The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1876-02-24

The Portsmouth Times, Gallipolis Bull
letin, and other papers of that stripe,
have denied that their party put man
in high official position who so admired
the murderer of President Lincoln as to
name his son after the assassin.
The New York Tribune should be good
authority with these Democratic papers,
and we take the following from that pa.
per:
Mr.. HAMBLEToN DEMANDS PRooFs-A LETTER
FROM THE DEMoC RATIO CLERK OF THE WAYS
AND MEANS COMMITTEE.
To the Editor OF the TrIbune:
SIR--Judging from your article of this
date, you seem determined not to receive
any statement or.explanation as satisfac-
tory 1t sometimes happens that "a man
convinced against his will is of the same
opinion still" In reply to your first on
slaught, / authorized your chief cores
pondent in this city to say that / never
had child or anything else named John
Wilkes Booth" That dispatch appeared
in the Tribune as my authorized state
statement, and the Tribune also, in the
same issue, m@de editorially, Cn minion
type) a quasi retraction. Since that date
the Tribune reiterates the charge, but
presents no proofs. / now say for the
last time that the allegation Is false and
malicious, and if the Tribune has or can
get any proof that l, or any member of
my family, ever named a child John
Wilkes Booth, we say give it to the pub
lie githOm delay. Who are your witnesses,
and what are they? 1t is an easy mat
ter for an editor-especially one who
fought four years to save the Union-in
his retiracy-glowing with patriotic ar
dor, to indite gushing philipics over the
grave of dead instant. But it is another
thing to produce facts that sustain such
a course. This crusade of the anthem
ocratic press against the clerk of the
Committee on Ways and Means is not
only unfounded in truth, but it is parti-
san and malicious, and is the smallest
and most contemplate episode in Amer
lean politics. The Tribune has been i'm
posgd upon by the envious and the ma
lignant; its patriotic indignation has
been lashed into a rage at the sight of a
Quaker gun-nothing more, nothing less.
The Tribune may also be gratified to
know that the clerkship Of. the Commit
tee on Ways and Means is a matter of
small consideration to its present incum
bent. The clerk was appointed on the
sole accommodation of prominent Dem
ocrats who had served long and faithfully
on this committee, and while the Chair
man is not responsible for my appoint
ment, yet my resignation has always
been subject to his will and pleasure
Will the Tribune suggest to the Chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Means some suitable gentleman for his
clerk, after learning thaL.is has a family
and what he has named his children
No mistakes should be made. In con-
clusion, we ask the Tribune if there is
anything in either Of the new amend
ments OF the Constitution, the Recon
struction acts, acts Of Congress, proclama
lions, or military orders, that prohibits a
man rom naming a child anything he
chooses I'VE are in oar Fathers house"
md will never knowingly violate any law |
,r anything done in pursuance thereof. |
We shall never invade, under any pre- |
ext, the domestic circle or the graves of |
nnocents.
JAMES P. HAMBLETON,
Jerk of Committee on Ways and Means.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 8, 1876.
z. S.-If there is any additional state
nent you desire me to make, please pre-
are it, and inclose it to your regular
Washington correspondent, that / may