New Ulm weekly review., 1879-06-04
Our Washington Letter.

The evident intention OF the Dem
ocrats to procrastinate and put far
away the evil day will avail them
nothing. The effort only increases
the difficulties of their situation.
They have finally got to surrender
and back down because their north
ern friends who want to hold their
districts against the Republican
reaction, will not obey the caucus
dictation any longer. They have
not hastened the sending of the
general appropriation bill to the
President for the reason that it is
sure to be vetoed, and then the issue
must beAforced. The country then
loudly demands that the appropria.
tion bills shall be passed without
qualification, and the matter Of gen.
eral legislation, shall be postponed
indefinitely. The certainty that
they must come to this point at last
worries the poor Democrats terribly.
We shall have another veto message
early next week, and then look out
for fun in the Democratic ranks.
Ohio politics continue to be run in
Washington quite largely. The let
ter of Sec'y Sherman peremptorily
refusing to be candidate for Gov.
ernor has restored tranquility some.
what, and the tide is setting once
more towards Judge Taft for Cover.
nor with Mr.. Foster for the second
place on the ticket. This would be
a strong and winning ticket.I
Sec'y McCrary is reported to be
anxious to leave theCabinct but do
not fully credit it. We must have
these Cabinet changes reported fire.
quently and this report is about as
good as any Of its predecessors.
The Warner silver bill has met
with several drawbacks in the House,
where it was supposed to have a large
majority. The initiation feature Of
it was spoiled by an amendment pro-
viding that Govt. shall be paid for
coming silver bullion brought to
the mint by private parties. This
IS unsatisfactory to the national
Greenbackers and they will make
great efforts to restore their pet
characteristic of free coinage, but it
is believed that they will fail at this
session at any rate. There is very
strong Opposition in both the old
parties to disturbing the financial
questions at present.
The Republican party ought to be
thankful to the Confederates for the
amount of campaign literature man,
nfactured for them by this session.
Since the beginning of the Govt. 1
believe 80 many able speeches were
never delivered in Congress as the
Republican members have made on
the Democratic conspiracy. Messrs.
Blaine, Conkling, Robeson, Chand-
Ter, Logan have given us several
speeches ofremarkable ability which
have been very widely called for and
distributed. Messrs. Edmunds,
Frye, Horr, Dawes and many Others
have given us single speeches Of
great value. The utterances Of
Messrs. Blaine, Conkling and Chand..
Ter will probably be most widely
read because they have a remarkable
faculty in presenting facts and ar.
guments in an entertaining and con-.
vincing way attained by very few
public orators. In the way of legal
arguments Messrs. Robeson and Gar
field have been very happy. The.
speech Of Senator Window was one
Of the best presentations Of the issue
between the two systems Of ciyili..
zation represented, by the free North
and the slavery corrupted South.
Senator Edmunds arranged one Of
the most useful text books for writer's
and orators in his citations from the
constitution and the laws showing
that ever since the Republic began
the Army has been used as the right
hand Of the Executive in enforcing
obedience to the civil laws. Mr..
Frye gave a resume Of Demo ocratic
methods in New York to prove that.
the object they have IN view now Is.
freedom to stuff the ballot boxes and
to overcome the honest electors by.
fraud and corruption. Nj. Hauk's
speech was the procla lamation Of a
Southern man against the system
which has forced the Republican.
majority IL that section to bow to q
minority Of rio ters and midnight
maranders. u fact al the speeches
have peculiar points Of interest and
s