The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
special Correspondence to The Republican,

Special Correspondence TO The Republicar !
WASHINGTON. ID. c., Oct. 30, 1878. |
Thus early, almost 2 years prior to
the time for beginning the actual
work Of the next Presidential cam
paign, the brilliant strategy respons-
ible for the Potter Committee and
similar machinery to make "fraud"
the chief reliance Of the Democratic
nominee to succeed Mr.. Hayes,
threatens to return to plague the in
ventOrS and the whole Democratic
party. Whatever was needed to rem
der Mr.. Tilden Il very vulnerable
candidate morally, was quickly sup
Piled after his alleged purchase of
the st. Louis nomination in Jane,
1876, by the opposition party with
hundreds of able leaders competent
for the work in hand, and with a
press to give the results of their re.
searches publicity, of much higher
average ability than that which I'M
dertoOk to explain away the ava
lanche of ugly charges that seemed
amply justified by even a causual in
spectOr of such portions Of his record.
as were accessible. No time was
allowed the managers, exhausted by
the load they had to carry all
through the 1876 campaign, to recOv-
er from the staggering blows the
Tribune 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-appearing in the arena with an
entirely new version Of the story
! foundation for the fraud superstruct-
ure that Potter and his associate ar
chitects We're commissioned to build.
/ Anderson substantially contradiCts
every material part Of the story he
/ related before the Potter committee,
and which Weber and others of the
notorious crew Of New Orleans wit
neSses FASTENED to swear to without,
apparently, any regard to its truth
or falsity. 1t is not the contradiction
now furnished by Anderson, proba-
bly,, that has occasioned the trepida-
/ ton, amounting to something like a
/ pa.Iic, now observable in the Bour-
bon camp, for he Ion 2 ago exhausted
the credulity Of the public by The IT.
reconcilable nature of his statements.
But the attitude in which he is now
| pOSturing seems accepted as fore
runner of revelations that will who'll
! ly relieve Mr.. Sherman and other
Republicans of the rronkedness al
legged against them in this Louisiana
business and may, according to pres
ent rumOr, lay not a few 'eminent
statesmen open to Indictment for sub
ordination Of perjury. Ti'den's neph-
eW is alleged to figure prominently
]
cases just opening to view. Let us
wait and see who is finally ground to
powder in this mill Of the eXasper-
ated gods.
1t is understood that Mr.. DeYens
read large number of official DIES
patches at Fridays Cabinent meet
ing that fully cOrroborated the
1 charges of Democratic teri rism
and brll-doziug undertaken and
carried out in South Carolina 10y
HamptOn's militia, led by prominent
State officials. The character of in
telligence so far received frcm pOr
tons of Louisiana leaves no room to
doubt that the campaign there is be-
ing so conducted as to bring about
the same results, viz; the abOndOn-
ment of all partici patton in it by Re
publicans and in Florida Democrtic
Judges are DISTINGUISHING enough
Republican voters to insure the State
to the BourbOnS, under preteXt of
purging the registration lists. 1t
was also reported that Mr.. Hayes
and his advisers had reached the
conclusion that existing laws were
virtually nulitied by the euactm' mt
OF the posse cOmi dtuS so far a. they
had any remedical application to the
situation in the South. | may say
that this new outbreak Of the Ku
KIux spirit has pretty effectualiy
disabused the mind of every one that
the "conciliation policy" had pre-
maturely brought about the political
millennium. The opposition of such
Democrats as forgot party in theil
devotion to country will be conf
IDENTIFY counted on in this emergency
But whatever cause particul men
may elect, all signs of timidlty and
divided counsel are vanishing in the
presence of this new rebellion threat
ening us.
UINDINE.