Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-05-22

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PUBLISHED DAILY AND TRI-WEEKLY By
EDGAR SNOwDEN'
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY %, 1878.
In the Senate to-day much time was wasted
in discussing points Of order and the order OF
business. Mr.. Lamar spoke in favor OF the
completion ofthe Texas Pacific Railroad.
In the House of Representatives resolutions
for investigating alleged frauds in Oregon ana
South Carolina at the late Presidential eectlon'
but declaring that there is no intent to disturb
Mr. Hayes title were offered, but failed to pass
when resolution authorizing the Potter Com
mittee to make general investigation was
sdopted. Articles of Impeachment against Q.
y. Brsdfo Consul General to Chins, were
referred, and the Army bill futher discussed
The annual spring election will be held IN
this city to morrow. 1t is the duty OF every
conservative within the corporation Limits, cn
titled to vote. to 80 to the polls and deposit
ballot for the ticket nominated by his party, as
that is the only mode by which the party can
bo kept together and relied upon in future and
moro important eloctious The radicals are now
striving with all the means at their disposal to
weaken and divide the conservatives IN the
South, aud tho dolcat Of any mau CD the con-
seryatve ticket, or any marked falling off in the
conservative vote, will be proclaimed by them
as radical gains, and published as such through
out the country for the purpose Of cheering tho
deadened hopes and stimulating the eufeebled
efforts of their followers. The conservatives Of
Alexandria should see to it that the enemy re-
ceive no such aid and comfort by reason OF any
lukewarmness and supineness on their part, and
that so far as in them lies they will counteract,
on the south bank Of the Potomac, the evil OF
the defeat their party sustained in Cumberland,
on the north bank, last Monday.
The two greatest men among the radicals,
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and Senator Blaine,
having demonstrated that the best way to get
out Of o scrapc, 10 section 10 which radloa!lsm
prevails is to audacously dcuy, not only any
completely in, but all knowledge of it, aud to
subcrn witnesses to sustain that denial, tho lesser
lights among their party have not been slow to
profit by their exsmple, and in the conspcuously
paraded denials of the implied charges against
Minister Noyes and Secretary Sherman OF COM
plicity in the presidential fraud We have patent
evidence of how seed planted 10 favorable
ground will grow and prosper. Mr.. Noyos
merely requests 10 be sur % aaod 10 order that
he may tell his Owe tale, but the Secretary,
who amassed largo fortune during fowyoars
of Congressional life, goes several steps beyond
him, and denies beforehand, not only any com.
plioty in the fraud, but asseverates that the
only fraud committed was perpetrsted by the
democrats, offers witnesses to sustain him,
and demands counsel TO eduoe the evidence.
Now while these Two distinguished Office holders
havo PROFESSIONALLY rosortod to the best pos
elble means OF acqulttlug themselves with their
own party, the adoption of those means, to un-
prejudiccd and reasonable men, is as strong
circumstaptia evidence Of their guilt as could
we'll be offered. Bravado is almost invariably
proof of cowardice, and guilt will make brave
man poltroou. Messrs. Noyes and Sherman
would have stood better before the people OF
the country had they "held their horses and
waited until they were called upon for their
testimony.