Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-07

WASHINGTON. Feb. 81.

of Washington more attractive to the
average Democratic politician than on
Sunday. While their wives attend
church and worship for the whole fam
lily, it's male members devise startling
methods for averting the ruin which
has SO persistently stared US in the face
since the control of the Nation was
wrested from the Democracy in 1860,
in the smoky, profane and groggy at
mosphere of our leading hostelries.
There is no doubt that a minority of
the party in both Houses are deter
mined to defeat any formal declaration
of the election of Hayes, notwithstand-
ing such action involves the most
shameless reputation of the solemnly
pledged word of every individual men,
Der who voted for the electoral BILL
and, if successful, commits the party
to an act of bad faith, abhorrent to
every sense of honor Every hour be-
You'd Wednesday evening that the
count is delayed should be charged up
to the account of this revolutionary
spirit, for there is ample time between
now and then to complete the count
and announce the result.
Every prominent 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 dis
indignation, paralyzes it's former chiefs
All leadership has been repudiated by
its individual members here in Con-
gress. Like the different elements en-
tering into chemical compound their
old relations have been weak eped and
disturbed by this new and powerful
solvent Of the Arbitration Commission,
and they are about to seek stronger af-
6nites now that they have been freed
from the arbitrary force of the old
combination, which in many cases was
incongenial at best.
A mad appeal is made to close u
the ranks of the old Tammany ring, but
ii only ELECTS sulleD or derisive res
ponse from men who have grown tired
Of existing as mere appendages to a
central power which has always been
largely alien and hostile to everything
distinctly American. But we shall see.
A greater peril never menaced bogus
Democracy than at this hour; and it
appears 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 strict account
for all the inquiries of the past thirty
years by the South. The Cabinet
makers 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 ,Ir.
Hayes will consider himself bound By
the action Of those super-serviceable
friends.
The great deep of society is stirred
and troubled by the beak-up that is
inevitable with the retirement of Mrs.
Grant and the ladies of the Cabinet.
Scores of hangers-on who have been
wont to regard everybody not Of their
set with most supercilious and in
solent stare, are doomed to nishment
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 rec
oenition. 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 sitting process every four or eight
years at farthest. Otherwise the seed
Of Republicanism might become ehoked
and ultimately die, oversh allowed and
poisoned by this fungus and noxlous
growth. Crowds Of thieves, pick peck
cts, swindlers, tramps, politicians, of
ice-seekers and honest people are ar
irving to swell the throngs already
here in anticipation Of the 4th Of
March, while other crowds Of despoud-
ent Tilden adherents have shaken the
dust Of the town from their shoes and
boots as a testimony against the three