The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-07-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHrsGroN. july 20. 1877


turned for we are not informed, but he
is here and looks as spruce and nobby
as bean and as serene as an oyster in
his shell. His many warm personal
friends call on him as freely as ever in
the past and there is nothing now to in
dictate in his manner and appearance the
fearful ordeal through which he passed
last year, and by which he fell from
towering greatness into the very depths
of public disfavor. The consciousness
of deep wrongs which were done him by
those who he implicitly trusted doubt
less serves more to bury him up in his
disgrace and to render him so much at
ease and dignifed in his intercourse
with friends and strangers right here in
the scenes of his downfall.
MAJOR RENO.
This ex-army officer is also here. He
is seeking to secure mitigation of his SEN
tence of suspension from the service
for his offered insult to Mrs. Bell, the
wife of one of his subordinate officers.
The ground on which he is pushing for
pardon and reinstatement is that he has
been punished enough, and great stress
is laid on this point by himself and
friends. Of course he has been punish
ed enough. Under the dogma of West
Point infallibility Maj. Rem ought never
to have been tried much less punished.
He should be Immediately reinstated,
and like Belger, whom Sec. Stanton
presumptiously dismissed during theWar
notwithstanding the acquittal of all char
ges by brother regulars, sent back to
duty as innocent as a lamb. When
man perforce, because a West-Pointer
can do us i'll, such little peccadillos as
making amorous advances to q wife in
the absence of her husband who was not
a graduate of the Militaty Academy, de-
serve promotion rather than punishment
and it's pity that our Secretary of War,
McCrary, was not West Pointer, for
then he, like JEFF. Davis when in the
War Department, could have winked at
and pardoned everything done by
brother graduate. 1t makes wonderful
difference whose child commits nui-
sance Mrs. Steerforth and Miss Dartle
in David Copperfield could never realize
that James committed crime in seducing
q poor mans daughter. West Point is
quite as blind, and Reno should be re-
instated.
Sergant-a t-Arms Thomson, chairman
of the Ohio State Democratic Committee
is represented as having gone home to
Ohio to whoop up the "boys." We
guess that Tom don't want Tom Ewing
nominated for Governor because Ewing
is Catholic, and in making a canvas
with him at the head of the ticket it will
be hard to keep the Pope's toe out of it.
Hence John believes in divorcing religion
from the State at least in Ohio as people
there will not permit Church in schools
or politics. John got beaten so bad In
1875 6 through the intrusion of Catholic
interference with secular matters that
now he wants no appearance of priest
craft in the coming fight. Ewing's in
tense devotion to jesuitism and his sis
tiers and mothers cam onization are hardly
safe weapons to put at the head of any
Ohio ticket and no one knows it better
than Johnny Thompson. r. NJ. Doug
las, Q. S. Marshal for North Carolina,
has been believed by the Attorney Gen
eral OF all censure for the irregularities
of his deputies. The ''outs' have failed
In their attempts to GUST this sim since
unable to show any blame whatever as
attaching to Mr.. Douglas, it being
shown that he could not possibly be
cognizant of what occurred between a
deputy and U. S. Commissioner in a
distant part of the state. Had Douglas
the 'seyes of Delaware" he might have
seen farther than he did as It IS he has
come out blameless and the ssouts'' are
In sack cloth and ashes.
GEN. s. L. WOODFORD.
This gentleman is stopping here on
his way home from Mississippi, where
he has been to deliver public Grafton.
He expresses himself freely upon the