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THE ADVERTISER
THURSDAY, MARCH 16. 1876.
CALIi FOR A REPUBMCAHf
CONVESTIOJf.
STATE
TO ELSC7
DELTXJKTXX TO THK RErCLICAN" 'A.-
rtosxi, COXVESTIOK.
The Hepublicans of the State ot Nebraska arc
hereby called to send delegates from the several
conntie to meet In State Convention at Fremont on
Tuesday, the 23d day of Hay. 1S7G, at 3 o'clock v. M.
for the purpose of electing six delegate! to the Na
tional Convention, to be held at Cincinnati on the
Hth day of June next, to nominates candidates for
President and Vice President of the United States,
nnd to transact such other boslnes ni maproper
ly cotnebefore It.
The several counties ore entitled to representa
tion In the StateConventlon as follows:
xcituKit or iEi.naAT.iw.
Adam,
Knox
Antelope .
Bonne-
Burt
Buffalo
But!er
Lancaster
L.incoIn Madfcon
Merrick
Nemaha
Nuckolls
"ass..
Clay.
Otoe-
Cednr
olfa
Pawnee,
Plalie
Cheyenne.-
1 1 Polk
turning..
i Richardson
UAKOl
, I Saline
. lHaroy
Dawson..
Dixon.
, 1 .Saunders.
Dodjre..
.. .VKeward.
in Kfjinlnn
Joncla
Fillmore
, c Sherman .
, Z Thayer
1 washlngtou.
5, Webster-
Hamilton.
age
: Yorlc
4 Greeley and Valley.
I Phelm and Gosper
Hall
Marian.
Howard
Jefferson.
Johnon
Kearney
Keith
. 2 Dundy i:iiase. Jiitcn
. 4 cock. Frontier and
3 Ked Willow 1
, ljWavneand Pierce 1
A
By Orderor State Central Commltte.
C. E. Yost. Sec. C. H. Qerk, Ch'n.
Lincoln, March 8, 1B78.
TO XOMIKATE CANDIDATES KOB STATE OrFICKS.
aie Republican electors of the State of Nebraska
arehereby called to send delegates from the several
counties to meet In State Con ventlon at Lincoln, on
tu day ol September. 1S78, for the purpose of plac
ing In nomination a candidate for Member of Con
gress, and candidates for Governor, Lieutenant
Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer,
Superintendent or Public Instruction, Attorney
General nnd Land Commissioner, and to transact
Kucn other busslness as may properly come before
It.
The several counties are entitled to th e same rep
resentation as In the State Convention called this
day to meet at Fremont on the 23d day of May, 1876.
. By order of the State Central Committee.
C. E. Yost. Sec. a II. Gebe, Ch'n.
Lincoln, JfarcA 8, 1S"C
A $30,000 brewery was burned
Rochester N. Y. on the 11th.
in
A bill has been introduced in Con
gress to equalize the bounties of sol
diers of the rebellion.
Pendleton is in Washington and
wants to be investigated. But then
Mrs. Marsh Is not there.
At a late caucus of Democrat Sena
tors, they all advocated speedy re
sumption and bard money.
The colored people of Washington
complimented Mr. Pinchback, of
Louisiana by a serenade on Monday
last, as a token of their respect.
Judge Taft, the new Secretary of
War, took the oath of office, admin
istered by Chief Justice Waite, on
tho 11th inst., and entered upon the
duties of the war ofilce.
Senator Morton has presented In
the House a petition from 15,000 wo
men and 9,000 men of Indiana pray
ing that Congress pass a law making
total abstinence a requsite for the ap
pointment of all officers of the gov
ernment, civil, military, and naval.
- Blaine in the House keepa the De
mocracy on hot coals and Morton in
the Senate keeps them on nettles, so
that upon the whole they have a
warm and ticklish time of it. When
those masters begin to punch up the
animals It is fun to see them squirm
And howl.
On the 7th inst., in the Eastern
District of Brooklyn. N. Y. the hos
pital for aged people, conducted by a
Catholic society known as "Little
Slstere of the Poor," was completly
destroyed by fire, and 18 of the old
indigent Inmates were burned or suf
focated to death.
Marsh, the principal witness against
Belknap has fled the country. JScb.
City News.
Yes, Clymcr and those Democratic
committeemen, upon more deliberate
reflection don't want his testimony
after all, od they let him leave the
-country. Such is but the rapid out
growth of corrupt Democracy.
The soft money party of Connecti
cut, mostly Democrats, held a con
vention. atMedden, on the Din inst.
and nominated Cbas. Atwater for
Ooveraor and a full State ticket.
The resolutions adopted demand an
unconditional repeal of the redemp
tion law, the practical abolition of the
national bank system, the receipt oY
greenbacks for customs, and the Issub
of bonds interconvertible with green
backs and bearing a rate of interest
sufficiently high to keep them, and
consequently greenbacks at par with
gold.
The Kearney Press, speaking of the
bribery cases wblok it charges on cer
tain Nebraska legislators, says :
A few of the state press like the
Globe-Journal, are trying to laugh it
off, hut a large majority of the better
journals are anxious to have it inves
tigated, because, as they say, the cir
cumstantial evidence that the charg
es are true Is very binding. We have
already given what we conceive to be
the best of reasons why we do not
furnish affidavits. I is simply be
cause we haven't got them and 'don't
want them. It would be just as easy
for the ring papers to sav that the af
fidavits were false, as it'is for them to
deny the charges already made.
m tm
The Kearney Press says the tidal
wave of immigration is setting In.
Seven car loads of Sweeds from Iowa
and Illinois reaohed Kearney on the
3d inst. The Press says, "The colony
will settle on the great divide in Kear
ney county, between this city and the
Republican. It is a faot of some sig
nificance that they have brought with
them everything needed in the busi
ness of farming and will not be com-
peiiea 10 roaUe lorge purchases of
stock and farming utensils. In un
loading the cars we discovered a large
number of very superior horses, to-
geiuer with wagons, plows, reaping
1-v.u.aea, ana in fact everv imnls-
uaed on the farm.
Our friend of the Brownville Ad
vertiser is making unnecessary dis
placement of his linen concerning
the Journal's course in reference to
certain charges made by the Kearney
Press against certain members of the
present legislature, among whom
happens to be a gentleman whom the
Advertiser does not like, the Hon.
Churcli Howe. Slate Journal.
It is purely nnd solely upou politi
cal grounds that we do not like the
"Hon. Church Howe." For this dis
like we have good reasons, indorsed
by every good and true Republican
in Nemaha county. These reasons
we have given frequently since
Church Howe has been the bitterest
opponent of the Republican party in
this county, and theee reasons the
Journal well and thoroughly under
stands. In 1874 previous to the nominating
conventions, Mr. Howe, being a mem
ber of the county Republican Central
Committee, appeared before the com
mittee and resigned his place on the
committee, giving as a reason there
for, that he had left the Republi
can party nnd connected himself
with the new pnrty called Indepen
dent or Labor Reform party. For
this desertion he was nominated by
the Independents for Representative
in the legislature and taking the field
against the Republican nominees he
was the most persistent, bitter and
able opponent to, and slanderer of the
Republican party that we had to bat
tle against. He allied himself with
prominent Democrats who had also
joined the Independent party with
the expressed bargain and agreement,
upon the consideration of a division
of the offices betwen the old Demo
crats and old Republicans, to break
down and annihilate the Republican
party of Nemaha county so far as was
In their power to do. The editor of
the Journal knows all these things,
and knows further that the "gentle
man whom The Advertiser does
not like" has been since that a per
sistent and constaut'enemy of the Re
publicans in this county. Does the
Journal blame us for not liking
ChurohHowe? It has done so. It
has, since Church Howe has had a
vote in the legislature, defended him
and attacked us for showing up his
inconsistencies and demagoguery.
During our hardest fights here to
Bave the Republican party from the
ruin that Church Howe had promised
it, and was endeavoring to entail upon
it, not one word of aid or support did
we ever receive from the State Jour
nal, the Republican dally at the cap
ital, which ought to ever bo ready
with great moral strength to reach
out to all parts of the State and sus
tain the party. If that paper refer
red to the campaigns In Nemaha at
all, it was In a style Insulting to the
Republican party, and Church Howe
quoted its personal notices as indorse
ments, calculated and designed to
help him and the enemies of the Re
publican party. Being true to our
colors and never forsaking them we
opposed Church Howe and the Jour
nal, his apologist.
The Journal cannot by a trifling,
8hystering evasive article obliterate
facts or mislead on this matter. Lead
ing Republicans, especially of this
county who are familiar with the
course of Howe, and the Journal as
well, entertain opinions in harmony
with The Advertiser. They have
marked well the cowardly, sycophan
tish, style of the Journal. We have
just received an article from a promi
nent Republican of tho State endors
ing us and giving reasons for the past
course of the Journal reasons border
tug on the fraudulent and altogether
Bolflsh. But as the Journal "lets up"
on tho "Hon. Church Howe," so re
markably, we withhold our friend's
article for the present, hoping a per
manent cure will be effected without
further resort to means so caustic.
The Jourual, In the article from
which we quote above, referring to
Howe goes on to make the following
heartrending conceslon :
The member from Nemaha may be
a very bad man down in that county,
we do not vouch for him In any re
spect. O.yon don't, eh? "Don't vouch for
him In any respect?" That's a new
departure entirely. Well, if the
Journal goes' back on Howe, he can't
use It any more as electioneering doc
ument in Nemaha, unless he hunts
up old files of that paper, and tbeu he
will have no organ but his grasshop-
per clerk.
It is now generally believed that
Grant has been caught In a lie, and a
very mean lie at that. He said em
phatically "that he was not aware of
the enormity of the charges against
Belknap when he accepted his resig
nation." Belknap, howover, says
that he made a full statement of the
case to Grant In the presence of Chan
dler. To be caught in a lie is as mean
as to bo caught taklmj a bribe but
Grant stands by his friends. 2. Joe
Gazette.
The liar in this case Is the Gazette.
Belknap did not say and never said
he made a full statement of the case
to tho President. He was with the
President but a few minutes and
could not have done so. So the Gazette
being caught in a lie is as mean
bribe taker.
as a
On the 8th inst. the- Senate took a
final vote on the Louisiana Senatorial
question which resulted in the refusal
to admit Mr. Pinckback to a eeat in
the Senate. This settles that matter.
The vote stood 32 to 29. Pinohback'a
entire support was from the Republi
can side; but eight Republicans vot
ing with the Democracy, he was de
feated. We notice that Nebraska's
senators were divided, Paddock vot
ing with the Democrats. We endorse
Mr. Hitchcock's vote. Paddock don't
like a nigger with that kind of a
name,
Asooiety of liberal religionists or
free thinkers has been organized in
Sutton, Neb., and the Rev. Mr. Cope
land, of Lincoln, occasionally gives
them an able sermon or lecture.
Mik&Flllion, at North Platte last
week, was sentenced by Judge Gaalln
to be hanged Friday the 30th of June.
He was found guilty of .Murder ia
the first degree.
The North Platte Republican finds
fault with and enters strong pro
test against the action of the State
Republican committee at its late
meeting, placing the blame on the
eastern delegates headed by Gere of
the state Journal and C. E. Yost, of
Omaha. The following from the Re
publican gies the basis of complaint r
The Republican State Central Com
mittee met at Lincoln, lu9t Wednes
day, and made an appointment of one
delegate to each organized county, and
one to each 200 votes cast for the Re
publican Regents, which entitled Lin
coin county tothreedelegates. Amove
ment was then made by Yost and
Gere to e-trike out the one delegate
from each organized county. To this
the Western delegates emphatically
protested, and a loud and earnest dis
cussion followed. Yost secured an
adjournment until 8 p.m., at which
time, by a preconcerated arrangement,
the motion to strike out one delegate
from each organized county was car
ried by Gere, chairman, giving the
casting vote.
The Eastern delegates headed by
Yost and Gere, have made an issue
with the West, an open and persist
ent attack upon Western Nebraska,
one of their own choosing and one
which displays the animus of the
friends and henchmen ofone of Ne
braska's United States Senators to
ward the rapidly Increasing Western
portion of the State.
While we cannot see where the just
cause of complaint is, or wherein a
wrong was perpetrated on the west by
not allowing one additional delegate
from each organized county, we will
take occassion to say to our western
friends that Gere and Yost are not the
Republican party of the East, and do
not run the party, by a long shot. So
far as we are concerned we would not
take from the west a single right or
privilege belonging to it, and we feel
assured that this feeling prevails with
the Republican press and finds an af
firmatory response In the breast of
every true Republican. There must
be no disastrous sectional war in the
paity on account of the indiscretions
of a few self constituted leaders. The
party will not permit it.
It appears that if the Belknap case
goes on, and Marsh and his wife
should return and testify, that facts
will seriously hurt, if not criminate
the Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton and Mr.
Clymer, the chairman, of the com
mittee. A Washington special to the
Inter-Ocean, speaking of Clymersays,
"Mr. Clymer's denial will not go
very far against the evidence that is
held here against him, and he will
soon find himself in the situation of
Samson when he pulled the temple
down. People of position and relia
bility here state that before this mat
ter is concluded Clymer will be bur
ied in the debris. They say they will
produce facts as soon as he commences
an investigation."
It is boldly charged that Marsh and
his wife were sent away to eave Pen
dleton and Clymer, from direct proof
of complicity.
The oharge against Pendleton is
that he, when Belknap became Secre
tary of War, held an old railroad claim
against the government which had
been refused payment by Stanton and
others, that Belknap allowed the
claim and that Pendleton had paid
Mrs. Belknap a large sum of money
for the favor. It is claimed that Mrs.
Marsh heard Mrs. B. acknowledge
the fact.
On the Clymer Congressional inves
tigating committe is a member from
North Carolina by the name of Bob
bins. The Hon. Robbins was very
much shooked at the discovery of the
Belknap fraud ; and his speeches dep
recating bribery and frauds were cal
culated to make one believe that
Robbins could not be bought for the
paltry sum of forty thousand or fifty
thousand dollars ; that, being a Dem
ocrat, he was honest, and impervious
to such temptations. But a glance at
Mr. Bobbins' history dispels such an
idea, and induces belief that he would
at least take small things that might
be lying around loose. Mr. Robbins
not long ago was a North Carolina
State Senator. That Senate had a
"committee on bribery and corrup
tion," and that committee-on a cer
tain time mude a report from which
the following is an extract:
Whereas, It appears by the report
of the oommittee on bribery and cor
ruption that W. M. Robbins, senator
from the thirty-second senatorial dis
trict, did on the 22d day of last Au
gust, receive from John W. Stevens
the sum of $20 for his services in se
curing the passage of a resolution
through the senato in favor of said
Stevens; and whereas, a senator can
not rightfully receive auy fee or re
ward for his services as a senator be
yond the perdiem allowed by law;
and whereas, the receiving of any fee
or reward is a high breach of the
privileges of the senate, and tends to
the destruction of legislative Integri
ty ; therefore, be it resolved, etc
A Republican legislature would
have promptly expelled him, but
not so with that legislature, which
simply censured Robbins for selling
out for so insignificant asum ; and
then his friends sent him to Congress,
and he is on the committee to hunt
up corruptions !
During a debate in the Senate a few
days ago between Senators Morton,
Sherman, Gordon and Withers, on
revenue and frauds, Mr. Withers
defended, in strong language, John
B. Floyd, Buchanan's secretary of
war, who stripped the armories of the
north of arma and ammunition and
and gave them to the south, which
gave secession and treason the suc
cessful send off we all remember.
Withers still believes in Floyd, Da
vis and treason, and would dissolve
the Union to-day if he could.
' ,. .
We have news from the Black Hills
that a party of mounted Indians
made a sudden attack on Custer City
on the 4th Inst. and suoceeded In driv
ing off all the loose horses grazing In
suburbs of the city. The Indians at
the same time attacked an emigrant
train at Pleasant Valley nine miles
below Custar City. One man, Chas.
Holt, of Sioux City, was killed. A
party of 60 whites immediately start
ed In pursuit of the Indians. War,
oiooay and cruel Is now imminent.
'
The following, from the Central
City Courier, is going the rounds of
the Republican press of the State,
and, we are sorry to say, is either in
dorsed or copied without comment, a
tacit indorsement:
"We often find able and honorable
lawyers defending criminals for pay,
but we seldom or never find newspa
pers like the Journal defending sub
pected legislative criminals without
pay, and considerable pay, too." The
money that established the Lincoln'
Journal office was stolen from the
children of the State the office was
bought with school money r and ev
ery steal and every public thief, has
found in that paper a warm defender,
from the days of Governor Butler to
the present time.
We say we are sorry, heartily'aor
ry, that the only Republican paper
at the capital, aud which ought to be
the leading one of the State, has been
conducted on so sycophantish a style
as to deserve the censure and con
tempt of its party cotemporaries.
While we cannot approve of the
broad assertion as to the money which
founded the Journal, as we know
nothing about It, we must say that
upon the whole the Courier does not
shoot far from its "shining mark.'
The Brownville Advertiser, like the
Beatrice Courier, says that it believes
the charges of the Kearney Press
against eight members of the legisla
ture to the effeot that they accepted a
bribe to vote for Patriok for U. S. Sen
ator at the last session, to be true, on
account of "circumstances" within
Its knowledge. State Journal.
The Journal misrepresents The Ad
vertiser. It may garble, but cannot
correctly quote any paragraph of ours
which will bear any such construc
tion. Here is what we said, and it
proves that the Journal wilfully mis
represents us :
As to some of the parties, we never
heard their names used in connection
with Patrick's money until the Press
accused them ; but as to others, we
have heard some of the best and moat
reliable men in the State express their
belief that they were bribed by Pat
rick's money.
Democrats stand up in the TJ. S.
Senate and defend John B. Floyd for
betraying the country from his official
position as Secretary of War; but no
Republican in Congress or all the
country has a word to say In defence
of Secretary Belknap who sold a post
tradership. There is not one particle
of doubt in our mind that had Belk
nap been a Democratic Secretary of
War in a Democratic administration,
wo would never have heard of his try
ing to make a little money out of post
traderhips. The Democratio com
mittee would have covered it all
snugly up, for tho good of the party.
That Is the way the party did when
in power, and the way by which it
kept in power. Had the Republican
party been half as euergetlo In cover
ing up corruption as it has been in
exposing and ferreting ltout.it would
now have been much stronger than it
is.
Gen. Roberts the eloquent and lib-''
eral Attorney General for the State of
Nebraska, in a happy presentation
speech on the part of the leading men
around our exeoutive, to Hon. Ben.
Barrows, Consul to Dublin, gave
expression to the following noble sen
timents: You leave these broad prairies,-thls
new and but partly developed State,
for the land of patriots, orator, poets
and belles lettres. When you stand
upon the shores of uuhappy Ireland
whom GOD made a nation with her
back to the Old World nnd her face to
the New say to thorn for Nebraska,
whose legend and whose motto I.
"Equality before the Law," that her
citizens long for the day when the
Shamrock shall grow in freedom and
honor with every blade f grass, and
an Irish Parliament shall permanent
ly meet upon Dublin Green.
Marsh, the prosecuting witness
against Ex-Secretary Belknap has
stepped over to Canada. For some
cause or other that Democratio com
mittee has let him go. It Is supposed
that Majsh knew too much and that
several promfnent Democrats would
be implicated if he told all he knew,
henoe he escaped. It is evident that
the Democrats in Congress are not as
anxious to prosecute Belknap rigidly
aa they at first pretended. Clymer
and other Democrats of tho commit
tee refuse to oven go before the grand
jury to give what evidence they may
have regarding the matter. Being
M. C's, the court cannot compel them
to tastlfiy, and they avail themselves
of this extremely thin excuse.
The Nebraska City Press says that
Church Howe is not a candidate for
governor, all other papers to the con
trary, notwithstanding. This an
nouncement will be hailed with un
feigned delight all over the State.
Beatrice JExjircss.
Yes, we are reliably Informed that
he has rtlet up" on the governor ques
tion, and is figuring over bis chances
for State Auditor on the Republican
ticket. A prominent Republican of
the west 6ald to us, laughing heartily
at the idea. "I wonder if the darm
ned rascal does think he can get a
place on the Republican ticket!"
And thats what we wonder. But
Howe is a standing candidate for any
office from any party likely to be the
strongest, mind that now, and has as
much eheek aa a govenment mule.
"Twenty dollar Robbins'' i3 what
they call that eminent Democratic
Congressman from North Carolina.
He fought three years to destroy the
country, was bribed for twenty dollars,
censured for the same, Bent to Con
gress to represent Demooraoy, and Is
on the committee to hunt up corrup
tions.
a m
Wolfe, the witness called by the
Congressional corruption committee
to testify in matters, pertaining to the
navy, says the Democraoy tried to
bribe him to swear against Mr. Robe
Bon, Secretary of the Navy. The De
mooraoy want political capital rather
than the truth.
Judge AlphonBO Taft, of Ohio has
been appointed Secretary of War. It
is by all considered a moat oxoollont
sppojntmenc, "
As the Master of the State Grange,
we have mentioned Mr. Howe's name
from time to time, without vindictlve
ness or abuse. So far as we know he
fills the office in a creditable manner.
The Advertiser Is annoyed by this
course of tho Journal to such and ex
tent that it derisively denounces us as
"Howe organ." Slate Journal.
We do not remember any puffs the
Journal has given Mr. Howe as mas
ter of the State Grange, for he has
been Master but a short time; but
have no doubt they have been in uni
son with the tone of that paper to
ward Mr. Howe since he baa made
himself prominent and obnoxious as
an enemy of the Republican party.
The Journal earned the titleof "Howe
organ," long before that gentleman
was Master of the State Grange, by its
open defence of him and its flattering,
fawning notices whenever it could find
a pretext for noticing him at all. The
Journvl has been Mr. Howe's most
suave organ ever since It had a twelve
thousand dollar printing account to
work through the legislature, and
could find legislators so susceptible of
being corrupted as to allow a bill
which the district and supreme courts
bad refused to allow.
The Omaha Herald, after making
baste to oharge Hon. H. M. Atkinson
with dishonorable and fraudulent
practices while Commissioner of Pen
sions, makes the following amende
honorable:
The foundation for the editorial
structures upou the late Commlsbion
er of Pensions, was a telegram from
Mr. J. H. Peake, our late Washing
ton correspondent, in which that per
son charged that Mr. Atkinson was
removed for "corrupt practices." Mr.
Peake subsequently telegraphed that
the word not was omitted from the
dispatch by the operators, and its
meaning was thus changed. Doubt
ing this statement, Manager Lemher
was requested to trace the telegram
to its Bource, and this was done with
the result that Mr. Peake's telegram
was printed just as he wrote and sent
it, word for word, and letter for letter.
We commend the vindication of Mr.
Atkinson by Gen. Vifqualn to our
readers, with the remark that Mr.
Peake has ceased to be our correspon
dent, and that the statement made by
bim, was fatae, the charges based up
on It fall to the ground.
Tho leaders of Democracy always
did cover up the frauds and corrup
tions of the party, and defend and ap
ologise for the thieves and rascally of
fficialsof the party, or endeavor to do
so, instead of taking measures for in
vestigation exposure and punish
ment, as has ever been the polioy of
the Republican party. Democracy
In Congress now defend treason, Jeff
Davis, Floyd, and all the damnable
measures that had the destruction of
the country in view, with the same
spirltand shameless effrontery that
marked their speeches before the re
bellion. Democraoy has shown its
hand and is continually showiug it,
so that if the enemies of the country
are sucessful in eleoting a president
and obtaining complete control, it
will certainly not.be because Democra
cy and Its objects are not understood
By tho people. ,
A Union soldier residing in Aurora,
111., after reading Ben. Hill's speech,
recalls the following leaf in Hill's
military career:
Ben Hill, the Georgia Congressman
was a soldier a General of Home
Guards in Georgia and Alabama, in
which capacity, at the head (when they
started home) of about 500 "moss
baoks," he undertook to drive back,
from Talladega, Ala., April 23, I860,
about eighty soldiers of the Second
Michigan cavalry, but Benjamin
changed his mind (as he lately chang
ed his speech), and, within five min
utes after the first rifle shot, he was
busy digging the soul out of o noble
Southern mule, with a big pair of
spurs, and still at the head of his
command. The "General" left on
the field everything thatwas not fast
ened to him, such as artillery (two
pieces,) pack mules, overcoats, blank
ets, his hat, etc. His command did
not again get together until the day
of Ben. Hill's election to Congress. It
may be they have scattered again.
Chicago Tribune.
The radical papers have been find
ing fault with the present Congress,
because it was slow in getting at bus
iness. Belknap thinks they were fast
enough, and the opposition generally
are not complaining of lack of sneed
just now. Granger.
If our milk-and-water cotemporary
is still a Demoorat this week, will it
undertake to tell its readers why those
rapid Democratio Congressmen per
mitted Marsh, the "prosecuting wit
ness against Belknap, to go off Into
Canada, out of their jurisdiction?
Our neighbor, engaging in tho pleas
ant business, to him, of defending
those ex-confederate Congressmen,
our request is entirely legitimate.
It will be seen by the "call" which
we publish, that a State convention
Is called to convene at Fremont on the
23d day of May, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the National Re
publican convention ; and that an
other convention is called for the 26th
of September, to nomiuatecandidates
for Btate offices. It strikes - one at
first that the nominating convention
Is put off to a rather late day, but as
the election will not take place until
the second Tuesday of November, we
think it about right, yet tho time be
tween the convention and election Is
rather short that is If it is expected
to place candidateain the field who
can stand on their record.
Charges have been brought against
the Hon. Chas. Hays, of Texas, a
member of the late Congress, for sell
ing a cadetsbip for $3000, and swear
ing falsely regarding the same. "Why,
would a Democratic Congressman do
things so dishonorable?
Clymer denies that he knew tho
Marshes and had a finger in their pie.
Of course ho does. It is only natural
that he should. But our dispatches
say evidence is forthcoming "that will
show him up in his true light, and put
him, like other immaculate Demo
crats, In a most unenviable position.
After all, it seems that these Demo
cratio investigations for the sake of
making political capital will prove
most disastrous to their managers and
to their own party. Mr. Clymer pro
testa too much. Inter-Ocean.
TYIiat Gen. Snensan Thinks About
Fighting Men and Presiden
tial Candidates.
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat re
porter recently had n very interest
ing chat with Gen. Sherman ; from a
report of which we make the follow
ing extract:
So far as the Northern and South
ern people are concerned, they are
rapidly assimilating, and in a few
years they will be one people in fact
as well as in name. Put the south
ern and northern soldiers together
and you have the strongest element,
in a military sense, that could begot
ten together for any national purpose.
As fighters, they would be invincible.
The southerners aie impetuous and
will fight quicker and fiercer, but they
give out sooner; the northerners are
slower, but they stay longer; they
have more endurance, andfightstead
ler and more stubbornly. In fighting
qualities, theSouth represents France,
nnd the North England. Put the two
together and the devil couldn't whip
them."
"General, why don't you recom
mend Jeff. Davis for an appointment
in Egypt?"
"Oh, I wouldn't do that; anybody
but Jeff; I would not indorse Jeff."
"Perhaps it would be a public bene
faction to do so?"
"Well, I never viewed it in that
light. On second thought, I would
indorse Jeff, if he would leave the
oountry."
"Now, General, I would like to
know if you 'were In earnest when
you wrote that letter, saying you
would not bo a candidate for Presi
dent." "I was. I meant every word I
wrote, but not for publication. I bad
no idea Dalzell would publish my let
ter. I know him quite well person
ally and have been at his home down
in Noble County. He is a good, fath
erly kind of man that is a family
man. I supposed he wrote me entire
ly from personal Interest, and was
surprised that he published my letter.
However, I meant it, and will not
under any circumstaucs, be a candi
date?" "Suppose you were nominated?"
"I would decline."
"Suppose the nomination were
unanimous aud enthusiastic?"
"I would decline anyway. I can
not think of any circumstance that
would Induce me to accept the nomi
nation. There are so many men in
the country better fitted for the place
than lam. I have no civil experience,
as every President should have. The
country wants a change in this re
spect. Military men know no way of
settling troubles except to fight, and
our oountry Is now so peaceful that a
different policy is needed. We want
a civil President, aud not a military
one. Now, there is Blaine; he would
make a splendid President, and he
Bhowed his political sagacity when he
headed this Jeff. Davlsamnesty affair.
He is going to he hard to beat for the
nomination. This man Hayes would
make a magnificent run. He Is very
popular, and much of the real states
man in bim. A stronger candidate
could hardly be named. Morton is a
remarkable man, and fitted for any
political position in the gift of the
people. From his knees dqwn he Is
physically dead, but from there to the
top of his head lie is about the liveli
est man in the country. I love Mor
ton for his war record. He was the
best war Governor we had. He nev
er complained that Indiana had fur
nished more than its just quota. The
demand for more troops had only to
be complied with. Thousands of thp
war Democrats would vote for him."
Norton Scalps Unreconstructed Gor
don, of Georgia.
On the 9th Mr. Gordon Introduced
a debate on revenue frauds.
Mr. Morton in reply, eald, it had
been stated that civil war was gener
ally followed by a period of demoral
ization to a greater or less degree, and
he supposed there was something in
that, and in lhatcase the responsibility
would cotne back to those who made
this civil war, and those who made
that civil war should perhaps be the
last persons to complain of its conse
quences. If the Senator from Geor
gia could suggest any practical meas
ures to prevent frauds or collect the
revenue, he," (Morton) would unite
with him or any one else for that pur
pose. The Senator had declared that
one thousand millon dollars had been
stolen. Some money had been stolen,
but the Senator was rather too extrav
agant in his figures. The Govern
ment waB substantially in the hands
of the Democratic party.
In 1885, 1866, 1867, and 1868, the tax
collected on whisky during these
years was as follows: In 1866 $13,326,
SOO.in 1867 $33,542,000, in 186S $18,655,
000 and tbis'was a tax of two dollars
per gallon on whisky. In 1873 the
tax collected on whisky was $52,000.
000, In 1874 $49,000,000, and in 1875
$52,000,000, and this with a tax of less
than one-half as much as that impos
ed under the Johnson administration.
Could It be Inferred from these figures
that when the Democratic party came
Into power it would bring a panacea
for these ills?
The Senator had enlarged upon the
system of England, and it nppeared
from his remarks that he admired
that country more than a Republic.
Ab the Democratio party expected
soon to be In power they could ap
point this excise corps for life. Would
some of them be Republicans? He
thought not.
The civil service reform proposed
by the Senator from Georgia was
very sweeping. Wny did ne not
bring iu a bill to have it extended to
all the departments of the govern
ment, if a life term was such a good
thing? In other words why not come
out In favor of a monarchy Instead of
a Republic ? He could not point to an
Instance where any such Investiga
tion had been authorized by a Demo
cratic administration. The Sanborn
fraud and the Credit Mobilier expos-
uro were the result of an Investigation
pet on foot by a Republican House of
Representatives. That party was an
honest party which investigated its
own members and punished them.
According to the Democratic way of
viewing things, what is sauce for the
goose is by no means sauce for the
gander. Belknap, a member of a Re
publican President's Cabinet, may
deserve the condemnation of all just
men for sellincr an army tradership ;
but that is no reason why John B.
Floyd, who was guilty of greater!
crimes, should be denominated a
villain. In the senate yesterday Mr.
Morton pointed to Floyd as a bright
and shining example of Democratic
wickedness, when Mr. Withers, of
Virginia, sprung to his feet and pro
tested against Floyd's name being
mentioned in the same breath with
Belknap. As yet no republican has
defended Belknap. Do tne Demo
crats intend to shield the corrupt men
of their party? Inter-Ocean.
Hon. James B. McKean and George
A. Black, Esq., have been elected as
delegates from Utah to the Cincin
nati National Republican convention.
A man named John Livingston
was accidentally shot and killed near
plattsmouth last week while out goose
hunting.
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