The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-11-25
WASHINGTON LETTER,
She Administration Awaiting u con.
tlngency thnt VIII Euable ~ 90 seize
Absolute Power, are not WIId and
Wbirliug NOrus.

Especial Correspondence to Tho Herald
! WASHINGTON, ID. G, November 10 .--
There is profound anxiety fell
here in reference, not to Tho
election, for both parties consid,
er that settled, but, to tho official
count IA it is called In Louisiana
which few believe viii be fair. The
large number OF small but aealou.
Office holding Republican politicians
who have worked col trlbuted and
voted desperately aud often, aud, IN
n humber of close States, like Ohio
and Wisconsin, decided the majority,
were, when they learned of their dc,
feat, resigned to submit TO u0r pOpu(l
| Il roe Del; but since the New York
Times has, according to programme,
claimed the so-called doubtful States,
and they have learned that Chandler,
! Kellogg, Packard ct 0teH drcddcS ARE
to be the interpreters of the U0g Del
IN this huutredth anniversary OF
American Independence, they are
, persuaded that the will OF large
electoral and an immense popular
majority, may be successfully thwart-
ed. They fluid much satisfaction aud
comfort Ia the reflection that the re- d.
turning boards . In Louitjana and
South Carolina are composed of Re-
publican candidates who are the Judges
OF their own election There
is much talk about "intimida.
tom in the Southern States, and
1t must be confessed, there Is in.
timldatlon. Your correspondent has
been there and has seen IT,
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 dl-
reeted, There Will doubtless be cords
of Atlldavits aud clouds of witnesses,
but the conviction Is deep here, with
fair men of all parties, that Tilden's
majority 10 morally and mathematio-
ally clear.
II is significant that Chandler,
Kellogg, Packard, and Republicans
Of that ilb, are the only ones that have
the eilrontery 10 claim the election
Of Hayes. We all remember the
indignation of the better Republican
papers, among them the New York
Tribune, when Huchariah Chandler
was made cabinet minister. His
reputation us 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 lie Ia
well known in Washington. Your
correspondent has seen him reel on
Pennsylvania avenue at midday, and
Toll in the street cars with stupid
intOXication. When sober he IN bold,
interruptions, oyerbearing and amhi-
tious. He will not sicken at blood spill
ing, so long rs his own skin ~ not
abraded. He does not pretend to be n
statesman, and he Ia too selfish to be
demagogue. He is simply and purely
partisan of the most soulless, danger
Gus type. No one who has seen him,
heard him, or studied his character,
can avoid n shudder when he realizes
that the destinies of n great people are
to a degree in the power Of this ius,ts
Il had almost said MpuS) h,mani.
Chandler controls Grant, Grant con.
trolls the cabinet and army.
Hayes has retired into the natural
ohscurity from which his candidacy
called him for little while, and 1t is
believed by many that Grant ana
Chandler would not hesitate to snuff
out the Republic in this year of 1876,
and that they would be seconded by
an immense army Of subsidized office
holders, and statesmen MS still distinI
guish the Republican party-Spencer,
Patterson, Clayton, Kellogg, Packard,
Boutwell, and Morton.l
There was significant editorial
paragraph In the administration paper,
the Republican, this morning. have
space only for the last sentence: "And
no President being declared, does
Grant hold over until successor Is
elected and qualifed?" There are sur
face indications here of plots and con-
spiracies General Grant Is the will
Ing pampered tool Of the party rs 1t is;
or rather the tool and the party are In
perfect accord, both would rejoice at a
contingency that would enable the adj
mlnistration to seize absolute power.
The man who thinks these are "wild
and whirlng words" Is simply not
abreast with the times. The country |
ha, become 30 habituated to the In
siduUus usurpations of the President,
that now, when he makes the most
unconstitutional uses Of the army,
sending II unasked and for political
to States that are az peaceful |
as solitude, there is scarcely voice
lifted In protest. This apathy Is por-
tenticus. We remember well the
burning indignation with which the
interference In Louisiana,
only two years ago, was received; 1t
was 30 emphatic that even Grant hesi-
tated, trembled and apologized, and
each member of the cabinet hastened
to disentangle himself from Belknap's
'all Of us' approving dispatch to Gen.
eral Sheridan. But where Is Sheridan
now, and the cabinet, except Belknap,
and where are the New York Times
and Trihuna with that, .toa...a..l A..