The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-03-30
Special correspondence to the Register.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
wAsHINoToy, March %, iS76.


preccdented influence IN the ap-f
preaching campaign-a fact that the
nominating conventions, and pciiti,
clans generally, will do well to make
a note of. The number of ncwspaA
pers entirely untrammeled by par.'
ty ties has been rapidly increasing
from year to year; as has also been
the number of papers still popularity
known as republican or democratic
papers, but which do not hesitate, on
what they conceive to be proper oc-
casions, to pitch into the leaders and
repudiatc the measures of their re-
spective parties, as freely as into
those of their opponents. These in
dependent and semi-independent pa.
pcrs, of which there are some Two
Thousand, daily and weekly, in the
United States, will certainly throw
their influence in favor of the best
man. Of course, q few may be
bought up; but by far the larger num-
Der will act on their respective con-
victions, Another important fact to
be considered by politicians is that
these papers are supported by con-
stituency without whose aid they
could not live. and whose views,
therefore, it is reasonable to suppose
they reflect, to very great extent
Here in Washington, arc to be seen,
every day, men from all parts of the
Union, who express, substantially,
the opinion that their respective dis
tricts will give majority for the best
man, irrespective of party. Men
from the North, South, Eastand West,
who have been democrats all their
lives, affirm that they would rather
vote for Abraham Lincoln, if he were
alive now, because of his unquestion-
cd personal integrity, than for n life
long democrat of conceded ability Of
the highest order, but of doubtful or
even unascertained honesty. Nor
will a vacillating trimming politi-
clan, who needs watching, suit the
democracy in its present temper
On the other hand, you hear republi-
cans who prayed, in 1868, for An
drew Johnson's conviction, and, occa-
sionally, even one who, as Congress-
man at that time, voted for his I'M
parchment, affirm that if johnson
were alive now, and nominated by
the democratic convention, they
would rather vote for him, because of
his deserved reputation, through life,
of being an honest man, than for any
thief, or thicfs pal" as yet spoken
of for the republican nomination.
Bristow is understood to be out of the
question. NoScitur d Sociis, A great
many democratic papers in the South
and West, see, are advocating very
strongly the nomination of Governor
Tilden, of New York, a lifelong, un-
compromising, dyed-in-thc-wool dem
ocrat, but quite as fayorably and
more widely known to the country
at large us a man who has reflected
honor ON his party in New York, as
well as on himself, by Kidding it of
its dishonest leaders, The untiring
industry, logged perseverance and
sterling integrity of the man, and
the fact that, in pursuing, year after
year, to conviction, and punishment,
the Tweed ring and the New York
Canal Ring, he entirely ignored poll
tics, and, Washington-likc, refused
compensation for his professional
services to the City and State, have
created Il strong impression in his
favor, and attracted the attention of
politicians to him as an easy man to
elect.
"TnOCGHTFUL BROTHER"
The National Republican has an ar
ticlc today, in which it says of Pres
ident Grant: "Hc is Il kind husband,
a tender father, a thoughtful brother,
and most loyal friend" This can,
not be denied, whatever else may be
said against him. Didn't he make
his son, Just from West Point, a Lieu
tenant Colonel over veterans twice
his age, and send him to make the
tour of Europe? What was it to
Grant if he violated law and regula-
tons? As for being a "thoughtful
BROTHER" didn't he write to his dear
brother. Awful Grant, all about
those post-traderships that were "go-
ing to be vacant" so that Awful
could make the necessary arrange
ments for selling the places? AS to
being u "loyal friend" Babcock, and
Boss Shepherd, and Dclano, and Tom
Murphy, and Belknap know all about
that, If this puff of Grant had been
in an anti-administration paper, !
shouldn't have believed it; but the
Republican is an "organ."
A RULE THAT DON'T WORK BOTH WAYS.
The same people who blamed Mr..
Clymcr and his committee for letting
Marsh go, after he had answered ev-
cry question put to him, and when