Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
SIGNS FROM WASHINGTON.

Already there are some significant in
dicatiOns from Washington that things
are not going along in exactly the old |
party tracks, but that new influences
drawn from the present exigency are
operative. and may yet become still more
so. till the political situation is material
ly changed. For instance, when few
Democratic orators have spouted, as they
would before their district constituents,
about the fraudulent origin of the Adj
ministration, Mr.. Ben. Hill takes pains
to call upon the President and assure
him that kind of talk is gross misrepre-
sentation of Democratic sentiment.
Again, something of the same division
is seen on the question of admitting Mr.
Rainey, the colored representative from
South Carolina, to his seat upon his
prima tacie credentials. Gov. Hampton
sends protest weaker and more unreas-
enable than we should have thought
could have issued from his pen; Mr..
Southland asserts that Ralney was declar-
ed chosen when South Carolina was SUBJ
jugated by the United States troops, and
Mr.. Cox is superserviceable, as he is
sometimes apt to be, in behalf of the
Bourbon Demooracy-and yet, after all,
Democrats enough are found voting with
the Republicans to admit Mr.. Rainey to
his seat. So, too, Democrat moves the
admission of the Republican Darrell of
Louisiana to his seat upon his certificate.
To these signs must be added another
from the Speakers chair. Whether the
occupant did or did not derive any aid
from the reports of his disposition to
favor subsidies, he now evidently kicks
the ladder down, for so is interpreted
his noticeably emphatic remark, on as
suming the chair, as follows: "When
the iron rule of hard necessity darkens
every household in the land, extravaganza
on the part of the peoples servants is an
objectionable crime"
All these things would seem to indi.
cate the emergence of more thoughtful
and moderate section of the Democratic
party in Congress, who will control the
extremes in their purposes to make {
merely factious warfare on the Admins
tratiOn. 1t is quite probable that tn
main difference between these Democrat
and those whom they will hold in chez
is, that they are more sagacious, loo
farther ahead, and have a more sobe
E sense of the responsibilities of their pc
sition. Perhaps they are looking chief
! to 1880, and are determined, if possible
! to prevent the blunders and missteps o
the part of their associates that migt
! once more insure their defeat. Howevt
o that may be, the more judiciOus stan
q they have taken ought to smooth dow
. party asperities in Congress and tend
facilitate the transaction of business.
cannot but induce the Republicans
IS reciprocate the same spirit SO far as
= shall bc mOuifestly directed toward goo
" legislation and the completion of Il
r necessary work before Congress. 1t
;e possible, to be sure, that all these bett
d signs may be eclipsed by the clouds
sr partisan prejudices arising from heat
lie bon leaders, but they deserve recognize
g so long as they continue, especially
IS they may be regarded as among the frui
ID of the national and liberal course pu
v. sued by President Hayes ever since
4, came into office.-BoStOn Journal.