Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1879-10-15
WASHINGTON LETTER,
from our regular couesponden'l
WAsnlSaros, u. g., oct TO- w.

Things begin 10 bloom again at tho
the Capitol, After the usual au''
summer aud customary absence IRON
among us Of Congressman, diplomats
and officials Ito say nothing OF mo
Corrcspondents-pleasant fall weather
brings back the wanderers or many
OF them, and the sidewalks are agar"
lined with familiar faces, Even the
administration, which has deserted US
for country fairs. political meetings
and other free Lunch excursions Is
now coming back in sections 80 that
neither private secretary Rodgers nor
Commissioner LcDuc will ENJOY lhe
honor of running the government q"
facto any longer We still have the
Marine Band concerts IN the Cap''o'
grounds on Wednesday afternoons
and in the White loose grounds on
Saturdays. These bring out the styles !
while Pennsylvania Avenue is alive
with promcnade,s and handsome
eouipages every evening after dinner
A few Senators aud Congressmen are
mere, but they are only such as nave
no campaign work at home O" t"'''
hands Senator Lamar has been mere
most Of the time Tor n month
Great interest is manifested in pol't'
ical circles here concerning the cam
paign in Ohio and New York. IRE
other day | met that veteran political"
Hon. Montgomery Blair, who was
Presiden, Buchanan's Postmaster.
General. lie is and always has been
warm Tilden man and expresses the
opinion that it Mr.. Tilden had "se'
up" the Kelly bolt in New York ii
could not have resulted more to that
gentleman's advantage than 1t ha'
and will. He has no idea that AeIi!
will have more than contemplate
following when the day of election
comes around, and that the who'll
affair will only tend to help, what NJ
thinks was certain at any rate, TIT
nomination Of Mr.. Tilden by the mex
Democratic Convention. A promln
ent and very shrewd Republican
politician, who has no particular sym
patty with Conkling, returned iror
Sew York day or two since and ex
presses himself very much as Judg
Blair does. He thinks the Kelly
Koukling-Kornell combination WI
lose the Republicans more votes tina
Tammany Hall can take away frol
the Democrats. and regards 1t yer
unfortunate thing for the Republlca
party to be placed in the attitude
an ally of Tammany. As tor Kelly
strength he says that there is othiu
more certain in politics than that tt
adherents ofany leader will tall larg
ly from him when they know that d
feat inevitably awaits them. For tn
reason, he says, Mr.. Kelly could n
possibly have committed a more foe
ish act than to get up and proclaim
the hosts OF Tammany that he had
hopes Of his own election, and all tn
he could expect was to defeat Kobl
son. The rammany masses take
interest in Mr.. Kelly's personal qua
rels with Mr.. Tilden and Gov. Robi
All Mr.. Kelly ia to them is as the d
penser Ct crumbs Of patronage.
Therefore, as the politician afores'
sagely remarks, when Mr.. Kelly &C
fesses himself in advance that all
hopes to accomplish is the sasisfactl
of his private animosity, that atfol
no prospect Of material advantage
them OF throwing theiu votes avn
and they will make haste to enr
themselves with tho Tilden and Rob
son forces, where they may exp
something. I'd.
Among TIE Democratic politics
here. generally, there was despo'
ent feeling when the Kelly bolt '
first announced, but it has since CIV
place to a decided confidence an
belief that the Democracy OF N
York acted wisely in refusing to te
porize or compromise with John II
" whose selfshness and arrogance
insufferable. A compromise this y
would only have resulted in fir
outbreak and a REPETITION of this b
doing tactics next year. If the
mocracy OF the Empire state can
Stand upon the splendid record OF G
ernors Tilden and Robinson it can
stand at all, aud it would have b
pitiable spectacle to see the p'
abandon its vantage ground at
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