The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1876-10-07

M7usiH Sircta sbgs ibt APPOINTMENTS
of SO impnrtant q pefsoEagn ss General
Martepez conposa, as soveraor-Ren.
erslship ef Cubs. is proofthat the gov
ernmeut is making every sacrifice to
crush the Cuban insurrectioa. The
nomination WAS Totally unsolicited.
General MeFtenez C9'npasai himself
nominated bis principal officers.
Washington ssosstP-PoiiIse.t News
fram Colorado and Florida Favor
able 10 the Party of gefrenessntent
and Reform.
WASHINGTON, October IA teie
gram was received from Colorado to-
day at the headquarters of the Re
publican National Committee deelar-
ing that that State had gone Re
publican and that the Republicans had
elected the Governor by small ma
jority and had a majority in the Leg
stature. At the Democratic Head
quarters the following dispatch was re-
eeived: "Returns come in slowly, bat
most encouraeingiy. We Claim both
the State and Legislature
WASHINGTON, October 5.-Postmas-
ter General Tyner has gone to Indiana
to remain till after the election. The
President mas not returned. He Is cx-
pected curing the night or early in the
Special Herald oosrespoRdence-l
AS winter approaches the national
capital a~akes from her summer
siesta. arranges her toilet, aud assumes
her society smile, in readiness for the
political. diplomatic and fashionable
throng that worships at her shrine.
Every season brings her new votaries,
and every season kEeils the political,
diplomatic or social death of those Oh
whom was once bestowed her brassy
approval. Where now are the majes-
tic BeikDap, the glitteriDg Jewell, the
| Gorgou Williams, aud their paragon
sp0uses and families, upon whom the
! sycophantish correspondents lavished
s,iu!atory voeahularies, as the quid ll1'o
| qlto for an occasional seat at their Ia
/ D,es, and standing room at their enter
! tainments? They have gone To meet
/ Colfax, rhebes and Palmyra, aud, If
| the shadow of events are not misinter-
preted the entire gang that hns for
! years wasted rare opportunities, abused
| high trusts, aud turned the temple OF
| nation into n den of thieves, VIII soon
swell the procession. Meanwhile l.
| Washington il mourning for her ri
! ined favorites? s'No, she will iangB
and toy with every new conner. No. s
/ tear more for winter, "A smile less for
summer" She isas too long played
| the part of Spiiynx in political and
| fashionable dramas to he tapturcd
or alai med at anything that
| caa happen. But il Is different with
| that organization known as the party.
| The posi- nility. net to say probability,
OF a change ia the admlnistI alton, has
caused great perturbation in the Re
publican dove Gates, and tie change
would, without doubt, create a great
| revolution in the official life of Wash
| ington. The strenuous efforts made
| by the thousands OF government
clerks here, their dociliiy under lille
/ gal taxation, and their patience in
labor, not their legitimate work, but in
the Republican campaign organiza-
| tions, all show how painfully anxious
they are about the result. They are to
be pitied, for many of them have
bought houses aud married wives, anu
have business and social relations that
depend upon n tiimsy tenure OF Office.
/ Then there are contractors who have
waxed fat by furnishing the depart
ments stationery, fuTnitcre, wagons,
ships--:he thousand and one articles,
from pin 10 a steam engine, that q
government spending, wasting hun
ureos OF millions annually will bny.
There are also a hortie of landlords,
headed by Boss Shepard, who build
cheap houses and rent them to the de-
pattments for at least double tie rent
that they could secure from ans other
j source. All these are perturbei, for
the contractor or landlord has his paid
agents as clerks, chiefs OF puresux, or,
as has been proved in more than one
instance, in the Cabinet, and a change
will be disastrous to them. Heaven
send us a Hercules To cleanse these
stables. No one can know theii
stencil until he has lived in Wash
ington.
: Perhaps the meanest campalgr
trickery TO which an administration
ever stopped is to retard business in tbs
government offices and attribute tn,
delay, in their printed official doeu
ments, to the reduction of the cleriea
force by the last Congress. It is fac
patent to any one who VIII take tbs
trouble TO examine, and known Il
thousands who are acquainted with of
fetal life. and routine in Washington
that the clerical force, Notwithstanding
the incompetency and inetficieney oil
the political beats aud iuhbers of which
IL Is largely composed, is still quite suf
ticient TO execute promptly all official
business, aud has abundant time L
spare for Republican campaign wor6
beside.
Ia all the letters now sent from the
patent Office is printed eonspicuously
ia red ink words To this effect lowing
to the reduction in the force ordered
by Congress, at its last session, spplica
tioos for patents cannot now be acted
upon with the usual promptness. This
Is nothing more nor less than a false.
hood in statement, and campaign
document in design, and it is quite as
mean and more ipsidous than the eff.
fort of superserviceable postmasters in
standing ENVELOPES with the words
"Vote for HAYES and Wheeler" The
only division of the patent office force
whose reduction would cause delays in
allowing patents Is that of examiners,
and not one of them has been dis
charged, only few messengers aud a
number of female copy lists.
Gen. Babeock's trial for completely
) in the safe burglary conspiracy, which
has been going on for two weeks will
be concluded to-day, aud the case will
go to the jury. There 5 little doubt
TINT he will be acquitted. The prose
cutioD, though ably conducted by MIR.
Riddle, has a weak case. If General
Bsbeock had anything tn do with the
burglary, he has IA ade it i'm pussible to
produce respectable evidence OF the
fact, and, the hypothesis of his crimi-
pai connection with Harrington in
Il e matter, or of his criminal knowi
edge after the fact, has not been clear
ly proved. He has been very ahIy
defended by Judge Fullerton, the
same who conducted the defence In
the Beecher trial. A verdict of aequit.
al or hung jury has been from the
first, q foreg0ne result, considering ths
stuff that the packed district iuries
are composed Of. That over exalted
heritage of trial by jury has nowhere
been brought into greater contempt
than at the seat of the national gov.
ernment The principal witness
, against Babcook, is tbs recent Chiei
|, of the Secret Service, Hiram &. Whit.
ley, whose evidence is vitiated by 9
num Der Of proven perjuries. When
it lie remem bered that this person has
long been the petted instrument %
the administration, and that he anC
his ernissaries have been frequently IN
the South, as one of them, Michael
I. 1 IL sd 81