New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-26
ADJOURNED.

ADJOOhNEO.
It is not at all surprising that the Fraud
Committee should adjourn now and then tOr
refreshment, and other purposes. General
Butler has TO see about his canvass. Mr.. Pot
ter must be very unwell. The Democrats on
the committee are Disguised. The Republic
cans are tired out. And the public, heartily
sick of the whole business, hopes that there
NAV be no more exhibitions of the rascallty and
meanness of Louisiana politicians, for the
shame of the country and the amusement OF
the rest of the world. No progress whatever
has been made toward the Ostensibe object
of the inquiry. Nobody gets penny OF profit
from it except the President. whom it was
intended to injure. Every theory upon which
the Democrats based their action has beenupset.
Every charge with which their speeches have
been filed, the testimony of their own
witnesses has demolished. Every trail
which they try to follow leads them
right away from the White House, and
results only in the discovery of some
new variety of liar or some Democratic
scheme for buying up aflidavits, or some White
Lacquer who fought and bled on the historic
14th of September, but didn't know what he
was fighting for unless it was to defend the
right of property in his gun. Naturally the
committee adjOurns.
While it is considering what to do next, let
us offer q suggestion. We have had quite
enough of the picturesque Southwestern adj
venturers in tattered characters, swearing to
impossible lies about their own vIllanies; but
the world is yeaTning for the examination
of Mr.. Manton Marble and Colonel PeltOn.
The Potter Committee may yet redeem itself
# it will put these gentlemen on the stand,
and ascertain from them the exact price OF
electors in Florida and Oregon. The particu-
lars OF the cOparceny which brought these
men together have never been told in full.
We only know that there was tremen-
dous time that tried the capacity OF
the race of men who wear the robes
and the purple of sovereignty to carry on the
ark and shechnah OF their self government
and that lethal weapons were flying through the
alr, and that in the midst of the crisis Mr..
Marble telegraphed TO Colonel PeltOn Cali
bre fedd geodesy lingulst kettledrum neat
"cattle,n with other startling remarks
of similar character. Mankind is
naturally anxious to know what all this
meant. We want to hear about Warsaw"
and Noses and BRAZIL" and bolivia
- Laura" we must nave all tAplfihd-
ton of the mysterious message telling
somebody to SADDLE Blackstone" We
are curious respecting CHARLES and
"Thomas," and terra Gotta this mulch" And
especially we desire to have some light thrown
upon the singular confederation of adven-
titious circumstances, whereby 1t happened
that on the day when the sum of $4,000 was
sent from Gramercy Park to Oregon for the
purchase of Republican electOr," *" tele-
graphed to Mr.. Marble: "Pray refresh your
"self with ST. Johns Well and happy. That
"work is finished.p
1t is plain that if the investigation does not
get at the key to these cipher dispatches it
will be a ridiculous farce. The kilograms are
within reach. They are interpreted by ribald
and unfeeling public IN a manner that must be
highly unpleasant to the understanding
Marble, and to that bad young man PetOn,
and even to the late unlamented Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. The Democrats
on the committee must be impatient to have
them explained and the regulations of their
leading statesmen rehabilitated. Why on
earth, then, do they not call Mr.. Marblef