry for gentleman George"
particularly in view Of the fact that he
is one Of our "F. +. w stock. IL will
perhaps be remembered that in one of
the "Reminiscences Of Berkeley Boy"
complimentary allusion was made to
Jack Pendleton and an exceedingly elo-
quent stump speech made by him ct
Wing barbecue, at Martinsburg.
George is one of his sons. That branch
Of the Peadletoa family belonged to Gull
pepper. John s. Pondleton 1.-THE "Jack
Peadleton" referred toy emisranted to
the West, bat whether before or after
George was born, l cannot say, He
was first cousin to the late William PEN
dleten, and also to the late Philip G.
Psndletop, if am correct 10 my
GENEALOGICAL TRAorNGs.
Inheriting some of the better traits OF
his father, George had carved his way,
at Cincinnati, to fame as well as fortuse
but of the ''fortune" perhaps the less
that is said the better, now. An un-
successful candidate for the Presidency
once he wanted to try it again. But 1t
is all up with him, now, availability"
being word, with the Democracy,
whose potency there is ne resisting.
I ! am glad to be able to back up &C
casionap in his contradiction of the
statement, made in another Martinsburg
paper, that there had been one or more
conferences between partners in the IN
DEPENDENT aoIs s3+
Not AND SENATOR DAVIS,
looking toward making it Personal
organ" Whatever was meant by the
phrase "highest authority"-asd it is
presumed to have meant the worthy
Senator's own world am prepared to
say that l have it directly from his own
lips, that neither the partners" afors-
said, nor anybody else, ever approached
him on that subject. So you see the au-
thor of that canard must have manufac-
tured it out of whole cloth.
! am also prepared to strengthen an
other statement of Occasional / al
lude to that with reference to the al
legged dissatisfaction OF leading and in
fuental West Virginia Democrats here
with the management of their party in
Berkeley. There can be ne question of
that fact
LACK OF DISCRETION
as to what it admits to its columns, or
rejects threfrom, is regarded by Demo-
Gratis as serious objection to it ss a re-
puted party mouthpiece. Then there is
tendency of its uncalled for assaults on
personal character, into which matters
regarded among gentlemen AZ purely
private and exempt from criticism (es-
pecially improved criticism) which is
admitted to be bad in taste and harmful
in practice in a party organ. W.
Take the case of this correspondent !:
He had thrown himself unreservedly
into the Liberal Republican, on "Lst
up" state movement of 1870. He had
met the Democracy halfway at Balti-
more 10 their promised acceptance of
the proffer of his old editorial chief and
personal friend, Horace Greeley,in 1872,
to clasp hands over the bloody chasm
made by the war. He had shared defeat
with him and gone der the ban Of ths
Republican party. And yet, before he
had given any evidence, in his articles
in the INDEPENDENT, Of any change in
his political views and purposes; his
private affairs were made the subject Of
his personal attack which apparently
had no higher or worthier motive than
annoyance to his editorial neighbors-