The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1876-05-18
Every Body and His Wife Gone
to the Centennial.
FitxhuGh's Crime q Sweet Nor
sel for the Radicals.
Another Republican Departure.
Eyarts to Be Selected a. q Reform
Cnudidafp.

"Gone to tine Centennial" is all the
CRY. Should ore desire to see a gen.
tleman on business and calls at his
Office or store for that purpose, in the
majority of instances he is politely in
formed she has gone to the Centennial"
One feels socially inclined and con-
eluds to visit the ladies. He rings the
bell. The servant appears. "Are the
ladies at homer" "They are gone to
the Centennial A gentleman informs
me that night before last, feeling that
the town generally was dull and unin-
teresting, he concludes to visit some
fashionable friends in the West End.
He found the front blinds all closed and
not a spark of light emitted from the
usually brilliant windows, but he rang
the bell and upon making the usual
inquiry, secured the invariable answer,
They have gone to the Centennial"
How long this state of things will
continue who shall say? We can only
hope the Centennial novelty will soon
wear off and Washington will become
itself again.
But Notwithstanding our temporary
paucity of population, the political caul-
dron still boils and continues to throw
its bubbles to the surface. The larg-
est bubble just now to be seen is the
malicious and slanderous accusation
against Mr.. Fitzhugh, Doorkeeper of
the House. On, what a sweet morsel
for the Cody given Republicans to roll
under their dainty tongues. But let
them beware how they taste it for in
all probability it will turn out to be
Something like that fruit so fair
Fo%und-upoa the Dead Sea shore
Nothing but a painted snare,
Dust and ashes at the core.
The letter of Mr.. Welsh, in the
Republican of this morning reads SO
much like one of those marvellous sto-
ries to be found in a ten cent novel that
one cannot help believing that there is
as much truth in the one as there is in
the other. But granting for argument
sake, that it is all true, and that Mr..
Fitzhugh is the veriest wretch that
ever went unhung has he sold any
Offices? Has he inappropriate any
public money? Has he made use Of his
position and the public mean Mt his
command to advance the inter of his
party? Or has he, after feathelln his
own nest to his hearts content, thrown
open the doors of the National Treas
ury and invited his friends to enter and
help themselves. Granting, I say, he
has done all this and more, he would
still fall far short of being the peer in
political villainly compared with the
dishonesty of most of the Repubublican
officials of to-day. But two wrongs
have never yet nor never will make a
right and the convection of all the door
keepers in the worldc can never wipe out
the foul stain upon our National escutch-
con by the infection of which the Re-
publican party has damned itself for
ever. 1t is true indeed that under the
present regime We are surrounded by
fraud and corruption, but this is only
temporary and will disappear like the
morning dawn before the rising sun of
Democracy. When that party once more
assumes the reigns of Government,
then we shall exact justice, and he who
is most deserving will get the greatest
reward.
Tilden, Thurman OF Bayard as the
Presidential candidate, with the pros
pect of the remaining two in the Cabi-
net, would decide the result of the Presi-
dental election before the day of voting
arrives.
The New Republican Reform Club in
New York, it is now suggested, means
a strong effort for reform within the
lines, by pushing William N. Evarts for
the Presidency at Cincinnati. He is
said to have a strong personal backing,
and to be regarded with favor by some
of the Conkling men of New York, as
one who has fewer personal political
animosities to contend with than any
man in their State, and as about the
ONLY one, in fact, with whom they can
hope to win it's electoral vote. The
political consultation invited by Messrs.
Schurz, Bryant and Woolsey is thought
70 have this object in view, also. Such
D nomination at Cincinnati would be
d great concession to Conservative senti-
iment. William NJ. Evarts not only de-
Tended Andrew johnson against i'm
peachment, but accepted the Office Of
Attorney General at his hands after
wards and, although nominally a Re
publican, he opposed the unconstitu-
tional measures of that party, such as
the Force bill and Ku-Klux blu, and
took open ground against Grants Lou
isiana usurpatlon. He will be too bitter
a pill for the straight-outs to swallow,
and they will not take him to please the
..respectables." This will throw the
latter gentleman at last back upon their
ultimate determination, which is, to
take the best man for reform, regard
less of party; i'll which event they will
probably go for Tilden, of New York,
whose chances of the Democratic NOM
fnatio1 are conceded here, on all hands,
to have vastly improved within the past
six weeks, and to be still improving.
HERNANDo.