New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-10-31

trict, that he Is " true 10 the CAUSE anu h"o
stood firm against the threats and the blan-
dishments of Southern Democrats" We are
clad to believe this is true, though there has
been no case specified in which either of the
gentlemen has been seriously threatened or
dangerously blandished
There is another fact in relation to MIR.
Kellogg's candidacy which may be cited as an
illustration of the insncerity of the average
politician and the utter hollowness of politi-
cal professions. Two years ago, when Mr.. VIM.
II. Bamum-the present owner by purchase OF
n seat in the United States Senate, and Mule
Buyer-in-chief of the Democratic National
Committee-was candidate for Congress In the
WITH Connecticut District it was found upon
examination of the records that the back pay
due him on tb Salary Grab had never been
covered into the Treasury, but was in the
hands of the Sergeant-at- Arms, subject to his
ORDER The whole State went into spasms
The discovery was printed in the largest and
loudest type and circulated through the dis
trict. 1t was posted on dead walls, dis
tributed in newspaper extras, ana hung
abroad in handblls. There was great
indignation over in the lid District, where Mr.
Kellogg was a candidate, and the friends OF
that gentleman ceased for time to sound his
praises in order to give expression to their
feelings with reference TO Barnums unblSh-
ing cffrontery and shameless dishonesty. There
was such row made about it i'll fact that
door Barnum, who no doubt had been wait
''ing for 1t to blow over" got frightened and
FASTENED to shake himself free of it, cover 1t
into the Treasury, and publish a certificate to
Al.
bic that during all this time Mr. Kellogg back
pay was hanging up in precisely the same
way IN the hands OF the Sergeant Arms,
subject to his order ? 1t was. VIII 1t he be-
licycd that after THE TRIBUNE called Mr..
Kellogg's attention To the facr he still left 1t !
He did. viii it be believed i'll the face OF
these facts, notorious undenicd, ana nhdchl-
able. that the Republicans of the lid Con-
nccticut District rcnomnatcd Mr.. Kellogg
for Congress Yet they did. And l. 1t cred
ibe that Mr.. Kellogg. knowing that his party
always and everywhere had denounced the
back-pay grab as Swindlc, and that they hau
driven Barnum to disgOigc, not only has the
face 10 accept the nomination, but has taken
the stump in his district, where he knows that
everybody else knows that his back-pay Ii
hanging there subject To his order, just aS
Blrnum's did, and has never been put ont OF
his reach Yet that is precisely the situation.
There are intelligent voters in the lid Dis
trict who mean to act honestly and conoclcn-
tiously. They have the two candidates named
to select from They are between the devil
and the deep sea- WHAT ought they to Ito
I; i, not for III to advise, but this Is our suG-
,:csion: Mr. kellogg is sail to b" strong
candidate. He has been nominated low be
cau>o be- runs ahead of his ticket II the
people of his district are in love with him Us a
candidate and with his sort of politics and
politicians, they will keep Oh voting for lnm
whenever hc is put up. If great many con
,ccntlous Republicans should refuse to vote
for him it might operate as Il hint to tho point
zeal managers in that district that the expert
mcnt l. hardly worth trying again. such m'n
- ,x-pr ;deut Wool>ry may he contrntrd To
have judge Phelps elected Ia Congress over
their oppp,iu. votes; the, can hardly afford
tn lee understood - cou>cntiug even 10 the
election of Nh. Kellogg A. the representative
of their notions of the ethics, the philosophy,
or tho science of politics.