Richland beacon., 1876-06-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
W AsHINGT0N, ID. c., }
June I, 1876. J
THIRD TERM MEN At WORK.

"
some three years ago in Washington,
Tor the purpose Of securing Grants
denomination for second term, has
already had one or two informal meet
ings for the purpose of determining
upon a comprehensive plan for gradu-
ally tamiliarizing the masses of the
kepublIcan party with the following
IDEAS: FIRST, that there is nothin"
dreadful, per- 81, ia q President scrv-
iug three terms; next, that if the
country has good President, il
would be foolish to set him aside for
no better reason than that somebody
else wanted the position and lastly,
as the time for the nominating conven-
ton approaches, that domestic tran
guilty at the South aud the integrity
Of the Union can be assured oniv by
continuing Grant in the Presidential
chair Tor third term.
TlIB PRESS Is TO BE USrD
extensively for the semmation of
these ideas and i has been deter.
mined that, aftP; awhile, only avoved
third term mcn shall be appointed to
vacancies in the civil service. and that
the tenure Of Office Of every man, from
: the cabiact-oficcr 10 the night watch
man of q custom-house, shall depend
upon his openly. expressed views
favoring third term. PrcparatioGs
are being made for as desperate a
struggle for political and financial
power as any that history has record.
ed. Not OF ly the administration
oiilce-holders, but the carpet-bag gov
ernment8 of the Southern States. the
National Bank men, the bondholdcrs.
the railroad land-grabbers, the salary
grabbers, the credit moblier swindlers,
the wealthy manufactures, the men
with fraudulent claims who divide
with The officials that put their jobs
thrOugh-all these men have too good
Thing 10 give up without fearful
and expensive contest.
PROPOSED INCREASE OF TIE CIVIL
SERVICE ARMY.
The seed sown bv the Bureau of
internal Revenue in the several States
produced such rich crops of admins
trntion votes last autumn, that the
third term men have determined to
create, if possible, few more bureaus
ana to reconstruct others, so as to
nccessitate vast addition to the
already large army of Federal Office
holders. With that end in view,
every preparation is being made tha,
human ingenuity can devise 10 place
before the I3d Congress and the peo.
pie, in a favorable light, a bill to
authorize the
GOVERNMENT TO PURCHASE TIE TELE-
GRAPH 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 7
agents, superintenden,s, operators and
other employees in Government tele /
graph Offices, all over the Union,
would be quite serviceablc during
Presidential campaign.
Another measure Of the third term
men will DC the creation of
a BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH, (.
which shall see that tie post-ofliccs.
court-rooms and other 4,
buildings belonging to the Govern
mcnt are constructed on hyg:cnic
principles, and that the employees are
all vaccina,ed and keep their bowels
open. In similar bill that was in
troduced to the Senate, last winter.
as feeler, several other duties were
assigned TO this bureau; but | have
not TIE bill at hand, and forget what
they were. do remember, though, /
that the way was left open for the
future creation of several brigades of
ollice-hoders in each State.
1t is al>othe programme to enGeavor
to pass Hoar's "Bili for the Es,ab-
lishmcnt of National system of
Education so amended that it will
give
MORE POWER AND PATRONAGE TO TIE
BUREAU oP EDUCATION
in most OF the Southern States. Uoor
who Is an honest, straightforward
nan, and by far the abest member of
the Massachusetts delegation, tried
hard TO get his bill favorably consid.
cred by the list and AID Congresses,
and Will he indignant at any attempt
by protessed political friends to man.
gle 1t for personal 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,
A NATIONAL QUARANTINE SYSTEM
is another contemplated measure of
the third term men fo: swelling the
number of Federal officials. At pres
ent, each State enacts its own quaran-
tine laws. It. will be readily perceived
that the number of health officers and