The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence OF the Democratic Advocate.
wAsnlSe1OS. D. G. March p. ls7


A short time ago, Grants Washington
the Chairman of the Central Committee of
that State to make searching investigation
Of the probable result of the election on Mon.
day, April 3. The utmost pains were taken
by the Connecticut Radical official who was
well paid by Grants Ring for his labor, and
was requested to give the facts, and the facts
only. His report, which has Just arrived,
has cast gloom over Ring circles. He says
that he regrets to be obliged to state, as the
result of his Investigation, that the Democratic
party will certainly carry the State by ma
jority Of about three thousand.
The dissemination of news from every por.
ton of the civilized world to every other
portion, by telegraph, has made the cores
pendent commenter upon, rather than an
announcer Of, events. Just at this time,
Washington is the scene Of rapidly succeeding
incidents of vital interest to the country; and
to faithfully chronicle the details Of each
days news would take more space than many
times the limits Of letter. Many things Of
importance occur to which / do not even
allude, because, before my letter can reach
you, your readers will have become familiar
with the facts through the telegraph But
the telegraph can do no more than furnish
the correspondent to supply the substance Of
such information as may be of special interest
to the reader. The correspondent whom you
know, and upon whose truthfulness you can
depend, is of special importance to your read.
ers at this time, when il is the universal com.
plant of our party that the telegraph has
been used against us in an attempt to create
public opinion adverse to the Democratic
House. No Congress has ever labored harder,
or accomplished more in the same length Of
time, than has !ae present one; yet the i'm
preston has gone through the country that
valuable time has been wasted, and nothing
done. The work done has been, much Of it,
Of a character that renders secrecy necessi.
ty. And, while the House may have appear.
ed to do little, the committees have labored
necessarily, night and day. In addition to
the necessary legislation, it has developed
upon the House to unearth and drag to the
light mass Of Radical rascaity, official cor.
ruption and malfeasance in Office, without
precedent in the history of any government.
The rotten accumulations of fftsen years of
Republican misrule are suddenly disclosed,
and lie fostering in the public sight. The
abuses and villanies which have been covered
up and winked ut by the Republican majorities
Of previous Houses, it is the duty Of the pres.
ent Democratic majority to uncover, and to
bring the guilty officials to justice. This has
been so well done that there are at this time
a score of Investigations in progress. And
the work is not yet half commenced. With
all that has been disclosed, the people are
not prepared for the depth Of villany that will
yet be brought to light.
Who could have believed that men could
be found so lost to all sense of honor or de-
cency as to bury the bones of horses and
mules in the national cemeteries, or worse,
to divide one body into several parts, putting
them into different graves because they were
paid so much for each grave? And yet this
has been done by men living in the very
shadow of the White House, and favored with
the personal friendship of Grant, himself
The Land Office has been filled with Jobs
upon which thieves, big and little, from
Delano and his son, John, down to the chief
clerk just dismissed, have ,fattened. But the
day of reckoning has come, and the facts will
soon be made public. l r
Montgomery Blair has created a very per-
ceptible stir in political circles in Washing
ton, by the publication Of letter in favor of
'rilden. The fact that Mr. Blair is not Til
den man from personal preference, but from
what he conceiyes to be party necessity gives
more weight to his views than they would
otherwise have. One thing is noticeable in
connection with this subject there is grow.
ing disposition to consider the interest OF the
party as a unit, rather than the interest Of
any one section or faction. The man who
can carry themes States will be the nominee,
II these wise counsels prevail; and whoever
he may be, Hendricks, Thurman, Bayard
Tilden, Davis or Parker, he will receive the
united support of party organized for sue.
cess, and not to be defeated by internal dis.
sension. And to insure success beyond the
chance of failure, he must be the man who
can draw the largest support from the ranks
of the enemy. Mr.. Blair, who was member
of Lincoln's Cabinet, says that Tilden is the
man, and offers a strong argument TO prove
it. There are men here to-day, bitterly OPP.
posed TO Tilden, because Of his attitude ON the
money question; but | believe, from the tone
Of conversation here during the past few days,
that there is determination to do nothing
that will imperil our success in the coming
election