Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-09-05
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, August %

| .Dohio0ld doy, tHe COuIbe OI Cne leaders
in that state towards prominent Repub-
licans has been growing more and more
inconsistent with the pledges made by
Hampton to the President last spring,
and the prosecutions foreshadowed
against every one ever at all prominent
on the Republican side in state politics.
or whose intelligence promised to be-
come stumbling block to the re-estab-
lishment of the aristocratic anti-war
regime, have taken such definite shape,
that many of the most earnest friends
of the presidents efforts to restore
feelings OF fraternity and good will,
have become alarmed and Justly indig-
nant, feeling, as they do, that his
kindness has been abused and thew
made the innocent abettors of cum
ningly devised system, under cover of
law, to drive into Punishment or impri-
sonment the men who have stood be-
tween the unrepentant secession leaders
OF the state and the masses whom thew
would 1elegate to practical state of
serfdom. 1t Is understood that dele
cation is now here to lay before the
President incontrovcrtable evidences of
tn ese designs and to invoke national
| protection.
The charges Of extension Bureau
ot1lcla Kane, against the former and
present Commissioner of that Burean
(Baker and Bently) and also against
some minor officials, which ne laid be
fore Secretary Schurz nearly three
months ago and which have Just come
to light through the Republican, have
served to increase the feeling Of distrust
entertained relative to the crooked
management of public affairs by many
/ OF our Department officers. Baker is
clrcumstantial]y charged with having
allowed claim which he had previous
4 ly rejected, knowing it to be fraudu-
lent: and that he received between
$4,000 and $4,000 as bribe for his
favorable action; that the present
Commissioner is aware of Bakers
crlmlnality and has labored to defeat
any inquiries by whichIit would become
known, and in pursuance to that pur-
pose he has dismissed officials whose
honesty and knowledge Of the facts
rendered them dangerous, and replaced
them with Bakers friends privy to his
crime, and with others whose lack of
virtue insured their silence when that
appeared most profitable. It is felt
that it ought to be an easy matter to
show Kane a liar if he really is such :.
AS indicated by general expression,
Gen. Boynson has not helped his side
much by his latest bull against Mr.
Moore who is not on trial sThe charge
of an attempt to black has not been
satisfactorily refuted; and the publica-
tion by Boyoton Of two confidential
letters written by two different officials
to President Grant, and by him referred
to Sec'y Morrill, for hissinformation nat
urally eZcites much curiosity as to how
Boynfon came into possession Of them ),
particularly as he has offered no expla-
nation in answereeto Moore's averment
that they were stolen. And the con-
tents cf those two letters will strength
en- the widespread suspicion that there
existed prior to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, Bristow ring, ramifying through
every Bureau of the Treasury Dept
formed Of his adherents among the
employees; that the public business was
made subservient to his inteaests, and
that there was established Jesuitical
system Of espionage over those subordi-
mates who refused to identify them
selves with the Bristow movement; and
it will require more thanGen. Boynton' S
statement to the contrary to convince
many Of those brought into contact
with Mr.. Conant, that he was incapable
of the violent bulIy's part when he
deemed such departure from the
character of gentleman necessary tc
the success of his schemes.
Texas has really got its spiral column
in state of excessive curvature over
the expected refusal of the Mexican