Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-04-24
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. April l6


downright falsehoods relative to Re-
publican officials here, are perpetuated
after they have been exploded and
contradicted by the more scrupulous
Democratic sheets published nearer the
seat of Government that first gave
them publicly by republication in
papers SO remote as to reduce the chan
ces of their readers ever getting at the
truth, to their minimum. Several
publications in the Post (Dem- daily
organ here and other papers calcula-
ted to discredit the title of ,5ec'y Sher-
man to some real estate owned by him
in this city implying that he could not
have come honestly by the money paid
for it; intimating that the appropria
ton for its improvement was secured
through favoritism, and insinuating that
the taxes assessed against it were
merely nominal as compared with the
amount levied against similar property
of less fortunate owners, moved one of
our prominent real estate men, Mr..
Rohier, to publish detailed statement
covering all these points in the Post.
While that paper evidently believes in
yielding nothing to sentiment in a pol
itical warfare, it is counted as honest
as is consistent or profitable for an in
tensely paatizan Democratic paper.
In commenting on Rohier's communi :
cation clearly demonstrating the un-
founded character of these implications
and lnsinuations, it vouches for his
character and reliability and admits
that lit (Rohier's letter. seems to set
Mr.. Sherman right so far as his indi-
vidual connection with the speculation
is concerned" [ only refer to this
here, because what appears to have
been an ordinary business transaction
throughout has been so distorted and
facts so prevented by constant reitera-
ton that Sec'y Sherman has been
placed in false and most discredit-
able light and stands little chance of
being righted by some of the papers
responsible for giving currency to those
baseless SANDERS. [ may add upon
the authority of Mr.. Rohier that Mr..
Sherman does not own single one of
the houses erected on square 72O.
The mere light let in on the Door.
keeper business from the time the Ex.
Confederate Democracy took control
down to the election of Field, the more
regardless its administration seems to
have been of law and decency and the
more wantonly insulting to Union SEN
timent. And should it prove the last
straw that breaks the back of Confed-
crate control and dictation in the lower
House, not a few Democratic leaders
will be able to discern in it the hand
cf retrlbutive justice.
The greatest failure of the session is
Glover. None have forgotten the i'm
pudent, gratuitously insulting letter he
sent the President. Out of charity
many suggested he was intoxicated
when it was written. When entrusted
with the conduct of the investigations,
great hopes were entertained of him
by his associates. He marshaled his
eaves-droppers and set to work. But
he found he needed enperts. They
were given him. Some of them, at
least, were the most notorious dead
beats who hang around this town every
winter looking for job in their con-
genial role Of informers and spies.
They have done nothing so far but
dig out an occasional den of Democratic
freebooters. Not Republican scalp
yet graces the belt Of "big injun"
Glover; and he has manifested such a
strange perverseness in stumbling onto
and roofing out the wrong parties, that
he has come to be regarded somewhat
as the bull let loose in the china shop,
by his brethren, and they can only
lament their faulty in giving him such
latitude for mischief.
Jay Gould is said to have retired
from the field under the sorrowful con-
viction that the backbone of monopoly
power has beer hopelessly broken in