The Greensboro patriot [August 14, 1884]

              THE PATRIOT. -TAULISIIKDix 1825.
Hilton Bftfca HaUIgaa |.,.,„.rs.
of the Mnlligan letters
i briefly told. They were letters
by Mr.Blaine to Mr. Fisher
:|~ land grant railroad
' i bonds, and the] were
"■ Fisher's consent, bj his
I'ookkeeper, James Mulligan.
1876, Morton, Conkling and
la"'o were candidates tor the
(republican nomination, with the
threi to two in favor of
laine against the Held. Morton.
:1 Blaine, started a number ol
road investigations in thefDem-ocratic)
Uouse, which brought ont
iging charges against the ex
iker. The Democrats bad noth-ing
to do with the Republican
■ ill .1 :il first, and per
i ■! the liepnblicans to light it
out amoil \llir hnv
ing ! eeks under Brc,
i personal statement
.' Iiich was a general
'i. and for lour weeks i e
iji ition dragged on, the
: "in- lill! • no in
II h the Sub Judiciary < Ion
istigated thereto by Sena-summoned
Warren
i Jr., of Bosl si contraetoi
uilding the Fort Smith and
:k Itailroad, ■■ ha sold oat
nntracl to Josiah Caldwell
mil ilidn'i gel the money I, and
- Mulligan, of liostou, treats-i
i lie (ilolio Theatre, who had
Mr. r'ishir's bookkeeper.
•i and Itlaine had had close
ons for many years.
• were called to tes-
1.Hi..ii to certain bunds
alleged i" have been
en to Mr. Blaine, and
i.\ in regard to a |C4,000
had exchanged for
II i II I'acifie bonds for M r.
I In j u .ii- very unwilling
in admitted the
.'!i b Is to Itlaine
and transfers,
nothing material. Fish-tted
selling \ ai ions blocks
stock i" Mr. Blaine, bnt denied
■ 130,000 in bonds with-
; ill-Hi. Mulligan was
. i-d to appeal' befoi o the com-i
he next day.
When lie committee met on the
M r. M alligan startled
imittce and the country a ith
i -ton "Iiich is outline*! in the fol-tig:
• 'a s Mulligan said he wanted
il atemcnl before contin-
■ xamination. He said that
In- al lived hen- a note Clime :
in Mr. Blaine requesting
.i ii«— and Mr. Fisher to call
.us'-: witness declined to
i, bul Mr. Fisher went After
Inul testified yesterday,
called upon him and
il ■ JIIII iibonl some letters which
in ins pusM-ssiun and wanted
nitness to give them up to him, but
witness declined to do so. Witness
Mi. Itlaine almost got down
on Ii ind pleaded for the
ihey would ruin him
for life, and when witness further
declined Mr. Blaine asked him to
think el his wife and BIX children.
lie besought witness and almost
mplated suicide. I le offered
I him a consulship in return
: rs. Witness allowed
Mr Blaine to take them under a
lal he would return them.
lie looked them over and did re
turn them. This was in the pres
-I Mr. Fisher and Mr. Atkins.
Witness ile n retired to bis room
anil III.line followed liim and want
i look ai the letters again.
Witness allowed Mi. Blaine to take
them, and Mr. Blaine refused to re-turn
them, and still retains them.
Then- were .ilioni eighteen letters.
Mr. Blaine, sworn in rebuttal,
admitted ihe interview, admitted
taking the letters, admitted that
he had them in bis possession : bnt
denied having gone down ou his
knees, or having said they would
inin him, or having offered the con-sulship.
His motive for keeping
'.In-ill he explained as follows :
Mulligan said be did not know
ghl transpire in his exami-nation
to day. and that he was go-
II hold those letters for his own
n and vindication. I said
to him : "I uiler these cireinn
I H ill UOl give these letters
up." and 1 said, "1 "ill not return
ic j on threaten
to make a us.- of them which is
illegitimate, and I have no idea
that auj man shall take my private
(leuCC anil hold it as a
menace over my he.nl to be used at
his
The Chairman—I ask al yotu
hands the pi uductioil of these let
..i the perusal of the commit
and not tor publication.
Mr. Blaine—1 "ill take occasion to
cousull mj counsel in regard to it.
The l hairinaii —You decline, then
to produce them f
Mi. Blaine—For the present. 1
ae.
IT.mi thai '\.i\ to this no one has
era, Bnt June 5, 1876,
Mr. Blaiue rose iu his scat in the
House lor a personal explanation
and read a bundle of letters which
- : I hose received from
Mulligan. He allowed no one to
iieni. He has never allowed
any om- to see tbem, ami the let-to
--My Dear Fisher" quoted
by newspapers an- from the steno-grapher's
notes as Mi. Blaine ic.id
them. Mulligan denied that the
litters were read verbatim or that
all of I hem were lend.
In beginning his explanation to
the lb- .-'■ Mr. Blaine said thai •■.!!
j nun ot a railroad investiga-tion
ordered bj tin- House an effort
hail been made to direct it against
him p. r>.HI.illy, until on Saturday
when there was no leas than
loin - upon which he ivas
.iin estimated."
Mr. Knotl replied that that "as
lie turned up even where
with land grant bonds or stock ol
laud grant ruilroada.
Mr. Blame attacked the Sab-Ju-diciary
Committee as composed of
(; REEXSBORQ, X. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1884.
Confederate brigadiers, defended
I hia method of getting the letters
and justified his refusal to lei any
one see tin-in. He then read them,
1 with a running fire of comment and
' explanation.
June Bith the Sub-Judiciary
Committee made a formal demand
to see the letters. Mr. Blaine re
fused to show them or to produce
Mr. Mulligan's memorandum of the
contents of each one, which had
I" i-n given to him with them.
The Republican National Con
ventioii met in Cincinnati, June
13th. Senator Morton had so timed
the revelation of Speaker Blame's
corrupt railroad record I hat the
fall shock ol the disgrace fell upon
the country as the delegates were
assembling. Mr. Blame's boldness
in seizing the letters which hi- Ke-pnbliean
enemies had intended to
use to force a withdrawal, or fail-ing
in that to rtiin by their publi-cation,
had only rendered his posi-tion
less desperate. His pretense
ill reading tbem in the House had
deceived very few. The nomina-tion
was hopeless unless something
happened to turn popular synipa
thy in his favor. This Something
came Sunday..Inne 11th, in a "sun-stroke,"
as he was ascending the
steps of Dr. Baukin's church. He
sat down on the s'.eps and said to
his wife : "Mamma, my head pains
me : I am afraid I'm siinstmek.
('all a carriage. Take me home
and send lor Dr. Pope." The news
Hashed over the country that he
was dangerously ill and popular
feeling instantly veered around in
his favor. Universal sympathy
"as expressed. Even grim Sena-tor
Morton remarked sardonically
to the World corresi lent that
••he sincerely regretted the sad oc-currence.
Although delicate about
expressingnny opinion on the sub-ject,
he ilid not hesitate to say that
in bis opinion the effect at Cincinnati
would be favorable to Mr. Blaine
'I by to-morrow or Tuesday it shall
appear that the attack is not scri-on.-
h alarming."
So rapid was his recovery when
< leu. 1'laist, ii, of Maine, called lip-mi
him Tuesday he found him sit-ting
tip, surrounded by his family,
reading despatches from Cincin-nati,
and Tuesday night Mr. Blaine
telegraphed to Mr. Hale, his adju-tant,
that he was "entirely conva-lescent.''
The effect was favorable, but not
sufficiently favorable for Blaine to
recover all that he had lost by the
disclosures. He led from tin- start
to the seventh ballot, and was at
last defeated by Senator Morgan
making a combination ot all the
opposing elements in favorof Ii. B.
Hayes, who received 384 votes
(four over a majority) to Blaine's
351 ami Bristow's 21.
\ Disgrace ami a Shame.
-Mil..--:.:; M...--. RepuMkan.]
On the L'lst of .Inly an obscure
sheet in the city of Buffalo, which
has been miming only some I.ltlll
numbers and is sold at one cent, a
paper whom most of the good pen
pie of that city never beard of.
published an outrageous and lying
scandal about the private life of
Gov. Cleveland, one of the candi-dates
then already nominated for
tin' Presidency, charging him with
seduction, open profligacy and de-bauchery.
That charge has al
ready fallen to the ground as ex-aggerated,
false and malignant,
bnt the Republican puss and par-tisans,
all the time professing their
horror ol the uneleanness, are con
stautly using, supporting and cir-culating
these foul slanders in
their grossest form. Our weekly
exchanges come to as loaded with
the filthy story; the newsboys on
the streets even to the remote
country villages are still hawking
i the Buffalo Telegraph, never before
heard of in this region. Special
I correspondents have been posted
to Buffalo to magnify the scandal,
with precious small results as yet.
The Republican newspapers are
lull ot chuckling references and
spicy allusions to stimulate curiosi-ty
and spread Ihe sale, at the same
time professing sweet horror thai
any such thing should be admitted
to their virtuous shi-i ;-.
Such adegradation of a campaign
has never been witnessed since the
days when Mrs. Jackson was driven
I to her grave, between the timeol
her husband's nomination and that
of his inauguration. The Repnbli-
| can organs cannot disclaim the re-sponsibility
ol this scandal in be
half of their party, for it is of the
style of warfare to be expected
from a campaign managed by El-kins
and inspired by Mr. Blaiue.
Unable to find a daw in Mr. Cleve-land's
official career or a blemish
on his integrity and high character
as Mayor of his city and Governor
ol' his Slate, his opponents an-driven
to this contemptible and
me.in resource to blacken his char
acter. It will take something more
than a mere veto passed by the
National Republican Committee to
convince the people that the Re
publican campaign managers are
not an active party in the spread
ami propagation of these lies.
V Slrit-ll> llnlri'i-nilriil View.
" Mhiagtoo Btar.]
In politics there is suspected to
be a slight deficiency in harmony,
but everybody is "long" on confi-dence—
everybody, that is, except
Senator l'luuib, who. iu his inter
vi." in yesterday's Star, talks ra-tionally."
and, while expecting a
Kepnbliean victory, does not utter
nonsense about the battle's being
already won, and the Republicans
being certain of carrying every
Northern and nearly every South-ern
State. Bach party has a good
sized irreconcilable element in it,
anil each is busy convincing itselt
that the bolt ill its own ranks is
not quite so large as that in the
Other party. Betting is stated by
a hailing Republican Philadelphia
paper to be even, and it is pretty
safe to sty that the politicians who
arc so dead sure their man will
have a ''walk over" have no money
to risk on large majorities-
Cleveland ami Hautrleka kceapc
Tin- committee appointed by the
Democratic National convention to
formally notify Gov. Clevelandofhis
nomination for President discharg-ed
its duty last Wednesday in the
Executive Mansion at Albany.
Upon Col. Vila*, of Wisconsin,
as chairman ot the committee, de-
' volvcd tin task of making the an
nouuement. He did it in a plain,
forcible way, his speech being well-poised
and in unison with theocca
sinn.
Gov. Cleveland replied briefly as
follows:
.1//- Chairman nn-1 Gentlemen of tin
t 'oinmittee .-
v..in formal announcement does
nut of course convey to me the first
information of the result of the eon
veution lately held by the Demo
cracy of the nation, and yet when,
as I listen lo your mi ssage, I see
about me representatives from all
parts of the land of the great party
which, claiming to be the party of
the people, asks them to intrust to
it the administration of their gov-ernment
: and "lien ! con lider mi
iler the influence ot the stern real-ity
which the present surroundings
create, that I have been chosen to
represent the plans, purposes and
policy of the De cr.itic pail,'., I
am profoundly impressed by the
responsibility of my position.
Though I gratefully appreciate it 1
do not at this moment congratulate
myself upon the distinguished
honor which has been conferred
upon me, because my mind is full
of anxious desire to perform well
the pan which has been assigned to
me.
Nor ilo I at this moment forget
that the rights and interest of more
than fifty millions of my fellow-citizens
are involved in our efforts
to gain Democratic supremacy.
This reflection presents to my mind
the consideration which, more than
all others, gives to the action ofmy
part} in convention assembled its
most sober anil serious aspect. The
party ami its representatives, which
ask to be intrusted al the hands of
the people with the keeping ot all
that concerns their welfare and
Their safety, should only ask it
with the full appreciation of the
trust and with a linn resolve to ad-minister
it faithfully ami well.
1 am a Democrat In causa I be-lieve
that this Until lies al the
foundation ot true Democracy. I
have kept the iaith because I be-lieve,
if rightly ami fairly adminis-tered
and applied. Democratic doc-trines
and measures well insure
the happiness, ■ontcntment and
prosperity ot the people. If. in the
contest upon which we now enter,
we steadfastly hold to the underly-ing
principles of our party creed,
ami at all times keep iu view the
people's good, we shall In- BtrOllg,
because we are true to ourselves
ami because the plain ami Inde-pendent
voters of the 1 iml will seek
by their suffrages to compass their
release from party tyranny where
there should be submission
to the popular will, and their pro-tection
from party corruption where
there should be devotion to the
people's interests.
These thoughts lend a consecra-tion
to our cans .. and we go forth,
not merely to gain a partisan ad-vantage,
but pledged to give to
those who trust us the utmost bene-fits
of a pure and bouest adminis
(ration of national affairs. No
higher purpose or motiv • can stim-ulate
u. tosupremeeffort or urge us
to continuous ami earnest laboraud
effective party organization. Let
us not fail in this, and we may Con-fidently
hope to nap the full re-ward
of patriotic services "ell per-formed.
I have thus called to mind some
simple truths, and trite though
they are, it seems to me we do well
to dwell upon them at this time. 1
shall soon. I hope, signify in tin'
usual formal manner my acceptance
of the nomination which has been
tendered to me. In the moan time,
I gladly greet you allasco workers
in a noble cause."
• In the following day the com
miuee waited on ex Gov. Uendricks
a; Saratoga, and notified linn of
his nomination for the Vice-Presi-dency.
In accepting the nomination
he said:
l/c. Chairman "ml Gentlemen of the
. Committee:
1 cannot realize that a man should
ever stand in ihe presence ol a
committee representing a more au-gust
body of men than that "liii-h
you repn sent. In tin' language of
an ither, -The convention was lar ■
iu numbers, august it: vulture an I
patriotic iu sentiment :' and may
I llOt add to that that, because (if
. the power and the greatness and
the virtues of the party which it
represented, it was itself in every
respect a very great convention.
i Applause., 'the delegates ■
from all tin' States and Territories,
and 1 believe, too. from tin- His
trict of Colombia. (Applause.)
i They came c allied with authority
to express judgment and opinion
upon all those questions which are
Bottled by constitutional law. For
, the purpose of passing upon those
questions ard selecting a ticket
, lor the people that convention as
sembled. They decided upon the
l principles that they would adopt
, as a platiorm. They selected the
I candidates thai they would propose
to the party for their support, and
1 that convention's work was theirs.
I have notreached the period wheu
it is proper for me to consider the
strength and force of the state-ments
made in the platform. It is
' enough for me to know that it
comes at your hands from that con-vention
addressed to my patriotic
devotion to tin' Democratic party.
(Applause.} I appreciate the honor
that is doin- me. I need not ques-tion
that, but at the same time that
I accept the honor from you and
from the convention. 1 feel that the
duties and the responsibility of the
I office rest upon me also.
I know that sometimes it is nil-
NEW SERIES, X(> !)2<>
derstood that this particular office,
that of Yice-l'resident, docs not
involve much responsibility, and as
a general thing that is so. But
sometimes it comes to represent
very great responsibilities and it
may be so iu the near future, for at
this time the Senate of the I'nited
states almost equally divided be-tween
the two great parties and it
may be that those two great parties
shall so exactly differ that the Vice-
Presideut of the United States
.States shall have to decide upon
questions of law by the exercise of
tin-casting vote. (Applause.) The
responsibility would then become
very great. It would not then be
the responsibility of representing a
State or a district. It would be
the responsibility of representing
! the whole country and the obliga-tion
would be to the judgment of
' the whole country, anil that vote
when thus cast should lie in obedi-ence
to the just expectations and
requirements of the people of the
United States. It might be, gen-tlemen,
that upon another occasion
great responsibility would at-tach
to this office." It might oc-cur
that under circumstances of
some difficulty—1 don't think it
. will be next election—but it may
occur under circumstances of some
difficulty, the President of the Sen-ate
will have to take his part in
the counting of the electoral vote,
I and allow me to say that duty is
I not to be discharged iu obedience
, to any set of men or to any party,
but in obedience to a higher author-ity.
(Applause.) Gentlemen,you
have referred to the fact that I am
honored by this nomination iu a
very special degree. I accept the
suggestion that in this candidacy 1
will represent the right of the peo-ple
to choose their own rulers.
That right that is above all, that
lies beneath all; for if the people
an- denied the right lo choose their
own officers according to their own
judgment, what shall become of
the rights of the people at alii
What shall become ol free govern-ment
it the people select not their
officers 1 How shall they control
the laws, their administration and
their execution? So that in sug-gesting
that iu this candidacy I
represent that of the people, as you
have suggested, a great honor has
devolved upon me by the confi-dence
of the convention. As soon
] as it may be convenient and possi
ble to do MI I will address you
mote formally in respect to the let-ter
you have given me. I thank
you gentlemen. (Applause.)
\ straw l-'riini * lain.
A very signficant straw comes
i from Cleveland, Ohio, the chief city
ol the western reserve, where the
Republicans in years past have
been in the habit ol rolling up tre-mendous
majorities for anything
ami anybody bearing the Repnbli-
1 can label. A special election was
held in the twenty-first ward on
Saturday for the choice of a mem-ber
of the city council. The Re-publicans
fully expected to elect
1 their man and had made loud
boasts of a large Irish Democratic
defection. They put forth every
effort to cany Ihe election because
upon its result hinged the political
complexion of the board. Imagine
their astonishment when, upon
counting the votes, after a sharp
contest, it was found that Ihe
Democrats had won by63majority,
a char Democratic gain over the
I Spring election of 632 votes. It
was a square, stand up tight ami a
most significant Democratic vie
tory. The much talked of Irish
bolt did not take place and the
German Republicans voted the
Democratic ticket, almost to a man.
Tin- Plaindealer was so elated that
■ it forthwith went to its coop and
1 brought out one ol its handsomest
roosters, who crowed for the signal
and significant Democratic vie
tory.
sili'iirinjj Cleveland'*, l-'iieiiiii-s.
lieu. Horatio C. King, a member
of Plymouth Church, has returned
from Buffalo, where he went at
Mr. Beecher's request to iuvesti-
! gate the libelous stories circulated
by an obscure newspaper about
Gov, Cleveland. The result of his
investigation satisfies Beecher,who
expresses his intention of continu-ing
to give his fullest support to
Gov. Cleveland.
in conversation subsequently
Beecber said he had been under
going a judicial process, but now
the clouds have broken away and
he was beginning to understand
that ihe-e stories about Gov.
Cleveland are untrue and a vile
slander. "Von can say." he said
warmly to a newspaper reporter,
'•that 1 expect lo brand the men
w ho have promulgated these stories
as blackmailers and liars, for I now
- thai the Governor acted the
pail of a man in the whole affair.
1 shall take the stump and tell
the people of the country that they
must elect him President. I shall
enter this campaign with an en-thusiasm
second only to that with
which 1 entered the war."
DMerence Between Cleveland and
Maine.
Botton Post.]
By a proper use of the veto pow-er
Clover Cleveland, while mayor
of Buffalo, saved to the taxpayers
01' that city (1,000,000 in* six
months. He shut off all the jobs.
If Blaine saved the taxpayers of
the country a dollar while he was
speaker we never heard of it. Be
saved thousands ol dollars for him-self,
and did it iu crooked and dis
. honest ways.
I>ut\ ill* a Loyal Drim.rral.
." i:. : - 1.
While we could hare wished for
quite a different result, as a loyal
Dei rat, we will support the
: ticket and work for its success.
: Mr. lteid is a man of more than
; ordinary attainments, an impres-sive
and beatiful speaker, and will
doubtless make an efficient member
1 of Congress, iu case of election, of
i which we have no doubt.
Caagnaalam] suieido.
Congressman Culbcrtson, of Ken
tucky, who attempted to commit
suicide a week ago, in Washington
City, and whose act has been the
subject of so much comment, re-calls
many interesting incidents
among men who have preceded
him iu the House or Senate. One
of the most proniinr-'t was the sui-cide
of Hon. Preston King, who
for many years represented the
State of New York in the Senate
of the United States. 'He was a
large mau in figure and heart—a
sort of David Davis, in person at
least—and like most men of large
weight was tender hearted and
sympathetic. He was appointed
by President Johnson Collector of
the Port of New York after his re
tirement from the Senate. The
duties of that office and the annoy
ancesof its administration, parti-cularly
the appeals for positions,
bore upon his mind, and one day
he was missing. Effort's to find
him wen after a week successful,
when his body was found floating
in the river, attached to which was
a twenty live pound bag of shot.
The tender hearted Collector, driv-en
to desperation, had sought death
in this manner. The suicide of so
prominent a man in such a strange
manner created quite a sensation
at that time, and it is well remem-bered
by old New Yorkers iu the
Government service there yet.
Another ease of note was that of
Thomas Jefferson Busk, of Texas,
who was a member of the Senate
in 1815, and who committed suicide
just after his retirement from that
body by shooting. Whether the
Story of Senator Busk's suicide is
as accurate as that of Senator King
is uncertain, and it can only be
given as gathered, but not as a
matter of historical record. Sena
tor Busk was very prominent in
Texas, which State he represented
in the Senate. lie had been Secre-tary
of War iu the Republic of
Texas when it was a Republic, and
had held other prominent positions
there. In the early history ofTexas
many of its citizens were, the story
goes, men who had found it conve-nient
to leave their former resi-dences
on account of incidents
which low and good society did
not tolerate. The story that this
was the cause of Mr. Busk's re
moval from South Carolina to Tex
as has never been verified, but
there was such a story. It is al
leged that his death was the result
of having this soil ofcharge thrown
against him in the Senate during a
debate. Bis suicide was by shoot-ing,
and occurred at his home in
Texas soon after leaving the Sen
ate.
A Kentiickian whose illustrious
example Mr. Cnlbertson tried to
follow, was Congressman llise, who
represented that State in the
Thirthy-uinth Congress and had
been elected to the Fortieth Be
had also been United States .Minis
tor to Guatemala and had likewise
taken a prominent party iu the
negotiating party between the
United States and Great Britain
immediately preceding the Clayton
liulwer treaty. His suicide was
supposed to have been the result
of monomania caused by overwork.
Still another Kentucky suicide
was that of -las. 1,. Johnson, who
was iu the Thirty-Ant Congress.
He killed himself at Oweusboro,
Ky., during a lit of despondency
caused by illness.
The case of a man more promi
ncut than any of those already
mentioned was that of Lincoln's
most prominent Cabinet officer,
Secretary of War, Edwin M.Stan-ton.
He is printed in history as
having died suddenly. Old resi
dents of Washington, however.
who were thereat the time ot his
death, and who were iu position to
know by reason of their intimacy
with men prominent in public life,
say that Mr. Stnnton died from an
incision in the throat made by his
own hand iu a fit-of insanity caused
by overwork ami the mental strain
of this the most responsible position
in tin' greatest war this country
has ever seen
Whether Mr. John Kwillg, who
represented Indiana in the Twenty-third
and Twentv-tifth Congresses,
Committed suicide is not stated iu
history, but his death was at has!
a curious one. Be was found sit
ting in his chair at Vincennes dead,
and the following couplet, freshly
written, lay beside him:
"llirr ti.- ii man who loves his n i.-n.l-.
lli- on I. tii-.-..uiitry .iii.l Vm. . in.. -.
Felix McOonnell, of Mississippi,
was one of the most brilliant orators
iu the Twenty eighth ami Twenty-ninth
Congresses, but Felix hail a
weakness for liquor, so the story
goes, and after a long spree cut his
throat in the St. Charles Hotel in
this city and died.
John D. Ashmore, of South Car
obna. was iu the Thirty sixth Con
gress ami was also in the Confeder-ate
army. He blew out his brains
in 1871 at Sardis. Miss.
Williamson B. W. Cobb, of Ala-bama,
was an M. C from '57 to 'til,
when he w ithdiew on Ihe secession
of Alabama and became a member
of the Confederate Congress. His
death occurred from a pistol shot.
the weapon being held in his own
hand, though that it was intention-al
suicide is not certain. The sup
position was that the discharge ol
the pistol was accidental.
There have been rumors of late
that the lion, fliester Clymer, of
Pennsylvania, who, a few weeks
since, was reported as having fallen
a victim to apoplexy, was really a
victim of suicide. This, however,
has not been fully confirmed.
James II. Lane,ofLawrenceberg,
Ind., a son of Amos Lane, who rep-resented
that district in Congress,
was a Senator from Kansas Ironi
1861 to 1806. He shot himself at
his home soon altei his retirement
from the Senate.
Sobeisk Boss, who was iu the
Forty-third and Forty fourth Con-gresses,
from Pennsylvania, com
mitted suicide shortly alter his re
tirement from Congress by shoot
ing iu his barn at his home in
Pennsylvania- Boss of health and
Consequent despondency were al-leged
as the cause.
John White, of Kentucky, who
was in the Twenty-fourth, Twenty-fifth,
Twenty sixth.Twenty seventh
and Twenty eighth Congresses*.
and was Sepeaker of the llnuse in
the Twenty-seventh, and an uncle
ol John I). White, member of the
present Congress, committed sui-cide
at Richmond, Kv., bv cutting
his throat.
Jesse B. Thomas, who was in
the Tenth Congress from ''Indiana
Territory," who was later a Senator
from Illinois, committed suicide iu
| 1850 by cuttings his throat with a
razor because of mental abbera-i
tion.
i Alfred P. Stone, who was in the
Twenty-eighth Congress from the
Columbus, ()., district, was after-
, wards appointed Collector of Inter
: nal Revenue, and having engaged
i in some contraband cot ton specula
' tion and become a defaulter, com-j
mitted suicide upon the discovery
I of this fact by taking poison. He
j died on the graves of his two chil
j dren at the cemetery near Colum-bus
iu 1865.
The Day* UI'IM and I he Data efSf.
Nowadays a train of cars is bare-ly
sufficient to accommodate those
who travel hundreds of miles
charged with the important duty
of informing a candidate that he
has been nominated for the Presi-dency.
Long speeches are made,
and the notification costs nianv
thousands of dollars. But this is
not all. The candidate must write
a letter of acceptance, giving his
views on pretty much every sub-ject
he can think of. These jour-neys,
parades, speech makings and
long letters are ol comparatively
recent origin.
The convention that nominated
Gen. Taylor met in Philadelphia,
June 7th. 1848. The chairman was
the Hon. John Morehead, ol Xorth
Carolina. On the 10th of that
month Gov. Morehead addressed
Cen. Taylor a letter officially noti
tying him of his nomination. The
distraction into which the Whig
party was thrown by Gen.Taylor's
nomination was not made less iu
the ensuing thirty live days by the
silence ol lien. Taylor. Gov. More-head,
in reply to inquiries by lead
ing Whigs—notably Mr. Weed—
said he had positively written the
General, and he knew of no reason
why the reply was not forthcom-ing.
Gen. Taylor was such a
crotchety old fellow, and Whig |
leaders in general knew so little of
him personally, that it was not
thought, best to stir him up on the I
subject. Letters from old soldiers I
were appearing in different quar-ters,
some of them not altogether
satisfactory to Whig leaders, but !
not a word came from him about ;
the. nomination. B began to look
an indignity. Mr. Weed, to whom
more than any other man Gen.
Taylor owed his nomination, was
desperate under the suspense.
Meetings were proposed, and one
was actually in Albany, looking to
the repudiation of the nomination.
When it met, however, other coun-sels
prevailed, though the suspense
continued.
On July 23d the Postmaster at
Baton Rouge, where Gen. Taylor
lived, addressed the Postmaster-
General a letter, saying that with
the report for the current quarter
from that office two bundles of let-ters
were lorwarded for the Dead
Letter Office, they having been de
dined on account of the lion pay-ment
of the postage by the -semi
ers. It was in the ten cent and
non prepayment time. Of the for-ty-
eight letters thus forwarded to
the Dead Letter Office, the Baton
Rouge Postmaster said a majority
were addressed to Gen. Taylor,
who had declined to pay the post
age on them and take them out of
tin- office because his mail expenses
hail Income burdensome. The
General had since become aware
that some of the letters were of
importance and asked for their re-turn.
Ill due course the letters
were sent back lo Baton Rouge.
Among them was Gov. Moreliead's
letter notifying Gen. Taylor of the
action of the Philadelphia conven-tion.
(ien. Taylor's response was dated
July 1.1th, and a month ami live
days after the letter . f notification
was written. It had lain in the
Baton Rouge Postoffiee four weeks,
after Gen. Taylor refused to pay
the ten cents postage
Gen. Taylor's acceptance was
conched in respectful term.-, in >i
letter not eve eding 250 ""ids.
He expressed his thanks lor the
nomination, .said he did not seek it
ami that if he were elected Presi-dent,
for which position he did not
think he possessed the requisite
qualifications, be would do his
best He discussed nothing, laid
down no principles, and gave no
indications "hat course In- would
pursue. In this the General out i'
too short to satisfy the Whigs. He
had to write another letter—one of
considerable length—to his friend,
('apt. Allison, tu which he set
things right. Hie authorship ol'
this letter "as the subject of no
little conjecture. If living. Thur-
Ion Weed and Alexander II. Ster-eos
could sheil light on tin- sub
jel't.
Males' Mantle,
line* ; I
The old Fifth never fails. Gen.
Scales' mantle has fallen worthily.
The silver tongui-il lteid will thrill
tl„- Democracy of theold Fifth and
carry its Hag in glorious triumph
on tin- -Ith ot Xovein .1 nexl.
—Tiie Republican platform isn't
••nil wool and a yard wide" but
with lh.- civil lights and protecti >n
planks, it has a good deal id wool
i„ jt._[Texas St/ting*.] And the
Republican party is trying to pull
that WOOl over tin- eyes..! the peo
pie.
('uniiiil llcny and llai-e ^iot Fare. Patatera.
'Kr.,iu.-.i no 'Spank in x,-« ruh. —-phe Republicans don't seem
And now, after L'l years of uuiu able to rivet the great Irish boll
terrapted ascendency, what has -Mr. Blaine will wish St. John
tte Republican party come tot on t|„. Is](. „, ,,„ ,„ f
Look at it, the party ol moral ideas, a/eeks
presenting as its great leader and ",' ,,, . ,
representative a man whose un- ~M,r- 1
1
ilal."<' ,hfa '"" .?"' ''""'
clean record it cannot deny and 6r;1!'lll"e'1 -t. John on his noun
dare not face '. Listen to its spokes- "al">"-
men, how they dodge ami squirm i —'" is now hinted in Republican
around that record as something circles thai Uendricks has three
too hot to touch —unfortunate at "arts on his face.
torneys, wretohedlj troubled by —Because Blaine lingers at Bar
the feeling that, if they respect Harbor is one reason why Bmhibi-themsvlves.
they must take care tionists light shy of him.
not to become identified with the' _Tll(,,,. is „'„ ,,„, ,„ „,„
public morals of their client. Wat. h
them, how they use the tarifl ques
tion as a great tig leaf which they
stretch ami spread to make it cover
and hide the crookedness of their
Standard bearer ! What a burning
shame and llisgrai e is this ! Pride
of party indeed! Those who are
truly proud of the good the party
has done will be too proud to eon
sent t.. its degrading perversion
into un instrument of evil. If the
great party which abolished slav-ery
ami saved the republic is to
serve as an instrument to poison
the life of the same republic by
clowning corruption with its high-est
honors, [ben the truly proud
Republicans will wash their hands
of it.
As they understood the great
problem of the anti slavery period,
so tiny understand Ihe great pro
Idem of today. The contest in
man's starving so long as his wifi
lias a sealskin sae-qiii- to In- eiil up
and stewed in an emergency.
—First i\ liticiau—V«u net ».'-.•
goin' ter lather old Cleveland for
you. Second Politician—Yon IH-I-elm
don't. Yer hain't got old Dor
»ey, and yer can't get the soap.
—It is estimated that uboill I Wll
and a half \ otes m« made I'm M i
Blaine every timeoueol his organs
cttlls a college president a '•«
wiimp."
—The .soul ol Blaiue doesn't
seem to be abroad in Ohio, al least
not iu Cleveland, where tin- Demo
crats made a gnat gain at Ihe
special election on Saturday.
—1 hey opened a savings bank
in Newark, N. .1., the other day,
with prayer. The public has with
- -—. ... .,.-,,..>, . ±u\; LUiltLAL III reason *g■"ro-wn a little suspicious of
which we are engaged is not a mere UUSiness enterprises about which
crusade against one man. It is not i^eieisan over display of the ex
a mere race between two. It is
one of the great Struggles for the
ternals of religion.
— Dr. Seltser,
vitality of this nation, tin- second
one iu our day. In 1860, when the
slave power inul stretched out its
hand to secure its ascendency in
this Union forever, we fought to
re-establish tin- fundamental i
ditfoil of human society, which is
freedom. And now when the cor-rupt
tendencies stimulated by the
civil war and the ci tions fol-lowing
to culminate in reaching for
il;- prestige of national approval,
we light to re-establish the funda-mental
condition of g,. nl govern
meat which is honesty. The cause
i't to day is no less great and vital
tli.in was the cause ol 23 years
■ _ >. and those who were proudest !
to stand for freedom then will !
lie proud to st: nil up for honest
government now.
This is not the cause of a mere
party. It is greater than any par
t.v. It is in the broad sense the
cause of the people, the cause of ,.,.., |, , tilvl|
all classes ami honorable occupa-tions
alike. It speaks the language
of interest, and says to om mer
chants and business men : You
know that the successful working
of commerce and trade hangs upon
trust between man and man. ion
need credit as a nation as you need
confidence between individuals, if
you discover that a managing man
in your business is in secret <-■ .11
ccit with an_> of your customers
and uses the Opportunities of his
position for his own pi rsonal profit, neigbboi
you confide iu him no longer, but
you discharge him. If you learn
that tiie cashier of your bank SO
uses the opportunities ol ids place,
you distrust the institution and
withdraw your deposits. What
will you think of yourselves, what
will the world think of MUM- busi-ness
judgment and your sense of
honesty, if in something far greater
than your shop iu your bank, if iu
the government of your country
you promote the man whohasdoue
this to the highest place of honest
and trust ? You complain that the
credit of our great enterprises has
most injuriously suffered at bomi
in tin' Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal, re
commends beef tea made vcrj hoi
with red pepper, for delirium tie
incus. A London surgeon is stall d
to have treated ISO cases success
fully with this remedy alone.
—At this time, when cut Itowera
fade so soon, it is "ill to know
that if a small bit of the steam is
cut off anil the end iinau-iseil in
very hot water, the Mower will lre-qnently
revive and resume its
b anty. Colored Bowers are more
easily rejuvenated than white ones,
which are apt lo turn yellow. I'm-preserving
Rowers in water, fiiiclj
pulverized charcoal Bhould be put
into thi'vase at this season. Where
v.iii-s arc growing in water,char-coal
will prevent foul odors fi in
the standing water.
Campaign Nolan.
—The mud slingcis seem to In'
—There arc 50,000 postofltees in
the I'niti'il States.
—France has her cholera, En-gland
her Egypt and America hei
campaign.
—A m.in may be a swell in ever.!
other respect and lee] happy, but ,i
man with a swell head is much to
be pitied.
—If you see a large family Bible
lying on the centre table iu your
front parlor, do no
hastily .jump al the conclusion
that the family is religious, but
open it and count tin- number of
ferns that are being pressed.
—Irate fanner: "See here, sir.
If you are going to run a railro.nl
through my firm I wanl 040,000,
il. ig.-s." Superintendent: "Foi
ty thousand dollars! Great t.'a-sar,
man! Vou only paid (4000 for the
whole property three mouths ago !"
Bate farmer: "Yes, but a railroad
through it makes ii In times more
valuable."
—As the train pulled out of Kan
sas city recently, bound west,
occupied a seat iu thesmokingcar,
«,is accosted by a rank looking
specimen of western humanity.
'•Goin' for west, stranger .'" he ask-ed
"Yen. sir." replied the old
gentleman, politely. "I am going
to Denver." "Businessor pleasure?"
"Chiefly for my health." "Ah.
yes, I see I'nini the east, ain't
yerf "Yes. I am president of
the Twenty tillh Naii.ui.il bank of
New York.' "You don't su.v so!"
exclaimed the west. inn-. Then lie
added in a whisper: "Gin' u~ \. r
band, old panl. I'm righi glad to
uieel yer I'm a Missouri train
robber."
•. Brllilanl «»,-,.-.■ i ii .i ■ i >.
Mi
nit.v.
dini
and abroad by the unscrupulous L fine looking a\[\ gctJeman w'ho
tricks ol the inside rings in corpoi
ate iiiunngcmci t. How "ill it lie
if you give the solemn sanction of
your votes to something akin to
the .same practice in the govern
ment of the republic f
Nan kish *>rlil ilnriitalil}.
A mawkish sentimentality has
been growing up in this country lor
some years past, the tendency of
which has bciu toregaid criminals
gene:ally as objects of motherly
coddling rather than proper sub
jeits lor legal punishment. This
view has prevailed to such an ex
tent that iu some places and under
some circumstances it has been a!
most impossible to enforce the pen
allies provided by law for even the
worst offences, ami in some cases
it has turned om that the more
flagrant the crime the greater and
more active has been the sympathy
aroused. There is however, a
healthy reai-tioa setting m Oil this
Subject, and appearances now in
die tie that the time for mistaken
and misapplied clemency has well
nigh gone by. Evidence on this
point is furnished by the manner in
which the propos tion ol the New
York Star, thai the scoundrels who
assault defenceless women should
be punished at the whipping post
has been received by the press m
different parts of the country. So
far as comment has heen made
upon it. the expression i» almost
uuani isly in its favor, ami it
will not be at all suprising u that kl it ,-„. M, , „ ,;„„,
form ot punishment snail be legal
ized iu several of the states befon -.maii.-r 10.000 ••!
long. Whipping with the lush in "■
(be hands of a stalwart man is a lion. Gronville II II. Onray,
severe, and may be made a brutal, delegate in Congress Ironi Arizona
punishment; but it really seems as Ternl ry, and a member ol the
though there are some outrages lor com mil tee which notified t'levi lam!
wuieh no other penalty is adequate, | and Uendricks of their uomina-and
of these is the beatiii. of wo lions, arrived in I he city yesterday,
men,—and tin- cruel treatment ol To a Ktar reporter today lie said
children, also, it tna> !»• added, that his intercourse with New York
Though painful in 'he extreme,
1 whipping is not physically or men
tally harmful in itseffectH, howevei
long recollect ions of its stings may
I survive. Its severity is what makes
it dreaded by the brutes who de
serve it. and that is its real recoin
meiidat:on. If law-breakers know
that the application of the lash will
inexorably follow the commission
Of certain offenses, does any one
doubt that snch offeosea will be . laud will cany New York by
. much scarcer than they now arc I majority
Bi-id ha- a brilliant opnm tu
Ylllll llflll, Il III IMOIIII . Of stll
and Ii-mpi-r.il.- life, ti lined
to upplii at. ..I an I gilted M ii ii elo
i|... nee—not Ihe old I'usui il
fluency of line words men I .
the , ever ol ready. gracel il, iiil'l
torcible i ; ressii n -having mini
entry won public rnufideiicc by In i
sterling qualities or head and heart,
and lia> ing made enemies ol Mime
mi ti ■' In -e host ility is com lucuda
tion of his character, the peopl
his district expect sound and tail
Hunt work from Iiiin. No young
mini has entered pu'dic life since
tits war, in North I'aroliu i,
whom more is expected, ..i «lm
has a liiltei i pi...i tllliitj ;.i
our political life on Unit high plane
where Mi. Bi-iil'- -n-ili-i .:
Democrats had inspired him with
a feeling of confidence in the sue-cess
ol Cleveland in that stale.
Said he: '•EveryDetnocr.it I talk-ed
with "as not only hopeful, bill
confident, while the Repuhlienus
were dispirited. Our folks in New
York do not feel any ilmilit of the
result. I saw John Kelly several
time-, and Tammany "ill support
the ticket. Mj belief is that Clew-.
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