Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-03-21
Our Washington Letter.


Our washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, d. c., March 10, 1877.
Mess,s. Editors;-After an absence Of ten days
we return to find Washington INDUCING in
severe attack OF the chills The air which was
soft and balmy when we left il now changed to
freezing point, accompanied by snow The wea-
Their is not the only thing that has changed
Never has there been a week when so remarkable
change was wrought in American politics as in
that Of the first week Of President Hayes admin
istration 1t has brought about
NEW ERA IN POLITICS
Think Of it. The inaugural address. the forma-
ton Of the Cabinet, the proclamation Of the policy
toward the Southern states, and on the subject Of
civil service reform, were the gaining in a day or
two OF what so many had strven through years
Of effort to secure, and which not few had
feared up to the time that the President was de-
clared elected was as far off as ever II was
almost too much to believe possible that an adj
ministration was actually inaugurated ON that
platform But this s not ALL Events did not
stop there. In another day Mr. Blaine, the most
formidable obstacle in the way of the attainment
Of these ends, had raised the standard Of revolt,
only to find that he had butted his head not only
against the immovabe purpose Of the President,
but against the rock Of public opinion as well, |
and he retired In discontinue The audacity is |
all out of him. He thought to deal with Mr. |
Hayes as he had dealt with Ben Hill and Proctor |
Knott But it required less than forty -eight hours
to convince him Of his blunder; and now, instead |
of his recent rampancy we find him busly on the |
back track and occupying his days and nights in |
the attempt to prove that he meant nothing by |
his impudence. The transformation OF Blaine is |
followed by the exit of Simon Cameron, while
Morton, seeing the way the wind was setting,
had already trimmed his sails for it at the time
| Blaine was being torn to tatters. The President
has in one week put the Republican party in an
| impregnabe position. We hear It said in old New
uSRgiSpd. where people have been thinking for
'@snsses for the last four years with increasing
| independence, Brstow could not possibly have
| been better than this" The acquiescence is
almost universal There was no response what
ever to Blaines note of opposition, except that
which came to remind him Of his mistake. As
| for the democrats they have been so used TO
| fighting only the abuses in the Republican ranks
| which this administration is pledged to bring to
| an end, that there is no available campaign ma
| terial left them. 1t will be almost impossible,
| it looks now, to stir them into opposition on
tional issues after the South is quoted, the civil
service reformed, and proper measures taken
towards restoring a sound currency. These ques-
tons settled the basis Of the Presidents policy,
and politicians must look for new material to
| work upon We do not speak OF the Southern
question as being settled yany means; the Presi-
dents policy on that question must of necessity
be an experiment. But II it proves successful in
quieting the South, and building up permanent
government in the distracted states, then 1t will
have proved itself to be the best policy, for every
other means has been tried in vain. This policy
has the private marks Of Mr. Hayes upon it, just
as Enthusiastically as has
THE CABINET
The President has chosen those for his advisers
whom he thinks will most benefit the admins
traton and the country 1t is a Cabinet of his
own selection, and none have been appointed in it
because they deserved pay for anything that they
had accomplished for Hayes or for any particular
faction party. The contrary is easily proven.
Take for instance the case of Mr. Thompson, the
new Secretary of the Navy. lie is the only one in
the Cabinet who in the Cincinatti Convention.
He voted all the time for Morton until he with
drew. Mr. Thompson then voted for Brstow and
carried four others with him, while ex-Post-
masterGenera Tyner, n member Of the same
! state delegation, carried eleven votes over to
Hayes support. Mr.. Tyner retires from the Cab
, met, and Mr.. Thompson goes in Not n single
member of the Cabinet was in favor Of Hayes
nomination at any stage, except John Sherman,
who was not delegate TO the convention, being
beaten by ben wade VINO was thousht 10 De oe'-
ter able to promote Hayes interest in the conven
ton sun iurther' there Is no member oil inc
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