Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-11-22
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON Nov. IA.

At no point In our history, just Gel
ebrating our one hundredth annlver.
sary as nation, has the wise, dispas-
sionate counsel Of the Chief Executive
been more potential for good than at
the present crisis; and his determined
action in depressing the turbulent,
rampant, murderous mobs in the South
waiting the first 81 gn of weakness or
vacillation in the central government,
to sweep out of existence every SEM
blance of government in the disputed
states, and to replace them with crea-
lures Of the Ku-Klux Kans, of such
Infamous notoriety that even Demo-
cratic House of Representatives was
forced to repudiate them on paper, has
been amply justified by the events of
the past few days; and with the ex-
ception of those organs which have
either babitually denied the existence
of these satanic organizations or apollo
gIzed for their barbarties or openly ap-
plauded their wicked purposes, the
whole country appears to approve the
Presidents course with uuanimity
that is happy indication of the cheer
|
ful submission of the people to the ex-
pressed will of the majority. The
| President was never held in higher es-
TEEN than to-day. Standing unmoved
while the defensive waves Of partisan
strife were surging around him and
breaking against the foundations of the
Republic with force that threatened
its humiliation, the tempest has been
stilled, the apprehensions of men have
been quoted by his prompt action and
his reassuring words, and nation
gratefully hastens to acknowledge his
invaluable services in our time of sore
need and distress, as it did in 1865
when he had forced treason into ap-
parent submission to the Government.
With all the efforts made to bring him
into disreputs and to render him obi
Gus with the intelligent masses of loyal
citizens, his popularity was never more
pronounced than to-day if the senti-
ment of the large number of represent
, alive men now here, is a true exponent
of the general feeling. The good Or
der that prevailed all over the South
on the day Of election, largely due to
the presence of the United States mil
tia, is sufficient reply to the col
umus Of Democratic newspaper abuse
Of the administration In daring to send
troops into the South. The general be-
lief seems to be that they were never
applied to better use than on the 7th
inst. The Democratic shouts of exul-
taton which stung their political oppo-
nents to the last point of endurance OF
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning no longer exasperate them on
the street, although often reiterated,
somewhat modified, in the various gin
mills about town and other places Of
Democratic resort. From all that can
be seen and heard the confidence of
Republicans in the election of Hayes
has been strengthened by each day s
suspense. At last the kilograms an
nouncing success in Louisiana, South
Carolina and Florida have some res
ponsible name attached while the
Democratic heart is buoyed up by un-
signed dispatches giving the estimates
from the most "reliable sources" The
silly threats Of resisting Hayes inau.
guration, so frequently heard when his
election first appeared probable, hav e
been ridiculed out Of existence so that
they are heard no more, save here and
there among the Simon-pure Bourbons.
Washington is Republican to the core;
and it speaks convincingly Of the pat
riotism and respect for law existing
among the adherents of that party to
be able to say that no other thought
in the promises has been entertained
than that of acquiescence in the result
when that shall have been ascertained
The plotting aud counter plotting
among the large powers of Europe are
generally accepted here as rather omi-
nous symptoms Of a destructive war
which now appears almost unavoidable.
The infatuation Of the Turkish Gov
eminent in furnishing the Bulgarian
atrocities as a pretext for Russis to
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