Montgomery County sentinel., 1877-02-16
FROM WASHINGTON
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The Electoral TriJunal- WeHs-Aaotber El-
len Rai- Lmlefed - Legsrdemain - The
Grea Legal Lights-A PcopIes' Hope etc.
WASHINGTON, D. g. Fe5. II, 1871.
The contest in the Louisiana case will be
over the legality of the returning board it.
self, the law calling for five members and the
four members refusing to fill the vacancy. 1t
will be claimed that there has been no canvass
Of votes, and no electors have been appointed.
Prominent Democrats say the tribunal has
adopted a line Of procedure that will throw
out the Watts Oregon vote.
The House committee, under the leadership
OF Mr.. Field, is determined to press Wells and
his crew to the wall That Wells medtated
personal violence and perhaps even assassina-
tion, seemed apparent from the fact that there
had been taken from him at his rooms two re-
volvers, thug knife and a rife cane. But his
efforts to intimidate cross-examiner Field were
without avail, and in numerous instances he
was overwhelmed with facts so adroitily pre-
sened to him that his fiRe-spun theories were
completely broken down.
Hicock postmaster in New Haven, who was
arrested for robbihg the mail now confesses
his guilt in order to be pardoued by Grant,
ere Tilden comes in.
The three Republican witnesses who were
brought here to refute Lttle6eld have cor
roborated him in spite Of themselves; thus
| far his testimony stands mistaken.
| Besides being skilled in art of manipuIs-
! ting election returns, Wells understands how
| to store a smal-szed arsenal about his clothes
! His explanations of his transactions with
Maddox, and of his letters TO Senator West,
are altogether too thin and confirms the truth
of the statements of Maddox.
His explanation in the Senate, reminds us
of the secondhand clothes dealer, who having
been told by the customer that the garment
'snells dreadfully' replied, SIT ish not de
cote dat schmells; ii ish meP West, with
precisely the look and tone of the ancien
dealer 10 clothes solemnly assured his col
leagues that it was he that pnts the nostrils o
the nation in great indignation, and not the
| Louisiana returning board.
Grant, some of his friends claim, has been
shrinking from further serving the knaves and
conspirators OF the Radical party and has be-
come the champion of peace. Then we ask
why doesn': he bundle his troops out oil
Washington.
Ladies lunches are among the popular fan
cies of Washington. The hill of fare is main
ly made up Of gossip, with scandal sauce.
Alexis was out on II hunting expedition and
brought down four ducks at once, and is said
to be an excellent shot We hope his high
ness may be as well pleased with the sport as
ne says he is with our beautiful city.
No more testimony will be taken in con
necton with the Oregon case, unless Senator
Herman shall desire to recall some Of tht
Witnesses who have previously testified. The
fnll committee were in secret session this
morning, and the Oregon matter was ihe sub
ject under descustion there being no couclu
sion reached as yet
The array Of Evarts and O'Connor agains
each other on last Monday in the SUPREME
Court room, was the most brilliant intellec
lural encounter witnessed IN Washington
since the days of Clay and Webster. Tn
, sparks flew as with the clash Of liut aud steel
Cassanave, he Of the Louisianiana returning
board, when on the witness stand seemed Il
he a good deal of knownothing, and did
: not know anything about almost everyihin!
that was asked him He is an uRdertakeI
and tried to bury everything clean out of sigh
that had once possessed of the vexed questio
! under consideration Stand back and let th
} coffin pass
Senator West made little mistake in hi
, personal explanations" in the Senate, whe
he said that Wells wanted money because tn
q Tilden men had barrel Of money there &c
He forgot that the Wells letter was dated
'oeek after the election, when no money wa
needed Had there been Tiden money there
a Maddox would not have found it necessary {
G go on to New York to hunt up Mr., Hewitt.
When the bad temper, vituperation and win
taken are out of the presidential dispute, whc
the facts are stripped of exaggerationS, in
ferences and mistakes and when the law
reviewed by clear intelligence and traine
3 habits of thought the decision will come cas-
$ and natural. No higher appeal could be mad
to men TO rise above party considerations lha
Z is now made in the fact that forty millions
$ people are watching them with intelligen
e scrutiny, and awaiting in calm confidence tn
! justice Of their decree.
Radical organs don't pay here. The Clron
: cie n very loud-mouthed organ, WIS a fc'
y days ago sold for the benefit of its creditors
= aud gone to rest. The Nitioaal Republican
an organ with anything but national circI
' lation, is pared down to suit its straighlene
n circumstances, and nearly done for Anon
d the weekly organs the mortality has bee
p sweeping. The people don't seem to appr,
ciate that kind Of journalism.
" DEMoCRlTEs.