Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-30
CHIC MlLLfNtE.a SIP. R.R.
Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1878


any other business until after the pas
sage of their partizan resolution for
investigating the presidential election
in the states of Louisiana and Florida,
they succeeded in passing it by a strict
party vote. The republicans refusing
to vote. upon the ground that the pre-
vious congress settled the presidency,
and that the voice of the country re-
uuired that it should not be disturbed
What a contrast between the Dem
ocracy of the days of Jefferson and
Jackson, and that of today The
Jefferson democrats would have de-
spised and trodden under foot any
effort to pass resolution of investiga-
ton without giving their opponents
an opportunity to speak upon or offer
an amendment to the resolution.
What must be the moral condition of
any great party that has to decide IN
caucus what shall be done. and in or
der TO accomplish that also, decide
that II, .nendmcnt shall be allowed to
be offered, or any one allowed to speak
on the resolutions; but when revolu-
tion is decided upon it can't be expect
ed that the party deciding upon it
will pause at the way it is to be act
complished. The rulings of Speaker
Randall during this contest were made
in utter disregard of all precedent and
for the purpose of inaugurating the
overthrowing of the government. This
was so VIGOROUSLY the case that sever
nj prominent democrats have denounc-
cd it, saying, "the d-n fool knew bet
ter when he made the decision. Not
withstanding, the speaker was sustained
by the solid vote Of the democracy.
That the democracy do mean reVolu-
ton is fully proven by the decision OF
Speaker Randall upon its being a
question of privilege, which opinion
was written out and agreed upon be-
fore the presentation of the. resolution,
his decision being that it was ques-
ton of the highest privilege, !" be
cause it involUed the question Of the
validity Of Hayes' title. F" All loyal
people should remember that Speaker
Randall dictated to the Ohio legisla-
ture to redistrict their state at the
time the presidential resolutions were
being considered by the leading demo-
Gratis of this city, and that they are
both projects looking to the same end,
both revolutionary legislation looking
TO the overthrow of the government
in case the democracy have majority
in the next house of representatives.
The memorial services of the late
Judge William Wallace Chrisolm,
daughter and son, whose murder in
kemper county Mississippi, one year
ago, has been recorded in history,
were held last Sunday morning in the
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church of this city. Mrs. Chrisolm
and her son being present. Rev. II.
L. Naylor, pastor of the church, de-
liyered short, eloquent sermon. He
mentioned the fact that the remains Of
the murdered members of the Chris
olm family, over which no funeral SER
vices had ever been said, were now
being removed to their final resting
place at Lockhayen, Clinton county,
Pennsylvania.
The prominent features of the SER
vice was the eulogy pronounced by
Bishop Gilbert Haven, of Georgia
At SOME fine passages during its de-
livery, his remarks agreed SO entirely
With the sentiments of the congresa-
ton, that the latter, forgetting for the
moment the day and place, interrupted
the speaker with hearty applause.
ssIn accordance with the race .honored
custom of sepulture they had come to-
gether this day to engage in the solemn
duties demanded by the dead, no less
than by the living. We ceme to bury,
not to praise We come TO satisfy the
just longings of widowed and child
reft heart, of a fatherless and sisterless
family. that their dead may be decent
ly buried" He gave short history
of the tragedy, which gave occasion
for the memorial services of the day,
paying touching tribute to the brave
and devoted daughter, Cornelia Jo-
sephine, and the martyred father, OBJ
serving that had this violence happened
at the hands of the red man, how the
whele land would have rnag with in
diruation.