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Greenback Corruption

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
July
Year
1878
Copyright
Public Domain
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From the Jnckson Patriot. It has couie to the knowledge of the editora of this paper that certain letters were sent to some of the newspapers of Michigan urging thoiu to be preBent at a meeting oi journaliste to be held in this city June 18th, and in which it was stated that certain niysterious parties had concluded that the editorial fraternity should be better couipensated aud less nioney expended tor speaking than heretofore, and conoludiug with the sentence, "It is noio or timer with the newtpap&n." This extraordinary document is signed by " J. B. Grilford, Mditor of Patriot," aud dated and uiailed from Jackson. To those acquainted with the Patriot and its editora it is unnecossary to say that no persoa by the name of Gilford is huw or ever has been connected with it, and we know no one of that name in the city, and that the "Editor of Patriot" attachod to give it weight aud rebponsibility, was used without our knowledge or consent, and is to all intents and purposes a forgery. A at least ono ot' the parties referred to also received a letter sigued Moses W. Field urging attendance at Jackson on the sarue day, aud as Mr. Field's State Central Committee held a session in this city on that day, the idea suggest8 itself that uu alliance with these papers in the uational interest was dusired, and that it was intended by the liberal use of money to corrupt them into a support of the National State Ticket in the coming canipaign ; and the further circumstance that two or three joumals have changed their politics in the direction referred to since this mysterious conclave was huid, would indícate that tbis schome was uot without results. Thero is also additional and stronger evidence of false pretense and doublé dealing connected with this matter, which, without pormissiou from the party furnishing it, we do not teel at liberty to disclose. - We can hardly see a posibility of the Republicans recovering the House of Representatives which they lost in the election of 1874. The whole dritt of political tendencies is against them. The President they elected two years ago has not proved popular even iu his own party, and although the quarrel is understood to have been hushed, the Republicana can feel no enthusiastn for a chiof whom their organs have been accustomed to belittle and deride. The people at laige favor economy; and most of the extravagant legislation of the late session was the work of the Republican Senate, which repressed the frugal teudencies of the Democratie House. The Potter iuvestigation may not have niuch effect, but its effect, so far as it has auy, will not be for the advantage of the liepublican party. - N. }'. llerald.

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Old News
Michigan Argus