The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-03-02
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Special Correspondence

On no dav of the week are the hotels
Of Washington more attractive to the
average Democratic politician than on
Sunday. While their wives attend
church and worship for the whole family
Its male members devise startling meth
DDS for averting the ruin which has so
persistently stored us in the face since
the control of the Nation was wrested
from the Democracy in 1S6O, in the
smoky, profIne and groggy atmosphere
of our leading hostelries The activity
in and about them yesterday was more
than usUal; but there is no evidence
thatany definite line of action was agreed
upon by the irTeconcilables under the
immediate supervision of Field, Wood,
Knott q Co, that will enable them to
recover the ground lost by their signal
defeats on Saturday. There is no doubt
that a minority of the party in both
Houses are determined to defeat any
formal declaration of the election of
Hayes, notwithstanding such action in
wolves the most shameless reputation
of the solemn pledged word of every in,
divldual member who voted for the
electoral bill, and if successful, commits
the party TO an act of bad filth, abhor-
rent to every sense of honor Every
hour beyond Wednesday evening that
the count is delayed should be charged
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spirit for there is ample time between
now and then to complete the count and
announce the result. 1t is the prevailing
belief that the Southern members will
continue their opposition to the revolu-
honary Tammany leaders They have
successfully fought so far, and are credit
ed with purpose to resist them to the
bitter end But it may be said that pro-
visions have been made for securing the
fruits of the victory that has been fairly
won. in anticipation of final victory of
the revolutionary element over the con-
servative wing of their party, and its
members forced or dragooned into a
support of the iillibusters. Every prom
inent Democratic paper arriving here
gives evidence Of the shattered condition
OF the organization, which Tilden led
into the field last June; and a terrible
apprehension of future disaster ending
in absolute disintegration, paralyzes it.
former chiefs. All leadership has been
repudiated by its individual members
here in Congress. Like the different
elements entering into chemical COM
pound their old relations have been
weakened and disturbed by this new and
powerful solvent of the Arbitration Com
mission, and they are about to seek
stronger affinities now that they have
been freed from the arbitrary force of
the old combination, which in many
cases was uncongenial at best.
A frantic appeal is made to close up
the ranks of the old Tammany ring. but
it only elicits sullen or decisive re-
sponse from men who have grown tired
OF existing as mere appendages to cen
tral power which has always been large
ly alien and hostile to everything dis
tinctly American. But we shall see. A
greater peril never minaced bogus De-
mOcracy than at this hour; and it ap-
pears as though the New York rulers
who have held the balance of the party
in a sort of vassalage heretofore, are
about to be called to Il strict account for
ali the iniquities of the past thirty years
by the South. The Cabinet-maEers are
still industriously at work Each day a
new one is formed only to be replaced
the day following by new one. 1t is
hardly probable that Mr. Hayes will con-
sider himself bound by the action of
those super-servicable friends. -.
The great deep of society is stirred and
troubled by the break up that is newt
able with the retirement of Mrs Grant
and the ladies of the Cabinet. Scores of
hangers on VINO have been wont to re-
gard everybody not of their set with a
most supercilious and insolent stare, are
doomed to banishment and obscurity,
A new lot with no more claim to the
consideration of people respecting
themselves will strive to crowd their way
in and obtain recognition. But it is
well that snobbery and the crowds of
sycophants who always come to the
surface with every new administration.
are subjected to this shifting process
e cry four or eight years at farthest.
Otherwise the seed of republicanism
might become choked and intimately
die, overshsdowed and poisoned by this
fungus and maxious growth. Crowds of
thieves, pickpockets. swindlers, tramps
politicians, office seekers and honest peo-
pie are arriving to swell the throngs
already there in anticipation of the
4th of March, while after crowds
of despondent Tilden adherents have
shaken the dust of the town from their
shoes and boots, as testimony against
the three unjust Judges who, by their
obstinate adherence to law have defraud-
ed them of the post offices which they
were taught lay at the end of the Tilden
canvass
We have had a week of cold and
rainy weather, but hope it may be fixed
Just right before the advent of ofinaugura-
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