The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-03-19
Our Washington Letter.
Special to the REPUBLICAN.

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grows wider and more irreconcilable
with the lapse of every new day. Mr..
Randall is having taste Of that Pc
.culiar form Of gratitude that ignores
wholly the ninety.and.n favors
conferred so that the one.hundreth is
refused or is only granted after more
or less hesitation. 1t has been a dis.
tinguished trait of the average South
ern Democratic politician from time
immemorial the history of American
politics abounds with innumerable
instances where the dispenser of pat.
ronage, as in Randall's case, has had
the South turn and rend him, because
he had at last been forced to turn n
deaf ear to the horse.leech cry Of
give, give" after having endowed
that section with a disproportionately
large share Of all the good things
within his gift. OfthT42 Chairman
ships of House Committees Randall
gave 20 to his Confederate brethern
his rulings and decisions have oftener
than otherwise been to favor them 10
any controversy between sections; its
representatives could usually count on
the benefit Of any doubt which arose
in dealing with sectional interests,
and altogether he has gone much more
than half way in his efforts to make
the prodigaIs feel perfectly at home
and to show them that they were more
than welcome to the choicest cuts of
the fatted calf But l grieve to say
that Mr.. Randell's advances have not
been met in corresponding spirit,
and with all the self denial he has i'm
posed on party friends from other Sec
tions to enable him to be more than
generous to the Confederate brother.
he has been unable to avert q scheme
that seriously threatens his reelection.
The opposition has centered upon
Blackburn, of KY, than whom extreme
BourboIism has no truer exponent.
the "lost cause" no more sincere
mourner. The name is odious wher-
ever the demoniac attempt to deplete
our armies dSring the war by the dis
semination of an Infectious and loath-
some disease is known and appreciated
in the truly devilish spirit that prompt.
ed the effort, and the opponents of
Randall could hardly have picked out
from the entire delegation comprising
the Democratic side of the House, a
man more obnoxious to the sentiment
that dominated the loyal States and is
still the prevailing one among native
Americans and many of our adopted
citizens all over the North and West.
Of the two other men oftenest men,
toned as possible dark horses, Car
Isle, also from the clark and bloody
ground" would probably be found
only less Objectionable than Black
burn, on all the material issues that
have divided the country into North
and South during the past quarter of
century. McMahon of Ohio, in ad-
dition to stripe Of Democracy that
would likely lead him to be more OBJ
sequious and complaisant towards the
malignant and revolutionary leaders
of his party than Randall has ever
been, is in high feather with the most
rampant of the soft money maniacs
and repudiationists because of his votes
and known sympathy in those direc.
tions. Hence as a choice of several
evils one Of which seems unavoidable.
Randall, as the best of them, seems
infinitely preferable to any of the
others named; and so far as appears
on the Washington surface that is the
view entertained by large majority
Of Republicans.
Ii President Hayes is in favor of
repeating the law which empowers him
to station troops at the polls in certain
emergencies, and of that imposing the
test oath, reported, he is at variance
with majority of the Republican
party ifit was correctly represented
IN the last Congress. Some members,
however, indicated their willingness to
concede those two points if the Demo.
Gratis Wonln Weld thnir donnn,,An e