The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-03-09
o. p. MORTON.
,. HAS Bathed In Puddle Of Nigger
'ho Blood for Years.
s,,,.,ls Of Alaska Fur seal ana the
Re Emma Mine Swindle.

milo other night L sent you q dispatch
Ia liz affect that certain parties who
20 1no ovamined the facts claimed that
hau tor Morton was Interested In the
SenaLSo Fur Seal Company" Now,
Al aotor Morton is a candidate for the
oeno%;dential nomination ut the hande
The Republican party. He Is one OF
o. w.. ~, politicians who believe that a
u ,ltical party is a machine made for
snconyenienco OF eminent gentlemen
W. ho desire elevation to Office. His
, Nno is that principles" are an effete
m;nstit1tion, remanded TO the dim CORR
alnrsofthe past along with stage coaches,
I Sors and arrows, and other primitive
;uveptions Of the human genius. Policy,
NV boy, is the thing with Senator Nor
tnn and he Is capable Of supporting the
psp,blican ticket on greenback plat
iss,, IN Indiana, on bullion founda-
ton in Maine, and o carpet bagful OF
hIoody shirts in Mississippi, stimuli
. u,u h,y, He does not seem to
@usmyr4enend the fact that there
any interchange of information
s.ween the people Of different States
pud he il imbued with the most sublime
ssa;sureoard of that jewel which is said to
~ The virtue OF small minds, to wit
uopsistency. In fact, have sometimes
.pnnCht that Senator Morton based his
sI.;ms TO greatness Of mind upon the
~ that he was wholly destitute of
,Sat peculiar element Of smallness to
hitch, WI have just alluded. For many
SARA however, he has bathed himself,
CRITICALLY speaking, in hgurative
s,adle OF niger blood. which he seems
have fancied a sort Of Ponce de Leon
;ountain OF perennial youth In the mat
,or 81 Republican craftsmanship. He
Sas drawn in his train a whole caval-
csde OF less important negro-blood-pud-
dlers forming the nucleus OF party
usually described as crusaders, under
IA confalon Of the bloody shirt, and
-. .nmJhSdvinr the remnants OF stupid pre-
;ndice. North Methodism, Western Re
ssryism. Iowaism and raw-head royal
lam generally, that survives as q resi-
S Ann n waste places Of the late war.
m this feature Of his political career
alone Senator Morton has been
!. I0n' other questions - rom his
double backed and two-faced attitude on
he Fifteenth Amendment question to
hs chameleon-tinted and Joseph coated
nolicy on the finances-Senator Morton
Ras lar Years been the prestidigitateur
NJ politics and the lightning change
man Of the Senatorial circus. But for
sorne reason or other through all this
medley OF political legerdemain he has
preserved remarkable immunity from
Inc ills customarily incident to Christian
craftsmanship. Nobody has success
iuIly accused him Of having quietly
pocketed any net proceeds Of loyalty In
he commercial sense. Other great
statesmen OF his Xix and kidney have
fallen into grief under demonstrable
dividends Of Credit Mobilier, Emma
Mine or Boss Shepherd stock and pool
schemes; from poor Colfax down along
l3erfelds. John Shermans, Schencks
and 50 on OF Republicanistn, there
has been an innumerable caravan
Of loyal statesmen with sticky fingers,
full pockets and battered regulations
but Morton has never been detected
limping along in their midst. The spe-
cal telegram to the Enquirer, to which
sllusiOn was made in the outset, Is the
first bit OF smut of the kind that has
stuck to Morton with any degree OF
sickness, and he seems to be annoyed
about It. As is usually the case with
matter that appears In the columns OF
the Enquirer, this dispatch attracted at
tsntion. It was copied and commented
on In the contemporaneOus press, and
eventually came to Morton, duly
marked by the hand or pencil scratch Of
some friend engaged in the Morton pro-
gramme for the Presidency. The Sen
ator from Indiana lost no time In ca,ls-
Ing an intimation to be conveyed to
your correspondent that the statement
was unjust and Observation-Disclosures
these few lines. s-.
Now, then, / am free to say that ]
never have seen with my own optics any
shares In the Alaska Fur Seal Company
made out in the name and TO the behoof
and benefit OF Oliver ?. Morton. have
not the remotest notion that any such
shares we're ever issued. But the peo-
PIE who are working up this bonanza
claim that, IL they can show that John
Norton was a stakeholder In this con-
cern and recipient OF its. enormous
dividends, they will have made out their
case against his father, the Senator.
For my own part, have to say that ]
gave the currency OF the En4,tirer'S
circulation through its special Washing.
ton dispatches TO what was at that mo-
ment a report with far more than the
ordinary foundation that such reports
here have to rest on. Other papers had
the news, why not the Enquirer There
Ia no malice personally against Senator
Norton either in the Washington
bureau OF the Enquirer, nor, SO far as
know. In its home Office. The main
point Is, that when the sons OF Senators
are known or supposed to have soft
things In the way of monOpolies guar
anteed by Federal legislation, the cur
rent suspicion of the h0i pOLOi runs to
the implication of the progenitOr in the
dividends II not In the stockholding.
While on this theme ] may as well al
lude to the testimony of Mr.. James T..
Lyon, formerly of Wisconsin, but now
Of Wall street. Mr.. Lyon, as You have
already been advised by the Associated
Press, testified that Bill Stewart, OF un-
savory fame, made an open proposition
to pay Senator Morton $40, 900 to secure
the removal Of Judge Mexican, OF Utah.
To-day Lyon resumed his testimony,
but said nothing in addition to his reve-
Ations OF Yesterday regarding Morton.
VI course Senator Morton and his friends
denounced Lyons statement, and aver
that the Senator never received such
moneys. It Is a matter Of history, how
ever. that Nick can was made the victim
OF persecution. Bill Stewart headed a
crusade against him, which, for amalig-
nifty and indefatigability, has had few
parallels In history, full as the history
OF Washington is Of the records OF UNI
scrupulous jobbery. The trouble with
all these things is that. they. are
coming out at wretchedly-inop-
Fortune moment. Candidates for the
!rresidency hang on raggeder edges
!aan other men, and hence these tears.
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