The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-08-28
Our Washington Letter.

Opening the Campaign Eloquent Trib.
uts to Garfield Slim Cabinet Meeting.
Rsooinage u Foreign Coda New
Bankrupt Law Needed, etc.
WASHINGTON. d. G.. August 81, 1880.
EDITOR CHIEF
The campaign was opened in this
District last night most bill
liantly by the various Republican
State committees. A procession was
formed on New York Avenue and
with music, torches and Transparent
cies marched down Fifteenth street,
thence along Pennsylvania and Lou
isiana Avenues to the City Hall. This
somewhat antique Hotel de Vile had
been adorned Will. banners, transpar-
e,cies and designs in gas jets. The
names of the Republican candidates
were beautifully outlined in flame.
The tall white statue Of the first Re-
publican President, holding the proc
lamatiOn Of emancipation in his hand
formed u suggestive frontispiece to
the scene. SPEECHES were made by
Secretary Sherman, Gen. Burdett and
Hon. A. H. Riddle. The address oi
the last gentleman, who has written a
biography Of Gen. Garfield, contained
such just aud beautiful tribute to
the Republican candidate that think
you will like to publish it in full:
Lowly rs he was born, humble as his
early years were, the qualities which
made him great were all with aud il,
him then. No great men sought him out
and sent him to West Point /; no kind
fortune smiled and beckoned him away ;
no new life CAME and shed new grace
upon him or clothed him with new quail
tiles or a new character. All he ever had
his father and mother gave him. God
was with him, the heavens were over
him, and he went OH, and on, and on, till
that which was in him led him out and
up, drew the eyes Of men to him till the
nation caught its ray, and now asks it
to light up it's own great onward march.
This is our man! Great hearted, great
souled, broad natured, with a mighty
mind. He too was q warrior, not turned
out at West Point, but sncl as God
makes when he wants q warrior, as he
did a few years ago. What other man of
the thousands brave and skillful signal
ized their entrance upon the field by an
exploit, a campaign equal to that he
planned and executed Oh, you boast
Of your Hancock! Strip him Of his but
tons and gildings and place him, man for
man, beside ours, and let the instructive
sense of the people say which they will
have. Ours was II soldier, o warrior, 4.
General, a hero, till he was wanted for
better and higher work. Anybody can
kill men; great. many bodies and many
no great bodies can lead mon in battle.
Hancock can do that, and do it we'll; it
is all he can do. Garfield was wanted
for better work and he came here to the
capital, and here yon made his acquain-
tance seventeen years ago. Much Of the
time since he has lived here with his
wife and children, coming and going in
your presence. You have all seen him,
heard him, and most of you know him.
His children have gone to school with
yours. l shall not follow his career fur
thcr. His great record is before you, lu-
minons with his years of grand service
He has grown up in your midst. You
know all his ways and associates. Not a
man Of you but knows his life is pure
and blameless.
Hon. Horace Maynard will proba-
bly reach this city on Monday or
Tuesday next, and as Postmaster Gen.
eral Key is anxious to get ava, will
enter upon his duties at once. Only
three members of the Cabinet are now
here. At the Cabinet meeting yester.
day, Judge Tyner represented the
Post Office Department, Assistant Sec
retary Bell the Interior, aud Assist
ant Secretary Hay the State Depart
ment. Nothing outside Of routine
business was transacted. Mr.. Bell
stated that the Commission had gone
to the Western Ute Agency to con-
time their work, aud that Secretary
ScLnrz would arrive at Fort Keogh
in few days to inquire into the iD-
tentioDs aud condition of the Sitting
Bull Indians.
The arrival Of the foreign gold now
atloat for this country will cause the
transfer OF some of that metal from
the sub treasury at New York to the
assay Office there, in order to settle
the accounts promptly, as the foreign
gold will be assayed and recoiued in
to gold of United States denOmina-
tions. =.....
An effort will he made ut the next
session of Congress to secure the pas
sage of a bankrupt law not open to
the abuses Of the law repealed two
years ago. Ever since the repeal
there has been a demand for a new
law, especially among bankers aud
business men. This demand showed
itself in the last session. A SUBJ COM
mittee Of the House judiciary Com
mittee WAS instructed to draft new
bankrupt law. AS stated, however,
an effort, and more vigorous one,
will be made at the next session to
secure Legislation or this subject.
A great deal of pleasure is expressed
here, where Hon. j. Proctor Knott
OF Kentucky is we'll known and
extremely popular, ut the contradic-
ton of the report of his death. Mr..
ku"tt, though q strong partisan, has
always been on the best terms Will,
other members, is hard worker aud
ever a friend to this District.
Preparations are being made for
the Fall races at the new bnt excel
lent course in this district. Arrange
ments are not yet all made, bnt the