The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-12-30

holders strong enough to declare their ten |
ure Perpetual No we'll informed person
doubts that il it were not for this class,
from the cabinet campaign munster down
to the postmaster who cdits country
newspaper, the cvnntry's demand Tor .
change would have been respected aud
conceded, and that nov. instead Il anar
chy and industrial paralysis, tho country
would he beautifully engaged IN msr.
chandise aud agriculture. IT, talking with
leading Democrats, the meat alarming and
sickeninS thing Is the hcpclessncss With
which they seem 20 regard all appeals to the
Constitution and laws. THIS hoPelessnoss
IS not expressed IN pronounced manner,
but it Is nevertheless apparent. The Ro-
publicSns Knocked the Constitution and
laws in the plenitule ot their power
/ they viii not respect them nov in their
| desperate death struggle. ThAddcus Ste
VEINS said To he'll with the Constitu-
ton, and the President Of the United
| States has, in the last week. expressed his
contempt for the supreme court Of one Of
the thirteen original States, in language
coarser, but lot less emphatic. ltmay be
very we'll for US as Democrats and patriots
Ia fortify our conscIences, and plumb our
souls with abstract right, precedent, and
\ constitutional Law. but let ms at the same
/ time realize that thase Who have clutched
.he government look upon the Constitution
as an effete instrument, and know no law
but might.
! la crises Ike this. nothing concerning
Tie men y HON fantastic fortune has made
/ the arbiters Of our fate, can bc uniutrrest-
ing. The President has supplemented the
! ignorance Of politics, of which he boasts
I IL his last message. v it'll ignorant 90 me-
! diocre advisers Since Bristaw and jew
Z eli wcrv kicked out there remains scarcely
! a tirst-rate man ia his Cabinet. HIS cou-
I sututIonal advisers are not statesmen; they
( are simply par;izans snd orouIes. The
most influential among chem are Mr.. Don
( Cameron, Secretary Il War, ana Mr..
I Chandler, Secretary ~ tie Interior vi
/ the Senators who have the confidence u
| the President. Mr.. Conklips lis the only
ane Who has CLAIMS to state smAnsktp; but
| his visits 10 the White House are few 10
comparison with those Of Patterson OF
I South Carolina, Spencer ot Alabama, ana
/ Boutwell, II Massachusetts,. senator Pat
/ rerson. who represents Chamberlain (uOt
l south Cardinal u the White House, is
natN of Pennsylvania, and protege, OF
rather puppet, Of the Camerons. The in
i tuence # the Canerous in national poll
\ tics is immense. Cameron peIe superseded
Summer IN shaping our foreign policy IN
Y the Senate, and Cameron Ills dictated
/ Ie Republican Presidential nomination.
I Among the Senators aho have come IL the
/ front IN this complication Is John Sher-
man ~ Ohio. Heretofore he has not been
| cousl icnous for anything but thrift aud
stature. The average newspaper reader
/ knows little more # him than that he votes
with MS party, and hss become. n some
wa enormously wealthy The name Is
EN- neBciy respectable, sud 80 Is the sen
at.- The name Is hi-turl. L carries as
acA 70 the heroic days ~ the Republic.
md We royalty associate him with the New
/ England statesman OF that name But lot
mot be mi.!r3 b. coincidence If sound.
! II Hayts had been elected, Junn Sherman
Suuld have mad opportunities greater even
than he now has for putting money IN his
/ drse. Sherman was the first - urge has
nomination, and TO him and Cameron
/ Hayes is chiefly indebted for bis candi-
/ facy When We study these relations We
nave Key 10 the superserviceabie parti-
zanshlp Il the intriguing Senator ~ MS
report On Louisiana, and the disgracetul
prostitution Of the army by the ambitious
youu. Secretary Of War ! know senator
sherman, but IT is not easy to describe
him, for he Is neither hot nor cold, but
negative ana mediocre in everything *
cept syarice and ambition. His most
marked characteristic is caution he has
! ..aiNA4CSs AT MS bdCk, out ne Ecclb between
! them and the observer.
There is little news here that you Hill
not have received by telegraph before this
reaches you. The plot Is becoming day By
day more transparent. The hoofs and
horns are disclosed, and the barbed tail is
unfolding Why has the General distin-
gulshed fer his raid on the Louisiana Leg
lslaturr, and by the 'all Of Us approving
dispatch OF Gen Belknap, been ordered to
take charge Of this military department,
and why has Gen. Hancock been banished
e the Pacific slope Does any one doubt
that Grant lneGitates the role Of Cromwell
with IN, British Parliament of Bonaparte
with the council Of five hundred But
Why cross the Atlantic for presidents
Has he not tried the experiment aitl sue
cess, two years ago in New Orleans, and
Two weeks ago in Columbia G. 5.