South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-05-17
LeEter from Washinsfen.
c0r.espoaasaee Of the Iatelligeaeer
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resolution based principally on Blair
memorial and secondarily on the evil
dence contributed by McLin and his
pals in Florida and elsewhere, will be
carried to-day, calling for an immediate
investigation. II says the Speaker has
decided it may be offered as a privil.
eyed question, and that the temporiz-
ing expedients and the vacillation have
been so far overcome as to justify the
belief that before adjournment tonight
the ground will have been broken for a
most searching inquiry. 1t further init
mates that the Republicans will move
TO amend SO as to include all Southern
States having alleged Republican ms
jorities but which went overwhelmingly
for Ttlden. IL is thought likely that
this course has been adopted so that by
rsking over several States they may
be able to. get TO gether some fragments
wherewth TO rebut the damaging dis
closures relative to the radical manipula-
ton Of votes in South Carolina. Florida
and Louisiana. To tue extent that the
Republican leaders have any specific
evidence of fraud. they will likely be
gratiiled. But it hardly seems proba.
bic that they will be allowed to 90 all
yer the United States TO pick up iso.
lated cases Of intimidation Of voters, to
belittlo and offset their Wholesale frauds
by which the popular will of whole com
munities and States was defeated and
minority mado seemingly. the victors
in "A National election. The dog shall
return TO his vomit and the sow to her
wallowing.' Dennis, who seems to
have very much exaggerated the weight
OF obligations under which he has plac-
ed the Democracy by the Part he has
had in the Florida confessions, and pro.
badly regretting his weakness in yield
ing to the promptings Of conscience,
has left us in high du6geon because, as
it appears, he was not permitted to boss
the job, and hung the investigation pre-.
maturely when he could, perhaps, have
established just so much as would have
been to the good and behoor Of number
one. and there stopped without partic-
ticular regard for anything but tho ag.
grandizement Of Dennis. ANYHOW, he
has gone, breathing vengeance and
swearing to make the investigation a
hot one for the Democrats in Florida.
1t seems the judgement here that he has
been treated by the Administration to
taste of his own decoction and il
seems to have been as distasteful as to
fill the abdominal viscera with tie East
| wind.
Icannot refrain from referring for q
moment to the speech Of Genl. Gordon
| delivered in the Senate last Tuesday
because it is one of the few speeches
made here this winter on national linan.
ces that will have permanent value
While the courtesy that marks Senator
! Gordon's bearing under all circumstan.
ces was observed Throughout the speech,
! Nat did not serve to detract from the
force of his scathing arrangement oil
! those responsible for the financial Leo.
islation of the past 10 years, which lac
! denounced as the remote and proximate
cause OF all the ills we have suffered
since 1873. Contraction he declared
! good for the bondholder and the wealthy
and to corresponding extent paraIyz
ing to Legitimate business, submerging
the masses deeper and deeper in the
depths of poverty, deprivation and
wrctchedness. Every deduction was
logical, clear and to the purpose. He
imprcgnably fortified his position by eli.
! tations from the financial history q
leading European powers. The floor
and galleries were deserted by tho usua
hajHHcs and filed by critical audience
such as might be expected TO be inter
csted in finances He had it with him
throughout. OF all Southern Represen
tatiyes none have stood higher thar
Genl. Gordon from the moment he first
entered the Senate, then best known a,
= commander Of one wing Of Lees ar
! my. and as the confidential friend o.
I e,tt gre;a captain. ! commend his full
speech TO all who desire clesr proson.
tatiou Of the financial problem Of to.
day free Of the verbiage aud abstract
ion usually strung together and dubbed
financial speech"
Sitting Bulls threats receive some
attention as his ability to execute them
or at least to carry devastation to
many q frontier hOme--is unloubted
in the present condition Of our Army
MEMO.
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