The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1880-07-17

BROADBRIM.
Our Washington Letter.
Campaign Prspsrs6sns-Encoarasine
Republican Outlook Increase in the
Population Of Washington-Tarif Re-
forms Agitated The Nicaragua Canal,
Etc.
WAsHHerox. D. e.. July 10, 1880.
ED1roR CHIEF:
The weather is accountable for an
unexpected duliness in political cir
cles. During suct. a hot term it il
the most that can be done to quietly
consider the situation Of Affairs and
arrange for future action. This has
been the situation during the past
week in this centre Of political inter-
est. But reflection has it's uses in y
campaign, and cnlrent talk begins to
show what reflection will Do. Upon
the nomination by the Cincinnati Con.
vention there were few who did not
say that Democrats had put up their
strongest possible ticket. Some Re-
publicans were even alarmed at the
prospect and expressed appreben.
sions of Democratic success. But
this feeling has passal away. It ID
conceded quits ss J readily that Han.
cock Is fine officer with a good war
record, but the difficulty is that he is
on the wrong ticket. A Democratic
leader will please the bulk Of his
party better with a record made up
OF facts Of resistance to the war and
lts constitutional results. They who
have hated the war and it's conse-
qaences can not we'll admire its lead
ers. The fatal inconsistency of the
Mcclellan and Greeley nominations,
made, like this Of Hancock's, as . po-
I't'cal strike, is therefore repeated,
and the calm Judgment Of the coaptry
will condemn the fraud, let it take
what shape it will. do not think it
too much to say that, the Democrats
are already very much embarrassed by
the very false position in which the
nomination has placed them. For
years they have been eloquent in APP
peaIs for government by civil magis-
trate, and fierce in their denuncia
tions of particular president with
military antecedents and s,ilitary
manners. General Grant was accused
Of making the White House a mill
tary headquarters, of surrounding
h;'nseif with military pals, and Of
suojecting civil authorizes to mill
tary rule. The influence of West
Point has been deprecated aud the
terrible spectres of Bonapartism and
Cnsarism have been paraded on the
i'ustings aud through the press as a
warning against appointing to high
est civil functions the man of mill
tary instincts and habits. Bat nov
the question comes, If all this noise
was argument against Grant, how
much more conclusive must it he
against Hancock. Gen. Hancock.
since the day he went ~ a cadet te
West Point, has never ceased to be q
soldier. Twenty years ago Generals
Grant and Garfield were taken from
l'umblest civil life, whence they forged
their way to distinction. They were
essentially from the people. from the
common people, fre,s that great yeo.
man class who as pioneers have made
the country, and as volunteers have
saved it. 1 am confident that the
country at large knows little of wha,
the influence Of West Point and the
Naval Academy are when not purged
by the habits and influences Of pri-
vate life.
1t is not too much to cay that hatl,
these natienal Aels0oas are decidedly
nnpatriotic. Did It erer occur to you
that the reason that our regular nf-
ficers prefer to serve the United States
rather than the Queen Of England OF
the Car of Russia 10 becanse we nav
them from three to I've times as mncl,
as they would be paid BY any othe.
government haye heard these
we'll read aud travelled geptlemeu