The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-11-25
Letter from Washington.
cone.ponaenee Of nc Denoeta.Ie Advoea.s.
WAsnINaroN. Nov. 22. 1s76.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 1876.
There is profound anxiety felt here
) reference, not to the election, for bot
parties consider that settled, but to ii
official count as it is called in Louisiani
which few believe will be fair. The lare
number of small but jealous Office holdin
Republican politicians who have worket
contributed and voted desperately an
often, and, in number Of close State
like Ohio and Wisconsin, decided tn
majority, were when they learned of thei
defeat, resigned to submit TO uoz popul
et cor Del but since the New Yorl
Times has, according to programme, ,claimct
the 80 called doubtful States, and the,
have learned that Chandler, Kellogg, Pack
ard et dlteTi drc0Cies are to be the inter
prefers of the Uo1 Del in this hundredtI
anniversary Of American Independence
they are persuaded that the will of larg,
electoral and an immense popular majority
may be successfully thwarted. They find
much satisfaction and comfort in the re
Election that the Returning Boards in Lou
isiana aud South Carolina are composed
Of Republican candidates who are the
judges Of their own election There i.
much talk about intimidation" in the
Southern States, and it must be confessed
there is intimidation, your correspondent
has been there and has seen it. l have
heard negroes threaten to cut the heart
out of those of their own color for refusing
to vote as the Post Master or Internal
Revenue agent directed There will doubt.
less be cords Of afidavits and clouds Of
witnesses, but the conviction is deep here
with fair men of all parties that Tilden' S
majority is morally and mathematically
clear. 1t is significant that Chandler,
Kellogg, Packard, and Republicans Of that
ilk are the only ones that have the affron-
terry to claim the election of Hayes. We
all remember the indignation of the bitter
Republican papers, among them the N. Y.
Tribune, when Zachariah Chandler was
made cabinet minister His reputation
as politician of the worst character was
national, and he had just been repudiated
and remanded to civil life by Republican
legislature in his own State. He is well
known in Washington. Your correspon-
dent has seen him reel on Pennsylvania
Avenue at midday, and loll in the street
cars with stupid intoxication. When
sober, he is bold, unscrupulous, overbear-
ing and ambitious. He will not sick.
en- at blood spilling SO long as his own
skin is not abraded. He does not pretend
to be statesman, and he is too selfish to
be a demagogue. He is simply and purely
q partizan of the most soulless, dangerous
type. No one who has seen him, heard
him, or studied his character, can avoid
shudder when he realizes that the destinies
of great people are to a degree in the
power of this hsus, q had almost said
tapps) humdai. Chandler controls Grant,
Grant controls the Cabinet and Army.
Hayes has retired into the natural obsour-
ity from which his candidacy called him,
and it is believed by many that Grant and
Chandler would not hesitate moment to
snuff out the Republic in this year of
1876, and that they would be seconded by
an immense army Of subsidized office hold
ers and such statesmen as still distinguish
the Republican party-Spencer, Patterson,
Clayton, Kellogg, Packard, Boutwell, and
Morton.
There was significant editorial para
graph in the administration paper, the
National Republican, Saturday morning,
l have space only for the last sentence
"And no president being declared, does
Grant hold orer until successor is elected
and qualifede" There are surface indi-
cations here of plots and conspiracies.
Gen. Grant is the willing pampered tool
of the party as it is, or rather the tool and
the party are in perfect accord, both would
rejoice at a contingency that would enable
the administration to seize absolute power.
The man who thinks these are ''wild and
whirling words" is simply not abreast with
the times. The country has become SO
habituated to the insidious usurpations of
the President, that now, when he makes
the most unconstitutional uses of the army,
sending it unasked and for political pur-
poses to States that are as peaceful as SOL
itude, there is scarcely voice lifted in
protest. This apathy is portentous. We
remember well the burning indignation
with which the military interference in
Louisiana only two years ago was received;
it was 50 emphatic that even Grant hesi-
tated, trembied, and apologized, and each
member Of the cabinet hastened to disen-
tangle himself from Belknap's call of u.s.
approving dispatch to Gen. Sheridan. But
where is Sheridan now, aud the cabinet,
Except Belknap,) and where are the New
York Times and Tribune with their elo-
quent invective What pity that Rip
Van Wrinkle did not sleep until this hun
dredth anniversary that he might be able
to appreciate political, as well as physical,
changes. +
Locally there is nothing new except that
Boss Shepard has gone to the bottom
financially, swamping large number of
smaller piratical craft in the vortex of his
ruin.
The exquisite young ladies and gentle
men, who adorn the rosewood desks in the
Treasury Department, are annoyed if pos
sible more than ever before by creditors
who frantically insist upon payment be-
fore the fourth Of March. Many board.
ing house keepers, tailors, and milliners
would be glad to compromise at fifty per
cent, for the impression is general, that,
on the fourth, this gay superfuous army
must march forth. All business is block
ed. The only men who seem to be happy
and to have future are the auctioneers
who expect to sell cubic acres of real es-
tate and second hand furniture G. A. s.
The violet grows low, and covers itself