The Hartford herald., 1879-10-15
Washington letter.


Washington E.cttcr.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 1879.
Things begin to boom again at the
Capital. After the usual dull summer
and customary absence from among us
Of congressman, diplomats and officials
to say nothing of Correspondents.
Pleasant fall weather brings back the
wanderers, or many of them, and the
sidewalks are again lined with familiar
faces. Even the administration, which
has deserted us for country fairs polite
al meetings and other free lunch eXcur
siOns, is now coming back in sections,
so that neither private secretary
Rodgers nor Commissioner LeDue will
enjoy the honor of running the govern
ment de fdctO any longer. We still
have the Marine Band concerts in the
Capitol grounds on "Wednesday after
moons, and i'm the White House grounds
on Saturdays. These bring out the
styles; while Pennsylvania Avenue is
alive with prOmenaders and handsome
equipages every evening after dinner.
A few Senators and Congressman are
here, but they are only such as have no
Senator Lamar has been here most of
the time for a month.
Great interest is manifested in polit-
ical circles here concerning the cam
paign i'm Ohio and New York. The
other day met that veteran politician
Hon. Montgomery Blair, who was Pres
ident Buchanan's Postmaster-General
He is and always has been warm Til
dAy nd l.a mi. hat
if Mr.. Tildan had ''sct upr the Kelly
bolt in New York it could not have re-
suited more to that gentleman's advan-
tage chan it has and will. He has no
idea that Kelly will have more than IA
contemplate following when the day
Of election comes around, and the whole
affair will only tend to help, what he
thinks was certain at any rate, the NOM
inatiOn of Mr.. Tilden by the next DEM
ocratjc Convention. a prominent and
very shrewd Republican politician, who
has no particular sympathy with COnk-
ling, returned from New York day or
two since and expressed himself very
much as judge Blair does. He thinks
the y-KOnkling-kOrne cOmbina-
ton will lose the Republicans more
votes than Tammany Hall can take
away from the Democrats, and regards
it very unfortunate thing for the Re
publican party To be placed i'm the atti-
tude of an ally of Tammany. AS for
Kelly's strength he say that there is
nothing more certain in politics than
that the adherents of any leader will fall
largely from him when they know that
defeat inevitably awaits them. For
this reason, he says, Mr.. Kelly could
not possibly have committed more
foolish act than to get up and proclaim
to the hosts Of Tammany that he had
no hopes of his own election, and all he
could expect was to defeat Robinson.
The Tammany masses take no interest
in Mr.. Kelly's personal quarrels with
Mr.. Tilden, and Governor Robinson.
All Mr.. Kelly is to them is as the dis
penser of crumbs of patronage. There
fore, as the politician aforesaid sagely
remarks, when Mr.. Kelly confesses
himself in advance that all he hopes to
accomplish is the satisfaction of his
private animOsity, that affords no pros
pect of material advantage to them for
throwing their votes away, and they
will make haste to enrol themselves
with the Tilden and Robinson forces,
where they may expect something.
AmOngthe democratic politicians here
generally, there was respondent feel
ing when the Kelly bolt was first an
nOunced, but it has since given place to
a decided confidence and beliefthat the
Democracy of New York acted wisely
in refusing to tempOrize or compromise
with John Kelly whose selfishness and
arrogance is unsufferable. A cOmprO-
mise this year would only have resulted
in fresh outbreak and repetition of
his bull-dOzing tactics next year. Ifthe
Democracy of the Empire State cannot
stand upon the splendid record of Gov
ernOrs Tilden and Robinson it cannot
stand at all, and it would have been a
pitible spectacle to see the party aban-
! don its vantage ground at the dictation
of a disreputable taX-eating faction.
The latest advices received here from
Ohio are decidedly encouraging and
more than confirm me in the opinion
expressed through my letters from the
battle ground. A private letter from
Senator Thurman, who is by no means
given to bOasting, expressed positive
conviction that the Democrats will win
both the Governorship and the legisla-
ture.
The Grant boom among other things
has lately struck Washington with re-
newed force, the "old mans" return to
his native heath having been the signal.
l really do not think there is much in
it. A few politicians who were "solid''
during Grants former Presidency, and
who expect to profit by another term OF
it are shouting themselves hoarse, and
systematically working up the senti-
ment, but it is all noise. 1t reminds me
of an incident related as having occur
red here when a band of red skins were
visiting the Great Father. They were
seeing the sights, and among Other
things were shown one of the largest
guns on board man-Of-war. The old
chief, whose name was Young-man-
afraid-of-his- s-mother-in-law, or some.
thing of the kind, walked around and
and looked complacently at the mon
ster cannon, then, remembering how
little damage they had ever experienced