The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-12-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.


From our Regular correspondent
WAsnINGroS. December |, 1879.
I'm Washington there are but two
classes of opinionlsts on the election
uuestion-the government clerks, who
insist that Hayes is elected 10y majority
of one electoral vote, and another class,
whom Carlyle might call the "nongoy-
crnmcnt clerks" who say that Tildcn
has majority equal to the combined
electoral vote of Louisiana, Florida and,
perhaps, of South Carolina There IL
no compromise between them and the
lines are so sharply drawn between
those who are in government employ,
and those who try to make living hon
cstly That it is hard FOR those us who
look at the situation from Il Washing
ton standpoint to understand how any
but an onicc.hodcr can, in the face OF
figures and Developments, say that
Hayes is elected
As to the intentions of the President
and the influential wing of his cabinet
there can, since his action in the South
Carolina case, be no doubt BY the in.
tluential portion of his cabinet,
| mean those political Ppcmm
and adventures, whose fortune
is Identified with the fortune
of Grant--speciIicalIy Chandler, Robe
son, Cameron and Taft As for Mr.
l'yner, he is plus quantity only so far
as he represents his great patron, Sen
ator Morton But the others have no
political future except in the chances of
revolution, and in this respect they rep
resent the despernte-and, in fact only
portion of the Republican party that
is heard ut present. 1t is Iossible that
when Congress assemblies the calmer
voice ofwisdom may be heard from men
in the party who have political future
indepcn lent of Grant and Grantsm---
from such men, for instance, as nd
munds Christiancy, Cameron Of Wis
consin, and perhaps from Senator Conk
ling. These distinguished men have so
ar preserved silence that extreme
Republicans cannot regard as otherwise
than ominous, and it is asserted 10y
many that when Congress assemblies
they will come to the front and con
denim the unconstitutional and unre
publican methods that have been pur
sued in the Southern States by the Ey
exutive and State authorities, One OF
them at least, Mr.. Christiancy, the Scna
toral su ,cessor of Mr. Chandler, 10 he
consistent with his record cannot do
otherwise than condemn the present
Federal usurpations in Louisiana and
South Carolina At any rate, it may be
taken for granted that their uttcrancc.
and actions will reflect, in n degree, tn,
change in public sentiment of their re.
spective States, and this is believed to
be very pronounced. But at present,
it is quite apparent from judicial
usurpations in South Carolina. and
from the timid dispatch OF ChietJusticc
Waite, that the administration and Judi
ciary are, to an alarming extent, in the
hands If the reckless free hooters, who
are behind the throne. General Grant
is the most efficient tool with which
fortune could have favored them. They
will hatter and control him in the futur,
as they have done in the past, and
those who solace themselves with the
reelection, that the destinics of the mn
ton, in this Centennial crisis, are in the
hands of an ohtuse, but we'll meaning
president, make the fatal mistake OF
ignoring the many selfish and desperate
political adventures who lead him. In
tluenced by them, he will not hesitate
to attempt in Washington, the role h.
played two years ago in Louisiana, and
yesterday in South Carolina; indeed
he is making elaborate preparations for
it; more troops arrived last night; and
the country has by freqent enervated nc,
quiescence been educated to submission
There is that in our psyche political con
dition worthy the serious study of the
philosophical historian, something that
sets at naught the surpassed laws of
hereditary; for we are the physical, il
not the moral, progeny of those who
thought life dear and peace execrable
when purchased by submission to far
less fragrant abuses, Can it be that the
evolution of one or two hundred years
has produced such deterioration in the
bNliilNbi VI ilOlllWtll, ana |
that we hear the powerful |
press and encrvate millionaire piping
Better endure the ills we have, than |
fly to Others that we know not OFF,
The situation is becoming quite in
teresting here nd there is much smoth.
cred feeling A number of members of |
Congress have arrived among them the
distinguished physical and political PHO.
nix, Hon, Alexander II, Stephens, of
Georgia. Though weighing ten pounds
more than during his recent illness,
he is still mere shadow, and his
presence and conversation suggest fore.
,hiy the idea of disembodied intellect.
lie told your correspondent that he
regarded the situation as very crit.
cal; he left home with the impress.
non that Florida, at least, of tn, so.
,alled doubtful States would finally
20 conceded to Tilden, but that no