The Centre reporter. [volume] (Centre Hall, Pa.) 1871-1940, 1877-06-14

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and 30 home" not that lie had got it
IL never occurred 10 me that any money
was paid, only promised; or that the
! LEGISLATORS got their money for dcscrilnE
any mofe tGan Wharton has got his OF
d.r for not managing an, business
ON the contrary. / WAS todd that, al
though the money was promised a~ %
bribe for the dcscrtgn. the poor fellows
did not get il. but We're required further
20 vcte for Mr. Spohurd as senator be-
fore the. C1I,l get even wha, was due
them. Now. douot know .als fact, but
hone and believe the senate viii uSvCr-
tain il on investigation IN the contest
| for the senator's seat ] would suggest
70 the senate committee 10 ask certain
members Of the Packard legislature
4 whose a..mes ! will give, whether, aiier
all efforts 10 demOmn4o Ihe republican
members and get them 90 80 over To-
| Nichols by the commission acting 10
sether failed, 4 selected portion OF that
! legislature were requested 10y Co.
/ Wharton. q friend Of Packard, 90 meet
! Wayne MacNeaEh. and dld 50. Whether
he addressed them, saying that the
/ President would not recognize the Pack
ard government, that the troops would
/ be withdrawn the next day that he had
a telegram 10 that effect, that II they
would 70 over 20 the Nichols Legislature
/ theg Uogll be recognized, and seated,
and get their mileage. hgt u ,huE did
not DO 50 within twonty.tuur hours
their seats would be declared vacant and
they would lose all. IL The committee
nush their inquiry, | firmly believe
unon evidence they will find what !
I have suggested 10 be substantially true.
Now do not DENY the words ot this. l
see YOU are fond Of denying words
I read in Your letter that you say
4 !. ha.ten did not manage or tyanac;
any kind oFbus.ness f.. ~s.' Certainly
not. Bless your soul you DO not call
such tricks rs these business, DO yugt
They are not business, even II You
should get that foreign mission for dos
ing them, which hope YOU will.
Iou further say, Wharton was 81
! friend OF Packard Al the better IN
stEumsAl, therefore. 10 get Packard,s 5
/ friends away from Inn. a. was well
done and does credit 10 Your train
ing.
! You say further strange as it may
appear TO some Of them, political results
are still attainable in this country by
straightforward and honest methods
| True; il did seem strange 10 me, for IN
/ mora than thirty years experience In
the ways Of EcnnSyivania poNuca!
methods" and politicians in both par
/ ties, il did seem strange II this trausac-
\ ton was either straightforward or
honest" Iou made good point on me
I there.
/ frankly confess had no evidence
/ then. and have none nos, that yCJ paid
any money 20 these dsludcd men aitcr
/ il had been promised them. / desire,
| in the most solemn manner, TO aCquit
you OF having ever paid away any
money. knew, rs yousa IN your let
| ter, that YOU had none "a spare and
/ believed, If you had. you would not
spare" Il. rU.s. ~! EoGa the even;
which you hope will give you COM
mand ola large sum Of money is IN the
far distance.
agree most fully that where you are
known you "do not need 10 deny any
silly story" about the use Of money IN
paying anything and IL had ever as
se.taa that YOU ever did use your own
money for any good or even political
purpose. ! should have been guilty, as
you. in your own Chaste language, say,
Of = base and cowardly fllschood.
Therefore, / repeat again, never have
known or heard Of your paving any~
thing 10 anybody. and as at present ad |
vised, without more evidence than !
have nOy, ! never will assert such q
thing possible. You need not make me |
excuses, as you do, for mot having |
money OF your own 10 spare l have |
known many men without money, but | |
have never known one without an ex-
cuse for not having it.
As you state your excuse, "it IS only . |
military commandant Of New Orleans, |
in time Of war, who can safely appro-
pirate any considerable quantity Of /
the property of others to his own /
use"
Do understand you correctly that il
is the want Of ability TO do il "sdf,ly' that
has prevented you from "appropriating
a considerable quantity Of the property
Of others to your own use?'
However, / shall not affect to misun-
derstand the allusion which you thus
make, but pardon it to the apparent loss
Of your temper, which makes your writr
ing at once unjust, illogical and unper-
spicuQus. If you believed, what you are
brave enough only to insinuate-because
although you were young and able
bodied, fail TO recall the number ofthc
regiment in which you served in the war
for your country's safety-certainly YOU
could not, as managing member Of the
state republican committee Of Pcnnsyl-
vania, have invited, with pressing let
ters, which / now have, one who had
wrongfully other peoples
TO come 20 that state, 10 speak
on the same platform with yourself
travelling together many miles TO attend
meetings to instruct your people on
public affairs.
Besides, my dear Mr.. MacNeagh, the
insinuation was unworthy Of you. IL is
neither novel nor useful, and therefore
not patentable. A half dozen dirty
have been enabled 10 pre- (
serve themselves from bankruptcy for
the last dozen years by printing the AS
sertions about me which you only in
sinuate.
Every one has his own taste in choos-
ing his way 10 acquire money but if
was obliged TO choose one Of two ways,
either to appropriate it rs military ]
or to marry into family /
where ! was neither wanted nor by
which / should be respected, TO get ;
money to spare" ! certainly should
choose the former, strange as you may
think 1t, because at least ] should have {
the money, after having committed a {
act TO get il, and not be IL ,
able to be disappointed. rs | might be, /
after had waited long for dead mems ,
shoes" by the other method.
There is another denial of yours Of an
assertion | did not make: 81 have not
asked the President TO appoint him
.Wharton) marshal" | never intima-
ed that you had so done. ! had alv ays !
that you had never asked Mr. !
Hayes for tine appointment of anybody :
put yourself, and my knowledge OF that
Of yours would have pres T
vented me from asserting that you had il
lsked for the appointment Of Wharton. d
Certain it IL that Gov. Packard has not. I
Who, 10 you think, is so pressing Col. :,
lack Wharton, Of the confederate army,
hat Pitkin, the republican and good Of
icer, is called upon by a republican adj II
10 resign his Office to make h
way for the rebel? What service has n
Wharton Ia brave man. it is true) ever q
lone for the party or the country to earn
ligh Office, except to help kill some of "