The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-12-23
THE REBEL DEMOCRACY I
POWER.

We have q good many subscribers who
are Democrats, but who are nevertheless
honest men. To such we desire to sub
NIT few facts.
You know that your party has large
majority in the House of Representa-
tives in Congress, and has full control
there. Your party has elected Speaker,
Clerk, Postmaster, Sergeantat-Arms,a and
all the minor officers of the House
Here is what dispatch to the Cincin-
natl Gazette says:
The scene in the House was without
precedent in the last ten years At a
very early hour the seedy throng of
ofhce-seekers that has filled the hotel
lobbies for the last two weeks had taken
possession of all the approaches to the
House wing of the Capitol. Every avail
able inch was filed. The floor of the
House was a living mass, the galleries
were densely packed, and the atmos-
phere was a disgrace to the Republic.
The scene on the floor was interesting to
the historical observer. One who has
followed the history of this country dur
ing the last civil war could not have be-
lieved that there had been a rebellion.
A visitor at the Confederate Congress
would have been reminded of the men
and times when Robert Tombs was going
to call the roll of his slaves at Bunker
Hill. Within the House was the vacant
chair which was occupied during the last
Congress by the President of the
Confederacy, and which is now reserved
for him in this. John II. Regan, the
PostmasterGeneral of the Confederate
Government, was sworn in. Among
those sworn in were q score of persons
who held high places in the political SER
vice of the Confederacy. While the Con-
federate Brigadiers were present in large
numbers, the number of those who were
compelled to take the modified oath,
would, a few years ago, have startled the
North and have been declared impossi-
BILE.
The Confederate Congress in epitome
can be found in the House of the Forty
fourth Congress, and those who have
been so long called rebels in the North
guard the door. From tomorrow the
approaches to the hall to the House of
Representatives will be guarded by La
fayette Fitzhugh, the old Sergeantat-
Arms of the Confederate Congress. The
prayer, which was omitted to-day, will be
spoken by an Episcopalian rector. who
was unable in the war days to minister
to a church in Connecticut because he
then refused to remember the President
of the United States in his public prayers
as his rubric and his Bishop commanded;
and the letters will be distributed to the
members at the hands of Captain of
Joe Stewards cavalry. Things have
changed.
Lest you should say that this dispatch
was colored by partisan feeling, we will
give what the editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer wrote to his paper about the
new Speaker:
Mr. Michael c. Kerr, is a thin, sandy
gentleman, with a restless, nervous man
ner, which makes him about as agreeable
as the bear in the menagerie, who makes
his hind-legs a pivot, and swings back
and forth in the cage like pendulum,
while being inspected at fifty cents a
head. His front elevation is not bad for
o man who bears the traces of malaria,
but his profile is unpleasant. He is in
very poor health. His speech, upon taking
the chair, was timid and indecisive. 1t
is said that he suffers very much from
chronic diarrhea 1t strikes me that q
man afflicted in that way should not as
pire to great Office, but there is no such
thing as lettering human ambition. Mr..
Kerr will never be able to dispatch busi-
ness with the celebrity and snap of Blaine
or Colfax, but these men were profession
al speakers-experts as it were.
He belongs to the order of sick men who
are always dying but never die. n
1t is said that Mr.. Kerr is q Methodist.
l have heard him swear like a mule
driver, and this would seem to indicate
that he has no notion of setting up for
Christian statesman.
Mr.. George M. Adams. the Clerk, was
an avowed rebel during the war, and this
is what the editor of the Enquirer says
about him:
1t has been discovered that Mr.. Geo
M. Adams, of Kentucky, the newly
elected Clerk of the House, is a salary
grabber He was member of the Forty
second Congress, and stood the raise"
The demagogical pigmies are in Spasms
over this. Some pure-minded statesmen,
who voted against Mr.. Randall for Speak
er because of his record on the salary
question, walked up to the support OF
Mr.. Adams. Some gentlemen from Ohio
did the same thing. 1t would be we'll to
find their names and fasten them on the
doors of the Courthouses in their dis
tricts. We have been putting Congress
men in the stocks out in Ohio for taking
the increased pay, and l ar. in favor Of
giving to the pillory the :allows who