The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-08
oUR WAsnINGTON LETTER.
WAsnIxoros !, April

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The monotony. To take 9 slight liberty
with Aftemus Wards phrase, It may now
be said-and SAID exhaultiyely Of Mont.
,eomOry Blair-that ahe Is an amoosin'
old cas..s1 Nothing moro. BE plays
his role with The greater ability because
Is in earnest, that is to say, be wants TO
win, though be has no principle staked on
his success. Montgomery 10 not above a
little deception. HI has deceived him.
self into the belief that he Ia q great man,
endowed by High Heaven with. certain
talents which, with a dueregardto TO well
devised system Of future rewards and
punishments, he may not tie up in q nap.
kin. just at this time he feels called on
TO unsettle the country, IL possible, with
the threat Of Gigantic political upheayal
which shall lay Rutherford B. Hayes
out Of eight and place Samuel J. Tilaen
in The White House. Montgomery fiat.
ters himself that this Is the great end for
which he was created, from which it will
be seen that he dissents from the popular
" accepted theory that his creation, so far
from being a matter Of design, was an unac.
co~untable freak Of nature for which he
has obstinately refused to atone by
shrinking from the public notice. Mont
somery would be the last man in Amer
lea to shrink. He believes in his indi-
yidual Righteousness, and, therefore, "is
bold as 4 iion.n he has also, TO some ex-
tent, deceived the State Of Maryland.
BE IL 8 citizen Of Washington, to all In
tents. To avoid the sweep Of the scorct-
ing sun he spends part Of the summer at
bis country seat, which happens TO be q few
miles out Of Washington, IN Maryland.
His business and most Of his interests are
In Washington. Under cover Of his
country seat be deceived the State BINARY
land into the belief that he 10 one Of her
citizens and so he worked himself
into her Legislature. He might
have done no more harm than
any other member Of the Maryland Leg
stature IL he had not thought L his mis-
sion to purify American politics. He
may not accomplish all ne has marked
outfor himself, but he has contriyed .
measure that will cost Maryland $4,000
or Sill, 900, II the Attorney General OF
that State be disposed To carry out the
programme. When the resolution was
passed 1t was understood that any action
10 the name Of the State must depend on
and be supplementary to action by Con.
gress, in The nature Of preliminary pro-
.ceedipgs. Careful reading Of the resolu.
ton reveals the fact that 1t was SO drawn
a. to allow the Attorney General
of Maryland to 60 ahead without
reference to Congress, spend the States
money and accomplish nothing. Al the
last moment the resolution would
have failed II, in addition 10 Judge
Blair's convincing arguments aga inst the
"Great Presidential Fraud" the great
heart OF the Maryland Legislature had
not been fred with a wine supper. That
did the business and for two days .
sober man in Annapolis was rare and
unfashionable. Nobody in that ancient
city attached any importance to the res
olutiop; as a member OF the Legislature
remarked To your correspondent yester.
day. ave put It through just to please
old Gum.n With the single exception OF
"old Gum there isn't q man in Washing.
ton willing to confess that he has any
idea that there will be any serious effort
TO Dust Hayes. EVERY body knows be is
a fraudn said q western Democrat "but
Hewett is about right-his title is
Iirrefra, able.n Blair Is making
strong efforts to set his ball
IN motion in the House, but thus far
every man to whom he has applied, has
asked to be excused, q Maryland member
said. "he couldn't afford it"
ABAcK car FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
The Doorkeeper Of the House has been
made to walk the plank; tits a great pity
that be had not q score or two Of Demo-
cratic members to keep him company.
Polk broke the law and his expulsion
was only tardy justice;if he had been let
alone BY his party he would probably
have been no worse and no better than
the average Doorkeeper. II was abso.
lutely impossible for him TO provide
places for all the hungry mendicants Of
his party without breaking the
law, and yet that is just what he
was forced to do. OF course . man Of
back bone and strict integrity would have
obeyed the law frat his party afterwards.
Such a man has not been an applicant for
the Doorkeeper's place for these many
years. It was noticeable that Folks
warmest support came from the South;
this was only fair gratitude, for Polk did
his little all to build up "the PROSTATE
industries Of that section. This he did
at the sacrifice OF his own feelings;i II can
readily be imagined how II stretched his
patriotic heart strings to put < -Confed.
crates on the rolls which, by law, was for
the exclusive benefit Of disabled soldiers
Of the Union. This point was noticed, but
not fully appreciated by Mr.. Frye,
Of Maine. Mr.. Frye, instead Of being
moved to admiration, was reused to q
pitch Of indignation which found vent In
one OF the most stirring speeches Of the
session. He thought the Democracy had
wronged the wounded veterans Of the
Ouluu army Ahu NJ Ia thoubht INV
such ehape as to make Of them q very
formidable campaign document, the
more promising Of destruction because II
10 so finely favored with truth. Mr..
Frye,s speech $50 well thought OF by
Republicans that they have ordered one
hundred and fifty thousand copies Of 1t
in the wicked hope that II will turn
some districts, now Democratic, In which
there is a large Union soldier element,
TARIFF hill PROSPECT.
The Polk trouble elbowed Mr.. Woods
tariff bill out OF the way, though It had
been made the special order for April 4.
II IL not likely that he will call 1t up be.
fore next Tuesday. In the meantime
men are hurrying here from every sec
ton TO a ' what they can from the
wreck which Mr.. Wood threatens. The
merchants Of his own city have forward
ed q protest which Mr.. Wood would heed
II he we're not 90 thoroughly infatuated
with the beauty Of his ideas. In Hooking
carefully over his revised bill, II Ii dis.
covered that Mr.. Wood has allowed him.
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