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WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Now York and Pennsylvania Tho
Bloody Shirt Tho Indian Bureau.
tCoRREsroNDEHCE or THE NEWS AND HERALD.l
WAsIIlNGToN, November 2, 1S7S.-
In New York some time since, COM
bination was formed to defeat certain
regular Democratic nominees. Those
Democrats who went into the combi-
nation perhaps did so for what they
thought good and sufficient reasons.
That they would be dragged into OPP
position to regular and honorable
Democratic candidates for Congress,
and into Indirect aid TO Senator Conk-
ling in his bloody-Shirt campaign for
reelection, they probably had no idea.
Day by day, however, the truth is
being made plain, and before election,
it is to be hoped, many of them will
see the trap into which they arc being
drawn. There is no proper place for
Democrats but in the Democratic par
ty. In Pennsylvania less plausible
schemes threatened for Il while to
injurc Democratic prospects. The
latest reports from both States arc
encouraging.
The wonderfully clear statement Of
the parties which are necessary in an
elective and representative govern
mcnt, made few days since by Scnu-
tor Thurman, receives fresh cOnlirma-
ton in the Congressional nominations
being made daily. In New York, for
instance, the combined opposition to
the Democrats has put in nomination
some of the principal bankers OF the
country. AS Senator Thurman's
statement was at once clear and able,
and fits particularly the present 60 adj.
ton of affairs, give it in full: ''Ih9
Third Party contains many good men,
and not few misguided men. The
idea that ii can absorb the Democratic
party, or the Republican party, or
draw enough from them both to be-
come the dominant party, is tallacious.
In country of free institutions there
never has been, and there never will
be, but two great permanent parties,
the one n party of privileges created
by law and the other party of equal
rights. In our country the party Of
equal rights is tie Democratic party.
The party Of privileges created by law,
has ever been, and yet is, the party
opposed to Democracy. l exclude
from the comparison The slavery of the
blacks that formerly existed, not only
in the South but in the North. That
was forced upon us by our English
ancestors. Excluding that, what
statute was ever passed by Demo-
cratic Congress ora Democratic Lcg-
islaturc to confer special privileges
upon Democrats? Not one. But On
the other hand, every public debt law,
every banking law, every tariff law,
every subsidy law, has conferred i'm
mcnsc privileges upon our opponents.
Sir, the Democratic party is the na-
tional party of free institutions. 1t is
instructible so long as such institutions
exist" ~
There has been sudden collapse Of
the late imposing bloody-shirt revival.
Everybody 'shou id remember, to the
discrcdit of Senator Conkling, that
but for him we should have had little
reference in the present campaign to
tho silly tictions of "outragcs'' in the
South. These stories arc relics of q
time when one section was willing to
pc governed by hatred Of another.
The Commission to inquire into the
advisability of transferring the Indian
Bureau to the War Department. has
finished its investigation, and will now
commence the preparation of its re-
port. There is u rumor that il will
advise against tic transfer. Honest
and experienced men differ on this
subject, but 10 intelligent man doubts
tho urgent necessity Of removing from
tho interior Department some of its
Bureaus. Secretary Schurz is wholly
unable to give attention to all his
duties, and tho consequence is that his
Bureau officers practically manage the
department., leaving him, only tho
honor of Being n tiglirc-hcad, and tho
profit attaching to, that honor. The
Secretary within n week used sub
stantially this language in reference to
one OF the most important 4 questions
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