Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-02-28
POLITICAL NOTES.

their own mouths and that the country
has escaped a great danger when such
a gang of corruptionists missed, as by
the skin of their teeth, the capture of
the Government of the United States
Buffalo Cypress.
bay" declare, before God and my
Country, that it is my entire belief that
the votes and certificates of Florida,
South Carolina and Louisiana were
bought" Certainly they were, Gov
ernorl We have found out all the de-
tails,-price, purchasers, and even
"The Interceder." But your people
didn't live up to their bargain; and
the goods were not delivered.
Bas- The ciphers should not be per-
mitted to obscure the fact that the Dem
ocrats of the United States Senate have
declared unanimously that the Thir-
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendment to the Constitution are in
valid. The only excuse offered for their
action is the ridiculous one that the Re-
publicans fooled them into voting for q
question whose full meaning they did
not comprehend. Why did they try for
eleven consecutive hours to avoid vote
on it, thenp
Day~ AS for Tilden, though we accept
his denial of any part in the dirty busi-
ness of Pelton, Weed, Marble and the
rest, we have a feeling that he has lost
prestige, and can never again figure as
reformer He has been caught in
mighty mean company, to say the least,
and has not been above suspicion. In
regard to various charges and accusa-
tions, which are vague, and may have
been malicious, he has not shown that
frankness which inspires confidence and
respect. Boston Herald Ind. Dem.
Ba- A gentleman approaching the
railroad station in one of our country
towns, not one hundred miles from here,
was accosted by stranger to him, who
had Just got off the train, with cordial
salutation and this remark: "My name
is -; am a candidate for -; | was
Lieutenant in Morgan's command"
There was aDemocratic County Conven-
ton in town that day, and the stranger
was candidate for State office. Down
on the rural districts, where things
don't 90 on in such blaze of publicity,
the amount of service rendered the Con-
federacy is an important element of
Democratic candidates strength
Louisville Commercial
Bas~ The South voted solidly for MIR.
Tilden because he was the Democratic
candidate. He lost the Presidency not
by lack of votes, but by lack of courage.
The Southern Democracy, as Mr.. Til
den knows, have no interest whatever
in the so-called war claims, and are op-
posed to the payment of any of the
little bills of the so-called loyalists. To
say that the South is in the market,
selling itself to the highest bidder-the
plain meaning of Mr.. rilden' words
! is a wanton insult. The offense of the
South, if it be an offense, is that it will
not consent to be sold out again by so
tricky and weak a politician as eX-Gov-
ernor Tilden. Charleston rs. C, Ne1Os
(Dem.
BasH The examination has not cleared
up the cipher dispatches, and has not
explained how mass of correspond
ence touching bribery in one shape or
another could be conducted under the
nose of Mr.. Tilden without his knowl-
edge, and conducted by his confidential
friends, admirers and agents. Mr.
Tilden deposes that he did not know
these things, except in a special in
stance, when he rebuked his nephew.
Mr.. Pelton; but why he did not know
it, and how it could go on for months
without his knowledge, remains disa-
greeable mystery. That there was
much of corrupt practice in the three
or four States concerned Cncluding
Oregon) on the part of the Republicans
may be and probably is true. But the
tu qv0gue argument amounts to little
when based on proved fact, and TO
nothing at all when rested on assertion.
Richmond (Va.) State Dem.
B6s- The Southern Democrats are still
smarting under General Bragg's attack,
and are using him as an excuse for lec-
turing the whole Northern Democracy
for its unmistakable tendency to follow
his leading. The old threat of break
ing off the alliance with the Northern
brethren, and seeking a new union
where better terms can be secured, is
repeated. This is not likely to alarm
anybody, for no other alliance is possi-
BILE. The Republicans will have moth
| ing to do with claims or subsidies for
building up the waste places of the
South, and they certainly will not favor
the payment of $34, 100000 from the
Treasury in return for property seized
and destroyed during the war. These are
the grievances of the Southern brother,
and he is at present roundly abusing
Bragg, Bayard, Thurman and others
for being so cowardlY as to decline TO
grant his requests. Y Tribune.
Ba~ If Pelton was a fool as well as
rascal-and that is the theory of the
defense-why did Mr.. Tilden trust him
so implicitly If Marble was so Non
est friend of Tilden's, why did he not
inform the old man of Pelton's dis
graceful actionsP If Tilden himself
was too pure TO be party to the crime,
if, as he asserts, no lisp of these doings
ever reached him, or he "would have
crushed them out at once" how can
we explain his recalling Pelton from
BaltimoreP He knew then precisely
what he has since denied, with every
legal avoidance of directness, that he
never knew at all. His present de-
fense that he rebuked Pelton for the
South Carolina negotiation which ended
Nov. 21, 1876, is contradicted by his
published letter, disavowing any, even
the most remote, knowledge of any
thing of the kind. .-Nei0ark advertiser.
BN~ Those dreadful cases of North
ern bulldozing, what has become of
themP The Davenport investigation in
this city hasn't discovered one case of
terrorizing yet, or some of the party
organs would have emitted a howl about
it. There hasn't been sufficient evil
dence elected to furnish foundation
for speech by Fernando Wood, and
Fernandy can found tirst-class speech
on a good healthy shadow of II fact.
Nothing whatever has come from
Massachusetts,, where General Butler
was expected to show up a system of
Outrages which would eclipse tissue
ballots and red shirts in South Caro-
lima. An awful state of affairs was to
be revealed in Philadelphia also, but