Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-07-25
A Conversation Win COnsre Es-
man DanfOrtl.

man DanfOru.
We had an interesting call yesterday
from Hon. l.. Danford, who represents
the Belmont district in Congress-. After
! his long siege and close confinement
and illness at Washington during the
late session, Mr.. Danford looks well,
although we notice that he is accumu-
lating quite a number of gray hairs.
| He gives an interesting account of the
scenes and incidents for which the
session was noted, particularly those
connected with the reOpeniDg of the
Presidential question. He thinks that
the Democratic members of Potter's
Committee would be glad to drop the
investigation, which was begun by
Tilden's partisans with view of es.
tablishing the old mans claims for a
won't let them drop it. Butler has
still lingering hope that he can make
drive somehow or sOmeway at the
Administration, which he, for personal
reasons, very much dislikes.
Mr.. Danford thinks that the politics
of the country are taking on changing
aspect, and seem destined to be so
largely affected by the financial and
labor questions of the day as to be
scarcely recognizable any longer as old
line party politics. He warmly up.
holds Secretary Sherman's policy of
steady steps towards specie payments
and thinks that the safety of the coun.
try lies in keepipg at bay the wild
theory of "absolute" paper money that
is now current among so many unin'
formed and unthinking people. The
South is especially TO be feared on the
money question. Reputation is the
order of the day in many of the South.
ern States, and if that section was once
more in control of the Democaaticp party
and the Democratic party was in con-
troll of the Government, we might eX :
pect to see regular saturnalia in the
way of unlimited internal improve
ment appropriations. He regards it as
fortunate for the country that Hayes
has the veto power until the 4th of
March 1881, after which time the pros
perity OF the country, travelling hand
in hand with a sound currency, will of
itself put quietus on the insane cry
for moro money. Providence, said Mr..
Danford, seems willing to save US from
Democratic madness by sending us
bountiful crops, and these crops are not
ouly giving our people cheaper means
of living but are turning the balance of
foreign trade heavily in our favor.
specie basis, except our paper, and that
is only half cent away, what folly it
would be to enter on another Wild
career of initiation. Ben Butler, said
Mr.. Danford, seems willing to cater to
this wild demand, and judging from
his late speech is ready even to shake
hands with the communists if only he
can thereby make himself more nOto'
rious.
Mr.. Danford thinks that if the nomi'
nation of Presidential ca ldidates were
now in order General Grant would
certainly be the nominee ofthe Repub
lican PARTY. To the public mind he
represents stability, or, in other words,
law and order; and as there is at this
time 50 much apprehension in regard
to the future of the cOmmunistic agita-
tionon the one hand ,and In regard to a
Democratic reactiOnary period on the
other (-uch as Jeff Davis outlines in
his recent sreech) vast numbers of
people say give US Grant for President.
"They feel that in his hands the coun-
try is safe from domestic iusurrection
or foreign invasion. A great many
Republic ms think that Hayes has
abandone d the party in the South TO its
fate, and that therefore he is responsible
for the respective wiping cut of Re-
publicanl+m in that section, while if
Grant was once mere the Republican
leader he would. if need be use the
powers If bis office to protect and up
hold the Republican element in every
Southern State.
Mr.. Danford expects to take some
part in the c .ngressional Canvass in his
district some tim during the cam paign.
He anticipate D.. Uplegraff election,
and VIII, of c.urse, take the stump on
his behalf. At present he goes to
Atlantic City to te>tify before the
Potter Committee, and tell th m what
he knows Of Louisiana matters, having
been down there on an investigation
committee during the 44th Congress,
and having Il II at that time conver-
5atiOn wit9 the now notorious james
E. An l"r5pn. Wheeling Intelllgencer.
18th inst.