The People's vindicator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1874-1883, 1876-05-13
Our Washington Letter.

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Our Washington Letter.
Washington, u. c. May !, 1876.
THE CANDIDATES.
Senator Thurman's Ohio friends are
becoming very active in his behalf,
and while they anticipate a sharp
fight in their own State, they claim
to have secured a considerable
strength for him in other States, and
if they can control Ohio, they expect
to present the Senator at st. Louis
with a good backing. The New York
men are jubilant to-day over the
unanimous declaration of the New
York convention in favor If Tildcn.
Just what the friends of Governor
Hendricks are doing is not apparent |;
but it is to he presumed that strong
backing is being organized for him.
Speaker Kerr is pledged to his sup.
port and the House was organized
in his interest. II he is not nominated
ut st. Louis, it will not be for want Of
friends. do not think, however,
that personal popularity will intlu-
ence the convention unless it be ac-
companied by absolute strength with
the people. The Democratic party
were never more thoroughly in earn
est and determined to nominate man
they can elect, than now. All the in
dications point tn an harmonious ac-
ton at St Louis, in the interest of the
party as q whole. Sectional differ
ences are less prominent every day {;
and good feeling, and a willingness to
sink personal preferences for the gen.
eral good, are expressed on every
side.
THE LAST OF THE CORPET SEN.
ATORS
is probably George E. Spencer of Al
ALBANIA, whose election was recently
investigated by a Republican Sen
atorial committee. The bucket of
whitewash has been duly prepared,
and will probably he dumped into
the Senate by Morton, Chairman of
the Committee on Privileges and
Elections, within a week or ten days.
That Spencer procured his election
by corrupt means no one doubts but
the Republican members Of tire COM
mittee strenuously objected to- any
other testimony than would Ire al
mittel in COURT Of law, and tire re.
suit was that Gen. Morgan, the coun-
sci for tile Alabama Legislature, found
himself hampered at every turn, and
was not permitted to introduce any
testimony, even though conclusive in
its nature, which could he excluded
by the strict rules governing legal
evidence. The majority of the COM
mittee went so far, also, in their eff.
forts to protect their radical colleague,
as to peremptorily decline to summon
several witnesses named by thu prose.
cution. OF course the minority,
Messrs. Bayard, Merrimon, and
Cooper (Democrats) disscnted from
the arbitrary aud unjust rulings
Of Morton and his confreres but their
protests were of no avail, and the
result will be two reports-one in
favor of, and one against, the carpet.
bag Senator from Alabama. A man
of no ability, aud believed to be
thoroughly corrupt, Spencer is des-
pissed not only by the Democratic
Senators, but by the Republicans who
profess to be his friends. The latter
will continue Spencer in his position
not because they believe that he is
entitled to it but because their major
ity in the Senate is 80 small that tho
loss Of a single Senator, just now,
would deprive them ola vote which
they need on many occasions, when
party lines are not rigidly adhered to,
| and some of their number, Edmuuds,
Christiancy, Paddock, and others, fall
into line with the Democrats.
Louls1ANA's scALAwAG SENATOR.
Since investigations and personal
explanations seem to be the order of
the day, it is somewhat strange that
the notorious Senator from Louisiana,
j. r. West, has not followed the ex-
emple of the illustrious Blaine, and
denied the long list of charges that
have been made through tie press
against his honor and integrity as a
man and a Senator. These accusa-
lions have remained unrefuted for
months, aud the public begin to be-
lieve they are true in every respect.
From the New Orleans Democrat,
however, it would appear that West
proposes to resort to the courts for
redress, and has instituted a suit for
libel against that paper. In referring
to this course Of the Senator, the Dem.
0crat says:
Our Washington correspondent tele-
graphs us that West proposes to sue the
Democrat for libel. We are not informed,
however, for what specific truth we have
told We are to be sued. Will West sue
US because we proved him to be forgcr,
and published the evidence of the fact
Or will he sue us for printing the truth
about his villainous life in California dur
ing the wari Or will he sue us because
we exposed the fact that he co-operated,
for prize, with Babcock and Port +, to
have Billings appointed Judge I Or will
he sue US because We have told of his
running off with the funds of the New
Orleans fire company before the war! Or
will he sue us because we stated, what
every man in Louisiana believes to be q
fact, that he bought his election in the
United States Senate for thirty.six thous.
and dollarsi
1t will be seen, by the above par.
agraph, that the Democrat is not
much alarmed at the prospect Of the
threatened law suit.
THE BELKNAP IMPEACHMENT TRIAL
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