The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1878-11-06
FROM THE FEDERAL CAPITAL.

THE ELECTION INSTRUMENTATION sENA
ToRIAL AsPIRANTs-A UDAUOUs scHEMI
OF THE CENTRAL PACIFIC II. II. co. TIL
TEXAS PACIFIC, ETC.
| WASHINGTON, ID. G. Nov. 9, lSTS.--B'
fore this reaches your readers, the final e)c-
ton of the year will have taken place Be
cause of recent Republican losses, BY which
the control of the House of Representatives
is apparently assured to the Democrats, less
interest is felt in the election generally than
was felt in October. But in most Of the
states questions outside of representation in
the lower house are to be settled. In Mas
sachusetts the contest is between Butler,
able and INSCRIPTIONS, an6 the old ring"
which has governed and PLACED the state
and taxed its people into poverty for gen
erations. The present estimates of Tdtler's
friends elect him; those q his enemies
beat him badly In this ard other cases
we shall know better after election In
New York the enlivening ssue is upon
the election of legislature which
will return Roscoe COnkling to the
senate. In Pennsylvania great effort will
be made in behalf of Don Cameron for the
like position. In Illinois Logan and Ogles-
by are rivals for senatorial honors. In Wis
consin Matt. Carpenter enters the contest
for the senatorship as an Independent can
didate. In the southwestern states weak
administration isexercising arbitrary power
under u bad law, by appointing "supervis-
ors" of election This is law which will
disappear from the statute books as soon as
the Democrats get control of both houses of
congress.
So, on all hands, there are special subjects
of interest for the people to vote on. May
we have the largest vote ever cast, and may
the best men win
There is an impudent audacity about
the acts of the Central Pacific railroad
ring that would be refreshing if it
were not dangerous. Their latest turn
of the screws is calculated to send
alarm to the business Interests of this coun-
try. 1t has thus far prevented the construc-
ton of any competing road to the Pacific
on the line of the Texas and Pacific railway
by promises to extend the Southern Pacific
of California to the Rio Grande, and now
relying upon the hope that they can control
Congress, and thus perpetually defeat all et-
forts at competition, the managers turn
about and combine with the Jay Gould ring
to establish connection at Sante Fe with
the Atchison, Topeka and Sante Fee road
by which they hope to make still more pow
erful the monopoly which now dictates
terms to Congress and to transcontinental
commerce.
This is most dangerous combination,
and is especially disastrous to the south,
which has been deceived in the belief that
the Central Pacific company really intended
to build through line near the Mexican
border. Very likely the southern members
of congress will take notice Of this adroii
mannuvering to choke off rivalry as well as
to defeat legislation in the interest of cheap
freights, and demand some action that shall
secure them the fruits of the general Pacific
railroad system, part Of which must be @
road on the Texas Pacific line. At any rate
congress cannot fail to take official notice OF
the growing power of the infamous Central
Pacific Huntington Jay Gould ring.
Mr.. Hayes has named Thursday, Novem.
Der 2sth, as thanksgiving Day" Most OF
the governors of states will probably selec,
the same day. .. .-.
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