The daily gazette., 1882-10-05
.Iax HubbeIl.s Impuaence.

BELLS Congressional committee is pushing
its demand for voluntary contribution"
of two per cent of the salaries of Govern
ment officials Not eoatent with forcing q
part Of their earning from those who now
hold positions. under the Government. the
committee is seeking 10 levy a tax upon those
who at some past time held Office but who
are now engaged In private business.
gentleman now residing in this city but who
up to the first of January last held position
In the New York post office, which he then
resigned to engage in business here, has re-
ceived the following circular
HEADQUARTERS OF THE REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, (lSS2)
TnIRTEENTH STREET, NoRTHwEsT.
JAY A. HuBBELL, Chairman.
d. B. HENDERSON, Secretary.
| EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Hon. W. B.
| Allieon, Hon, Eugene Hale, Hon. Nelson
W, Aldrich, Hon. Frank Htscock, Hon.
| George NJ. Robeson, Hon. William McKin-
| lev, Jr., Hon. George r. Davis, Hon. Horatio
G. Fisher, Hon. Horace F. Page, Hon.
| w. II. Calkins, Hon, Thomas Ryan, Hon.
William d. Washburn, Hon. L, G. Houk,
Hon. r. I. Van Horn, Hon. Orlando Hubbs.
| WASHINGTON, ID. c., Aug. Is, 1SS2.-
Sir: Your failure to respond to the cireu-
lar Of May 18th, 1882, sent TO you by this
| Committee, is noted with surprise. 1t
| Is hoped that the only reason for such
failure is that the matter escaped your at
tention owing to press of other cares.
Great political battles can not be won in
this way This committee can not hope to
succeed iu the pending struggle If those
most directly benefited by success are un-
| To af1 in nheta nj ial
manner.
We are on the skrmsh line of 1884, with
conflict before us, this fall, of great
moment to the Republic, and you must
know that repulse now is full of danger to
the next Presidential campaign.
Unless you think that our grand old party
ought not to succeed, help it now in its
struggle to build up a new South, in which
there shall be, as in the North, free ballot
and fair count, ana to maintain such hold
in the North as shall insure good govern
ment to the country.
1t is hoped that by return mail you will
send voluntary contribution equal to two
per cent. OF your annual compensation, as a
substantial proof of your earnest desire for
the success of the Republican party this fall,
transmitting by draft or postal money order,
payable to the order OF Jay A. Hubbell
Acting Treasurer, p o. Lock Box $50,
Washington, d. c. BY order of the com
mittee, ID. b. HENDERSON,
Secretary.
This is one of the checklist performances
we have seen yet. 1t is bad enough, viewed
from the most favorable partisan standpoint
to send such circular to a government EN-
ploye, but to follow up a gentleman into
private life with demands of this sort reveals
an impudence of even more colossal nature
than that with which we have heretofore
ceedited Jay Hubbell. ~ am a Republi
''can," said the gentleman TO whom the cir
cular was sent, land have always beer
Zone, but ! am utterly opposed
"to the methods adopted by Hubbel and
"his crowd and it was chiefly because of my
disapproval of a system that is nothing
"elsc than organized robbery that | re-
"signed my position in New York. OF
"course," he added, 81 shall pay no at
"tention to it," Another prominent Re
publican who happened to see the circular
declared that although he was as staunch a
Republican as he ever was, in his opinion
no honest man could support such pcrnic-
ious practices.
, Of course, as Democrats, we are glad tC
see these congressional robbers carrying
their plundering schemes to such excess, fol
. they are bound in the end to bring disaster
TO the party that couutenanccs them
''Whom the Gods would destroy they frs
"make mad" has an apt illustration of it
T. truth in the campaign methods of the Re
5 publican party. Those methods, as exem
/ plhed by JAY Hmbbel, and his ac
d complies are not only contrary to tn
J, fundamental features Of Republican gov
X crnment but are also subversive of til
v rights of individuals, for the most unso
le phisticatcd observer of political practices car
n not fail TO comprehend the fact that III
a voluntary" CLAUSE in this plundering eli
x. cular is only a very faint concession t
ic decent public sentiment, and does not in tn
le least modify the peremptory features Of Il
ye demand revealed in the tone OF It's even
sentence. But let the good work go on. NJ
re IIubbell is making Democratic votes eve
o. day and for our part we would not stop hi
C. If we could. The final result of lis work
of indicated by remark of the Republics
v. above quoted "fhe Republican party mu
ey " cease to permit such pcriidy to It's pri
ne ciples or the people will oycrwhclm it vii
e " defeat and Pm afraid, - he added, :. tn
he cit will not cease to permit it, but will
a straight on to destructon."
'i' The ELECTION Of Democratic Board
zee Canvass in New Castle county is fair noli
to the police buldazers who figured so co
his spicuously at the different polling places
no Tuesday that repetition of these tactics
Novembpr will not avail 4 D.ru,rrai