Charge With Playing Double

Considerable ill féeling is being engendered within the ranks oí the repuftlican party over the congressional situation. The horny-handpd granger ef Augusta wants to be eommissioned by the peopie of thfs district to go to Washington, and, we imderstancf, says he has been promísed the snpport of Mr. Beal. There is ex-regent Tlynd of Adrián who stnod unfnlterfngly by Mr. Beal throughout fiïs long contest in nniversity afTaírs, and lie, too, we liear, says he has been promised the support of Mr. Beal. These promdses as alïeged, carne home with considerable forcé to the maker, at the convention on Tuesday, and was the occasion of nrach quiet and fnd'ignaTit comment among republicans who don't understand juat how Mr. Beal can ronsistentTy and rroaorably support two candiiates. What further complicates the situation is the fact that Mr. Sawyer,. Mr. Beal's flrst ïïeutenant, has been making a qwiet canvass in the western portion of the county to secure the delegates for himself for congress in order to break into and prevent a solid delegation n he ma''p fór ChiWN, caicnlatfng npon the' re-nomihaticm of Wilüts, md by thua keeping the nomirration outside th county, tire conrse will be clear for iimself two years lience-. We Ieam that when Mr. Beal was appïised of Mr. Sawyer's action he pretended to be highly indignant, and asserted, that though he intended to make Mr. Sawyer a delégate to Jackson for the expresa purpose of placing his name feetore the sonTentio, he should now put his foot upon him. Suffice it to say Mr. Sawyer took a back seat in the proceedings. was not elected a delégate neither was he called upon to make a speech. It looks as if the threat was execuled for the purpose of blinding the fatiFt-finders, wnoru, if they wateft the Jackson convention tvíH quite probably see Mr. Sawyer's name as delégate, and there as ai aubstltute. nor no i t-xpuciTooe.- kï is. í razer in tlie república county convenlion. No one believes this statement, not even Mr. Frazer himself. He would have to cliange his name and existence to prove it. Tliere never was a more persistent seeker for office in Washtenaw county than he. The ilemocraey elected him city recorder, circuit court commissioner and three times prosecuting attorney, maintaining him in office from the time he reactaed his majority untilrbyhis habits, it dare not UBger to place him on ïts tic-ket, the party suffering for wtaat it had already done for kim. During the two years he was a member of the greenback party he was a candidate for prosecuting attorney and circuit court judge. Robert E. Frazer noc a candidate for office! He lias a tight to become a political acrobat and e'iiinge front every two years, but when.he staacls up bef ore an audience of intelligent mer and solemnly asserts "ho is not nor sliall he be a candidate for office" people familiar witli his record have no coiifidenee in the assertion. Unlil Mr. Ftazer metamorphoses Èinast-lf mto another being, tlipn, and not until tlien will' he be credited with honesty in the statement. It is very probable if the facts were known, that there is at this time an understanding sstososrm positión in the future, between himself and Mr. Beal. Mr. DiVk Thompson, the Ancient Marnier of the Wabashjias passed" sentence solemnly upon General Hiteo;k, whom he declares to be a good soldier tut no statesman. Mr. Dick is the Tast person1 who shonid pursne this system ef logic. Wbn he was cliosen by Mr. Have as Secretary of the Navy Mr. Oick had never smelt salt water, did no know that an ironclad was hollow and would ïaave bettecf money that a war luwl c-nly pne mast. There was nothing in Mr. Dick's eíireer as a small country lawyer to indícate that he was the right man to pïace at the head of the Navy Department, nor had lie ever had a chance to display hímseTf as a griezled oíd sea-dog. Now, has Mr. Dick been a suceessful Secretary f the Navy. or not? We leave it to himself to deelde. Tf he has, why shouldn't General Hancock make a suceessful President? Tbe Heraldos CoJumbus (Ó.) correspondent writes tlmt tl. e thread which has held the Gennansto the Kepublican party for years has been very slender nd now seems likely to break, that Garfleld is not popular with them,while Ilancock is, and a stampede to the latter seems immiaent. The Wachter Am Erie, the most influential Germán paper in the narthern part of the State, has deserted the Republicana and will support the Democratie National and State tickets. If the army of 100,000 Kepublican office holders have an average salary of about one thousand dollars each, it gre te of ■? 100,000,000. An bh wii'd as a ouiïuiJuuuiuaiv., o.,., .. more than that to defeat Hancock and Í English.- Alb. Tiuies. My convíctions hare índneed me tf enter the repubïrran party.- R, K. Fra7.(r in the republiean eownfcy eonvention. Two years ago Mr. Frazer upon the stump advocateiï an nnlimïted issue of greenbacks, abolí tion of natíonal banks, and predicted direful effects from resumption of specie payment. Those were his oonvictions then and he advocated them with all the forcé of langnage he could command. His convicticuis now are that the convictions he held then were wrong. In two, indeed less tlian ono, year, he repudiates them and joins himself to the bank-preserving, resumption-sustaining, greenbackcancelling party. A man wlio rightabout-fronts as Mr. Frazer does, has no honest convictions, nor is he entitled to have any. He is simply politically mad, and by joining his new-found friends seeks to injure and destroy as far as he may the party that has provided him with position for a dozen years, and wouldn't givehim more. Convictions is a new name for it. It is not many months ago that Bob Frazer delivered a howling prohibition harangue at the City Hall in this city, and, in umneasured terms, notonly ridiculed, but bitterly condemned all political parties for their refusal to surrender to the demands of the temperance f anatics and solemnly declared that henceforth he should not vote fof or act with any party that was not openly pronounced in favor of prohibition. In so short a time we see the virtuous and indignant Robert swallowing his assertions and sneaking into the republican fbld jast as ready to work and vote for whisky men as he has been to talk against them. Frazer is nothing more than a politica] tumbler, without a principie that he can hold to longer than six months at a time.- Monroe i crat. Judge William Lawrence, who took a Comptrollership when he found he couldn't get a Congressional nomination, has assured a credulous reporter that the Republicans will carry Indiana because "General Garfield has as "strong a personal following in Indiana as he "has in his own State." Judge Lawrence's ignorance with regard to the position of parties in Indiana is excusable, but as x resident of Ohio he ; ought to know that General Garfield's "personal following" is so exceedingly limited that not once in his political career has he run up to his ticket in his Congressional district. If Air. Garfield's "personal following" is as strong in Indiana as it is in the Nmeteenth Congressional District of Ohio he will be beaten by some twenty thousand votes.