Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-02-04
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
[srroIAL oonarsroSDnsor OF THE MosrroR.l

loOh Wy d OcoIStd OemOCIdtlc jury, udo
done more to discredit the tales of Re-
publican maladminlstration. as contrast
ed with the record made by their oppo-
nents whenever an opportunity has offer
ed, than any single event that has
occurred in that section since the war.
1t has left fearful vacuum in the work.
ing capital of the Bourbon partizans.
Bullock has for years, stood as the cen
trail figure of corrupt carpet-bag officials
in the South who despoted their Demo-
cratic victims without conscience or
mercy. His acquittal not only makes
terrible inroads on the accumulated |
Bourbon capital, but it has had the effect
to confirm growing belief that a good
deal Of the pludering has been engineer
ed and the boot divided between ''local
government" fellows of the chivalrous
sort, who filled their capacious pockets
from State, County and Town treasures
with dizziness that would shame Bill
Tweed, while loudest in yelling "stop
thief against some Republican official
who dared not attempt defense, and
fled to save his life from his black-leg
pursuers. The "Matter of President"
has been under Democratic domination
almost continually since her formal res
toration to the Union; and her debt has
gone on steadily increasing until the
.-scalers. and "readjusters" bid fair to
get full possession. Corrupt Democratic
newspaper men are shown to have divid-
ed the swag with the reformers of the
Moses and Mackey regime in South Car
DINA. Similar evidence of Democratic
cupidity and stealing abound in others
of the Southern States. and could the
thefts attributed to Bullock be fairly in
vestigated, they would likely show that
the Southern pupils of Tammany Hall
early learned to practically apply the
lessons taught by the eminent thieves of
the Democratic training-school.
1t should be understood away from
Washington that the various Hobbies are
here in full force this winter. Among
their members are some of the most
adroit organizers in the country. They
are we'll paid and abundantly supplied
with the means to bride their way into
the vaults of the Treasury. They have
} their subordinates stationed at every
point, ready to signal the engineers earl.
information of any distractions likel,
| to be encountered. It is said that
small army of these underlyings ar
: supported here this winter by those will
: jobs to put through. Most of them ar
5 broken down politicians who qualified
e themselves for their present vocation b
q devoting their one or two terms as mem
: bers of Congress almost exclusively t
], acquiring such information as woul
l make their services of most value a
: professional lobbyists. Handsome state
i ly women haunt the cloak and committe
: rooms at the Capitol, and are pointe
s out as the most efficient workers in th
y P~y UnVSo mugs. ne railroad ]ot
t already brought forward show somethin
: of the magnitude of those afoot III
d plan is to work them up as quietly g
" possible, and to spring the matter {
/: subsidy when the opposition is weake:
o and most likely to be fatally disconcer
e ed by bold move. NOTWITHSTANDING
:. the fact that both parties are committe
against these schemes of robbery, onl
h the closest scrutiny and wide avail
l. vigilance will insure the country again
: the success of these cormorants who con
= here starved by their enforced abstinen'
.. of last session. Advocates of railroa
,e land grants or money, or both, don
S. comprise all that are working here, ear
3 Is and late, night and day, to compass the
# swindling ends; but new candidates Fl
ID subsidy have been brought forward al
y, not single big monopoly is probabl
he unrepresented. When it is considert
- how few are the practical measures
q relief brought forward and the few
o. still accomplished. in all the mont
Congress has been together, the GROWN
~ feeling that the 45th Congress is utter
10 incompetent to deal with the grave 7
sponsibilities now confronting it, appea
rs only too we'll founded. Bills by t
" thousand have been introduced aud t
be trivial character of most of them rend
the incompetency of the average Leg
MS lator painfully apparent. While 0
nd business houses that have withstood t
N. financial shocks and vicissitudes of bu
he mess for half century are topping in
tn the abyss of ruin that yawns to recei
in them, the Senate wastes weeks in d
cussing a resolution, which, wheth
passed or defeated does not change t
existing situation one iota, only amour
49, to an expression of opinion. The Hou
=. meantime has about dropped all prefer
:. of transacting the public business, a
/, its leading committees are preparing
- devote months Of precious time to
49, petty business of drag-net investigation