Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-08-08
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Mr.. Lafayette s. Grover was elect
ed United States Senator by the Oregon
Legislature last winter. He was the
Governor Of tho State at tho time, and
Issued certificate TO Cronin, ono OF
the Democratic electors, because one of
the Hayes electors was u Postmaster
at the time Of his election, and there.
for Constitutionally disqualified. The
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siorton and a., Radical followers in
the Senate, that they challenged his
right to seat when his credentials
were presented, alleging that Mr. Gro.
ver had been elected Senator by brib-
cry, and on motion of Senator Morton,
Committee Of three Senators was ap-
pointed Morton heading tho Commit.
tee) to proceed to Oregon during the
recess, and hunt up the bribers. Nor
ton and his men have been in Oregon
"all summer" and have bribed and
corrupted all the witnesses they could
reach, for tho purpose of forcing Mr..
Grover out of the Senate on the reas.
sembling of that body in October. But
their bribed witnesses testified to too
much in chief, and the result was that
upon cross. examination they convicted
themselves Of perjury, and the result
is that number Of Morton tools will
land in the penitentiary. The editor
OF the Philadelphia Times, in alluding
to the case, says;
alt would have been unfortunate
had the journey of Senator Morton's
committee to Oregon, to investigate
the Grover case, resulted IN dead
waterhaul. Happily some good fruits
are likely to be realized, although not
Of the grade that the committee was
ostensibly looking alter. OF course,
no man Of the rank of United States
Senator could be caught in the dirty
work of corrupting Legislature, and
Senator Grover will come out of the
furnace Of inquiry with unsinged col.
ors, but the minnows which have been
waltzing around the larger fish can't
all be allowed to escape As it would
have been most inexpedient for the
committee TO hook Senator Grover, in
Wow of the perils Of such a precedent
TO Senators generally and some of the
investigating committee in particular,
the only thing that could be donc was
to gobble up some too.willng witness
and clap him in jail. The unlucky
fellow whose head happened to be
nearest the Senatorial club when il
was hungering for heads, was Mr.. W.
II. N. Stiles, and as he testified most
promlscuously on both sides, and seems
to have made it rule to contradict
each day pretty much everything he
had said on previous days, the appc.
tite for victim is likely to be satisfied
by making mince meat Of Stiles and
certifying to the purity and good char.
acter Of the rest Of mankind connected
with the Oregon election dispute. Con-
sidering that Stiles swore TO almost
everything on both sides, it's reasona.
bic to assume that he told the truth
once in a while either by design or &C.
cident, and the question that must vex
the country will be whether he has
been indicted and imprisoned for tell
ing the truth or for telling falsehoods,
but that is one OF those things that
probably no fellow will ever find out,
Upon the whole, Morton has fiercely
shook his name and growled his ugliest
at the mountain, and will bring home
with him a diminutive specimen OF the
mouse"