The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-04-29
poIItloaI Notes.

Carl Sehurz, 1t Is said, announces that
he will support neither Blaine, Conkling
nor Morton for the Presidency, but will
stump the country against either should
the nomination be secured by one Of them
The New York Tribune appears to be
running its machine for Bristow on the
one side of politics, and for Tilden on the
other, with as much impartiality MS the
verage''independent" organ can command.
--Nashrile Banner.
Mr. Blaine made his promised speech
Tuesday. His subject was the .$6l 900
paid him by the Union Pacific Company
for worthless bonds. His explanation is
not satisfactory. We believe he had the
money! T. Sun.
Judge Davis seems to be mostly Wash.
ington candidate Not single prominent
Democrat newspaper favors his nomina-
ton and the only State which develops
any sentiment for him is Illinois, where the
majority of the Democratic State Commit
tee is said to prefer him.
Hon. Montgomery Blair has been writ
ing another letter in favor Of Gov. Tildcn
us the Democratic Presidential nominee.
1t is addressed to citizen of Macon, Ga,
and is published by the Telegraph and
Messenger of that place. 1t is devoted
chiefly to showing the reasons why the
South ought to support Gov. Tilden.
The day for compromises with corrup-
ton or political heresies has gone by. On
the finances, on the tariff, and most Of all,
on the question of Administrative Reform,
the st. Louis Convention must give forth
no uncertain sound The candidate must
be taken from the thick of the fght-not
not from the fence Utica Observer, Dem.
Predictions as to candidates for the
presidency are as thick as leaves in Vul-
lambrosa, and the Altoona Tribune adds
another. 1t says We predict that no
man who is u member of the present Con-
gress will carry off presidential nomina-
ton in either party, and whichever party
goes there for its standard-bearer will be
worsted in November.
Mr.. Clapp's management of the Govern
ment Printing Office seems to have been,
to say the least, sadly careless. The whole
business Of that Office invites carelessness
aud extravigance. The waste in what was
done has in any case been greater than in
the way of doing it. and the largest kind
of u saving might be made by reducing
the public printing to what the public
needs.-N. y Tribune.
All the committees on expenditures in
the various departments of the Govern
ment are practically at stand still now,
because the President has issued a per-
emptory order that no original papers shall
be suffered to go outside the various de-
partments to which they belong. The
President evidently means to throw every
obstacle in the way of the investigations
ordered by the House, and this order in
regard to original papers is only part of
the general policy which the leaders of the
Republican party have determined on.
They see plainly that unless something is
done to put stop to the exposures which
come thick and fast under the probing
pipNNeH VI thC btlhOCIdliC
will be nothing left of their party.
A former member of the secret service
force says that one.third of the $3.50, 900
appropriated by Congress to carry out the
provisions of the enforcement act was
stolen outright, and that another third
was used in paying the expenses of Grant
speakers and Grant clubs in the canvass
of 1872, The Committee on Expendi-
lures in the Department Of Justice have
before them witness who is able to tell
the whole story. So far, Whitley's con
LESSONS have come out hesitatingly and by
piecemeal. Unless he makes clean breast
of everything, and gives full history of
the corruption in which he has been an
agent and tool, he will not deserve the
immunity that has been conditionally
promised him.
Mr. Harrison Of indianapolis has been
talking little more explicitly about the
Blaine scandal, He said to correspon-
dent of the Chicago Tribune the other
day 81 expect to 60 to Washington
about the 10th Of May, if not called there
by the committee before that time.
shall then, as Government director of
the Union Pacific Railroad, appear before
the Judiciary Committee of the House,
and, in behalf of the Government, demand
an investigation of the Little Rock bond
transaction. There has been an extraor-
binary transaction in the matter, that
ought to be explained. l shall be there
to tell fully what | know about it, and to
press for full explanation; and | do not
mean to be whistled down by Mr.. Blaine
or anybody else"