Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1879-03-29
DE Ia MaTXR, THE TNDEPEND-
EMF LEADER IN CONGRESS.


Our leading article of this week
had just been put in print when we
received in the columns of our con-
temporary, the Louisville Courier
Journal, the following confirmation
of the perfidy we attributed to the
Independent organization. De La
Matyr 1--WE refuse to prefix the
"Rev. ;" to his name)isan eX-preacher
of Indiana and leader of the indie
pendent organization in Congress.
Hear what the Courier-Journal cor
respondent tells us of him from
indianapolis
INpTA,yAPoLIs, March 25.-The course OF
| the member of Congress from this district
| Dr. De La Matyr, in voting against the seat
ing of Mr.. Hull QDemocratl, OF Florida, is
I severely criticised by the Democrats here
| They positively assert that DIR. De La Matyl
made unqualified pledges to the Democrats
| that he would vote with them II elected, on
! an party questions. 1t has been rumOred
for a week that there was letter OF De La
/ MatyrS in existence, and upon the contents
of the same he was enabled 70 secure the
7 through the influence of Mr.. Hendricks and
I Senators Mcdonald and Voorhees,. 1 oh.
I tanned possession OF TINS letter to-hlght. II
! was written by De La Matyr in answer to q
| letter written him by Mr.. VIM. Henderson
| an influential and prominent Democrat OF
/ this CITY. The following are true copies Of
/ tine letters, the letter OF DR.. De La Matyl
/ places him in an exceedingly ugly position
| INDIANAPOLIS, August q, lS1o.-Ihe ReU
Gdbert De La hatgT G5ty you are nov 6St De
4 for a seat in the next House OF Representa-
/ tives in the United states Congress; and, in
my opinion, your eieeI non, t uei'eildS upon
district. The Democratic congressional
| Convention is to meet next Friday al
/ MartinSville, TO see who the Democracy Of
! fkfs district will support for that dis
| tinguishad position. l am delegate to that
/ convention from the Third ward in this
! citv and my action In the convention will
/ mainly depend on your answer to this let
/ ter Therefore wish to ask you, II elected
/ to the Congress, if You will vote at the organ
! iZation of the House OF Representatives FOL
I the Oemocrstfc caucus nominees for Speak
! er and other officers of the House. do not
/ ask your answer to this for publication
! but for the guidance of myself and possibly
| o. other friends at the convention, Very
\ truly, NJ; HEN DEhSOS'
| TO WIN. HENDERSON, ESQ, CITY-Dedl
| Sir. / have no hesitancy in answering YOU
questions. shall not vote for the candidate
/ of the party whose financial policy hR'
| ruined the country. j shall not throw my
! vote away on any man and thereby SufIel
/ that man to get control of the House. / dc
! not write thus frankly TO influence YOU
vote but you have Alright toknoW so much
/ Even this, il it should go out, would be-
branded as a bargain, and / write in perfeC
confidence yours ieS t 6. DE IA MATYR.
/ Home, Saturday, Aug. p, 1873.
The Reverend Doctor is not long for sue
cessful political life; his little two years II
/ Congress will let him out. .. o.. ;.
I And, after these protestations
| this reverend liar went to Congress
and in the face of his promises tC
/ Mr.. Henderson, did precisely al
the things he had promised not tC
do in order to get that gentleman
vote and influence. He did throw
his vote away on n man named
Wright whom he had himself nom.
mated for Speaker, and nothing
prevented that party (the Radical
party from thereby getting control
of the organization of the House
I except the fact that this Reverend
! trickster, with all his intrigues
could not draw off enough votes
from the support of Randall to cause
the election of Garfield. He! the
Greenbaeker for whom the Demo
cratic party was not soft enough
did his best to throw the orgaTiza.
ton of the House into the hands Of
Garfield, the hardest of all the hard
money Radicals.
SO much for parsons in politics,