The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1877-10-18
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON. ID. G. Oct. 6, 1877.
THE GRAND BREAKUP

OF the kepubllcan party, which but q |
short time ago controlled and pluh-
dered the Treasury, and drained the |
life out of everything they could lay
hands upon, is quite an embarrassing
episode for the dominant party to IN
au9urate the new session with. The |
slow grinding mills of the gods have
laid most Of the leaders low down up-
der the lower burr. The bondsmen,
colored at that, have given up ex-
Treasurer CardOZa to the meshes of
the law. Moses, Ex-Governor of Car
olina, has concluded to blow on the
great party of moral ideas by turning
States evidence. Ex-senator and ex-
u. S. Assistant Treasurer Sawyer, has
just been convicted in our court of
robbing the latter position he once
filled ex-Auditor Nagle is a fugitive
from the law and dares not return
ex-Treasurer Parker confesses himself
guilty present Senator Patterson is
hanging around here, not daring to
venture outside of his door lest Gov.
Hampton's requisition clutches him by
robbing South Carolina, and perchance
ere this reaches you, Ex-Governor
Chamberlain will be wanted to figure
in the Penitentiary of Columbia in
stead of the building in that town he
disgraced. Truly may it be said, he
is the last rose of Republican summer,
whose lovely companions have faded
and gone, and ere the shadows grow
long from the hill tops, may the phi
losophic frog chant his evening hymn
over the grassy mound of the corrupt
Republican party.
THE srEAKERsHIP.
The election of Randall for the place
seems to be foregone conclusion. al
though his opponents claim to have
sufficiently strong combination to beat
him, which is regarded here as mere
braggadocio. Randall is resting qui-
etly at his home, an apparently uncon-
cerned'looker on. which from person
of his active zealousness, settles the
fight in his favor.
THE OHIO VICTORY
fell like q wet blanket on the RAIDS
around here, and what few could be
seen, had not sufficient life left in them
to stiffen paper shirt collar. Old
Ben Wade gets the blame for all of it,
and the radical RAIDS are tickled to no
little degree that "Brotherford" Hayes
should be snubbed by his own State
for his Southern policy of pacification
towards what they are pleased to call
ssthem reb-bils." Of course our folks
reioiced, By rendering to the Ohio del
egation complimentary serenade at
Williards, in which an immense throng
participated, among whom could be
seen the familiar faces of number of
RAIDS, who nodded the wink of apprO-
baton with a CHASTITY smile, whenever
anything was said about the conspira-
cy which counted in Mr.. Hayes, at the
same time squirting out the old know
ing phrase of 81 told you So" Messrs.
Sayler, Blackburn and Banning, as
we'll as others, entertained the huge
crowd with good speeches, in which
they heartily endorsed the Southern
policy of the Administration. But
what pleased us most was the an
nounced fact that the blue and the
gray could be seen in the late cam
paign working shoulder to shoulder
in the Democratic ranks, which in our
opinion, made the victory not local,
but a great national triumph over Re-
publican misrule. bad government and
a ruinous financial policy that would.
if persisted in, bankrupt the people.
and bring ruin and destruction to the
homes of the poor. Now let our
Democratic brethren of Pennsylvania
and New York fall in line and beat
the example of Ohio, if they can. We
shall expect q rousing big majority
and will accept nothing else. Mr..
Hayes takes the defeat rather philo-
sophically, but Johnnie Sherman is
awfully disappointed, and looks as
blue as his ideas on "fi-nance" which
he delivered in Ohio prior to the
election, which we are inclined to be-
lieve was one of the main causes OF
their defeat.
THE NEW HOUSE.
The clerk, Mr.. Adams, has made up
his roll of members for the ensuing
session, having decided several here
tofOre doubtful points. In the Flori-
da case he has placed on one Demo-
crat and one. Republican, that being
the decision of the Supreme Court OF
that State, in their review of the cleo
tOral count of the vote of Florida
during the late Presidential muddle.
There are two disputed seats from
Louisiana, and clerk Adams has award.
ed them to the two Democrats having
Governor Nichols certificates, which
will make the delegation from Louisi-
ana entirely Democratic. In the Col
Orado contested seats, he has placed
neither on the roll, leaving it for the
House to decide primarily the points
raised. The contested scat from Mis-
souri, has been carried to the Courts of
that State, and is as yet undecided.
There is one certificate from Califor-
MIA not yet at hand but in all probabil-
ity will turn up In time for the claim
ant to have his name placed upon the
roll ere the House convenes, Mr..
Adams has been exceedingly cautious
in making up the roll, but as a matter
of course, some exception will be ta-
ken to it, yet his roll, unless reversed
by the House, will stand even after its |
permanent organization.