The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE LAST EXPLOIT OF THE GRAND
ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
The silver Question Before the Adminis-
tration and the Country.

WASHINGTON, June 40, 1917.
As you may well imagine, everybody here IL
laughing at the "Grand Army of the Republic,
which made such sublime ass OF itself At Provi-
dence day before yesterday. This concern has
long been obnoxious. At last it has made itself
ridiculous and to become ridiculous is TO be de-
stroyed. To be condemned as wicked or vile to
be convicted Of crime; even TO be caught Ia ques-
tionable proximity to your neighbours sheep fold
or plate chest; oil these things seem to have
their liberation in the eyes OF the American peo-
pie. But to do f.
A SILLY THING rs FATAL.
Thus for years and years the Grand Army Of
the Republic has been tolerated and has been
permitted TO enjoy certain recognition and ex-
ert a certain influence though everybody knew
that it was IN enormous fraud; that it did not In
anywise represent the army which fought the
battles of the Union in the field; that Its appro-
pirate designation was the "Grand Conclave oil
Suffers, Camp followers, Provost Guards and
Spoon Thieves" and that IL was nothing but a
political organization OF the bummers blood
suckers, oarpet-baggers and thieves generally Of
the Radical party who sought TO flch a semblance
OF respectabty by stealing
THE SHADOW or A NAME
that had been msde honorable by bravo men. To
give an example. / will describe the 'post" which
exists In my native village In New York. II num-
bers about sixty, and is named after gallan
officer who fell In one OF the assaults on Port
Hudson. His name is oil IL has TO 60 on ~ .
representative Of the army. It's Commander"
s small local politician who enlisted when the
bounty was $1,000, and obtair cd sick furlough as
soon as he got to Washington, whence he was
placed ON what we used to call
'coNvALEsoENr DUTY"
In which capacity he served Till the close OF the
war. To my certain knowledge he never saw
live Confederate, nor was ever nearer the range
OF the enemy's guns than The distance from the
fold Of Gettysburg TO Piilahephis hospital
know every one OF his sixty comrades" person
ally, and am fully apprised Of their military ex.
perience.- Two Of them were under fire. Fifty
eight never saw the enemy and never heard the
report Of Confederate gun. Aod the two who
have been under fire both quit participating in
the doings OF the concern over year ago, and
voted the Democratic ticket last fall
venture to soy tina. this particular t'post' 10 a
fair sample OF the concern all over the country.
The ''oficers" who handle this astonishing
''eRANp ARMY"
are fully up to the standard Of their rank and file.
The Commander in -Chiet" is Hartrang;, Penn
sylvania ring politician Of the most degraded
type, whose war service, whatever IL was, brought
him no distinction, and who obtained his first and
only mill sry nooriety through the share he had
in the hanging Of an innocent woman,
MRS. suRRATr.
Next In rank 10 him is Burnside, the mention
Of whose name Is sufficient TO raise a laugh all
over the Confederacy; whose troops always en-
ioyed a holiday Of butcheriDg ours whenever he
undertook to fight, and to send q ehudder
through tine North, where his military fame be-
came hackneyed in the soubriquet of 'Bungler
Burnside"
And so on, for quantity. Well. this astounding
Grand Army has not played very important
part in any campaign since 1872, and most people
supposed that it was
PLAYED OUT.
But the doings at Providence the other day
how thatit is In lively state of resurrection.
You must be aware that the rsgtag- and bobtsil
" the Radical party-all the smashed rings, and
III the convicted thieves who have been crawling
'ut of the pententiaries OF late, and all busted
arpet-baggers who may be seen fleeing North
yard to escape aimiar fate, together with the
nore vicious classes Of
NIGaER POLITICIANS,
ed by Blaine, Wade, Ben Butler, Simon Cameron, |
Bill Chandler and the whole corporation OF that |
TX too numerous to mention or too disgusting to |
ame-all this riff-raff have determined to |
1ake war on Hayes, drive him and his out of the |
republican organization, pack the next conven-
ion, and
RENoMINATE GRANT
md Abe resurrection Of Hangman Hartranft's
Grand Army" is notable part and parcel of the
,heme. Let all good people pray for their sue
ess. The denomination Of Grant under such
uspices would result in the only possible
FINALE
nat BELTS the Radical party.
But started out with saying that the "Grand
rmy" had made itself ridiculous, and that
verybody was laughing at it. or course refer
, that wonderful telegram to Grant: Scare of
Ter Majesty, Queen Victoria, Buckingham Pal
ce, London!"
This is certainly the most astoniehing commu-
ication ever sent over the cab,e-not excepting
le New York Heratds
WAR NEWS.
Fancy the CONSERVATION Of the British public
general, and Of the royal household in particu-
r, at the receipt of that dispatch. The Queen
ceives large package Of letters and many dis
ltches every day-or, rather the palace officials
csive them, similar to that telegram. But they
ways emanate from fools, lunatlcs, monoma- q
acs and other unfortu 1ates. Occasionally the I
,ndon papers are permitted to publish some I
EN- I
AS CURIosITIEs, =
show pecu liar developments of insanity. But Z
re we have an organization claiming to repre- r
Mt the army that saved the Union, gravely v
nding an official dispatch the direction of which
splays utter ignorance Of the etiquette of the
ace to which it is sent. and the matter of which
in gross violation Of the customs and traditions
at surround the British monarchy.
It is not impossible that the Queen may have
lived {
THE COURT ETIQUETTE !