Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1876-04-12
Our Washington Letter.


ington Ring sent a man to Connec
ticut to request the Chairman O
the Central Committee of thu
State to make a searching investi
cation of the probable result of tn
election on Monday, April 3. TIL
utmost pains were taken by the Con
necticut radical official, who wa
well paid by Grants Ring for hi
labor, and was requested to Civ,
facts, and the facts only. His re
port, which has just arrived, hal
cast gloom over Ring circles. III,
says that he regrets to be obliged
to state, as the result of his invest
igation, that the Democratic party
will certainly carry the State by
q majority of about three thousand
The dissemination of news from
every portion, by telegraph, hs'
made the correspondent a com
menter upon, rather than an an.
nouncer of events. Just at thi:
time, Washington is the scene Of
rapidly succeeding incidents of vital
interest to the country; and to
faithfully chronicle the details OF
each days news would take more
space than many times the limits
of letter. Many things of impor-
lance occur to which l do not even
allude, because, before my letter
can reach you, your readers will
have become familiar with the facts
through the telegraph. But the
telegraph can do no more than fur
nish brief outlines, and it is still the
pcovince of the correspondent to
supply the substance of such infor-
nation as may be of special inter-
est to the reader. The correspon-
dent whom you know, and upon
whose truthfulness you can depend,
is Of special Importance to your
readers at this time, when it is the
universal complaint Of our party
that the telegraph has been used
against US in an attempt to create
public opinion adverse to the Dem
ocratie House. No Congress has
ever labored harder, or accomplish
ed more in the same length Of time
than has the present one d; yet the
impression has gone through the
country that valuable time has been
wasted, and nothing done. The
work done has been, much of it, Of
n character that renders secrecy a
necessity. And while the House
may have appeared to do little, the
committees have labored inces-
sanity, night and day. In addi-
ton to the necessary legisl ton, it
has been devolved upon the House
to unearth and drag to the light a
mass of radical rascality, official
corruption and malfeasance in Office,
without precedent in the history of
any government. The rotten ac-
cumulations of fifteen years of Re-
publican misrule are suddenly dis
closed, and lie fostering in the
public sight. The abuses and vii
lanies which have been covered up
and winked at by the Repu lean
majorities of previous houses, it is
the duty of the present Democratic
to un ov r, and to bring
The guilty officials to justice. This
has been so well done that there
are at this time score of investi-
cations in progress. And the work
is not yet half commenced. With
al that has been disclosed, the peo-
pie are not prepared for the depth
of villany that wi yet be brought
to light. ~
Who could have believed that
men could be found so lost to all
sense of honor or decency as to bury
the bones of horses and mules in
the national cemeteries, or worse, to
divide one body into several parts,
putting them into different graves
because they were paid so much
for each grave : And yet it has
been done by men living in the very
Of the White House, and ia
vored with the personal friendship
of Grant, himself.
The Land Office has been filed
with jobs upon which thieves, big
aud little, from Delano and his son
John down to the chief clerk just
dismissed, have fattened. But the
day of reckoning has come, and the
facts will soon be made public.
Montgomery Blair has created a
very preceptible stir in political
circles in Washington, by the pub
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