Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-08-23
Politics in Fairfax.


this village presented SO ANNA ed an appear
ance as to-day. La addition to the attraction
of court day, with several criminal cases await
ipg trial, the republic 10 convention aud conser-
yative mass meeting combined to draw cltizeDs
from all parts Of the county.
The republican convention wos held 10 H"nry
Hall with Judge Grey in the chair and 7. Berk-
ley secretary.
The conservative meeting was held in the
Court House with III. II. Wells 10 the chair
and Mr. Lee secretary.
The secretary of each meeting will, we pre-
sume, furnish your readers with official reports
If the business done.
Gen Hutton spoke as fellows: He would
address his constituents on the issues OF the
present political contest. He believed that
oever 10 the history Of the country was there
so momcntous u crisis Looking around We
saw distress, hna 1clal ruin, want OF employ
men,, aud corruption in all departments OF the
goverument. ln Virginia, fortunately, W. sci
dom wanted for something to eat, but be had
been recently told that in some OF The cities
thousands Of people were living upon gar"ase
The statistics Of 1878 showed over 5000 la'-
urcs, and loss OF Us 900, 900 OF dollars. which
! have sent ruin, desoIsilon aud want thr ugh
| Jut the land. Zen thousand s,alwart DIeu had
gone TO the mayor 0! New York To d maud,
| aot bread, but bread or labor They We're will
| Jog 10 work cut could DOT get it. There u.ust
be sonc reason FIR this. There was something
| radically wrong 10 the government, AID the
great issue before ne country was rctreHch-
| ment and reform ln the providence of God a
Democratic House of Representatives Was eitot-
ed 10 1874 after the country had beco EiunGn
down by sixteen years Of radical Iulsrule. tie
would show what were the abuses they iound
| and how earnestly they mad endeavorrd 10 CDR
rect them The first thug was the misuse OF
the peoples money The estimates seat 10
| by the different departments Of govcrnmcut
amounted to S64 900 900 u re than the Ii use
allowed, whlcu was $40, OOJ 900 less that ia It
| of the last fiscal Year. The Senate enlarged
aud lncre .sed Ia almost every Case, AMI the
| House was lG some cases ubllgnI to give way,
| but finally the estimates siold III raauclua
| Of $50 600, 900. Let this suving com" ho;ue TO
| ourselves Divided among the Congressional
districts Of tie country IL would result 10 Ii say
lng OF STOP 900 lc the one h. represented, ADD
| oil nearly million 10 the Stale Of Virginia. Ii
| the House had done 10 more than thus ihry
would be cntlird to the thanks OF he country.
But they had done more. They found an act
| had been passed declaring tina: specie payments
should be resumed in 1879 What vas the rc.
suit of this? Timdily throughout the loan'
cial Interests I'll the country and money tleI up
Ia the great mouey. ceutreS party OF gen
te,nen from the northwest IN cvlucnce before
a committee OF the Ii use, said that two huo
dred National banks had gone gu. ut cXlSteucc,
and that lwlc: that number Wou C DO So before
1879. That resumption III 1879 was an impos'
siblilty WAS couccJed ny all parties. fte!iuE
this to be the fact the House durlng me last
fortnight repealed the resumption Law. Never
theicss the Senate refused TO pass the hill.
they found tina; $64 100000 had been ,quan
iered on the Pacific railroads aud 300 UUO,uOO
| OF acres OF land given away TO thctu. these
lauds, belonging to the public, were twice the
size OF France, and larger than the or!gluaI
thirteen States. They found in the " into
House a sentiment of &c arlsU, and tnat
| President Graut had no idea OF going out OF II
until, as some one expressed Ii, he should be
carried out feet foremost They We're alarmed
for the perpcluity Of the government but now
| that sentiment was as dead as u mackcrcl, ADD
| scarcely a man was SO poor as to do the gov
ernment reverence. The h4s CT the country
had been dlsgraced at the proudes court il the
world, tina. of England, by its ambassador
there. The minister to Russia had returned
to run for Office when his own party had 10
withdraw his name because OF his connection
with the Venezuela swiudlc B@lknap, to whom
! had been entrusted the defence of the honor OF
the patton, had beef form ally acquitted although
but one member ia the Senate had the bold
uess and hardihood 10 say that ne was
not guilty en- the evidence. When Congr SIS
reasseubed the first duty OF the Jud;cIay
Committee would be to say whether u. NJ.
Robson, Secretary Of Navy, and a. NJ. Capp,
Government printer, should be Tried or DOT Tor
crimes Of which they had been guilty. Look
| al Que item of the navy frauds. Ihe h:arsdge
est $l62 900 when new, ADD 10 three years
the repairs upon her reached the sum OF $780,
| 900. How much cheaper 1t I'D have been
TO break her up All build two new ones. Inc
| !hng was managed 10 This way: onmcoody
was ruuniug Oh the radical ticket in California;
lar,e force was employed 10 The navy yard
there, and the koarsage Wa, sent rouud to be
repaired. Since the war the pavy hal COST, he
believed, abou $500 900 00U, aud they had not
SO many ships as IN lS65.
Now look a, the wnlskey frauds found out
| by Brisrow. who, he believed, Was genuine
reformer. Everything wcut on swlmmngly
until the evdeuce pointed at Babcock, Presl-
dent Grants secretary Whcu was Issued the
famous order that no iuformer or particle Ds
criminis, should be examined, which resulted
ia the formal acquittal Of Babc0ck. What was
the letter Grant seDt out to st. Louis, which,
acc ,rding 10 the testim my of Wilson before
the Cougr >slonal committee, resulted III The
paralysis of tn" skcy fraud prosecutions :?
| The Po-tutfce straw bids tad rrsu Cd III the
| less of thousands, If not millions, OF dollars TO
the people aud Government of the Uulcd
States 1t was fact that scarcely Il depart
| meui of hr G ,verumen was tree from cUrlup
ton, and the whole thing was one Vast Augcan
stable.
IIa would now call their attention to the
| message winch the i'resldcu, s@nt to Congress
| not long betur. it adj 'urn.d They were aware
that it was the duty If the people Representa-
lives TO make the law, of the judiciary To Say
what that law Was, and OF the President to cx
| ccute it. be President had returned the Dr.
pl, matte and Consular aud RIVER and llaruor
bills signed but with the statement that h.