Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-06-13
OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL.

We are forcibly reminded Of our yOnth-
ful Esop fables as we watch the proceed
ings in the Spof6ord- Kellogg investiga-
ton by the Senate Committee. Esop tells
us of the wolf which was determined to
eat the lamb and when one project proved
baseless chose another which Sufiiced to
justify the coveted dinner. Just so with
the Senate. Mr.. Kellogg's place is wanted
and it matters not how much or how often
be refutes the perjuries or manufactured
stories brought up against him BY Mr..
Spofford, he will be uEseated sooner or la
ter. As we look back at the outrages COM
mitteed by the House, beginning with
Goods ejeeting Platt by being permitted
to take advantage of his own Infamous
wrong doing, how kiss votes, bull doing,
ETC., served to effect legal elections and
how in the Senate MIR. Wheeler's enforced
absence is used to unseat sll Republican
officials, etc., we feel assured that Mr..
kellogg stands no more show for justice
than the innocent lamb Of Esops The Dem
ocratic Congressional shark will swallow
anything giving place and power without
the slightest conjunction in regard TO right
and truth, and MT. Kellogg will find perjury
and subornation precisely what is asked for
by the Democrats to secure his unseating.
The great Tom Ewing, Of course, had to
be serenaded and speechihed. Sunset Cox
and such lesser lights as Senator Thurman
and Pendleton enchanted us with sweet
phrases about how the Democrats would
begin their march on to victory under Gov.
EEing's leadership in Ohio, and all such
wonderful dOings. The music as well as
speeches were excellent but we we're sinful
enough to bear in mind during the farce
that in Congress Tom Ewing has proved an
utter failure. Conger impaled him again
and again showing him the yeriest BOBBY
IN parliamentary matters. He repeatedly
proved to Us by Figures that won't lie"
that 500, ,000, 600 Of gold would be reqnir-
ed to resume specie payment. With and
throughout his whole career here as a
statesman the entire logic Of events has
disproVed all his assertions on every point
and he hasn't amounted to row Of pins in
sagacity or mother-Wit. If he can whip
Charley Foster in Ohio We shall look for
the stars to fall. With Gen. Rice at the
head Of the ticket, victory might be secured,
il if be possible for Ohio to be carried by
the Democrats, but Tom Ewing is not the
man unless he displays more brains than
be has so far as Congressman.
The trial OF the several young men for
outrsging Miss Cheney drags its slow
length along. Their counsel is stubbornly
contesting every point and viii succeed in
clearing them, from present appearance,
unless the jury agree that young girl may
not be able to stand an imfamouSly coarse,
cruel, brutal. cross examination without
some slight contradictions in her state
ments. We do not believe there is truth
Il - ~ fkoN
rig1dly adhere to any statement where her
modesty can be attacked under such cross
examination as Miss Cheney has been sub-
iected to. We have seen brazen-faeed har-
lots on the witness stand swearing away
their own or others honor, who enjoyed, ap-
parently, the obScenity Of cross examining
counsel, yet no pure woman can undergo It
without being forced into forgetfulness Of
plainest simplest facts, sufficiently so as
to give juries q chance, If they wish, to dis
credit the evidence Of the witness.
Hon Ebon C. Ingersoll, brother and part
ner of Bob Ingersoll, died very suddenly
on May 81. We met him last March, in
perfect health, though bearing every in
dicstion in his appearance Of being high
liver, with strongest tendencies to sudden
death through spopleKy or heart disease.
We so remarked to his friends at the time,
but one of them SAID "Eb. was good for
many a year hence" No funeral services
were held over his body save short ma
terialistie address by Colonel Bob, who in
most beautiful and eloquent words told us
that his brother had laid himself down to
die. He pictured no future. A noble,
gallant man was dead and that was all.
In the deceased Ingersoll, as in the living
one, the poor and needy always had friend,
None ever appealed to his charity without
avail. The commonest street beggar got
whatever coin he had in his pocket, for he
prided himself on responding to every re-
quest. He often bet heavily, and invaria-
By won, for Dame Fortune always smiled
on him, yet his earnings we're lavishly Civ
en- away TO the necessitous, and hundreds
here will mourn the loss in him Of bene-
factor, The final scene Of the parting of
his familh from him was very impressive
and affecting, and Senators and Members
and strong men who we're affected to tears
at the exhibition of devotion.
Washington, June 10, 1876.