The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-22
4 FINE SPECIMEN OF POLITICAL
"CUSSING..
a Northern Tissscn.paper oas the Flee.
toral Commas sion's Decision.
rFrom the Chicago Tlmes.l

THE "pEM0CRATIC" PARTr-D0G Is DEAD.
The game Is played out. Our elective
monarch for the 0lvmpiad beginning next
4th OF March will be q person elected by a
minority OF the nation only, and set up
against the will OF the majority by the
effective agencies of fraud, forgery, bribery,
partisan sharp practice. He will be aperson
not chosen because he was n trusted leader
OF his party, but because it was believed
he would be tool ready to the hands
OF its popularity distrusted leaders. He
will be the first OF our Olympiad
kings to owe his appointment wholly
TO the most loathSome and leprous
political corruption. He will be the first
that has been appointed in violation 81
the law and in defiance Of the Constitution
and the practice from the foundation OF the
Government. He will be the first whose ap-
pointment is the almighty work OF one
n,dn-a judicial prostitute OF the name OF
Joseph p. Bradley name that ought
henceforth to be an appellation OF infamy.
He will be the first who mounted to power
against the political decision Of the nation,
upon the favor of an army OF official fner-
cenarics able to override the will Of the ma
ton. He will be the first American us,r-
per; but usurper who will be able to say
that his usurDation was rendered possible
by the extraordinary imbecility and con-
temptible poltroonery Of the party managers
who opposed him.
II there were any need OF proof that the
wandering MINISTRIES OF fading habit Of
prejudice, who 60 about singing ancient
ditties to the glcry Of putr,d reminis-
cence, and styling themselves Democratic
party, are politically the most contemplate
humbugs that exist on Gods green earth,
the most ample and over-abundant proof
would be the hopeless imbecility shown by
the representatives, and managers OF that
aggregation OF humbugs since the Noyem-
Der election. ..s H.. w rs.
When, upon learning that their candidate
was defeated in the popular contest, the
leaders OF the office-bolding class entered
into q reasonable conspiracy to override
the nations decision and set up their man
by fraud and force, had the controlling part
OF. the national house OF assembly been
composed of men worthy to be called rep
resentatives of the people the conspirators
would have been speedily seen running to
their holes in silence and in shame. A ma
ton is like an army. With imbecility in
command, it IS an unwieldy mass Of feeble
ness, that any aUdacious knave can over
come. With brains in command, it is force
whose effect nothing rcsists. Like an army,
it feels whether those in command be strong
or feeble. There is nerve-system
connecting the head with every organ
and part OF the body. Whether strength or
feebeness, wisdom or folly, be in command,
the body feels and responds accordingly.
Had the national House OF Representatives,
in it's controlling section, been body OF
strong men. men of the force OF character
and decision of purpose that made Winter
Davis, and Thad. Stevens, and Ben. Butler,
and james G. Blaine, the representative
men, OF their party in spite OF itself-mcn
capable Of giving the command and taking
the lead in the eXecution-the cohorts OF
fraud would have felt that an organized
power was moving to It's aim with steady
step and force that it would be utterly
idle to resist. 1t would not have
been resisted. 1t was as completely
in the power Of a strong House OF Repre-
sentatives to have led the nation to fulfil
mcnt Of its decision in the appointment Of
Mr.. Tilden as it was in the power Of that
body to choose its own Speaker. The Sem
ate had not the least power to preventit
and would not have ventured to attempt to
do so. Seeing in an able representative as
sembly of the American people fixed,
steady, answering purpose to carry forth
the popular decision, all traitorous threat
ening OF Grants bayonets, all empty talk
OF setting up pretender by the pronunca-
ado Of Senate chairman, would have been
speedily silenced and shamed into obedi-
ence to the law and the national will.
but the controlling section in the present
House OF Representatives is abody OF spoils-
seeking politicians almost beneath contempt
for their feeblene:s and political aimless-
ness. 1t is the weakest, most pusillanimous,
and contemplate representative body ever
assembled ut Washington. 1t is an aggrega-
ton of partisan odds and ends: thing Of
"shreds and patches -; combination Of
cross-road politicians. Confederate colonies,
ssgranger" idiots, partisan mountebanks,
and political charatans OF the lowest order.
There are afew, very few, men OF brains who,
with experience, would develop faculties of
craftsmanship; but their number is so small
and their inexperience so great that their
influence amounts to nothing in effect.
Some of these-notably Messrs. Hurd and
Walling of Ohio and Mr.. Thompson OF Mas
sachusetts--deserve praise for the manlI-
ness OF their protest against the perfectly In
famous officiating OF the BouIb onic Bay
ard, Herman, Hewitt, Randolph Tucker, and
the whole phalanx OF reconstructed "
southern humbugs. But it is not the less
to the imbecility and feebleness of the House
that the reasonable conspiracy to set up an
elective monarch upon basis OF loathsome
fraud, cloaked by the polluted robe OF a iu-
dicial prostitute, owes it's success.
II the candidate who stands before the
country as personitication Of all the rot
tenness of Louisiana, all the yillainy OF j.
Madison Wells, and all the judicial prosti-
tuition of Joseph p, Bradley-if that en-
bodiment of political leprosy take the pre-
sidential chair-the responsibility will rest,
and the country aoiH see that ii rests, upon
the Bourbon demagogues in Congress, OF
whom Bayard, and Herman, and Hewitt,
and Thurman, and Payne, are types-men
who had the power to save America from
this deep disgrace and would not put it
forth.
Let not those demagogues flatter them.
selves that "the waiting game is theirs"
They have been playing the waiting game
these many years, with results that have not
been satisfactory. That game, too, is 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 be-
trayed the confidence 4 too creduous peo-
pie have reposed in them. They have toe
often forfeited the popular trust they have
asked for and received. AS representatives