The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-04-12
CTR WASHINGTON LETTER,
WASHINGTON, ID. c. April s, &c

keep their courage up. The Wash
mgton Ring Organ announces Large
Republican gains in Connecticut" in
head line, and underneath, they give
the returns from that State, which
shows that the Democrats have Is in
the Senate, to ; Republicans, a gain of
over list year; and 159 Democrats,
to S5 Republicans and Independ-
entS, in the lower House, a gain of %
over last year. This gives a Demo-
cratic majority of 81 on joint ballot.
lngersoll, the Democratic candidate
for Governor, has a majority of 1914
over the Republican candidate, gain
of 966 over his majoriay last year.
There were "Greenback" and a Pro-
hibition candidate who polled each
| 1900 votes, so that one offset the
other, which leaves the regular demo-
cratic gain as above.-stated> These re-
turns will have reached your readers
by telegraph before they see this; but
experience proves that the Associated
Press reports are frequently manipu-
lated in the Republican interest, and /
nave thought it worth while to state
the precise facts.
One immediate result of the Demo-
cratic gains in Connecticut will be to
increase the chances of Senator Conk,
ling for the Republican nomination for
the Presidency. He has two elements
of strength. He is Gin" with the
Grant Ring, and he is supposed to
have great strength in New York; and
nothing is more certain than that it
will be necessary to carry that State,
to win. We may expect, therefore,
to see the Administration use every
means possible to secure New York in
the coming election. 1t will not do
tor the Democratic party to underesti-
mate the immense power Grant yields
through the New York Custom
House, and other Federal patronage
in the State. Whatever may be
necessary to counteract this power
must be done. There is very gener-
ally expressed opinion, among the lead
ing Democrats here, that we may ex-
pect a bitter fight for the possession of
New York State, and that ave must ar
range our plans for the campaign Nth
that fact IN rie,C.
THE PosT-TRADERsHIP INVESTIGATION
has involved another one of Grants |
special friends, Simon Wolf, promi> |
nent Israelite of this city. who secured |
Presidential favor by naming a child
Ulysses S. Grant Wolf" and got,
shortly after, the office of Recorder of
Deeds of the District of Columbia,
which is estimated to be worth s15, 900 |
per year. Wolf is well known in
as one of the few men on
terms of intimacy with Grant, from
whom he has secured numerous marks
If favor in The shape of appointments
or friends. His influence was suffi-
'iently strong to secure the appoint,
nent of Chicago Israelite named Sol
'mOns, as Governor of one of the
Western territories, few years ago; a
position from which he was forced to
'etire, soon after, under suspicious cir
1t now appears that
Wolf was connected with the sale of
certain post,tradership, and received
$3.50 for his influence with the Presi-
lent and Secretary Belknap. Wolf
lenied this at first but when recalled
o the stand, on Tuesday, he made
more feeble denial, saying that he did
lot remember that he had received
$50 from any person except, possibly,
n professional" way Other wit
lesses will be put on the stand to re-
i've Mr.. VOLTS memory, after which
is Mr.. Clymer's intention to have
lin indicted for perjury. Certainly,
Vhen the lightning strikes so near "the
Id man"-when it caroms on his g
friends, and even on his own q
public is justified in be- G
ieving it quite possible that the pend
ng investigations will ultimately in /
ulpate even the Chief Executive, S
imselt. If it does not, the world q
Till surely cease to credit the asser- e
ion that ga man is known by the com,
any he keeps" +
POINT IN THE REPUBLICAN GAME,
both Houses, is to provoke, by
lunts and jeers, the members who
ERE identified with the late Confed-
rate States Government, especially
nose who served in the Southern =
.rmy, into unguarded utterances.-
n the Senate, their target, for some ~
ME, has been General Gordon, of
Georgia, than whom a more eourte>