Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-17
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Special Correspondence of the LsDeER.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., January H.
There is no little speculation here
about the election Of a United States
senator from Tennessee. There are
many rumors afloat as to bribery by
the republicans, the suspicious being
confirmed in the minds of some by
the strange vote Of democrats for a
negro republican saloon keeper for al
Office in the house of representatives.
l do not think there is any doubt but
what the republicans have tried to use
money in the Tennessee legislature.
1t remains to be seen what effect this
will have. The bribe-taker would
have little joy hereafter, for it matters
not how wide the difference between
high and low-democrats, there Is at
least mutual respect and integrity &C
tuating each in the discharge Of a
public trust. l say this because there
is, among democrats here, a feeling Of
alarm because Of the many ru-
mors of attempted bribery by republi-
cans. The Nashville special to the
republican paper at Knoxville about
Mr.. Buchanan and his vote for the
republican officer, are regarded as
very unfavorable by the democrats.
Mr.. Buchanan, who is, in my opinion,
an honest man, and fully entitled to
exercise his own views, should vindi-
cate himself from the false position in
which the republicans seek to place
him.
Ieannot believe that he will go over
to the republicans until l lave the
evidence in his own vote and overt
doings. The telegram which excited
such comment was published in the
Knoxville Chronicle as follows:
1T is not altogether certain that
Mr. Buchanan viii 90 TO the repubii |
cans. The democrats claim him as
still in their party, while the republi-
cans explain his vote for Hadley in
the statement that he had an under
standing that if they would assist him
ia the election of Sims, his bosom
friend, he would return the favor,
which they consider he did in his
vote for Hadley."
REPUBLICAN TEsTIMoNY.
Mr.. GOlen 4. Green, formerly a
merchant of Memphis and since then
postmaster at Jackson, Tenn, came
from Nashville a few days ago. He
states that Mr.. Horace Maynard would
be elected to the United States SEN
ate, and hat there was 500, 900 in
Nashville. Mr.. Green is in the con
fdence of the republican party, and
what he says may be correct. The
fact that republicans openly proclaim
the belief that Maynard will be
elected to the senate, when to do so
requires democratic votes, and the
statement that there is 100000 in
Nashville, is not a little significant oil
the method upon which the admins
t%ration officials rely for success in the
great struggle now about to open in
Tennessee.
THE TEXAS SENATOR.
General Maxey, present senator
from Texas, leaves tomorrow for Aus
tin, where he goes to look after his re-
election next Tue day. His re-elec-
ton is earnestly desired by his col
leagues and all others who have wit
messed the patient industry and use
full services Of this able gentleman in
the United States senate. This I say
sincerely, because this era is essen
TALLY materislistic, the spirit Of prac.
ticability pervades throughout, aud in
nothing is this more apparent than in
the legislation Of the day, and among
the ablest opponents Of the new sys-
TEN are many OF the men who now up
hold the interests of the southern
states at the federal capital. Ofthese
Mr.. Maxey, Of Texas, is not least. and
the soubriquet of ''The Beaver of the
Senate, given him by the Louisville
, Courier-Journal epitomizes the man.
! With an intense devotion to his state.
there is nothing in him Of sectional
ism, having a keen and eager care for
/ all that is to her benefit, he is yet
broad and catholic in his aid to her
4 sisters, knowing that in many ways the
= development and progress Of
Texas lean receive timely aid
z from the federal government