The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-01-20
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE,


sprained ankles and broken limbs reported
by the daily press of the city.
THAT wRETCHED QUESTION,
"B Been to the Centennial, yet?" has ceased
to be, but the popular conundrum, "Who
do you think will be inaugurated >" more
than supplies its place.
DUKE ALIENS.
The fashionable portion of our commun-
ity is on the qui pice in anticipation of the
arrival of the Grand Duke. No particular
programme has been arranged for the Grand
Dukes movements, Oh his arrival or there
after. He is expected to arrive here in a
few days. He will take up his quarters at
the Arlington Hotel; but it is anticipated
that some of his time will be spent at the
overlooks the Potomac from a most advan-
tageous point of view.
CONGRESSIONAL.
There is very little of Importance in the
way of Congressional items to chronicle
this week. | believe, however, that they
are still in session.
CITY POLICE.
The developments produced by the quar-
rel between the Chief of Police Commits
sioners ana the Chief of Police, together
with the detectives, are both interesting
and painful.
With the premise that as yet the charges
are merely assertions on their face, guaran-
teed by aftidavits on the one side only, we
have the sad spectacle of the presiding
officer of the Police Board in very un-
pleasant light. If, on the other hand, the
charges of the detectives be not true, mat
that the men employed and paid for the
preservation of the public peace and the
enforcement of the law, are complicated
by crime and compromised by their criminal
conduct to such an extent that they are
induced, to escape the odium of their action
and the Incidental penalty, to prefer charges
of crime against the Police Commissioners.
THAT $4,000.
Mr.. Herman, the distinguished Demo-
cratic Senator from New York, says that
it will be proven by documentary evidence,
counsel, and not as a corruption fund. At
last rays of truth penetrate the mystery of
this Oregon affair, and we find that Ethe-
bold Allen Clonin received a part of the
r.. hn 4
counsel, and accomplished more than man
ever dared to dream of accomplishing before
with the same amount. He erected an
Electoral College, and furnished the ma
terial in the person of himself, and pro
poses to elect a President of the United
States. 1t took more than Cronn, how
ever, to do this. 1t required Grover and
Secretary of State besides.
Eight thousand dollars for three skillful
attorneys, whose .fnesse in the art of politi-
cal chicanery could only have been secured
by constant Democratic training, is cheap,
very cheap. If this were all that it has
cost the Democracy they might call it a
very reasonable, though doubtful, tranSac-
ton. But such is not the case. 1t has
sympathy it had enjoyed from honorable
and decent men. Add this to the three
million they spent in the canvass, and you
have the Democratic party quite insolvent
and bankrupt in money and character.
THE OUTLOOK.
Whatever the agreement may be between
the Joint Committees of Congress to con.
slider the Electoral vote, it is very evident,
from present feeling, that neither House
will give way to the other without the
strongest evidence to Justify the concession;
are but two ways open to solution of the
troubles one is to prolong the discussion
long enough to necessitate new election,
and the other for the Senate, through its
presiding officer, to follow the precedent of
the trainers of the Constitution, that made
Washington the first President
The idea of new election is not as prob,
able as one week ago among both parties,
and as the way pointed out by the course
followed by the early fathers is sanctioned
more by Constitutional law than any other,
every consideration seems to lead in that
direction. In fact every thing at this writ
ing points clearly in the direction of the
authority of the Senate, through its pre-
siding officer to decide the result.
ANOTHER POINT,
which should not be lost sight of by the
Democracy. is the fact that so far the law
full returns now in the hands of the presid-
ing officer of the Senate give the majority
to Hayes and Wheeler and that this can
not be changed without the consent of the
Senate, excepting through revolution, and
who will attempt that The Democratic
party? We shall see.
LESSON TO "wAH" DEMOCRATS.
The action of the President 10 the Louisi-
ana matter is looked upon here as signifi-
cant. 1t is lesson which the agitators of
the Democracy should learn at once 1t
teaches that mob violence is one of the
things that General Grant will not tolerate
within the jurisdiction of Federal power.
1t will put very large damper on the
"wah draft of Watterson's one hundred
thousand uuarmed innocents. 1t will be a
warning to rampant sedition and bloody
usurpation, which threaten to stalk abroad
in our land unless Tiden is made Presi-
dent
We feel somewhat relieved here in Wash
ington, and the general impression is, that
as sure as g freedom shrieked when Ko-
sciosko fell" so sure will peace reign in
Washington during the electoral count and
the contamination of it's fruits.
Positively yours, J. ii. p.
A CARD TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC
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