The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1880-11-25
What the Country Has ESCAPED,

Few can realize the pandemonium
which would have reigned in Washing
ton in the event of Hancocks election
the wild rush for office, and the shock
the public business would have received
through the removal Of tried and trained
officials, and the putting in their places
OF inexperienced men. But those who
witnessed the scenes attending the Or
ganization of the Democratic House in
1o75-the first for fifteen years-Who saw
a hungry mob numbering some thousands
contendng for less than three hundred
offices, of which the greater number are
OF the mental class, can and do appreci-
ate result which has averted similar
scenes, on more extensive scale, and
which would have been followed bv more
disastrous consequences. The organiza-
| ton and officers of Democratic House of
the l4th Congress brought disgrace upon
the whole party; and succeeding organi-
zationS including that Of the Senate two
years ago, so added to the load that Han
cock was heavily handicapped when en-
tered for the Presidential race 1t was Il
very natural inference for the public to
draw, that if the Democrats could not
Till three or four hundred offices with
! clean and competent men, it surely could,
or rather would not, do better should it
have at its disposal nearly one hundred
thousand offices 1t is safe to say that
were all the government positions to be
filed after the Bird of March next with
men of the same character and calibre ais
those who hold Office under the Demo
cratic Congress, the result would be more
disastrous to the country than 4 foreign
war or even another rebellion,
Under Republican rule the officials iii
both Houses of Congress were not only
we'll qualified for their positions but We're
courteous to all who came III contact with
them 1t would not have been difficult
for the Democrats, when they took pos
session. to have ut least selected gentle
men to fill the places Of the retiring Off
clals But they did nothing OF the kind
The first Doorlleeper Of the House, the
lively tItzhuTh, Whotancied himself "bi-
ef than old Grant, was perhaps the
least objectionable of the gang installed
in tho (,,nitnl Lril,li,,r H.. t,-,s .si,,,,,l,,
a fool. Others We're knayes dead beats,
drunkards, and men who had been diS-
charged from the departments 'torcauSe"
Political strikers from the Sums Of NrW
\ork and Philadelphia. gambling hou~c
stool pigeons, confidence mrn and bar
keepers, were given positions Of more or
less profit it does not seem suitable IN
mention honor in this connection. Few
OF these men remained IN otfjre Inna b,,t
their successors were II cun3lIv unsayory
antccedrnts and Observation-Disclosures habits
1t Mas harUuy poS>jhlr r,r rnan or von,an
tuti,it the ilouSc wiurnf tbc l,larol ami
escape heiug ju,lltrd Members of Com
greSs Wcre rf.rm>rnr, ueulred IL thcir
own creatures. ami onr NJ. y..Wt, com-
compelled, in self defence. to- administered
black eve to drunken DO. Keeper vho
attempted tohar his entrance tn /, gallery
in which Mrs. NJ. G. was seated Gen.
Babcock yoing to tbr Capjrol one VAN
with il message to CONGRESS from the
President, was refused admttance to the