The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1878-05-09
from the Washington Star.]
POLITICAL NOTES.
REPUBLICAN, SINEws OF wAR-CONTRIBG-
TIONS COMING IN.

REPUBLICAN SINEWS OF WAR-CONTRIBU
TIoNs COMING IN.
The following dispatch was telegraphe,
Thursday by Mr.. Keim to his journals;
The committee on finances of the republi
can Congressional committee, consisting o
Senator Dorsey ''of Arkansas and Represen
tative Hubbell Of Michigan, though author
lied but a few days ago. are meeting witt
great success in the collection of funds fol-
the purposes of the approaching politica
campaign. Every republican Senator has
contributed one hundred dollars, which is
the sum fixed by general acceptance. Or
the list are also the names Of Stanley Mat
thews, Hoar, Burnside, Christiancy, and
Dawes, who have supported the administra-
ton in the Senate. In the House the re
publicans are contributing with equal liber
erality, as far as they have had opportunity
Mr. Hubbell has been absent from the city
for several days, accompanying his family
to their home; but upon his return Represen.
tatives who are anxious to contribute their
quota will have an opportunity to do so.
The members Of the committee have al
ready had long and eminently satisfacto
~ interview with Secretary Sherman on the
subject of contributions to the campaign
fund. The Secretary spoke quite freely, re.
marking that he proposed to contribute lib
orally, and that he would ask his chiefs Of
bureaus to do the same thing, though there
would be no compulsion in the matter. he
said that every one must know that political
campaigns, no more than affairs of govern
ment or business, cannot be conducted with.
out means, and he presumed that the demo
Gratis had also ascertained this fact. That it
would be no violation of the civil service or
t1a IN iy,h 10
voluntary subscription. saA5r@5 u5.
The committee will call upon the Presi-
dent for his subscription as Soon as Mr.. Hub.
bell returns. 1t was limited that the Presi-
dent should set good example by subscri-
bling literally. 1t was suggested that five
thousand dollars would be handsome rec
ignition of the true Interpretation of the
civil service order, as set forth in these dis
patches in the interview between the Presi.
dent and General Campbell. 1t can be said
that the President has always contributed
his full share to the funds of the party, and
did soin the Ohio campaign last year. rs
The committee will also give Secretary
Schurz CALL Whether he will find his civil
service theories, and the success of the re-
publcans in the coming campaign, as slim
ulated by active and aggressive operations
all along the line in sufficient accord to drop
his mite into the party collection box, as re.
marked member of the committee, is a
conundrum which we propose to find out
from Mr.. Schurz himself. The next on the
list to be invited to put his name on the list
will be Postmaster General Key. 1t is pre-
sumed, in the interests Of reconciliation and
pacification that he will not find it too great
a stretch of his political conscience to enrol
his name. Secretary McCrary and Thonlp-
son and Attorney General Devens will also be
interviewed 1t is not anticipated that there
will be any opposition to responsible parties
going into the departments to receive any
sums voluntarily rendered by the employees.
1t is proposed, however, to see that the ad-
venturers and beats who have so often exer-
cised this privilege are prevented from dog
ging the employees of the government, and
in whom they never felt the assurance that
the 1.-THE of their contributions ever reached
their destination. Since the publication of
the Presidents views in these Dispatch
es and their subsequent dissemination
through other sources, Senators and Repre-
sentatives have received numerous letters
congratulating them upon proper under
standing at last, of the executive order, and
assuring them that the republican party now
stood upon its feet again, and would make
one of the most glorious political campaigns
in her history. Members of the collecting
committee say that from present indications
the campaign fund will exceed that of anv
previous year, and that there will be no lack
of the sinews Of war for all legitimate uses.