The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1878-08-08
OUR WASHINGTON LEFT FER,

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Editor b oOhhaeea Ledgea:T
The Potter Committee closed its la
bors for the present by examining ex-
tGov Palmer, of Illinois. His.statement
was that of y thoughtful and conscien-
tious man, and he told his story in a
way that will impress all who read it.
He tells of efforts made to have a Dem
ocrat put on the Returning, and shows
how, on one fimsy pretext OF another,
the Republican members evaded that
duty. He tells of his efforts to get at
the truth by conveising with citizens OF
the State, white and black, and his
conviction was that the State was fairly
carried for Tilden. His testimony
and that of ex Senator Trumbull. both
calm and moderate, do not support the
sheer at them of Mr.. Hayes, III writing
to Mr.. Sherman, that new converts
are always violent" BY the way, Mr..
Hayes not being on good terms with
his party, is he a convert Or has his
party experienced a change? The com
mittee will meet again III New York on
August 10Th or sooner if called together
by the Chairman.
The history Of Maine Republican
Conventions for the last twenty years
is n partial biography of James G.
Blaine. He usually prepares the reso-
~lutiops which are TO be adopted and
those to be voted down, selects the of
ficers of the Convention, names the
candidate for Governor and makes the
principal speech. Sometimes another
Republican having an honest conviction
on some subject, or desirons of the no.
toriety that comes from death by vio
lence, attempts to do or say something
that is not down on Blaine programme.
He suddenly disappears from public
life or is Immediately found among Mr..
Blaine's most devoted followers. He is
slaughtered Or. purchased. He was the
same controlling person twenty years
ago that he was in the Convention held
on Wednesday. There is more disturb
ance in the rank and file of the Repub-
hcan party of Maine now than ever be-
fore, notwithstanding the Harmonious
character of the Convention. 1t re-
mains to be seen whether or noe the
dlscoutented will be ON hand on election
day and cast their customary vote for
Blaine and Repullicanism.
The honestly disposed and industri-
Gus laborers of other sections than
Washington will do we'll to ponder sumo
of the facts uscertained by individual
investigation and By the examination
in the Police Court of the incendiaries
arrested here as the leaders of the at,
tempted rot last Friday and Saturday.
Cohen, who aspires to the distinction IF
leader in feeble imitation of Kearney,
is a Jew tramp from Arkansas. He
professed to be a machinist, but seems
to have been tramping from u South
err city to another ever since his ssarri-
val on these shores, ten or twenty years
ago. He came here a few months ago
and soon succeeded i'll getting quite a
following among the toughest and most
ignorant of II population. The re
spectacle labor organizations appear TO
have repudiated him from the first.
Almost every evening for the past four
months he has delivered harangIes at
the street corners to such as he could
induce to- stop and hear him. By per
sistent appeals to the most degrading
and brutal passions of human nature.
he has exasperated a portion of his re-
cruits up to the attempt of last week.
1t seems that he has almost always, if
not upon every occasion, wound up his
performance by taking up a collection
ito push on labor organizations" he
proposed, but really to support him in
his laziness. One of his Secretaries Che
had arrived at the distinction of
having several-all tramps like himselD
has "gone back" on the great agita>
tor" siuce they were both arrested; and
he testified that though the bargain
was for an equal "divvy," Cohen al
ways took the lion share OF the plumber
cozened out of his delnded followers.
Cohen yesterday pale his fine and is in
the lecture field again. Any locality
can have him by making early applica
ton. For the good of the cause we
will consent to spare him for the bal
of his natural life. H.
YAnLABUsHA county is entirely free
from debt and has $l5, 900 in the Treas