Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1880-12-07
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec, [


gress are coming, coming. Washington
will be in the midst of new life to-
morrow The members, their families,
and all the Office seekers who can come
will be here this week. The change in
the city is wonderful. Before, it has been
dull and quiet as an odd Sunday. Now it
will be as fresh and gay here as money and
fashionable dress, and beautiful faces can
make it. But the highest tide of gayety
will not come until after the holidays.
Then thousands of romance-loving people,
who have plenty of money, will come to
spend the winter at the national capitol.
This winter the attractions will be I'M
usual. The Inauguration will be on the
bills for March. That event will draw
very large crowd. AS for legislation, the
present session promises to be dull
affair. This session will not likely UNDER
take to do any heavy work, such as legis-
lating on leading questions as the tariff,
finance, etc. I is their duty to pass APP
preparation bills for the next fiscal year
and this they will no doubt do without
making so many wry faces as they did last
year. Then there is great deal of scrap
wo k to be done, legislatlng on private
matters and matters of purely local in
terest, so that il will push the democracy
to get their house in order in time to vacate
on the 4th of uarch. No doubt the demo-
Gratis wish the time was longer. L, is very
hard for them to 60 out so; under such
record. Ii they only had one more ses-
sion added to this, they would do the
country so much good by their beni6cent
department. How they tremble as they
feel the boot-t0e Of public opinion coming
coming. 1t will be found that this
death-bed repentance will crop out in the
public acts of the democracy this winter.
They will not say a word this year about
'wiping out anything. They will not
"defy' the president either. But it is too
late to. build alecordnow. What can Oldham
democracy do towards making redeem
ing record, now that he tremblingly
walks about the capitol, its marble slabs
being strewn with his last falling locks
whi.e the very lime-piece on the wall
points to the last hour with an unrelenting
hand. We can hope for no good results
from the corpse of this old party of long
years and great crimes. Like the villain
in stage play he has been kicked during
each act, d yet kept on the stage topaz
troy the vlllainuous instincts to be found
in politics and also that the audience
might have something to despise. Let US
hope that when the curtain drops on the
democracy next arch, it will drop
forever on. this old man of dead ideas
states-rights and the like. GIVE us more
respectable villain for the future stage Of
American politics. w deserve reIea sc
from the old issues, so long nursed in the
bosom of the democracy. The democrats
are, as rule, as honest men as other
partiazns but they undoubtedly have a
weakness for nonsense. How refreshing
| to see, now and then, smart democrat
muster courage enough to come out and
| join the army of progress. They are
coming. And so is free speech. Soon
the ambuscades of the .bulldozer will fall
into decay and the genius of progress will
creep from her hiding place in the south.
When the funeral bells toll over the DEM
ocracy next VI arch, let us hope the ''solid''
business will be a corpse at the same
funeral. And when the echoes of those
bells go On reverberating over the south,
may they find a fresh made mound cover
ing every bulldozer in the land. By the
! way You have seen that Ben Hill is on the
political mOurners' bench-wants a release
from the depravity of the age-wants
all the good men of both parties to Join
! hands and get up new outfit and call it a
national union party. No one heard that
he was so charitably disposed until he saw
the fragments of his own party strewn al
his feet. The size Of his mouth and the
capacity of his lungs makes him a first
class mourner. He is like bawling call
which one is trying to pull from the teal
of his mother by means of vigorous tail
holt. Hill and his party had gotten two
very rich teats into their hungry mouths
the two houses of congress, and now
that Uucle Sam takes strong hOld-a
good tail grip-on thea democracy, and
jerks them back with such force that the
aforesaid teats slip from their lips with a
kind of double-distIlled smack, we can
readily understand why this big call
bawls.
~. A boom is being organized with eonsid
cradle foundation, in favor of making ex
| Representative Rainey. OF South Carolina
the clerk OF the next house of representa-
tives. will be remembered that at the
close of the 45th congress when the
enrolling committee We're in bad way to
say the least, r. Rainey dId the work OF
four men without food or sleep, fol
twen'y-four hours, and saved the country
the expense and disadvantage of an extra
session OF congress. Mr.. Rainey is the
same man for Mhom Judge Houk voted tt
be clerk last session and it was about this
vote that r Williams made small
sized racket. 1t is hoped that Mr. Rainey
will be elected. He has just claims on the
place. The republican party is going tt
show to the world that it recognizes meri
alone and the color of a man skin is to
be no barrier to his advancement. ~
Williams can put this in bis note book i
he chooses.
sam Ivens of Athens is candidate TO
postmaster of the house to fill out tn
unexpired term of James M. Stewart
deceased. Sam is capital felleW an,
would ge; great many republican votes
3 should not the democratic eaucns decid
against him. Walter p. Brownlow is
candldate for postmaster of the hous
under the next administration. He
good vote. Roy.
A FouI-MOuthed Woman