Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-02-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence Of tie Sentinel ]



Republican party have been on the war path
to defeat the Electoral Bill, bat the way
Conkling and Edmunds dashed Morton and
his co-conspirators was the most merciless
triumph over Radicalism ever witnessed in
the American Congress. Senator Conkling
told Morton that ''ll there ever was political
paved and honeycombed with
dynamite" it was Morton and his fanatical
supporters. old Pdray'ic Morton looked at
him with stony resignation, apparently con-
WINGED that the New York statesman had found
him out. Sun-Stroke Blaine let off a few
feeble remarks against the bill, and crawled
out of the fight as cowardy as he hid behind
a Doctors certificate in his encounter with the
House last session.
The promotion of Judge IToar to the Senate
was a well deserved reward for his meritori-
ously patriotic efforts in behalf of good Gov
ernment whilst member of the Electoral
Committee.
The exposure OF the telegram sent by
Chandler to Gov. Stearns that Florida must
be carried for Hayes by fair means or other-
l0iSe, and that he was authorized by both the
President and Secretary of War to say that
troops and money would be furnished him for
that purpose, looks dam-agngly bad for the Adj
ministraton, particularly so, since the troops
arrived promptly on time, with Chandler
little in advance of the troops The suction
pump cross-examination has been too much
for old Zach. and will pull great deal of un-
willing truth out Of him should he attempt 10
contradict the above telegram. His defective
ha tLnrnurb1t- pafrpebfd
Belknap has demanded Of our local courts
speedy trial on the indictment pending against
him. He evidently has lost confidence in the
Inauguration of HAYES and don't wish TO rest
his hopes Of pardon in S. Tilden. His only
escape from the penieniary is through
pardon from Grant before his term expires.
Schenck, Delano, Babcock and Belknap have
not taken a very prominent part in politics
this winter The country seems TO be quite
tired OF injured innocence
Only six weeks more Of Grant; let us be
truly thankful.
Blaine preserves n discreet silence in the
Senate. II is good thing sometimes to have
physicians certificate in your pocket.
Useless Cant, Jr., is not going TO marry
ga daughter Of a prominent Philadelphia
lawyer" lie don't like the legitimate, neither
does his "old man"
Logan 5cAlt lfotu Tue CON pTOullSe COHlHlllct
was such a kindness to the country that the
nation ought to forgive him for his good taste
in not boring us with bis presence in the
Senate again BY declining denomination; but,
really, Johnny, wasn't it sour grapes?
There is hardly any contingency possible,
consistent with the character OF the proposed
tribunal, and an honest examination Of the
votes by which Hayes can be declared Presi-
dent and that's what the matter with the
RAIDS just now.
The proposition 10 have able counsel out
side of Congress to present the Democratic
side Of the case before the tribunal meets with
much favor, and will doubtless be adopted.
Two political events of the past week are Of
special good cheer TO the nation. Two active
and malignant jacobinsin the Senate have been
served with the notice to quit. We refer to
Powell CLAYTON, the Arkansas swindler, and
Groton grocer Boutwell,. They drop out Of
public lite without a single regret or kindly
word from even the organs Of their own party.
The saddest wreck after the passage Of the
compromise bill will be Mr. Ferry. He i'm
mediately passes into utter iusignfcance.
Nobody will care for his views ms to the
validity of the returns, nor whether he wants
to 60 behind them, or before them, or on
either side of them, or TO waltz around them.
His claims that he is a returning board alone,
have all been overruled. He will not be al
10 ned to Ferry returning board Hayes across
the Stygian gloom of "A fraudulent couni-n.
The American people, through their Senators
and Representatives, resume their legal rights,
and Ferry becomes mere cl0thes-5creen, n
puff ball, an unsubstantial Euitv. The two
nurses, Edmunds and Thurman, take no notice
of him. Doctor Bayard regards him with in
difference Even the maid-of-all-work, Morton,
treats him with undisgnsed contempt. He
will wander along the shady paths Of Senate
rial life obscure, and finally join the other
consprators in n climate, in which they'll
regret the loss of their summer clothes, and
where ice forms not in the cutters thereof.
Pinchback, (col'd d., } of Louisiana, gives the
Republican party fine character when he
says, "that for corruption and venaliiy for
dishonesty it has no equal anywhere on the
face of Gods earth" Well, he ought 10
know she's one of EN-"
Now if Morton and Chandler would only
fall out, what pretty things they could say Of
each other. Simon Cameron says be don
like the electoral bill, as it will surely elect
Tiden. "Jess so - Ahem "jess so.
If Mr.. Wheeler intends to give us that
inaugural address, which he says his principal
has composed, now is the accepted time. Mr..
Hayes will certainly never have occasion TO
read it in Washington, and If it contains any
thing eloquent upon the subject Of civil SER
vice reform and the duty Of the Republican
administration, Grant, Chandler and Packard
should now have a chance to profit by it,
The gorgeous promises which ii is said to
contain will be the more delightful now that
the country will not run the risk OF disap-
pointment
The extreme Radicals are sorely beaten, and
as last resort say they will fight before they
will submit 10 the provisions of the comaro-
mise bill; that Hayes must and shall go ia the
White House. Well, they cannot carry Out
their design with Grants soldiers now here,
particularly as one half Of them voted foi
Uncle Sam Tilden.
Alas the Senate will no more reverberate
with the voice of the mighty Logan. PoorJohn,
we Il see the last of him this session. Who
will be the next Radical to step down and out
Truly the country is cleaning itself of the
war accidents Massachusetts and Virginia
clasped hands over the bloody chasm in the
House, by Prof Seelye of the former and NJ:
Tucker Of The latter State, both advocating
the electoral bill.
The coLspirators don't want a fair count O
course, and they are afraid under the new
management such thing will come to pass
but the friends of the bill are bold and fear
less. AT the present time it is hard to realize
how greatly the nation is indebted to the wis
dom and patriotism of the members of the
Joint committee. Grants love for low-down,
disreputable men, again showed itself by his
vetoing the bill abolishing our corrupt police
hoard which passed both Houses unanimously
1t is worse than his defending Boss shepherd.
Dick Harrington, Belknar, and the whiskey
ring thieves Washington just at present /:
AL, l,hhxfpt rigl.
pockets and confidence women, some Of
whom are seemingly educated and respectable
ladies. Rather II bad argument for woman''
suffrage We commend their cases to Susan
B. Anthony and DR.. Mary Walker.
DEMocRITEs.
CnMprRnIIER WnnIRnRn hns instructed