New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-15
Our Washington Letter.

DER PARTIALLY REVOKED-OFFICEl
HOLDERS HAVE THE RIGHT TO rem.
DER AID IN THE COMING CAMPAIGN
WORK FOR STARRING TREASURY
CLERKs-PRACT1CAL USE OF THE
PHoNoGRAPH. MONTGOMERY BLAIR
ON THE RAGGED EDGE Our
NATIONAL CAPITAL THEFLoRIDA
CONFESSIONS.
From our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, D. G., May 4, 1873.
Prest. Hayes being interviewed by
your correspondent o-day in regard
to his civil service order admitted
the necessity for theRepublican par
ty gaining the next House, and said
that there would not be the slightest
objection to government employees
Individually making voluntary con-
tributions to the campaign fund,
speaking on political subjects, writ
ing in the interest of heir.Spolitics,
or sending of documents to aid in
the campaign. He conceded their
right to do all this.
The effects Of the passage of the
act authorizing the Secretary Of the
Treasury to employ temporary clerks,
was very visible at the Treasury De-
part't yesterday. The passage leading
to it were thronged all day long with
an anxious and expectanJ crowd Of
office-seekers. Between sixty and
seventy were given clerkships, the
appointments being determined by
the completeness Of the quotos Of
the different States and the capabili-
ties Of the applicants. The faces Of
these applicants for petty clerkships,
which will terminate next June at
the furthest, were expressive Of all
the varying phases and transitions
from the blacklist despair to the most
exultant JOY. The casual stranger
meeting these people as they came
out from the appointment Office
would have been puzzled to deter
mine whether it was frst.class
funeral or variety entertainment
that was going on.
It is said that some of our promi-
nent ministers think of arranging
for the regular continuance of their
pulpit ministrations during their
Summer vacations in the mountains
or at the seaside. They will talk
their sermons into photograph,
and having thus imprinted them on
sheets of tin-foil, will send the latter
by mail to be adjusted to another
instrument in Washington. This
instrument will be placed upon the
pulpit desk, and on being set going
at the proper hour, will deliver the
sermon in the familiar tones Of the
absent pastor. The opening and
closing prayers, the giving out of
hymns, and the pronouncing Of the
benediction can all be arranged for
in the same way, and if a full length
portrait Of the minister were placed
on the wall behind the pulpit, an
effect would be produced hardly dis
tinguishable from that of his bodily
presence.
Montgomery Blair is in bad
state Of mind on account of the cold
shoulder given by leading Democrats
to his scheme for ousting Hayes from
the Presidency. He has written a
wrathful letter, in which he says:
''To many Of those now holding
influential positions in theD Democrat.
ic party have been demoralized 30.
itically. They have no longer any
respect for the constitution or faith
in the people, and have allied them
selves and their localities. This is
the secret of their compromising the
felony by which Hayes obtained Of
fee. As the case now stands before
the public, the Democratic party i
saddled with the odium of a trans
action which may be summed thus
Tilden, a northern Union man O.
the jackson Benton stripe, who
was elected by the people to put
down corruption and monopoly ant
corporate government, was deposel
upon fraudulent election return.
under a bargain with Hayes ant
Tom Scott to establish southern
Credit Mobilier swindle and plunde
the Treasury with southern claims
the intriguers refusing to allow
State-one Of the old thirteen-t.
question the fraud in the courts 8
Justice. Let this continue and tn,
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