The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1878-08-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
lTAsuIN9rcS, August 9S, 1873.

1850. His friends haze heretofore
! stated that he did net expect 10 be d
candidate al that time, but they say
nothing CT tie kind nOw. The Senator
is doing what be eau t9 push the Grant
movement acIiey.ng thai. no maD CUE
brHomiusicd for taiTd term. Let y
suppose Tho Republican convention O
1885, near u. hand, and Graut tho
PRINCIPAL ti5u:c. Blaine, w Eignt. 0
'Iis large vote in the. COu2c4twn o.
1876, and Of his Constant. Prominence
in affairs, car bc brought forward at
auy momcr!. II PIaiEc's belief IS to
third term nomination is cirrcc! the
nomination vii! almost certainly fall
30 hin. No unknown persca will be
tatca while Hayes is remembered. No
soldier is available. 10 nominate any
third politician over Blaine would be
madness. Hereafter wo may expcc
tue Blaine press to look kindly upon
the Grant movement. aud to Keep tia t
impossible candidate prominently Gc:9s'
Tie people for year moro ut least.
Secretary Sherman madcc sreec!
in Ohio yesterday in answer to Senator
Thurman. liz is Il pQIilicau aud ouIy
u politician, While Thurman is
much moro than 4. politician.
Ii there are eny flies on the barn
door Of the great Senator, S4cr-
man will see them, but to the door it.
self Or itch harvest within, he will be
as blind as Barti,ncus. His vision is
no. Of the kind that perceive. such
things. and the day Of mir nc les is past
d. The New York Times says the orig
inal Sherman letter 70 Weber and Au-
derson, which. has been more lied about
than the number Of trout caught by the
senior Senator from NJ Ninc, is in the
possession Of tho Potter Committee.
Weber sworc TINT it vas destroyed.
Mrs jenkins secured place ia the New
OrlcarC Custom llOuHc By, swearing
that he dictated it to u nan now dead
BOT morally and. politically dead, like
Sherman himself, but physically dead.
Sherman sw9tr ut first that he didn't
know whether lie wrolo it CT uot, but,
after Mrs Jcaks told her Gtory, gworc
promptly tia. no did not write it. Ono
member Of Congress aSOrc no had, Of
zen seIn it, md tlOugltit vas III Shtr-
:nan'u hand writing Nearly every
body that las Terrified has had Gomc.
tim, to say about it. Tho Committee,
which will not meet asaia probably for
sOlpe time, shonld have told us whether
thcy really have tie documents CT not
It is an important enc.
| have no, been able to figure out all
the predicted Democratic gaius Of Con.
grrss, thong there is almost au absolute
certainty Of gain over tho present ina.
jority in the House Of Representatives,,
Those, should say, must be false pro.
phets who say that the Republican
delegation will be inIOrlcrcd with in
Maize, Of that there will bs gains iu
Massachusetts, or that We shall carry
the few republican districts in the South
without somc losses in that section.
But there will uuqucstiOuabIy he gains
IN the West and probably in New York.
Reports from the West received here
orc specially encouraging.
There has just been handed TIC Il
written statement that Secretary of the
Senate Gorham, vino, with Hale. Of
Maine, runs tho Republican Cougrcs.
siOra! Committee, is quietly of . disre-
putuG!c trick in c%pCuding Tic money
If tho Committee. 1t is 10 tho effect
that. upon being selected to manage
the Committees affairs, he bought for
himself un interest in tho National
Republican, newspaper here and ia haV-
ing all the Committees printing done
there ut ubSurdIy high prices. The
pmouu. of tho printing is enormous
and GOrham's profits cOrrcspoudiusly
large! If tho story is trro it would
seem TIA: the stulwarts tavO hardly
higher scnse Of what is honest than
the civil service reform Administration
ilsulf. II is further said that tho Dem.
Ocrasic Post Of this city was kept FROM
exposing this little arrangement only BY
receiving quite uu amount Of the same
work ut profitable prices. Huron.
The County Courts.
WESTON, August %,
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