New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-13
THE HOPES OF TyE HOUSE or BLAZE.

Dean Swift would have drawn an excellent
portrait of tho Washington Politician. The
W. r. is n character He ia Indigenous to the
National Capital. aud rarely tlriyes in any other
place. Generally, he is native of the Dis
trict, but the records sometimes show instances
of successful transplantng. Thus, a fine
young New-Yorkcr, who has just seen the
inside of the Tammany Ring, and has
scarcely reached the Councilman's position, or
n plump corn-fcd Pennsylvania, who has
attained the early dignitics of n party State
Committee, WILL if taken to Washington and
properly cared for bloom into a very accepta-
BILE specimen
To this Washington Politician the world is
composed of red tape and scaling wax. The
economy of nature is one endless circumlocuti0n
Office. He lives between the hours of 10 o'clock
and g. including an hour for lunch. His days
Of dread are the first and fifteenth of each
month. His constant anxiety is for promotion
from the "class he is in to the "class y above
him. Mr.. Postmaster General Randall, one of
the few cases of successful transplanting
late in life, expressed an axiom when he
said that all the officers in the Department
should support Mr. johnson because be vas tie
source of their "bread and butter We fancy
that it is as much bread and butter and an
instructive, uncomfortable dread of the first and
fifteenth days OF next March that lead to the as
tonishing unaumity with which Washington poll
tcians abandon President Johnson and surround
Gen. Grant The one fact these gentlemen
appreciate is a majority in the Electoral
College. From tho moment 1t was known
that Gen. Grant had majority of the
Electoral votes, they were his warm and
steadfnst friends. his lusty, consistent support
ers, his champions through good report and
evil report, just as they would have been for
Mr.. Seymour had he been successful. Grant was
their choice from the beginning. They never
intended to support anybody else In all his
quarrcls with Johnson, they gave him a silent
but sincere sympathy. And now they will give
him The National Inieiiigencer; and, if ho
has any trouble u1vutt Inc INC iit;e patronage
that drips from the Department they will
find public spirited citizens like Mr. Coyle, Mr..
Wendell. Mr.. Hoover, Mr.. Berret, and the Hon
orable Thomas b. Florence, not to speak of the
multitude of the Blair family Thy blood and
marriagcL perfectly willing to take every
responsibility from his hands.
Mr. Montgomery Blair is perhaps the most
conspicuous and illustrOus Washington Poll
tcian now living. His trumphs havo been the
wonder of this generation. Under Mr.. Lin
coins administration he was Cabinet officer
Another member of his family was in the Cabi-
net, third was an Admiral in the Navy, in
charge of the most profitable blockadng station in
the service, while n brother was in the Army, or
rather oscillating between the Army and the
Speakershp of the House. II Mr.. Seymour had
been elected we have no doubt that the whole
Administration would have been transferred to
Silver Springs, aud the multtudinous Blairs
would have taken the Government on con-
tract. The election of Grant would seem
to have put an end to this pleasing anticipa-
ton. and to remand the whole Blair family
back to the appalling necessity of working for
their daily bread Montgomery, however, with
his serene and modest genius. comes to the
rescue, aud now. according to Democratic