The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-04-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Correspondent.

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Many of the representations and
downright falsehoods relative to Repub-
lican officials here, are perpetrated after
they have been exploded and contra
dicted by the most scrupulous Demo.
cratic sheets published nearer the seat of
Government that first gave them public
ity, by republication in papers so remote
as to reduce the chances of their readers
ever getting at the truth, to their mimi
mum. Several publications in the Post
Democratic daily organ here, and after
papers calculated to discredit the title
of Secretary Sherman to some real estate
owned by him il the city, implying that
he could have come honestly by the
money paid for it, intimating that the
appropriation for its improvement was
secured through fayoritism, and insin-
uating that the taxes assessed against it
were merely nominal as compared with
the amount levied against similar prop
erty of less fortune owners, moved one
of our prominent real estate men, a Mr.
Rohrer, to publish detailed statement
covering all these points, in the Post,
while that paper evidently believes in
yielding nothing 10 sentiment in apolit-
ical warfare, it is counted as honest as is
consistent or profitable for an intensely
partizan Democratic paper. In com.
menting on Rohrer's communication
clearly demonstrating the unfounded
character of these implications and in
situations, it vouches for his character
and reliability and admits at (Rohrer's
letter. seems to set Mr. Sherman right
so far as his individual connection with
the speculation is concerned" 1t only
refers to this here because what appears
to have been an ordinary business trans
action throughout has been so distorted
and so perverted by constant reiteration
that Secretary Sherman has been placed
in false and most discreditable light
and stands little chance Of being righted
by some of the papers responsible for
giving currency to these baseless slam
ders. 1 may add upon the authority of
Mr. Rohrer that Mr. Sherman does not
own a single one of the houses erected
on square 720.
The more 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 senti-
ment. And should it prove the last
straw that breaks the back of Confeder-
ate control and dictation in the lower
House, not few Democratic leaders will
be able to discern in it the hand of re
tributive justice.
The greatest failure OF the season is
Glaver. None haze forgotten the impu-
dent, gratuitously insulting letter he sent
the President Out of charity many
suggested that 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 caves
droppers and set to work. But he found
he needed erpe1ts. They were given
him. Some of them, at least, were the
most notorious dead beats who hang
about the town every winter looking for
a job in their congenial role of Informers
and spies They have done nothing so
far but dig out an occasional den of Dem
ocratic freebooters. Not a Republican
scalp yet graces the belt of "big injun''
Glaver; and he has manifested such q
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 conviction
that the backbone of the monopoly pow
er has been hcpelessly broken in Con-
gress. It's best not to take too much for
granted, but unless his lobby can sue
ceed in getting the Pacific road funding
bill. recently passed by the Senate, re-
ferred to some House Committee that
will not soon be called for a report, its
members feel the game is all up with
them.
Secretary Sherman's success with the
New York bankers in disposing of the
s50OOGOOO AZ per cent bonds, seems to
be regarded as having so materially sim.
plhed the resumption problem as to
have rendered it practicable without
doubt, at or before next January, proyid.
ed Congress don't interfere.
The developements in theMcGarrahan
claims are watched with some interest
by those in one or the other rings, and
perhaps fear and trembling by not q
lew OF our present or past statesmen.
The cases Of aggravated assault in this
city within the past year by the lowest
order of roughs upon females, far out.
number those of any similar period
within the history of the city. Even
men counted respectable heretofore
seem to have become infected by the
prevailing demoralization; and threats OF