Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1879-04-07

the INFAMOUS system OF violence ana
fraud which have boosted the Democratic
party SO far up towards power would be
irresistible; and the lost cause which
failed in armed rebellion would prevail
by the methods now threatened. This
is the picture which Northern Democrats
at last are forced to contemplate as pos
sible under the domination of their
Southern brethren, and many of them
will hesitate to carry out the present
program to its legitimate end. The
prospect for mischief looks less threaten
ing than it did before the assault began
all along the Democratic line by the
solid and earnest Republicans.
That the Democrats are frightened at
the shadows of their own skeleton is
shown by the fact that the most of them
are willing to join the Republicans in
skipping Monday regularly and adjourn
ing over from Saturday until Tuesday.
This has good deal of meaning. Mon
day is the only day of the week when by
the rules of the House bills can be in
troduced without unanimous consent
The Observation-Disclosures and the
Greenback squad have prepared various
financial measures of wild and fanciful
nature that would come in regularly on
Monday but which are allowed to waste
their sweetness in the pockets of their
authors as it is. The Greenback worthless
are wrought up to great state of excite
ment by this condition. and curse the
hard money Democrats and Republicans
alike for holding them at bay. How
long the few Democrats will resist the
initiation tendency of their majority it is
hard to tell, but it is clear that they are
afraid of free contest upon these SUBJ
jects in its effects upon their party pros
poets, especially in the East. The
Greenback democracy boldly propose to
gradually wipe out the National Banks,
to issue a large amount of additional
greenbacks, and to adopt other measures
to disturb present commercial conditions.
Look out for shower of these PROPOSE.
tons, once they get Monday meeting
of the House.
1t is intimated that Speaker Randall
has about completed his list of commit.
tees, and will report them shortly. A
strong pressure has been brought to bear
on him to give the North a little show
in their make up, as a contrast to his
former list, and to the Committees in the
Senate, named almost wholly by ex-C Con
federate chiefs. This pressure comes
principally from the Tilden interest
which begins to be tremulous lest it,
eastern Democratic support melt away
before the assaults of the regulators.
There is a good deal of unhappines'
in the Democratic Greenback ranks
Ex-Doorkeeper Polk, of unsavory fame
is exposing crookedness in Carter Harri
son, that reform ex-Congressman from
Chicago, and it looks like an indictment
to follow. Then the "Ohio idea" il
blooming rather early in fact; its Wash
ington manager has caused the Demo
cratic State Convention to be called OF
the same day as the Greenback, which
means submission and surrender ant
causes many bolts. Then again thu
rebel Office seekers by hundreds are i'm
patient because they are not provided
for at once. Altogether we are having
grand exhibition of political imbecilit.
and dishonesty which is surely leading
to the slaughter of the Democratic part,
in 1880. LOGAN.