The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-27
TrsE WAITING GAME.
III mas Played Haa Havoc with the North
sFn Democracy
ff1hieapo Times Feb. 1D.I


Tgheago Times, Feb. 1911
Had the national House OF Hepresen-
| tatives, la It's controlling section, been
h body or strong men men Of the force
| of character and decision OF purpose
| that made Winter Davis and Thad.
| Stevens and Ben Butler and james q.
| Blaine the representative mem OF
their party In spite OF itsetfImen oapa-
| Bile Of giving the command and taking
the lead In the .execution-the cohorts
| OF fraud would have felt that an organ
| lied power Was moving to Its aim with
| n steady step aud force that Ii would
| be utterly idle ID resist. ID would
| not have been resisted. IL was as com
pletely In the power Of strong House
OF REPRESENTATIVES to have leu the ma
| tlon x, fulfilment Of Its declsion In The
appointment Of Mr.. Tilden as II was In
| the power Of that body to choose Its
own speaker. The Senate had not the
| least 10 ser I'd prevent II, and would not
have veptured TO attempt TO do 50. Bee.
| Ing I'm nm able representative Assembly
Of the American people fixed, steady
and answering purpose 10 carry forth
the popular decision, oil traltorous
threatening OF Grants bayonets, oil
empty talk Of setting UP pretender by
The p,0nltnciado OF a Senate chairman,
would have been speedily slleneed and
ehalned into obedience TO the law and
the national will. a......
hut the controlling section In the
present House Of Representatives IL O
body OF spoilssseeking politicians, al.
most beneath contempt FOR their feeble
ness and political aitnlsssneas. Ii is
! the weakest, most pusilanimeus and
contemplate representative body ever
assembled at Washington. II Is an ~.
Igregation Of partisan odds and ends, u
thing or ''shreds and patches" d com.
bipation Of eross.road politicians, Con
federate colonies. granger" idiots,
partisan mountebnnks and political
oharlatans Of the lowest order. There
are a few. very few. men Of brains who
with experience would develop faculties
Of craftsmanship, but their number ls
so small and their lnexperienoe SO great
that their influence amounts moth
ing In effect. Some OF these-no-
tably Messrs. Hurd and Wall
Ing Of Ohio, and Mfr. Thomp.
son, Of Observation-Disclosures praise
for the nanliness OF their pro-
tests against The perfectly Infamous
dirt eating OF the Boufbonio Bayard,
Herman. Hewitt, Randolph Tucker and
Southern humbugs. But IL ID not the
less 10 the imbeeility and feeblehess Of
the House that the reasonable eonspi-
raey ~ set up m elective monarch upon
basis Of loathsone fratia, clonked by
the polluted robe OF u judicial presti.
tute. owes ita success.
Let not those demagogues natter
themselves that "the waiting game IL
theirs" They have been playing the
waiting game these many years, with
results that have not been satisfactory.
That game. too. 10 played out.
Let them not hug to their fossil
bosoms the delusion that an "appeal to
the people will be heard. They have
too often betnyed tho confidence toe
efedulous people have reposed In them.
They have too often forfeited the popu.
lar trust they have asked for and re-
| ceived. Al representatives OF the peo-
pie, they abdeated their function when
they referred the appointment OF d
President to q committee OF partisan
knaves and tricksters. Let them not
hope that q refusal to resume their
proper function In time to prevent the
oonsum nation Of d colossal outrage and
national disgrace will dispose Tho peo-
ple to listen TO their appeal. II certain
ly will not. They may appeal 10 the peo-
Pile: but the appeal will be In rain. The
Democratic" party dog IL dead. The
last change Of the national admlnistra-
ton which implies q change in the
ofIloeholdinu class has been made.