Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1876-08-04
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
A wOman's Observations Al washington.

ncceptaOle 10 your readers than anything |
might write, especially with the female
portion;
l wish THAT thinking men in quiet conn
try places, the men whom | honor as the
bone and sinew Of the land, could hear
talk that hear daily from one OF the lead
ing lights among Democratic Washington
correspondents. lie boasts that Tilden,
with two million dollars of his own to in
vest in the campaign, and his hands on the
Golfers Of the STATE Of Neir York Is sure OF fifty
thousand majority in that State and twen-
ty thousand in IndiaDal He has high hopes,
also, Of Ohio, founded, no doubt, on the
same substantial basis. What an insult to
these three glorious States a lovely mes
siah OF reform would that President be who
would begin his career by buying his way
into the office. John Morrlsscy, the gam
bier, is fitting "John the Baptist" for
this new dispensation. II l were man
/ would no more sell my vote than 1 would
sell the virtue of my wife or daughter, and
l would no more give in my adherence to
buyer OF mems votes than l would
learn morality of the devil. | afterwards
| asked Hon. Martin /. Townsend, the sage
of Troy, who was sitting near, what he
thought of that estimated Democratic ma
| jority for his State. lie replied facetious-
| ly, "The young man knows no more about
that than he does about the Kingdom OF
| Heaven" But the reporters words em-
| phasize supreme danger against which
| Republicans must be fully armed. Money
| lavishly spent to bribe the unemployed,
the desperate and the villalnous, among
our floating population of the North, will
| be as marked feature of the campaign
as intimidation by bloodshed at the South.
! If there ever was time when good men
and women need TO pray for the salvation
Of our beloved America, that time is now,
! for Satan desireth to have her that he
might silt her as wheat. ! have heard
Democrats congratulate their party that
Tilden was bachelor and elderly, for he
would have less to hold him back from
spending money freely to carry the election.
The party here do not talk much about
"reform" except in their big speeches in
| Congress. They show their hands freely,
and boast that this business is to be put
through at all hazards. Five hundred
thousand dollars is the purchase price set
for the freemen of Indiana
To show you how naturally bribery goes
hand in hand with disloyalty, quote
again from the reporter above cited, whom
| have heard say openly, ain thirty years
from now any man will blush to own that
he was in the Union army" \ Northern
young man not yet out of his twenties,
grown at New England freside into the
sacred inheritance of an undivided Union,
purchased for him in advance by the blood
of our heroes OF 1861. | turn with disgust
when he flippantly tramples their priceless
offering under foot, and / wonder sadly ii
there are many of our younger voters like
him-Dt the North. He is neither better
nor worse than is class here--a man reason
ably free from personal vices, but wholly
destitute OF political conscience an eager
and greedy picker-up OF the garbage of a
Democratic House of Representatives, tbs
he may send it forth with additions and
surmises of his own, to blast honorable
regulations and create political effect. Re-
ferring to Secretary Robson the other day
he said, with amusement, that there was
only enough in those charges to make "a
| little present campaign material" He is
the same man, also, who recently circula-
ted in print a reckless and most untruthful
narrative OF excesses on the part of Presi-
dent Grant during the last few weeks. The
story met with indignant disbelief in
Washington; and, in fact, it was not in.
tended for belief here, but for campaign
capital at a distance. The ninth com.
} mandment has gone wholly out of fashion
} with some people, but have not vet heard
} that it was repealed in heaven. The he ad
} messenger OF the President who has beer
} thirteen years at the Executive Mansion
} an appOintee OF Abraham Lincoln and
D servitor of three administrations-a mar
of deep piety and sound common sense
and universally held in esteem, told me
the other day that the above charge wal
i a cruel and malicious falsehood, and tina
!, the President, while patiently and soberl,
bearing the unconscious burden of thi
! slander, had been laborously receiving
Centennial visitors at an average of fiv,
hundred day during the entire heateC
s term, and he himself had constant acces
!. to him and knew the facts of the case
:. am not one of the number OF those VIII,
, , plead guilty for our President to ever,
charge that Copperhead malignity cal
devise. It is so very plain to me that tn
! root OF his offending, the one unforgivabl
tresspass OF all is the fact that he whipped
the rebels But if you want a foretaste o
what life in theWhite House will be, unde
/ the self-styled Reform" Administration
n let me reproduce a fawnlng paragraph
from the most respectable Democratic pa
per here, the Washington Sunday Herald, Z
Il OF July l6:
II
& ast the celebrated Joha unisberger of our nel
- President. Sam Tilden. These two fortuna
individuals are Herr Pulitzer, one of the mos
= persistent Of the foreign ambassadors upon tn
New York Herdld's staff and Cungrcssma
q Hewitt. This celebrated Johannisberger cost
e thirty years ago, twelve dollars bottle in gOI,
Hewitt and Tilden live opposite each other i
New York. Gramercy Park living betw cen then
e One eveIing this summer Mr.. Hewitt was sea-
# ed at his front window talking with his wit
. about the Caldwell dispatch. when a fair
e odor breathing of heavenly delight was waite
% across the park. 1t was so delicate that no n
but the nose of such connoisssur as Hew
could have detected IT.. He sn ifed thrice, an
,r then said with an air of certainty "Jnhanni.
berger as live !" and then, "Cone, wife p,
on your hat: Let US run over to Tilden'i
h quick. IL may be your only opportunity
- ever tasting the real lJohannsberger." The
- at once rushed over to Tilden's, with whOl
Hewitt IS very intimate. Entering he foun
" Tildsn in back parlOT with an intimate frien
in the seventh heaven Of luxuries delight nv,
N a bottle OF this blissful Johannisbcrger. TT
at other gentleman who had the rare expcrlen,
is drinking glass Of this rare, priceless viii
IL OF Herr Pulitzer. tie called one evening
view Tilden on the subject Of Reform. Tild,
was at dinner. Herr Pulitzer was obliged
wait for him FOR some time. To compensa
him Tilden sent him out a glass Of real Johai
nisberRer. PER- PulitZer's description of Il
" SNiN'sitV StHaHNhih pTuuuceu W lua BbTEeOl
or fluid as it slowly meandered down his throat
its lazy heart-warming way towards his stou
or ach, it eommided to dull print, would stand o
h. as one Of the gems OF epicurean literature.
=, My friends, do not think you want tn
=" Tilden and his Johannisberger in Il
. Presidential Chair, or that the apartmen
he once halowed by Abraham Lincoln shou
no be the scene of his bachelor orgies "in Il
., seventh heaven OF luxurious delight"
:! Let us turn to the other and fairer 81,
he OF the picture where two men, devout an
es pure, are standing with hands empty
IN brides and innocent of the wine cup, b
=, outstretched in greeting to every freemi
w OF the land. As daughter Of Ohio
r. know whereof l speak in regard to the re
ID olute and aggressive integrity whiC
m marks the character of Rutherford
=, Hayes. With William A. Wheeler ha,
~ had household acquaintance ever since
IN came to Washington, period of two yeal
u | never knew stronger and a nobler ma