The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1879-02-08
Political Notes.

PorfgR ASD THE TELEGRANs.-The Potter
Committee had scarcely entered upon the in.
vestigation of the telegram larceny which af.
forded the New York Tribune such an excel.
lent opportunity to air its columns on the eve
Of the election, last fall ere it struck lead
that promises anything but pleasant reading
to the administration and its supporters. Tbs
manner Of stealing the kilograms, and Their
manipulation and publication, falls back upon
the Republican managers with crushing force.
1t is fully established by the testimony thai
the Morrison committee Of the House com
mitted no theft and violated no confidence.
There was a much larger batch Of kilograms
some thirty thousand in number, which was
delivered to the Senate Committee on cleo.
tons in obedience to subpoena, and a de,
ceitful pretence was made of returning them.
They were sent to Washington in a trunk and
placed in the hands Of General Brady, second
assistant postmaster general, who testifes that
he suspected the contents Of the package,
opened it, and had copies made of them, and
perhaps false ones. He then gave portion
Of the originals to William L. Chandler, and
sent another portion anonymously TO White
Law Reid. of the New York Tribune The
balance were given to Chandler and Hiscock.
The same trunk, after being thus rihed, was
sent back, with an attempt TO convey the i'm
preston that il was returned with all its orr
ginal contents. The ialsehood of that pre-.
tence was then covered by bonfire Aside
from the partisan uses made of that theft the
transaction was misunderstanding the same
scorn as tampering with letters in the post
Office. Il is now clearly in evidence that the
theft by which certain kilograms were selected
and retained and the others restored to the
trunk was perpetrated by republicans The
motive of the theft was TO make party capital,
and that motive explains the nature OF the
proceeding. The democratic dispatches were
kept for publication, and such republican de-
spatches as might offset them we're culled out
and destroyed. There is proof that some of
the republican dispatches were coyertly taken
out OF the telegraph office and given up pre-
vious TO the issue Of any subp9nas. The
President of the company was so ashamed of
his order to that effect that he directed il to
be burnt. The people who examined and
sorted the contents OF the trunk had shame
but no scrnples. They hshed out damaging
republican dispatches to destroy or hide them
and damaging democratic dispatches to con
vey them elandestinely to a newspaper for
publication. When this use had been made
Of the preserved dispatches they were con.
veyed, BY William 4. Chandler. by stealth,
into the private office of General Butler in
his absence and left there. That these facts
were known and approved of by Mr.. Hayes
is shown by his appointing nearly all concern.
ed to office and preierment. Whatever may
have been the purport and intent of the de.
spatches originally, this act Of theft and du.
picity is the most damaging Of all, to the
party i. involves. -Je6ersohidH.
General Grnut may be the next President
and then the good old days will come again
the good old days Of Credit Mobilier, Pome
roy, Patterson, Coliax and Cakes Ames; the
fine fine old days Of Belknap, 0ryil Grant and
Indian posts bough and sold; of whiskey rings
and Joyce, Avery, Mckee and Babcoek; Of
Seneca sandstone quarries and St. Domingo
Commissions; Of disinterested presents, bull
pups, fast horses, Long Branch leyees and
day and Brotherin law Corbin; Of Custom
house enterprises and Jayne, Leet and Stock.
ing; Of Chandler, Butler, 0rth and Logan: of
Reconstruction, Kukluxism and an army EN-.
ployed as special policemen; of Kellogg,
Wells, Yarmouth, Packard and Brother.in law
Casey; Of Stearns, Reed, Littlefeld and Simp.
son; of Moses, Patterson, Kimpton, Parker,
Scott and Chamberlain; Of Dick Busted and
Durell; of Siekes, Steinberger, George But.
Ter, Emma Mine Schenck and Parson New.
man; Of Taft, Alderman, Robson and Ban
ditti Sheridan; Of the Freedman's Savings
Bank and its honest Trustees and active Com.
missiOners; of 0. o. Howard, Boss Shepherd,
Harrington, Fisher and District rings; of
Christian statesmen and golden opportunities.
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