Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-02-06
Our Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, Jan. %.


Perhaps the acquittal of Ex-Gov.
Bullock by a Georgia Democratic jury,
mas done more 10 discredit the tales of
Republican NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., as con-
trasted with the record made by their
opponents whenever an opportunity
has offered, than any single event that
has occurred in that section since the
war. It has left fearful vacuum in
the working capital Of the Bourbon
portizans. Bullock has for years stood
as the central figure Of corrupt carpet
bag officials in the South who despoil-
ed their Democratic victims without
conscience or mercy. His acquittal
not only makes terrible inroads on the
accumulated Bourbon capital, but 1t
has had the effect to confirm a grow
ing belief that good deal Cf the
plundering has been engineered and
the boot divided between "local gov
ernment" fellows of the chivalrous
sort, who filed their capacious pockets
from State, County and Town treasures
with deftness that would shame Bill
Tweed, while loudest in yelling 'stop
thief" against some Republican official
who dared not attemp a defense and
fed to save his life from his black-leg
pursuers. The "mother OF Presidents"
has been under Democratic domination
almost continuously siuce her formal
restoration to the Union; and her debt
has gone on steadily increasing until
the "scalers' aud ''readjusters' bid
fair to get full possession. Corrupt
Democratic newspaper men are shown
to lave divided the swag with the re-
formers OF the Moses and Mackey
regime in South Carolina. Similar
evidence Of Democratic cupidity and
stealing abound In others of the South
ern States, and could the thefts attri
buted to Bullock be fairly investigated
they would likely show that the South
ern pupils of Tammany Hall early
learned to practically apply the lessons
taught by the eminent thieves of the
Democratic training school. It should
be understood away from Washington
that the various lobbes are here in full
force this winter. Among their mem
bers are some of the most adroit organ
izers in the country. They are we'll
paid and abundantly supplied with the
means to bribe their way into the
vaults, Of the Treasury. They have
their subordinates stationed at every
point, ready to signal the engineers and
give early information of any obstruc-
tions likely tobe encountered. 1t is said
that small army of these underlings
are supported here this winter by those
with jobs to put through. Most of
them are broken down politicians, who
qualified themselves for their present
vacation by devotipg their one or two
terms as members of Congress almost
exclusively to acquiring such informa-
ton as would make their services OF
most value as professional lobbyists.
Handsome stately women haunt the
cloak and committee rooms at the Cap
itol, and are pointed out as the most
efficient workers in the pay of these
rings. The railrood jobs already
brought forward show something of the
magnitude of those afoot. The plan is
to work them up as quietly as possible,
and to spring the matter of subsidy
when the opposition is weakest and
most likely to be fatally disconnected
by bold move. Notwithstanding the
fact that both parties are committed
against these schemes of robbery, only
the closest scrutiny and wide awake
vigilance will insure the country
against the success of these Cormorants
who came here starved by their en-
forced abstinence of last session. Ad-
vocates of railroad land grants or mon
ey, or both, don't comprise all that are
working here, early and late, night and
day, to compass their swindling ends;
but new candidates for subsidy have
been brought forward and not single
big monopoly is probably unrepresent-
ed. When it is considered how few
are the practical measures of relief
brought forward and the fewer still ac-