The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-02-06
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, DC, Feb. 1, 1e

Washington Letter.
- WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 1, 1879.
Considerable flutter is occasioned by
the direction the cipher dispatch in
vestigatiOh 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 INSCRIPTIONS manip-
ulators were certainly lucky in having
for President of telegraph company a
man who sympathized with them po-
litically, and who was not too good to
assist them in destroying the evidence
of what they had done. And so, as it
is, we have only the proof that the
Republican ciphers were more numer-
GUS than those charged to the Domo-
Gratis /; that they were SO bad as to justi-
fy theft, which was committed by
one Bullock, then in MortOn's employ,
and third assistant Postmaster General
Brady, also a protege of theIndianaSen-
ator. The doors of the committee room
overlooked, and only such choice spirits
as VIM. E. Chandler and ex-Congress-
man Evans admitted. There the dis
patches were assorted, and all that
could damage the Republicans burned,
and certain Democratic messages were
secretly kept by Brady, and finally
sent anonymously to the New York
Tribune. 1t is asserted that the burned
correspondence would have shown that
five hundred thousand dollars were
raised in New York and sent to Flori
da and Louisiana to keep the courage
of the returning boards up to their
villainous work. But the most dam
aging thing the investigation has
brought out is the telegraphic cores
pondence between Zack Chandler,
Secretary of the Interior, and ]. n.
Tyner then Postmaster General, rela-
tive to the sale of two offices under
Chandler for So 900. It is proved by
these witnesses that the kilograms per-
fecting such transaction were passed,
and that the dispatches were returned
to Mr.. Tyner at his urgent solicitation
when the talk of Investigation first be-
gan. This brings down two cabinet
officers badly wounded. And yet
Senator Christiancy has resigned his
Senatorship to take an Insignificant
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 q decent man from
Michigan that his place may be filled
by one whose name is a synonym for
corruption, whose life is redolont 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
occurred, put some well known
stock in that body after March 4th, but
with q single exception, they do not
add an ounce of brains or reflect any
credit. The exception is in favor of
where the exchange of
for Howe is certainly an inn
provement. The latter has been in |
the Senate eighteen years and leaves
it on the 4th of March 63 years of age,
without a dollar in the world. His
iefeat is claimed as an administration |
triumph, his severe speech of last win
er having arrayed him with the stall
warts. Carpenter is good deal of a
iavorite in Washington. He has no
superior in either House as lawyer
ind an orator, is witty, logical and
brilliant. Yet with all that he is in
lolent and man of too many personal |
The election of Logan over Oglesby |
n Illinois is not such great change.
,hough it is for the worse. They are |
much the same type, and much the
same in lung power, which in both
Eases Is better fitted for frightening
ouffaIoes on the prairies than for dis
passionate arguments on the floor of
The Senate. The greatest difference
between them is that one is believed to
De honest, while the other represents
coarse ignorance, cupldity, and the
whisky ring element. One man in the
Senate will sadly regret the. change
md that is Senator Booth, of Califor-
lia, who is the running mate of Ogles-
~. They drink their whisky straight
ogether, walk together, attend theatre
ogether, and for all know, sleep to-
sether. Strange fancies and friend
hips spring up among Senators as in
,ther walks of life. Careless lockers
m, or readers of the records of Con-
,ress, generally suppose from the de-
,ates that a deadly animosity exists
between the Senators of different par
les. But this is a mistake. The Sen
tie is happy family. There are but
wo in the body who are at Outs-Conk-
ing and Blaine. All the other old
Gentlemen are as friendly and familiar
8 men can be anywhere. Thurman
nd Edmunds, for instance, are the
,est of friends. When the proceed
ngs get rather tedious, Senator Thur
nan will take out his huge red BAN
lana, open it wide, then seizing it in
he center, with his right hand he ap-
lies it to his Senatorial nose, and
ives trumpet blast that resounds to
he utmost corners of the chamber.
,hen he walks slowly out at the door
Ii his left. At this Senator Edmupds ,
and slowly saunters out at
be door on his right. The two meet ,
n the committee room, lock the door,
etch out an old jug and wink solemn ,
y at each other as they refresh. They
eturn to their seats by different doors,
nd in a few minutes may be hammer
ng at each other with great vehemence !.
f Edmunds gets to his seat before
thurman arrives. and any vote is he