Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-06-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsl.!%GToy, ID. G.. Jane Al. 1873.

already had one or two informal meet
ings for the purpose of determining
upon comprehensive plan for gradu-
ally famlliarizing the masses of the
Republican party with the following
ideas: First, that there is nothing
dreadful, per- Sc, in president serving
three terms; next, that if the country
has good president. it would be fool
lsh to set him aside for no better reason
than that somebody else wanted the
position; and lastly, as the time for the
nominating convention approaches, that
domestic tranquility at the South and
the integrity of the Union can be as
snred only by containing Grant in the
presidential chair for third term.
THE PRESS Is TO BE USED
extensively for the dissemination of
these IDEAS; and it has been determined
that,aftcr while, only avowol third
term men shall be appointed to vacan-
cles III the civil service, and that the
tenure OF office Of every man, from the
cabinet-oificcf to the night Waterman
OF custom-houso, shall depend upon
his open expressed views favoring a
third term. Preparations are being
made for as desperate a struggle forp o-
lltlcal and financial power as any that
history has recorded. Not only the Adj
ministration office holders, but the car
pet bag governments of the Southern
States, the National Bank men, the bond.
holders, the railroad land grabbers, the
salary gr.bbers, the credit mobilcr
swindlers, the wealthy manufacturers,
the men with fraudulent claims who di-
vide with the officials that put their jobs
through -all these men have too good a
thing to give up without a fearful and
expensive contest.
PROPOSED INCREASE OF THE CIVIL SERVICE
ARMY.
Tie seed sown by the Bureau of In
ternnl Revenue in the several States
produced such rich crops of Admins
tratlon votes last autumn, that the third
term men have determined to create, if
possible, u few more bureaus and to
| reconstruct others, so as to nocessitate
| vast addition to the already large army
OF federal otiice-hollers. With that
end III view, every preparation is being
made that the human ingenuity can
devise to place before the Add Congress
and the people, in favorable light, a
bill to authorize the
GOVERNMENT TO PURCHASE TIE TELEGRAPH
LINES
all the lines in the country-to place
them under the control of the Post
master General, and to prohibit the
future construction of private lines,
even by State authority in short, to
place telegraphic communication on the
same footing, in every respect, as the
present postal service. The agents,
superintendent, operators and other
employees in government telegraph Of
fees, all over the Union, would be quite
serviceable during presidential cam
paign.
Another measure of The third term
men will be the creation of
BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH,
which shall see that the post-oflices,
custon-houses, court-rooms and other
buildings belonging to the government
are constructed on hygienic principles,
and that the employees are all vacci-
mated and keep their bowels open. In
a similar bill that was introduced to the
Senate, last winter, as feeler, several
other duties We're assigned to this b,,-
reau; but have not the bill at hand,
and forget what they were. do re-
member, though, that the way was left
open for the future brigades of Office
holders in each State.
1t is also in the programme to en-
deavor to pass Hoar's " Bill for the Es-
tablishment of q National System of
Education" SO amended that it will
give
MORE POWER AND PATRONAGE TO TIE BU-
REAU OF EDUCATION
in most of the Southern States. Hoar,
who is an honest, straightforward man,
and by far the ablest member of the
Massachusetts delegation, tried hard to
get his bill favorably considered by the
41st and 42d Congress, and will be in
dignant at any attempt by professed
political friends to mangle it for per-
sonal or party purposes; but if the third
term men, most of whom have hitherto
opposed or lodged it, find that they
can trade it through, amended to suit
them, they will care little for his wishes
in regard to it.
AtNAT1oNAL QUARANTINE SYSTEM.
in another contemplated measure of the
third term men for. swelling the num-
Der of federal officials. At present,
each State enacts it's own quarantine
laws. It will be readily perceived that
the number of health officers and other
employees necessary to enforce these
laws, in the several seaboard cities of
the Union is, collectively, very large,
and would add much to the numerical
strength of the administration that ap-
pointed them.
I have endeavored to outline the pro-
gramme of the third term men, and to