Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-05-28
THE NEW YORK ELECTION IN
WASHINGTON.
Radicnlisn Willis Under Democratic
Sunshine.

Kadicniism willis Under DemOcratac
Sunshine.
D. P. writes from Washington to the
Cincinnati Commercial:
There is no denial of the fact that the
late election in New York has had a some
what depressing effect upon the Govern
ment people here, who, up to that event,
counted their two thirds majority in Con-
gross, and swung on as if there were no
constituencies taking note of their short
comings. That the City of New York,
under the corrupt control of the most in
famous organization known to political
humanity, should exhibit huge majOrity
in favor of the Democracy, was expected.
But the result in the rural districts fills our
friends with. dismay. 1t is the hand
writing on tls wall, and means death.
And yet, Judging from the talk of Re
publican officials heretofore, one would
gather that the defeat of the Republicans
in triumph of the Democracy, was an
event TO be expected, and, whether pleas
ant or not, one to be regarded with philO-
| sophical Indifference. But death, how
ever long anticipated, cannot be made
familiar. We look the inevitable calmly
in the face until the face assumes that
form, and then we shrink in dismay. |
take my meals at Welcker's, where quite
a number of Congressman feed, and the
morning the news reached us and each
man opened his morning journal to read
the news, dead silence, a deep gloom fell
| upon the room, so marked that a stranger
would have taken US for collection of
undertakers, refreshing ourselves upon the
cold baked meats of funeral
| The mass of thieves and swindlers that
have crowded upon the Republican craft,
until it is fairly swamped, for the first
time begin to realize that their days are
numbered their doom sealed, What
with this Ubiquitous protective tariff that
grinds down the multitude that few nay
prosper; what with the hard tiIaes and
the thousand and one gigantic Legislative
swindles for few monopolists, the peo-
pie sicken and cry out for change.
Old Pig-iron says, in the deepest tone
of voice that sounds like echoes from q
rotten coffin: ''The Demo cratic partee
will never consent, sir, TO re- duc-tion OF
the tariff. The leaders may advocate
such a ru-in-Ous pol-i-cee when out Oh
| pOW~tI, UuI hlICn III pOhSi1 oAAj tA~J
dare not
Poor devil, think 1 see him begging {
protective tariff from the Democracy. The
| instincts of that celebrated organization
are not so keen and perfect as rthey once
were, but enough are left to conHol the
party on that subject, and indeed, all Others
of a financial sort. A Democrat is maj
who hates taxation. The support OF e
government Of any sort is very offensive tt
him, and the leaders are popular so Ions
as they cater 10 this healthy prejudice
Jack Cade's financial notions, as portrayed
! by Shakespeare, are peculiarly democratic
/ see Jack in Congress now, returned by
| constituency in the full exercise OF Demo
| ciMic interests in this direction. HI
HSn. VIM. Mungen is true type OF IN
| Democracy. He is their Jack Cade OF to
, day. and his idea of financial policy Is L
wipe out old scores and to begin again
, ! This sort will have the next House OF Req
= resentatives. and not the learned Brook
and volatile Cox, who represent the Dem
ocratic bondhoHers. Wait until Brlc
Pomeroy & Co. put in an appearance, an
then let Kelley plead for protective tarlf
4 1t will be good fun to note how such final
ciers will receive and act upon such prof.
ositions. And it will be, further on, grei
G comfort to see how the people Will rail-
e around and sustain these gentlemen
e their short cut to prosperity. l think
hear Brick on the floor promulgating d
idea of a financial treatment Of the
e tional debt.
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