New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-08
Especial Correspondence Of the Republican,
NOTES FROM THE CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON, October A, 1876.
Charles Francis Adams, in his lettel
to the chairman of the New Yorl
State Democratic Committee, Gays: "Fron
the days of the Credit Mobilier down
to the last exposures made by the
Investigations of the last Congress, there
is only one conclusion to be drawn,
and that is the prevalence of corruption al.
most everywhere in the Republican organi-
zation." And yet this man would today
have been acting in full fellowship with
this corrupt Republican organization" had
that party complied with his wishes by Civ
ing him the nomination, and where does he
turn for honestly "To party whose pres
ent leader is an "srtful dodger" of the
laws Of his country, cheat and revenue
swindler; to party that, when last in
power, even Democrats pronounced q
''cheat, humbug, an imposition"
The Charleston Mercuyy, whose Democ-
raoy no one will doubt, in April, 1859 (dur-
ing Buchanan's administrator, said of
this same Democratic party:
It has disregarded constitution al restric-
tiOns and set at naught positive constitu-
tional injunctions. 1t has aided in the pas
sage OF unjust and unequal laws; it has
squsndered tho public money and robbed
the common treasury. Its promises have
been broken, its pledges disregarded, and
it's professions talsiied.
To conclude the whole matter, the ma.
tional Democracy is corrupt, vacillstipg
and false; it wears the garb OF sanctity that
its hideOus defOrmities may be concealed;
it wo0s but to ruin, and wins but to de-
ceive.
Governor Foote, of Mississippi, also .
good Democratic authority, about the
same date, in q speech In Memphis,
Tennessee, said: ''The Democratic party
now in existence is dishonest, corrupt
and imbecile in the extreme, con-
fessedly so. The organization is utterly
and irretrievably rotten and debased." He
referred to leading mems statements in sup
port of this, and to the fact that in the city
of New York lat the time that Tweed, Til
den & Co. controlled Tammany), among
the best Democratic Office holders there,
not an honest man was to be found.
Mr.. Buchanan, in his annual message Of
December, 1858, not only recommended
that Congress should divest itself of the
war making power and confer it ON him
with the power Of making treaties without
the advice and counsel of the Senate, and
further, to subject the army and navy to
his control, but demanded enormous appro-
priations Of money to carry out his policies
and purposes. And this is the party Mr..
Adams would put in charge of the destinies
of this country.
In that respect is it better now than il
was in 1902 What new measure or policy
has it introduced to recommend it to the
confidence of the publica Where is the
evidence of it's publication since it lost
power in 1902 Is it to be found in the
North or in the South? In the South it has
certainly undergone change; change
from bad to worse. Being out of power
and unable to prey upon the government il
has turned it's attention to numbering in
offensive citizens.
On Tuesday, the tenth instant, will Occur
the important contest in Indiana, Ohio and
West Virginia. In the first named Stat<
will be elected full ticket of State officers
thirteen members to the next Congress, thu
Legislature, etc. In Ohio minor State Off
GERS, all it's members to the next Congress
and the Legislature will be chosen. Th'
State of West Virginia will elect it's Stat
officers and Legislature. Its members o
Congress will not be chosen until th'
seventh of November.
The contest in Indiana seems to be tn
turning point in the approaching presiden
tial election. Both parties appear to b'
equally sanguine of success, and boil
dread the result of defeat, though Repub
licans here claim that under any and al
circumstances Hayes will carry it in No
vember by at least 10000 majority.
The trial of General o. e. BAbcock ani
w, s. P. Sommerville, of New York, on Al
indictment for conspiracy against Colum
bus Alexander known assthe safe burglar.
easel, was brought to . close on Saturda,
last, the jury bringing in q verdict of ''no1
guilty" in both cases.
The third assistant postmaster general
recommends the discontinuance of con
siderable portion of the work Of the deai
letter office. He says that the reduction o.
the force in the dead letter Office. owing to
the reduced appropriations, makes it neces
sary to abandon the work. The system oi
returning ordinary dead letters was begun
in 1861, and will be discontinued on the
tenth instant, one of the results of the
crippling reductions of the Bourbon House.
REP