The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-11-08
WASHINGTON LETTER,


WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. %, 7S
Thus early, almost 2 years prior to
the time for beginning the actual worth
Of the next Presidential campaign, the
brilliant strategy responsible for the
Potter Committee and similar machin
cry to make fraud" the chief reliance
of the Democratic nominee to succeed
Mr. Hayes, threatens to return to plague
the inventors and the whole Democratic
party. Whatever was needed to render
Mr. Tilden a very vulnerable candidate,
morally, was quickly supplied after his
alleged purchase of the st Louis nomi-
nation in June 1876, by the opposition
party with hundreds of able leaders
competent for the work in hand and
with press to give the results of their
researches publicity, of much higher
average ability than that which under
took to explain away the avalanche of
ugly charges that seemed amply justified
by even casual inspection Of such por-
tions of his record as were accessible.
No time was allowed the managers,
exhausted by the load they had to carry
all through the 1916 campaign, to recov
er from the staggering blows the Trib-
nne has rained down ON them in such
rapid succession in the matter of the
cipher dispatches, when Jim Anderson
startles and confuses them by re-appear-
ing in the arena with an entirely new
version of the story which was to have
served as the foundation for the fraud
superstructive that Potter and his assoc
late architects were commissioned to
build. Anderson substantially contra
diets every material part of the story he
related before the Potter Committee,
and which Weber and others of the no
torious crew of New Orleans witnesses
fastened to swear to without, apparently
any regard to Its truth or falsity. 1t is
not the contradiction now furnished by
Anderson, probably, that has occasioned
trepidaton, amounting to something
like panic, now observable in the
Bourbon camp, for he long ago exhaust
ed the credibllity of the public by the
irreconcilable nature of his statements.
But the attitude in which he is now pos
turing seems accepted as a forerunner
of revelations that will wholly relieve
Mr. Sherman and other Republicans of
the crookedness alleged againstithem in
this Louisiana business and may, accord
ing to present rumor, lay not few Gemi-
nent statesmen" open to indictment for
subordination of perjury. Tilden's
nephew is alleged to figure, prominently
in some of the new phases of the cases
just opening to view. Let us wait and
see who is finally ground to powder in
this mill of the exasperated gods.
1t is understood that Mr. Devens read
a large number of official dispatches at
Fridays Cabinet meeting that fully cor
roborated the charges of Democratic
terrorism and bull doing undertaken
and carried out in South Carolina by
Hampton's militia, led by prominent
State officials. The character of intelli-
gence, so far received from portions of
Louisiana leaves no room to doubt that
the campaign there is bieng so conduct
ed as to bring about the same results, viz:
the ABANDONMENT of all participation in
it by Republicans; and in Florida, Dem
ocratic Judges are disfranchising enough
voters to insure the State to
the Bourbons, under pretext of purg-
ing the registration lists. 1t was also re-
ported that Mr. Hayes and his advisers
had reached the conclusion that existing
laws were virtually null1fed by the en-
actment of the posse comitatus 80 far as
they had any remedial application to the
situation in the South. 1 may say that
this new outbreak of the Ku Rlux spirit
has pretty effectually disabused the mind
Of every one that the "conciliation poll
cy" had prematurely brought about the
political millennium. The opposition
Of such Democrats as forgot party in
their devotion to the country viii be
counted on in this emergen
cy. But whatever course particular men
may elect all signs of timidity and di
vided counsel are vanishing in the pres
ence of this new rebellion threatening
US.
take this opportunity to enlarge
little on matter alluded to in my letter
Of the 14th inst. 1t is understood that
the lobby ofthe Central Pacific Railroad
monopoly is already here to prevent all
legislation in aid of companies seeking
to build competing lines across the con-
tinent, and to forward such as will en-
able it more directly to perpetuate in
definitely the grinding monopoly its
members represent. But they are not
likely to have 1t all their own way here
after as heretofore.
The revival of business has already
advanced 30 far that new enterprises
looking to the further developement of
many of our great industries and those
to become such (among them
he cattle trade referred toy are impera
lively demanding a hearing. The vast
ousinss certain to follow the construc-
ion ofa railroad along the 22nd parallel,
.raversing, as it would, strip of our
r1chest in agricultural resourc es
md in mineral deposits, has aroused
he most bitter opposition Of the Central
Pacific. Political and sectional prelu-
iices have been appealed to, and 1t has
been misrepresented as seek
ing a Government subsidy. But the
tyranny of the existing road has been so
marked. its purpose to control both the
.rade and the politics of the country 30
patent, that a great change IN public
sentiment in favor of the Texas & Pacific
road is apparent and is still growing.
maxwell.