The Leavenworth weekly times., 1876-08-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER &.

Intrepidity-An Unhappy speech''-A
Hayes and Wheeler Flag Obnoxious to
Norfolk VA People-Tilden Claims the
Credit-Nominated although Charged with
Crime-Lunsuo Frioge-Public Opinion
/. and the Public Press New York the Moth
er of the Defeated PresidentiaI Aspirsnt.
"A Gloomy Future.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., July 90, 1876
The Augusta ga Cons,itutionaiis "knows
the kindness Of heart and intrepedity" Of
Gen. NJ. C. Butler, who organized the Ham.
burg, S. c, massacre; but we think the
'.intrepidity" of Tilden, IN claiming that
he unearthed Tweed's rascality, surpasses
human credulity, when We remember that
in 1870, after the Young Democracy" had
made their fgh, against Tweed, Oakley
Hall, Tom Fields, W. NJ. Tweed and Sam
uel J. Tilden, with others, made up the
Tammamy delegation to the Rochester
Convention in that year. Such intrepid
ty', deserves recognition. Morrissey, Stat
ter, McMullin, Tilden and Ben Wood,
would make cabinet that could clean out
the gam bling hells even of Monaco.
The Petersburg (Va.) LndeE says that
Lamar's speech on the Hamburg attrocity
is IAN unhappy speech" that "it is none OF
our business, and equally it is no business
OF the House" Equally" then, the fog
ging Of the little boot-blaok in Little Rock,
Ark, with one hundred and fifty lasbes, for
watching white boys conducting a dog
fight, for which the Chief Of Police was
lined $40, and the policeman who held the
boy down, 50, Is none of our business" +"
But We forget that in "a, Tilden called
these scoundIels, my friends" and assured
them of his confidence
An enth usiastic Republican raised a
Hayes and Wheeler flag on one end of the
Norfolk, Va, Custom House. The rebel
papers denounced the same as an outrage,
claiming that "the building belonged to the
people, and not party" Bot they neglect
to state why the Stars and Stripes we're torn
down in 81 and the Stars and Bars put up
in their place ; or why the traitors flag was
used in decorating graves in their cemetery
short time since. We wonder at their
patience, however, for a rebel general
should have illegally summoned q pose
cemetatus, torn down the execrable rag,
and Ia Hamburg, "shot few digger" to
give the effort eclar.
The State of New York, at the close of
the war, found itself with q bounty dsot of
So, ,O00, 600. The Democrats were in power
from January, 1865, to January, 1872, re-
ducing the debt s., ,5OO,O 900. From January,
1872, to January, 1876, the Republicans
controlled the finances, and reduced the
debt SIS, ,500, 900, leaving less than 81 ,OOO,-
900 unpaid. A Republican Legislature and
did this work, and the "Re-
former" Tilden claims the credit Horace
Greeley wrote in 1861, "on the principle
that the receiver is as bad As the thief, Mr..
Tilden, you are as deeply implicated as
though your name were Tweed, Oakley Hall
or OBrien." But what may We not expect
from . man who sought TO stultify the bal
lot box?
Let it never be forgotten that Hon. ]. G.
Blaine was charged, BY rumor, with receiv
ing . lev Thousands from . railroad COM
pany, and the Cincinnati Convention re-
fused to nominate him. Tilden vas charg-
ed, under oath, by responsible parti,s with
81. COZ, 900 from Western rail
way corporation, and the st. Louis Conven-
lion did nominate him. All through the
Western States suits are standing against
owns and counties in favor Of Tilden, the
head and counsel of the corporations that
nave robbed them Of the heavy subscrip-
ions they were induced to make.
Lunatic fringe" is The term applied
'ov-s-days to the shOrt-cropped hair % Of |
en- seen dangling On . ladys forehead. But