The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-04-21
OUR WARRINGTON LEI
TER.
A ScaGhInE Review of the
Democratic Scandal
NIOm&ers.

WASHINGTON, DC. Apr, Is, TO-
Day after day, and week after week
the detective" and democratic
press has been filled-running over
with the most abusive matter
against General Grant, his Cabinet
and other minor officials. Mud
throwing has been INDUCED in to
an extent hitherto unknown. Pa
pers claiming to exercise the func.:
lions of political teachers of the
masses, the only pure disseminators
of the most elevated morals and the
organs of the most choice literature
of the times, have abounded with
the vilest billingsgate directed
against the incumbents of'federal
offices. Ever since the Belknap ex-
pose Secsetary Robson has been
the target into which the rebel
Copperhead party and its active
allies of the independent" press,
have poured whole broad sides of
rebel wrath and malevolence. TO
these attacks he made no reply I'M
til he was officially catechised by
the Committee. His responses to
its MISUNDERSTANDING of them
imper:inentand puerile-made in
straightforward, manly way, are by
their completeness of detail salts
factory reiutations, generating
him from any suspicion of faint in
his management of Naval affairs.
Indeed, it would be difficult for any
U. S. official to make more satiS-
factory exhibit. The same may be
said with reference to the Commits
eioners for this district. For many
months charges and insinuations OF
Interpretations and corruptiOns
have been rifei and hurled at them
from every hand. Every official
account capable of Misrepresentation
has been eagerly sought for. every
move made by them the legality of
which they could make appear
doubtful has been exaggerated and
magnified by these buzzards, always
on the alert for unsavory food, until
those officials were transformed in
to creatures having no resemblance
to honest men, almost rivaling in
the extent and variety of their
criminal enterprises, Ingersoll,
Garvey, Watson, Connolly, Genet
} and Boss Tweed, who as Grand Sa-
chem of Tammany Hall, was the
recognized head of the Democratic
party and who after his infamY had
been exposed, was elected State
Senator to represen t Democr attic
: constituency at Albany. Their re-
ply TO the scandal committee hal
been not only complete refutation
of the allegations of corruptions o.
, and ROBBERY made agains them, bu
! it shows that their administration
has been an exceptionally economi
cal one marked by q faithful appii'
l cation of all appropriations and 9th
i. er funds to their legitimate purpos
3 es. So far as the disclosures of the
/ affairs of the Emma mine cuisines
: have progressed, the utmost tina
: can be said by the enemies of ex
r minister Schenck is that if he wa
r misled by the plausible Lyon it wa
: quite as detrimental in effect to hi
= owo lSchenck's) pecuniary INTEREST
? as to any one concerned-a conciu
: sion totally inconsistent with an,
: theory that he was a voluntary par
: ty to swindling conspiracy agains
8 the English purchasers of the EN-
+ ma mine shares.
: The recent Connecticut state cleo
y ton presents some curious feaI
8 ures. The falling of in the Demo
S cratic majority on the popular vOt
i as compared with last year is yer,
: suggeative,-while nearly all tn
y strong Republican towns give in
o creased Republican maiorities 8
It did also some of the hitherto stron
Democratic townsville close tewn
and localities that have heretofoT
J. been classed as doubtful were ne&l
b " all Democratic, giving that part
o q larger majority in the legislator
{ than last year, The New Yor
n Graphic editorially says that 1t