The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-09-07
Correspondence.
Our Washington Letter.

WAsHuxoroS. d. c., Sspt. 1. 1876.
SergcdntJkvrms Thompson =" ReforDter"
Tfiden --Cicu and MisceIldneos Er-
peldiiures.
Sergeant alarms Thompson, Of
the confederate Hotse of Represen
tatives. says that The sending of mo.
ney into Ohio to influence the cleo
ton ia wholly false, and the author
contemplate liar. Judge him by.
bis own standard. The House Of
Representatives made IL a penal OF
Tense TO solicit or accept moneys to
be used for election purposes. Ser.
gent Thompson assessed all employ.
ers. or had il done, two per cent, on
their aunual s,laries. II he is not
really q 'contemptib!e' liar, what
constitutes Que I The Democratic
officials Of Baltimore ssseesed all
clerks and employers Of that city
two per cent. on their annual sala-
ries, and il 10 creditably reported
that Tammany has levied tax Of
FIVE per cent. on their annual sala-
ries Of all Democratic officials 10 the
of New York. Sergeant Thompson
your friends, after much declaiming
as to Republican assessments to in
huence elections aud making it an
offense punishable with 6ne and i'm
prisonment, are the first as well as
the boldest in breaking il. You no
more intended 10 respect 1t then yon
did Scott Lord d's resolution denouuc-
ing the Coshutta aud Hamburg afro
cities, It was nought but demagog
gism to hoodwiuk the simple, honest
Granger, who honest and, truthful
himself. is inclined to look on his
fellows as truthful also. BY their
words ye shall know them !; and il
in the mirror of integrity you see
not the image Of the most 'contempt.
BILE liar in Ohio, it ia because you
have in your hat baud the photo
graph Of Pendleton, or Vallending-
ham. You missed your opportunity
for fame when you permitted Val 70
! go South alone Your calling any
, one liar is only excelled in hu.
NOR by calling on the N. Y. World,
which Gov. Dix suppressed for IL
REASONABLE utterance, to prove Til
den's character for loyalty Some
v might think that worse than calling
q thiefas O witness to testify 10 tht
credibility Of q brother thief. WHIT
lies ? .'. s"'.
a "Rcfcrnsr" Tiiden, while in the sgonies Q
his labor over h,a letter Of deceptior. when sgot
J, for the E,st, .nd psrnis,ns snarisas % y, 'as
West. tbs labor OF hts friend, having eesssi ~,
a the war, and their factories having long lain tdl
-"I.et ms but return to the homsiy ruls Of itvtn
}. within our income." Tho thought va not I'll
child Of tho ,iie..on; hsSlt 70 the 'mmssn,,' &c, .S
b only occasion hs ever attempted 10, II disgusts
!, him. lie found he had sworn In hut t',iis. whe
sli the world knew he had received over s,o;ms ;S
y ~ the yenln question he had made two single fcs
Il Of $lo 900 each, And the secoUd shows that scn
tiSo, 100 stock wac placed to his credit. No woi
{: der that conservative Journal excisilns "Thi
o terrible exposure tells strongly assiun Nc. Ti
\ Iden.r ....
~ Ind ebted for tho following dsmonsiat,ou Of DnS
70 cratic seconomy." Itis conclusive ansSor
d Mr.. Tilion's charses Of R,pnbiic,n extr,v'
The foundss,ca q the government, Al iutar1 ais
v twenty years
: Years. Expenditu,es.
y iTW t7s!,<1s
, ise x.as97&i
is1s s,3s3,..
ts 1859 32l2L2it
- lisf6 Gn,s;s,3'3
o Dcduntins the thousands OF millions proper
II arseabie to the "Dsniocrssic risps for libev
against Illegal oppression'it II Will be- soen 9Th.
~ while the expenditures OF the prrsent year q
In lint little moro than twice ns great ~ thosc'
20 1850 those Of the latter year are koRs THAN 81
!. TINES As ong.T tns smount oIpeuded !
= 1881 - Rsmemb-r tn. uupsrsi-ll.d exrsvag 'ne
Jacksou's admin istration In 1879, that his par
N virtually held sway until isjo, whom Buc
n ausu surrendered to psvis, Fioyed, Toombs,
III ID, aud when school aud all other sacred trusts
q. the government were .dishouored, do not NJ
riidsns vhrasines on 'ecoupmy" aud "retorui
le reminds QUE Of josh Billings: