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FROM WASHINGTON.
Regular correspondence Of The Pass Psxn.l


FROM WARRINGTON.
Regular correspondence Of the Pass PH1ssl
WASHINGTON d. q. Sept. 20, lssO.
There has never been more activi-
ty-or anxiety, for that matter
among the Federal officials in this
city than during the past week. Bad
news came to Sherman, and to all
other Radical Ohioans, and is still
coming. The leaders were demand
ed for that state, and all who were
worth anything as political workers,
it was said, must be taken from their
desks and sent there. The opera
ton commenced at once, and still
continues. Usually no Washington
officeholders, except speakers are
sent into States where they are not
voters. This time no distinction is
made. Every one goes who can by
any possibility do any good. AT
Democratic headquarters here there
seems to be a full appreciation of the
desperate work the Radicals intend
to do in Ohio and Indiana before
October 18th, and Chairman Barnum
who was here on Monday, is entirely
confident of Indiana, and hopeful
that Ohio will show o Democratic
gain. He holds that with either of
these States Democratic in October,
the real contest is over, and says the
most intelligent Republicans SO
think.
The extraordinary way in which
Grants supporters have lately pushed
themselves forward and have been
allowed to take the lead Of the Radi-
cal forces, is not agreeable, it is said,
to the Hon. Edward Mcpherson,
Chairman of the Republican Con-
gressional Committee. The two
Committees-the National and Con-
gressional-were organized in bitter
opposition to Grant. It was deter
mined that Grant should not be
nominated, and that, as far as posi-
bic, he and his supporters should be
squeezed out the campaign. Hardly
were Hancock and Garfield nominated
however, before it was seen that in
order to keep the Radical party even
in good condition for 1884, it was
absolutely necessary to change that
part of the programme. Hence Cur
fields declaration in his letter of &C
ceptance, that the old spoils doctrine
should be revived if he became pres
ident, and that all there, was Of civil
service reform in the party should be
thrown over. Hence, too, the prac tt
ca retirement of Jewell, and the i'm,
ploring appeals to Conkling, Grant
Cameron and the rest to enter the
campaign. Hence, also, the fact
that Grant is to day the unquestion
ed leader of the party. If conven.
ton were to be held tomorrow the
General would receive four fifths Of
the votes on the first ballot, even
though the delegates knew all the
iniquities from 1858 to 1876 were to
be respected There has been like
revolution in party in all the histo-
ny Of parties.
1t was not very strange thing
that Republicans should rob soldiers
and soldiers widows and orphans, as
they have done in the second audi
tors Office in this city, by stealing the
money found on the bodies of dead
and wounded soldiers at Gettysburg
and other battlefelds. 1t was not
strange, for at points in all the
Northern States where regiments
were organized there were rings and
combinations who got rich out of the
volunteers who entered the army. But
it is significant that the robbery was
kept from the people, who had a
right to know all about it, for nearly
a year, and was then revealed only
because of an accident. This seems
to indicate that, whatever frauds or
thefts may have been committed
during fifteen or more years of Rad
ical rule, we shall never know of
them till accident or a change of adj
ministration makes discovery inevita-
bic. DEN.
Highly Recorunc uded