Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-06-06

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the man, or not, is matter for con.
lecture. 1t is worth stating, in this
connection. however, that the opposi-
! ton to Tilden in New York has proven
an element Of strength, The Charles
/ ton Is. c. Courier, and other papers
which have opposed him, have recent.
| ly declared i'm his favor, for the very
| reason that the character of his enc
mics show that he is not controlled by
| the Ring men of New York, Gov
| ernoT Tilden has reduced the taxes OF
New York State So, 600, 900, or nearly
one-half, in sixteen month. Going
before the people with that record, il
will be impossible to beat him
Gov. Tilden's friends assert that
! neither he nor they knew anything al
| all about the circular recently sent Ia
! newspapers, asking them to print Ger.
! tain extracts from the press in various
parts of the country favorable to Til
! den, to be charged for as advertise
ments. The fact that the circular was
sent to, among others, several papers
widely and generally known to be vic.
! lently opposed to Governor Tilden
and that it purported to come from an
advertising agency OF which "PetrO.
! leum V. Nasby," the most rampant OF
| radical Republicans, is the principal
ought to nave satisfied everybody that
it was a sort of political practical joke
| so to speak. But the emphatic denial
which now comes from Gov Tilden Is
friends, Of any responsibility for or
knowledge of it will satisfy any doubts
| that may have existed.
TILDEN's PERSONAL POPULARITY IN
NEW YORK.
A Congressman called my attention
this morning, to the fact that Gov.
Jno. A. Dix the most popular Republi-
| can Governor New York ever had,
was elected by over SO, 900 majority in
~. Governor Tilden ran against Dix
! in "a, and defeated:him by over $4,000
majority change of over 100 900
votes in favor Of Tilden. And yet, in
! that election, he was bitterly opposed
| by all the corrupt men of the Demo-
| cratic party, and their "respectablen
friends who are opposing him now.
POLITICAL HARANGUEs AT AIRING
Stewart L. Woodford, ex-Lieutenant
Governor of New York, and who
would accept either the Presidential or
Vice Presidential nomination at Gin
cinnati, was the orator at Airing ton on
Decoration Day, and improved the
opportunity of making a Republican
stump speech, He referred to the
practical intolerance of the South,
the practical denial of personal liberty
the practical denial of popular educa-
ton, and the persistent effort of revive
old aUGtnfna InIar
Throughout his discourse he eadeavor-
ed to impress upon his hearers the
superior virtues of his party, But
Col. Moody, 1.-THE fighting parson,n
who made the opening prayer, went
further than Woodtord, in his special
plea in behalf Of the Republican party:
and in prayer of half an hour in
length, he enlightened the Lord as to
the achievements of Radicalism, and
thanked Him that "those who in.
augurated open, fragrant, deadly war
to compel our government to submit
to its own dissolution have been made
to submit" This is fair specimen of
the usual performances at Arlington
on Decoration Day. The EUeninQ
Star, of this city, which may be rank
ed as an Independent Republican
paper, in an editorial article yesterday
on Decoration Day, urges its observance
by the Northern and Southern people
simultaneously and in common, and
says; "Since the union of our COM
mon country in harmony is, conceded
to be contamination devontly to be
wished, why not make the day one of
honor to American valor without
reference to the side on which the
heroic dead fought In our late unhappy
civil strife?" Good for the Star.
THE SECRET SERVICE FUND.
One of the foulest and most mex
cusable wrongs perpetrated by Con-
gress, under Republican rule, was the
appropriation, from the public treasury,
of an enormous sum of money, which
was placed in the hands of the Presl-
dent, to be expended as he desired,
without responsibility to any one, and
denOminated the "Secret Service
Fund" 1t has been discovered by
investigating committees ofthe present
House, whittier large portions of the
Secret Service Fund went, and for
what purposes it was expended.
When Williams was Attorney Gen
eral, he expended large sums in the
employment of men who travelled
through the South, ostensibly on
business, but really to foment strife
between tie two races, and to manu-.
facture "Ku KluX outrages." This
has been sworn to by Whitley, X-chief
of detectives ofthe United States, who
had, under Williams, directed the
management of the whole Infamous
business. The next point to which
the committee directed its attention
was the disposition made of q portion
OF this fund by one Johnny Daven-
port, in the discovery of election frauds
in New York City. AS all evidence
that the Secret Service Fund was
literally stolen from the Treasury,
contrary to all law and precedent, and
with the intention that it should be
used to keep the Republican party in
power, 1t Is a little remarkable that
upon ne occasion was single dollar
expended to detect and expose Re-
publican frauds in elections, though
they were numerous and unblushing
all over the country; but always FOR
the exposure of alleged frauds on the
part OF the opposition. 1t is to be
hoped that Mr.. Sam Randall and his
Appropriation Committee will see to
1t that the President and Department
and Bureru Officers shall not be pro-
vlded by this Congress with public
money to be expended as they see fit,
and without being obliged to account
for every dollar OF 1t, as IL is expended,
and not three or four years afterwards,
before an investigating committee.
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