The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-07-04
THE GREENBACK CONSPIRACY.
Mobile Register.1

Mobile Register.]
The Greenback party is simply a
to draw men away from
the Democratic party for the benefit of
the Radicals. If there has been any
doubt heretofore as to the truth of this
that doubt is now set to rest
by the recent amusing and very impor-
tant mistake made at Washington the
other day by Congressman Hubbell,
Chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. He lnistook Con-
gresham Turner, a stalwart Democrat,
for Congressman Robinson, Chairman
of the Ohio Republican Executive
State Committee. It seems that Mr..
Turner looks very much like Mr.. Rob-
inson. Mr.. Hubbell told him what
good service was being done the Re-
publican party Of Ohio by the Green
back party, and commended the work
of the Greenback organ at Washington,
of which Mr.. Lee Crandall, once pretty
well known in New Orleans and in
Alabama, is manager. The organ in
question Is supposed to be inspired by
COL Lowe, as he and Crandall are from
the same section OF Alabama. The
affair has grown SO interesting that not
only is Mr.. Turner out in card recit-
ing the PARTICULARS of his interview
with Mr.. Hubbell, but Messrs. Clymer
and Kenna have also published state
1nents necessary to a full explanation
of it. Mr.. Turner says as he was pass
ing along the Republican side of the
House on his way to his seat gentle
man whom the Assistant Doorkeeper,
Captain knight, subsequently informed
him was Mr.. Hubbell, of Michigan,
stopped him and said he wanted to have
a word with him. Then Mr.. Hubbell
asked if he knew the editor Of the
Greenback paper published on Penn
sylvania avenue. Mr.. Turner says, 81
told him I did not remember him."
He remarked: He is doing us great
lucky; that he had attended the con-
vention in Ohio aud prevented fusion
of the Democrats and Republicans;
that he was sending thousands of his
papers into kentucky and Ohio, MAX
ing inroads into the Democratic party
and doing us much good. Mr.. Hubbell
then said: awe are aiding him and it
requires great deal of money, and
would like that you would aid him."
I asked him the EDITORS name, and
pulling card from his pocket he re-
piled, Lee Crandall. looked at him
with surprise, and made no reply. He
tnen asked me 10 CaAC Cn0 1udIlcI uH-
der consideration and aid him if I
could, and turned around and walked
off. I could not account for his accost-
ing me as he did until I learned that
he is the chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee, and took me
for Mr.. Robinson, chairman of the
Ohio Republican Executive State Com
mittee. Messrs. Clymer and Kenna,
in their cards, state that Mr.. Hubbell
remarked to them that he had mis-
taken Mr.. Turner for MIR. Robinson.
The Republican Greenbackers profess
to see nothing strange in the conduct
and declarations of Mr.. Hubbell.
Thus it was that Mr.. Hubbell gave
himself away to Mr.. Turner, and thus
it was that he at the same time gave
away Mr.. Lee Crandall, Col. VIM.
Lowe, Mr.. De La Matyr and all the
little Greenback crowd.
Mr.. Lee Crandall, we would observe,
is thrusting up his head into very I'M
enviable notoriety. AS he is conspir-
ing against the Democratic party, and
therefore against the South, while pro-
Tossing to be friendly to us, l. may be
just as welt to begin vcntilating him
that is if he is worth ventilation.