The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-12-04
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The following is from the Wash
ington correspondence in Sundays
Baltimore american:
Jon 1. DAVENPORT STILL AT WORK.
John | Davenport is here looking
after further links in the Mercy letter
testimony, to connect certain facts
contained in the report of the opera
lions in this city by Gel. johnson, of
Cumberland. Mr.. Davenport's move.
ments are surrounded by mystery.
He is stopping at private house,
preferring such seclusion to locating
at hotel. He declined to state the
object of his visit, but said he expec-
ted to call on the attorney general
tomorrow. TIe called at the attorney
generals Office to-day, but was there
only a very short time. There is a
rumor out to night that Col. john
sons report contains some very dam
aging facts connecting leading Dem>
ocrats here With the movements of
O'Bren, and it is said that it is con-
corning these parties Mr.. Davenport
is here.
The following is from the Wash
ington correspondence of the Balti-
more Herald:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.-John L.
Davenport and force have been at
work yesterday and to-day here in
the Chinese Mercy letter forgery. In
an interview with the Herdldcorres-
pendent to-day Mr.. Davenport said
that this week would determine the
final course to be taken by him and
the National Republican committee
in the matter. Marshall Jewell,
chairman of the Republican national
committee, is here, but denies being
here on the letter business. Mr..
Davenport and agents, who were
stopping at Wizards Hotel withcut
registering, left here to- day for New
York.
The affair is considerably talked
about to-day in the Hobbies of the
hotels among the newly-arrived
members and Senators.
The grand jury in New York on
Tuesday will doubtless make start
ling DEVELOPMENTS in the letter affair.
From what could be learned from
Mr.. Davenport, Mr.. Price of Cum
berland, will not be mixed up in the
affair at all.
A Democrats Disgust for his Party.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-In the
KporUille Chronicle of last Wednes
day is published letter to the Edi-
ter from Captain George Washing.
ton, who was chairman of the last
Democratic State Convention of Ten
nessee. During the recent campaign,
Captain Washington made number
of speeches in support of the Demo-
cratic ticket, but he now arraigns the
Democratic party in severe terms.
Some passages from his letter may be
of interest as an evidence that many
intelligent thinking men in Tonnes
see, who have hitherto followed
wherever Bourbon leaders pointed
the way, are determined to do so no
longer. Captain Washington writes
in part as follows:
Ons thing, however, is certain. If
Democracy is DESTROYS of future, it
must turn oyer new leaf. 1t must
unload the dreary and Improbable
traditions of dead eras, and take
aboard a few ideas. There are
thirty-eight States in the Union, and
there will be fifty, perhaps. For all
National purposes, under the COnsti-
tuition, this is Nation, and big N.
x We Eavs just witnessed cam
paign in which no Democratic orator
assigned solitary substantial reason
why there should be change just at
this iuncture. But, instead, we be-
hold once great party crawling over
the Continent on its belly, disfiguring
private property with a 1923 brand,
and only stopping long enough, in a
senioccasi0nal way, to catch its
breath and howl GENERALIZATION"
4 Heretofore, Democracy has
been the very paragon of incOnsis-
tency. Its platforms constitute the
most variegated piece of mosaic in
the history Of politics. It has achiev-
ed its own defeat. Let it Danish ex-
pedients and plant itself upon the
ramparts of principle. Then, if it do
60 down it Will not be in ighominy.
Until it does this, it is effrontery for
it to ask the American people to re-
store it to power.
AND WHAT HE DID NOT FIND OUT.
WASHINGTON, November 29.-It
is evident that quite a number Of
people, as we'll as Deacon Smith, OIL
the Cincinnati Gazette. found it some.
thing Of difficult task to gain any
information as to the composition oil
the next Cabinet from the recent visit
of General Garfield to this city. A
prominent politician from "Down
East" who has been here to watch
for any complication that might grow
out Of the presence of the President.
elect in this city, said tonight that