The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-12-12
Our Washington Letter.
Special to the REruBLrcAN.


first annual message, and something to
dissent from. It's merits, as a COM
prehensive, well.written State docu-
ment is conceded by all. The follow
ers Of Bland and Ewing are mad, and
their reserve fund of profanity was
never nearer complete exhaustion and
total collapse than now, from the al.
most continuous drafts on it since the
Presidents attitude on the silver and
resumption matters became authori-
lively known. When the President
authorized the denial of the statement
imputed to him to the effect that he
would veto the bills engineered through
the House by those two gentlemen, the
conclusion was jumped ut that he was
really in accord with their purpose
and that his influence was assured in
their behalf. They had both safely
run the gauntlet of the House, the
prospect was thought good for their
passage by the Senate, and the early
adoption Of the views embodied in
them by the country in its financial
policy, was deemed foregone conclu.
sion. The message came as a thunder
bolt from a cloudless sky. There are
signs of an attempt to rally, however.
Bland is reported to have said that
the adherents of his bill are prepared
to force extreme measures, and to have
threatened the alternative to the Pres.
ident either to smother his convictions
and lend helping hand or to prepare
himself to administer the Government
without appropriations.
, 1t is idle to cite intelligent oppo-
nents of the Southern Policy" to the
tolerance wrought thereby among Ku
Klux Democracy or elsewhere, when
not one of the participants in the
butchery of the Chisholms has been
made to suffer for that shocking bar
barity, and when man, in recognition
of his leadership in crime equally
atrocious against political opponents,
is forced into seat in the highest leg
islative body known to our form of
government, by the solid vote of the
party representatives, aided by such
votes as could be secured from the Op-
position by alleged corruption or ter
rorism. Nor will those believing that
the continued supremacy of the great
political party that fought the war of
the Union is still necessary to the per-
petuity of free institutions and repre-
sentative Government, be persuaded
into an endorsement of a policy which
has reacted so disastrously upon its
organization throughout the late in
surrectionary States, as to leave it
practically dead, with the rihe-club
Democracy never more firmly en-
trenched in the position it vacated.
Whatever may be said to the contrary,
events in ne Senate during the past
two weeks must be accepted as indi-
eating the virtual reunion of the Re-
publican party leaders against the fur
ther encroachments of exultant, arro-
CANT Democracy under the dictation
of the "Solid South"
Polk, the latest successor to the i'm
mortal Fitzhugh, appears to have
yielded to hallucinations that will
prove as fatal to his aspirations as
those entertained by the latter gentle
man did to his. 1t is now said that in
order to secure his calling and election
his promises Of official favors were so
recklessly given that about forty i'm
Fortunate Office beggars were appoint
ed to positions under him in excess of
those provided for by law and when
pay day came around nothing was left
to recompense them for their ar
duOus services in keeping forty or more
chairs warm in -of.the.way corners
on the House side of the Capitol. They
set up an indignant howl of protesta-
tion at such treatment. Polk, in his
dismay, appealed to his party to vote
aDfcfent money from the public funds
20 pay each a months salary, so he
could satisfy the demands, discharge
and pack them off to the homes they
had been induced to leave to serve