South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1878-01-25
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sfness last week. 20 day. it is said. :
vote will be reached in the Senate on the
silver resolutions of Senator Matthews
While the vote may not shew exactly
the strength ofthose who viii vote sfor
the remonetization. OF silver, there il a
general belief that it will do so. and
accordingly much interest is felt in A
III the resolutions receive a two.thirjs
vote your readers may be sure that sill
yer Will be remonetized. whether or not
MIR. Hayes shall veto the bill To no nasss
ed. a decision one way or the other ia
public necessity.
There are tiniid souls who defend The
dishonest public debt statements of Ser.
retary Sherman on the ground that if a
fuii ana correct statement we're given
the people would not understand IL and
would believe the country in worse finan.
cial condition than it really is. Others
hold that the debt not reported by the
Secretary. and which he refuses to nav
when it becomes due, will by and bv
become "outiawed'' and not have 10 be
paid, thereby saving the amount to the
government. Their first ground Of de-
Tense is not one fit to be used in CON.
nection with q Secretary, servant of
the people. He has no right to deal
dishonesty with his master The other
shows equal dishonesty, and, if possible.
n more contemplate trifling with the
Secrctary's duties. The Secretary has
not mtdo one full or fair report of the
pa lie debt.
In the absence OF any exciting dis
cussion in Congress people naturally
enough turn TO such affairs as tho nr1.
posed appearance of Mr.. Ilend;i.ks in
the politics of his State, and the soeecl,
CT EX Secretary Bristow at Boston n few
days ago. Spite of Blaine's great non.
ularity .iin New England. Bristow has
many most earnest friends in that see.
ton. lie has strength among the mass.
es, too. There were in all the New Emo.
land States large numbers of people who
knew the insincerity Of Blaine. and who
WoGid nave thought the chances about
even, IT he had been elected that he
would have gone farther than HAYES TO
please the South or farther than Zach.
Chandler to strengthen and consolidate
he Republicans OF the North. Distrust.
ing Blaine, and seeing the hopelelsness
Of fight if Conkling or Morton was
made candidate, these men turnol to
Bristow, who was not only Of good rem
utation rs a retormer. bat was n new
nan. Ills appearance in Boston is sir
nificant, and not unnaturally people
connect It with political combinations 10
extend into the future. 1t nav also he
noted That the men who in New Eng
land represent the anti-Blaine feeling
are IN constant intercours. with Mr..
Blaine.
One Of The innsmera,,le Institutions
over Which the Secretary Of lie Int
rior has charge is the Freelmaits Hos.
pital lctc- IL is supported almost en-
tlreiy by Government, and its officers
are responsible 10 The Secretary. In a
recent iavestig tion though the investi
gators found netting wrong. Secretary
Schurz lads noting right. The per
sons who male the Investigation re,,or-
ted that the officers against whom char
ges were make, were innocent. Secretarv
Schurz promptly removes them. Will
he neyer get tired OF this sort of non
sense! lie sets one set OF s1specte
subordinaioi TO investigating another
OF OF the same Kind, and expects to get
at the trnth. To make il all the more
ridiculous, The Goo-s Of the invo Zig atinc
room are closed TO The public.
In the way of sensations the Diiy
Posi- Is the equal or any first elias, New
York paper. It's energies an abilities
are brought 10 bear against Speak
or Randall! aud Representative Fernan
do Wood. and tito sc life long Dom ocrat:
are 'rercilessiy read out of the party
The Po% Is 50 lively aud SO interesting
withal, illat IL is perhaps unfair to ex
pect strict accuracy in all its statements
or 20 consider il serious in all il says.
MEMO.