The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-12-04
For the Dlspatch.l
The New State OF Colorado, ana HOW II
To.no IN ha Made So.

Messrs. Editors,-I sympathlzed heartl'y
with you in your recent expressions OF
yexation and impatience at the idea OF the
new State OF Colorado being probably the
means Of defeating Tilden rs President OF
the United States. He has 1874 certain and
undisputed electoral votes, which would
have been clear majority in the Electoral
College but for the admission OF Colorado
with three electoral votes. You, with
others, seemed to regard the present Demo
cratic House of Representatives as in part
responsible for bringing this political bant-
linz into the world: but Mr.. fuckers late
letter shows that the Republican Congress is
alone responsible for it, and there is no rea-
son to doubt that the admission OF Colorado
into the Union formed part and parcel Of
President Grants hird-te1m scheme, for Just
about the time when the bill was passed in
Congress authorizing the call OF Il conVen-
ton looking to this end the third term was
looming up as Il favorite idea in Admins
tration circles. What renders 1t more PROB
able and more suspicious is the character OF
the agents employed to give success to the
scheme. II bad been thought that Grant
had already exhausted his list OF k1n on
whom he had bestowed offices OF profit and
infuencc-hisG brother OrriNe to supcrintend
the post-traderships his br0ther-i'e-tdlr, Cd
sen as collector OF customs in New Orleans !;
besides Others whose names do not now occur
to me. But about this time cousin on the
mothers side, one Charles &. 1OmpElnS,
was nominated to the Senate by Cousin
Grant, andappointed marshal OF the terri
tory OF Colorado. The New York Herald
noticed this appointment at the time,
and spoke Of Tompkins as the last Of
hp hn1 haon u-aa bnI
up" from obscurity in Roanoke county,
where he married. But the fact was, that
he was then, and had for Il year or more
been, in Washington city, where he was
connected with Boss Shepherd in some OF
his nefarieus enterprises, which, like their
ilIustrious head, have lately come to grief.
Marshal Tompkins went Immediately to
Colorado, making his headquarters in Den
yer city, where he has been actively ell
gagged in running the Administration ma
chine as chief engineer, and preparing the
handful OF voters for the grand result
which has now been accOmplished-ylz.
the formation OF 4 State out OF the Terri
tory OF Colorado; thus securing three cleo
toral votes, besides two United States sena-
tors and member OF the House OF Repre-
Sentatives, with constituency hardly sulh-
cient in number to make Il decent regiment
One OF the first nominations made by Grant
after the vote was taken in July, and the
State OF Colorado was organized, was that
OF Cousin G.. G. Tomplsns lis marshal-an
office which is said to yield him an
income of 5000 per annum Besides this,
il is understood that lie has in interest in a
silrer mine and il lie has any political as
piraicns he may at no distant day represent
the State OF Colorado in the Senate OF the
United States, like Senators Jones and
Sharon.
Thus You see, Messrs. Editors, it is a
great thing to be cousin or some other kin
to great man like Ulysses S. Grant, either
for the purpose OF making States or states
men. And then 1t pays so oreN on both
sides! Just think OF it! The unknown
and impecunious Ulysses 5. Grant selling
wood in st. Louis in 1861 now President
of the United States, with the purse OF the
nation in one hand and the sword in the
other. And here we have his equally inn
pecunious cousin, who for while did
Grants dirty work in Roanoke. and after
wards that OF Boss Shepherd in Washing
ton city, suddenly appearing as marshal OF
Colorado. and part owner of silver nine.
y SUBSCRIBER.