Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-03-02
Blabber's Letter.

Not Satisfied as much as sce acre Nth tia, Flee
toral Counting Machine-- Short Biogrophy Of
AliuHde, alias ct al.-BeQsles, and how zee
got EN-.
GAINESVILLE, Feb 9th, 1871.
Mr. Editor: You know wrote you two or
three weeks ago and told you that everybody
would be satisfied with the decision of the
electoral commission. suppose you have al
ready discovered it, without my telling you,
that | was mistaken for we are not all salts
fed--not by al can't say how many. We,
in common with all the Democrats in Con-
gress that voted TO create the commission, and
all the Radicals that voted against it, thought
it would be a sort of bottom-fact demonstra-
ton, and the bottom facts in the contested
States were the very things we wanted brought
to light But we were mistaken. The only
persons who did know the true intent of the
electoral act appear TO be the Radicals who
favored its passage and the Democrats who
opposed it, Who is there so dull as TO snp-
pose that the enthusiasm manifested all over
the country on the passage of the act would
have been so manifested had it been under
stood that the commission had no power to
dc anything else than what the President OF
the Senate would have done any how
But this isn't all that we are dissatisfied
pecially when it came that way every deal I;
but to make it still worse, 'the eight must
needs go and reinforce themselves by Juggling
in party not contemplated in the act or any
where else to wit Mr. 1liuHde We some
times read OF Mr. h A., who is always in
some kind of litigation, and who, from his
name, would seem to be a Chinaman, but he
isn't, he is an old Roman and there is hardly
a newspaper you take up but you see some
mention of Mr. Alias. lie is in all kinds of
Irregularities, from murder and conspiracy all
the way down to till-iappng There is no
kind of crime or misdemeanor too great or
too small for him TO engage in, though steal
ing appears to be his favoriie occupation. -
Now these pecuiarities of NJ. Aiias endeared
him to the Radical heart and soul, and he was
the very party the majority Of the commission
wanted as they contemplated big steal but
then his notoriety was such that his particle
patton 10 theii deliberations might not have
satisfied the people, and you know the commits
sion had to satisfy the people They already
had one notorious accomplice, scarcely less
notorious than Mr.. Alias-Mr Judas Madison
Wells-aad they knew very well that his ac-
ton hadn't satisfied the people much to speak
of; therefore Mr.. Alias wouldn't do, but they
soon found one of the same family, with the
same desirable qualities, that would fit the
place to dot, and that was Aliunde. He
was the peer of Alias and Wells in everything
but notoriety-and now, by the way, he has
that
We are not told that he was sworn In, but
suppose that 1.-THE eight, " knowing how little
regard they had for AN oath, rightly presumed
that their new confrere would have none at
all, so that mockery was dispensed with in
his case, and he waited them right along TO a
decision in every case.
Hayes is the first American, except Count
johannes, who has ever received title of no.
bility-or is it ignobility2 lie is now Count
led in) Hays. Alias, however, appears to be