The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-03-07
Our Washington Letter.
Special to the REPUBLICAN.

w hen Representative springer OF
Illinois. with but bakers dozen of
his party henchmaa behind him, en-
deavored yesterday to bull.dozc the
Speaker Of the House, democratic tao
tics evidently reached their culimna.
tion. 1t was the last agony Of the ex.
piring party, and was as indecorous ms
it was Intellectual. Aher all hope was
gone Sprioger endeavored by nterpos.
ing dilatory motions to interfere with
aud prevent the counting of the elec-
toral vote. He was ruled out of order
by his own Dem ocratie speaker, ap.
pealed from the Chair and was ruled
down by the House. Gaping the eli
max he then in q manner intended to
be sublime but which was only ridicu.
lous appealed "to the people of the
country" 1t was a paltry bit of bur-
iesque, and would have been laugha-
BILE had it been less shameful. Thus
the democratic body polite in Con-
gress passes from its temporary resus-
tieation to obscurity, greater growing
the agony as nearer draws the hour of
it's final dissolution. Not even the
promise of future resurrection lights
the darkness Of this passover, and in
proper appreciation of this unmourn.
ed fact the dying body, with thought
TO posterity where posterity will give
none to it, publishes its last will and
testament. Having nothing to leave
but bad example, it gives that cheer.
fully, and no member there so dead
but that he struggles up to add his
crocodile. Like funeral mile-stones
they made the passage of the Louisia-
na debate, and stood gaping along the
dark path of the Oregon investigation,
and every one points out grave: hic
jacet.
The Herald, the leading democratic
weekly in this city, came out with a
strong editorial last Sunday headed
''No more Tilden in ours" The
Courier Journal takes the same ground,
and so do many of the western papers.
They appear to believe that there will
be enough life left in the party in 1880
to run candidate, but they don't in.
tend Tilden shall he that candidate.
IF they should have a new election
next month lie could not get the nomi-
nation. They attribute their defeat
this time more than all else to his
mysterious management of the cam
paign, and Tilden's letter in to.day's
New York papers is naught else than
an apology to the party under.leaders
for this same mysterious manage
ment. 1t reminds me of stsry they
used 70 tell of Gen. Polk. During the
war GeReral Polk ordered sergea mt
10 Gre caRaon which had been load
ed when thst and allowed to cool. The
sergeant said it would burst. Polk
said it wouldn't. 1t did. and killed
thirty men. Polk picked up the SER
gaant's head and apologized. Tilden
apologizes to Hendricks.
The fillibusters in the House have
rea sulking all this week, aud mak-
ing as much delay as possible, but the
decided grounds taken by Speaker
Randall yesterday and the large ma
ority by which he was sustained,
show that the obstructionists are posi-
lively pO~erless to successfully resist
q completion Of the electoral count,
nd even before this wili reach you
ayes will be President. The inau-
ration is to be without any of the
smp and show which have distia-
slshed preceding ones, and will be
hple and transformations as becomes
american citizen passing to tina
eeutiye chair of the Nation. Pledg-
~ Mr.. Hayes is to an adm;nistra-
Of economy and reform, the real,
q tke sham article, this plainness
BOT at all detract from the dignity
Nhs occasion. All of the earlier
@sieRts we're ipaegurated without
81 these triumphaI arehes or mu-
sosRdiBg brass and roarjag can
Thomas Jeherson riding on horse
ntirely unattended 10 the Cap
hove ha disunounfad f;ad his