Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-04-03
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Retaliation on Democratic Office
holders-Tbe Struggle in Con
gress-''A Dead Lock-
Inevitable.
The Nationals and the Election of
Randall = Sudden Change of
Views by Leading" Tennes-
see congressman.
From our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON, March %, 1879.
One of the matters mentioned II
my last letter from Columbia, tina
of Democratic oficeholding under
the Administration, is at last be-
ginning to attract the attention O.
the Republican papers. The Ma
tionaL Republican,, in forcible ed
itorial, calls the attention of the
President and the heads of Depart
ments to the fact "that nearly every
Department in the Government now
contains blatant and offensive
! Democrats, who are eating the
bread of the Government and daily
cursing the hand that feeds
them; who boast of their Democ-
racy, with bitter anathemas toward
that party which holds the Admin
istratiOn by right of election" The
Republican urges the Government
to remove these men and put in
their places Republicans as a meas
ure of retaliation for the wholesale
removal of Republicans in the Sen
ate. The Navy Department is said
to be the Democratic stronghold.
The Republican canvassers for sub
scribers to the campaign fund were
not permitted, l understand, to
enter that Department. But the
end has been reached.
The struggle has at last
begun in earnest over the
appropriation bills, which failed
last session. The Republicans of
the House met in caucus last night
to determine upon their course in
regard to the Army Appropriation
bill, and resolved to make a vigor-
Gus resistance to the clause
inserted to repeal the law authoriz-
ing the employment of troops at
the polls. The revolutionary efforts
of the Democracy will be resisted
to the last. There is no longer any
felt as to the Presi-
dents course in the matter. Mr..
Dawes made a statement in the
course Of his remarks in the Senate
yesterday, which is regarded as
authoritative, that there was not
the slightest intention on the part
of any person in the Republican
party having authority to deal with
the proposed Democratic legisla-
ton, to yield in any degree to the
revolutionary demands of the ma
jority." A "dead lock " is there's
fore inevitable unless the Demo
Gratis yield, which they will do in
the end.
The Democrats who a few weeks |
ago were disposed to laugh at the q
independent action of the Nationals :
in Congress, now view with alarm 9
the determined efforts of the
leaders of the new party to per- !
feet an q organization through :
put the country. Had Black
burn been elected, the Greenback-
9rs would undoubtedly have been
wallowed up by the Democracy.
But the election of Randall has
'italized the "third party" in Con- :
,ress Il don't mean David Davis, :
,ut the Greenbackers), and resulted !
n the PRONUNCIATION of a number of j
addresses by the leaders of that 5
party to the people, in which they
assert their determination to carry h
out their financial theories.
Some of the most remarkable po-
itical, acrobatic feats on record I
nave lately been performed by the s
odd members from Tennessee.
Gentlemen who last fall made touch I
ng appeals to the people to send
hem back here, that they might re-
ieve them from the evils of the
tariff and hard money
egislation of the Republican party,
.ow come back and 60 back on their j,
free trade constituency by =
Sam. Randall for Speaker, c
tho is the hardest of the hard and
he highest of the high on the
money and tariff questions. Of il
ourse these sudden conversions '
AVE been honest, ard no man will 9
lareto question the motives Of the
and he who intimates
hat prospective chairmanships of I
committees had anything to do with
their course will and