Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1876-09-28

nal Court ou Tuesday next { Bab-
cock who still frequents the White
House, and Harrington who was
U. s. Attorney for the District az
the time Of the occurrence. are
the principals and several Peni-
tentiary birds, one of whom is
now in the Vermont Penitentiary,
were their hired assistants. Har.
Irington has been tried once, and
although the evidence of his guilt
was direct and conclusive, the ten
der hearted and empty poeketed
jury failed to see itsin that light,
and so they agreed to disagree,
With an honest man for U. S. At
torney, they might all get their
Just deserts this time and take
up term in the Penitentiary.
but as things now stand there is
little hope of so desirable a result.
This appears to be the age or
era of injudicious letter writing;
first, poor Fitzhagh INDUCED in a
Pickwiekian styiezthat sealed his
fate and in the estimation ofItoo
censorious friends, rendered him
unfit for Doorkeeper.0 Then Kill
patrick indited a scroll that killed
him, or rather his reputation as
an astute and cunning politician,
and now comes Mr.. Carl Schurz
and puts himself in a dilemma
by writing some wholesome truths
about the Republican prospects in
Ohio. The Republicans are
squirming and twisting but the
fact still stands that Schurz did
write letter to a friend in this
city, in which he stated that the
German vote would 90 solid for
.Tilden, and he feared the State
was lost to Hayes. The case in
as few words as possible seems
to be this: Schurz, after the
adjournment Of the New York
Conference of Independents,
for reasons best known to HIM
self in the face of all that he
had SAID at that conference, de-
termiDed to support Hayes.
His work was cut out for him.
and at it he went. 1t was ex-
pected that he could control the
German vote, but in this he was
disappointed. They listened to
his speeches., applauded thee1o-
quent passages, but they went
home still decided to vote for
Tilden and reform. But Mr..
Schurz, in order to be in the
least effective, was obliged to
make some candid concessions
as to the evils OF Grantism. He
could not bring himself quite
to the point of Standing up in
5razen mendacity like Logan
and Morton and lying the case
square through. The Germans
are too intelligent and too we'll
posted for that. He was there
fore obliged to admit that Bclll-
nap, Babcock and Boss Shep-
herd were not patriots of the
most elevated kind, and that
Grants office holders were not
always men Of the highest NOR
al grade. He even promised to
reform these things if Hayes
were elected. That made Grant
and Chandler furious, and they
sent Hayes word that if Schurz
made any more such speeches
they would cease to support
him. So Hayes found it nee
essary to muzzle Carl, which he
did, and the prophecy contained
in the letter Ihave referred tots
attributed to the position in
which he finds himself placed
by the Republican, managers.
Mr.. BristOw, too, finds that he
has a fire in the rear from the
administration guns and he has
been silent in the campaign for
he last three weeks. Both
Grant and Chandler think that
Bristow was in a conspiracy to
destroy the administration and
have SO stated. Dem.