The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-04-13
CUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, d. c., april 6, 1876.

A BITTER PILL FOR THE REPUBLICANS
was the Connecticut election on the Sd
inst. They are whistling very loud to
keep their courage up. The Washington
Ring Organ announces Large Republi-
can gains in Connecticut" in head line,
and underneath, they give the returns
from that State, which show that the
Democrats have 1S in the Senate, to 3
Republicans, gain of four over last
year; and 159 Democrats, to IS Repub-
licans and 2 Independents, in the lower
House, gain of % over last year. This
gives Democratic majority of 81 on
joint ballot. IDgersoll, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, has majority of
1914 over the Republican candidate, a
gain of 966 over his majority of last year.
There were "Greenback" and Prohi.
bition candidate who polled each about
1900 votes, so that one Offset the other,
which leaves the regular Democratic
gain as above stated. These returns will
have reached your readers by telegraph
before they see this; but experience
proves that the Associated Press reports
are frequently manipulated in the Re-
publican interest; and I have thought it
worth while to state the precise facts.
One immediate result OF the Democrat
ie gains in Connecticut will be to in
crease the chances of Senator Conkling
for the Republican nomination for the
Presidency: He has two elements of
strength. He is "in" 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 necessa-
ry to carry that State, to win. We may
expect, therefore, to see the Administra-
tion use every means possible to secure
New York in the coming election. 1t
will not do for the Democratic party to
underestimate the immense power
Grant wields through the New York
Custom House, and other Federal pat
ronage to counteract this power must be
done. There is a very generally express
ed opinion, among leading Democrats
here, that we may expect bitter fight
for the possession of New York State,
and that zoe must arrange our plans for the
campaign ,cith that fact in vie,c.
THE PosT-TRADERsHIP INVESTIGATION
has involved another of Grants special
friends, Simon Wolf, prominent Isreal-
ite of this city, who secured Presidential
favor by naming 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 fully $4,000 per year. Wolf is
we'll known in Washington as one of the
few men on terms of intimacy with Grant,
from whom he has secured numerous
marks of favor in the shape of appoint
ments for his friends. His influence was
sufficiently strong to secure the appoint
ment of Chicago Isrealite named Solo
mons, as Governor of one of the Western
territories, few years ago; a position
from which he was forced to retire, soon
after, under suspicious circumstances
1t now appears that Wolf was connected
with the sale of a certain post-tradership,
and received $3.50 for his influence with
the President and Secretary Belknap.
Wolf denied this at first; but when re-
called to the stand, on Tuesday, he made
a more feeble denial, saying that he did