, 1874-03-21
WASHINGTON.
Buffers Man Simmons--A Logical Product
Of Our Political System.
Prospect that Butler will Be the Next
Governor OF Massachusetts.
The Government Printing Office, and
It's $2,000,000 Of Printing.
Fruas Our Onn Correspondent.
-WAsn1NaToNt March il, 1874.


From Our O.rn Correspondent.
.WAsli1karoNt March il, 1874.
TEN a1MaloNa
have secn Simmons, tho new Collector Of tho
Port Of Boston; aud 1t Ia astonishing how fa-
1niliar great MN looks when you como cloHo
to him. uo Inns q hard head, suhstautial man-
ner worry alert faculties, small body, and tho
nddross of young business clork WHO had just
got within tho partnership, aud spoke with
mixod modosty aud authority. Ho doea not
drink or smoke, although hiB room was full of
tobacco and champagne, and everybody waH
toasting lIs great moral victory, "a IL he
had deserved Roman triumph. atn
q little shy i'll such company, mud couldn't undor,
stand 1t wholly. 1t soomel to mo TINT soua-
thing had beon dono for Alr. Simmons for some
logical If not good roason, and that everybody
was happy; but why, doponcnt could not nny.
What douoo Of . place Washington is to con-
fuse mons intellectual aa woll na moral percep-
tious. 1t Ia only by going into my room for days
at q time, or getting on my horse and riding OF
in the woods and lanes, that I get any standpoint
on what is occurring.
1t was plain, however, to understand the oaso
Of this young new Collector. Ho vas q Boston
boy, OF poor parcntago, raisod In ths rough
North Ward. To be raised In tho rough North
Ward Of Boston, away fromthe Atlantic Monthly
tho Common, DR.. Holmes, and tho Big Organ,
is national discredit. Each ward OF Boston, aB
you know, has the importance Of . sovereign
State; and, when mention tile North Ward,
you wiil understand tho question. did not,
hut was afraid to Bay go. 1t seems TINT thoy
hare boats IN that ward, barrels of oil, ropo,
1igging~lofts, and so forth. These things
,1n and p1r.1
out from amongst them. Ho Skinned up po-
litical rope at m carly age. Ho was precocious
on o speech. Ho could take tho nased American
eaglo in Ills infant hpgerB, and squeeze that say-
age bird 90 that it would Bcrcam at primary
andagain he could organize precinct, putscrews,
os they call them md wires, in motion, until ho
advanced himself. ks ono of bis admirers said
to me-: "He raised himself right up from a poor
boy. He's desorvin' OF heap Of credit"
Looked at this poor boy ngatn,-direot, knotty,
alive indurntcd,- and felt TINT, III his field, lie
was not lightweight, small though he stood
in his stockings. We maintain system, and
call
THE LOGICAL PRODUCT
Of It hard nauos. We live on Beacon Hill, and
vote the rogular ticket year aftor year, like
band Of ind1noriminating bigots; and then, when
tho North Ward orupts up Simmons, our sonsi-
bilitieB are shocked.
We come to SEQ President, unlike Simmons
chiefly in boing lis inferior, and appeal to
him to tako this fountlling Off our door,
knockcr. We visit Boutwell,, whose greatest
abilities nro in combination and slyness, like
Simmons, a,ld persuade him to take tho back
track at Just that momont of time whom llo is
sure to slip up and fall on himself. We 30 to
tho proseueo Of Bon Butler to get our shins
Kicked, aud that great comedian cocks bis oye.
puts his thumb in lliB arm-pit, smiles bright
green smile OF dogissh joy, and proceeds to say
That he will mover desert tho American SOLDIER.
gtcat Gen. Gagol Ho took tho last and
meanost, and Witlal tho quaintcst revenge,
and only sixteen votes in the Sennte were
cast against Simmons,- ,-Democratg supporting
Thus. the Republican party in tho country Of its
origin, in the city of Josiah Quincy and John A.
Andrew. Ia d witness Of the fnal victory OF tac-
lcB over principles, managers over statesmen,
not evidence that It is amero!y prmtorian party,
4 Wal]ensteans army, serving for plumber, mono
will ever bo given.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
has bad no equal in tho history 81 the United
experience and ability Of its politicians, the
passive obedience Of itB voters, and the gradual
extirpation Of its moral and economical objects
by the motive Of interest and prolonged dolnin-
ion. How otherwise could 1t have survived tho
FIRST term Of Presidont Grant? How does it
still carry majority OF tho elections in tho midst
Of a cannonade OF exposures? j? It cannot be
compared to tho Democratic !, arty In the day Of
Jackson aud Piorco; for that party. in Jaceson'B
and it tore tho United States Bank, the special
partner of politics, oil to pieces. Despite it's iron
hand, winch took weight from the nature Of its
President, it was, in the main, the popular party
frr1,f ftrn f1.a of,fr 1$ ufn11 ttt,n
patronage OF tho Domocratio party nnlor Mr..
Pierce was inconsoquontial, in tho light Of what
we sec around us. Tho railroad-patronnge was
but Just begun tho construction of large pub
Which was with opposition conceded an aquo::
duct. State rights. so much condemned
nowadays, had tiis good effect: TINT
sysy s ass Of r'y Tho net Tosy 1'gSaI S
tho author Of tile definition, that tho nation
was q grabbing. Despite the vast md dark
anomaly Of Slavery, there Was pride Of locall-
England aud tho South, which kept down famil-
iarity, prevented "poos" and "slates" between
the States, and public mon watched each other
Ms Gascon watches Norman, and Breton watches
Alsaciau, III French Assembly.
Tho more commercial North succeeded to such
state Of things, first with riotous hilarity, and
noxt with vast levy upon tho energies aad mon
Of the country, which exceeded tho PATRONAGE OF
tho combined nations of civilization Melted
and hardened in the fro Of tho War, boys grew
to be Qnarternasters aud Generals, disciplined
and omboldencd III adyanes Of having formed
any settled principles Of thinlting or be-
lieving. Thego became the politicians and
active citizens Of the country, at the close
roll OF Congress and public character. Tho voting
millions, with feelingH intensified BY the Wal,
continue to live in Its passions and memories
sud upon tho baBiH OF that Army Of tile Union
remains tho Society Of tho Oincnnati,- the
managing politicians Of tho Republican party.
It is the Wing party. with eclectic politicians
from all other parties, Domoorats prodominRting.
' These men hayo literally reconstructed America
i'll all things material, using all for party.put,
ronage, until they may bo called tho National
Bnard OF Public Works Universal jobbery,
extending to every branch Of businoRs, ia tho
attendant OF this enormous activity, md tho
public mind iB Labituated to it. lilo press Inns
done no more than to expose 1t until The thing
coaaes coast to be interesting. Civil Service
is Bcoffed on evory side, although
such work as wo aro engaged In Ml1Ht,
In its nature md oxcesa, Involve johbory,
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