Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-02-06
Washington Letter.


Considerable futter is occasioned by
the direction the cipher dispatch in
vestigation has taken, and that which
has come out is only just enough to
show what magnificent rascality would
have been developed had not the Re-
publican dispatches been stolen and
destroyed. Morton, Chandler and the
other astute and unscrupulous manlp>
ulators were certainly lucky in hav.
ing for President Of telegraph compa~
ny man who sympathized with them
politically, and who was not too good
to assist them in destroying the evil
dences of what they had done. And
so, as it is, we have only the proof
that the Republican ciphers were more
numerous than those charged to the
Democrats that they were so bad as
to justify theft which was committed
by one Bullock then ia Mofton's en-
ploy, and third assistant Postmaster
General Brady also peatege of the
Indiana Senator. The doors Of the
committee room were locked, and on
ly such choice spirits as VIM. 4. Chan
dler and ex>Congressman Evans ad~
mitted. There the dispatches were
assorted, and all that could damage
the Republicans burned, while certain
Democratic messages were secretly
kept by Brady, and finally sent anon>
ymously to the New York Tribune.
It is asserted that the burned corres~
pondence would have shown that
S500,000 were raised in New
York and sent to Florida and Louis~
iania to keep the courage of the re-
turning boards up to their villainous
work. The most damaging thing the
investigation has brought out is the tel
egraphlc correspondence between Zach
Chandler, Secretary of the Interior,
and J. N. Tyner then Postmaster Gen'l,
relative to the sale of two Offices un>
der Chandler for SIS 900. 1t is prov.
en- by these witnesses that the tele>
grams perfecting such a transaction
were passed, and that the dispatches
were returned to Mr.. Tyner at his
urgent solicitation, when the talk Of
investigation first began. This brings
down two cabinet officers badly wound
ed. And yet Senate or Christiancy has
resigned bis Senatorship to take an iu'
significant Foreign Mission, in order
to make room for Zach Chandler in
the Senate. The same element in the
Republican party that sent Oglesby to
the rear to make room for Jack OF
Clubs, Logan, desires to Danish a de-
cent man from Michigan that his
lplace may be filed by one whose name
is synonym for corruption, whose
life is so redolent Of all that is vile in
American politics.
But that element in the party
seems to have got on top again all
round. The Senatorial elections that
have so recently occurred, put some
we'll known stock in that body after
March 4th, but with single, excep~
tion, they do not add an ounce of
brains or reflect any credit. The ex>
ceptlon is in favor of Wisconsin, where
the exchange of Carpenter for Howe
is certainly an improvement. The lat.
ter has been in the Senate eighteen
years and leaves it on the 18th of March
63 years Of age without a dollar in the
world. His defeat is claimed as an
administration triumph, his severe
speech of last winter having arrayed
him on the side Of the stalwarts. Car
penter is good deal of favorite in
Washington. He has no superior in
either House as a lawyer and an ora.
tor, is witty, logical aud brilliant. Yet
with all that he is indolent and man
of too many personal indulgeuces. -
AZ The election of Logan over Oglesby
in Illinois is not such great change
though it is for the worse. They are
much the same in type and in Jung
power, which in both cases is bette,
/ fitted for frightening Buffaloes on the