The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-12-21
THOSE VoRAU0Uy VUL1 UREs.

| THOSE VORACIOUS VUL1 URBS.
The Washington Register but re-
echoes the opinion of our Washing
ton correspondent that the evidence
accumulates that the return Of tho
Republican party to power in tho
present House of Representatives il,
to be signalized by the presence Of
a colossal lobby, armed with bound
less impudence, and backed by
enormous financial strength. Dur
ing the domination of the Democrat
ic party at the Capitol, the lobby
lost its identity, and ceased to exist
as factor in national legislation,
but with the return of Republican,
ism to power, the insolent LazzaroDi
of the lobby will come swarminig
back, only the more rapacious than
ever by reason of their long enforced
absence from the corridors and cav
erns of the great building on Cap.i-
toll Hill. The presence of these
hateful vampires is abundantly evil
dent on the streets and in our gree.t
earavansaries, and long before the
holiday recess occurs the lobbies and
ante-chambers of the Capitol will be
thronged with the Captain Rocks of
one sex, and the painted, Haunting
Jezebels of the other. Crime and
corruption will run riot; the attenu-
ated poeket-books of dissipated
young r0ues will be replenished by
the modern Captain Rocks, and
gray haired, y-eyed, and blaze
old reprobates will be carded out by
the score, to be interviewed by the
lascivlous but faded beauties of tie
female branch of the lobby. All
will be changed with the facility
with which a modern necromancer
can convert gold watch into an
0n'Iet Sout7e, and joy will be uncon-
fined. The worst days of ring and
lobby rule are close at hand, and it
will require all the energy, ability,
and integrity of the minority to
thwart the Vaccinations of the re
nowned and disreputable "third |
house" and prevent the indiscrimi-
nate and colossal plumber of the ma
tional Treasury.
The New York Herald, in refer
ring to the signs of the coming lob |
byists, gives us a faint idea of the
magnitude Of the schemes which |
these voracious vultures propose to
"put though" and, in addition to
the usual assortment ofinternational
frauds which are to be pressed with
unfagging zeal, and that genuine
ardor which comes only from large
and great contingent fees.
Among the international schemes to
be pressed to a successful conclusion,
unless the right hand of the lob
bylsts has lost its cunning, and
money its power to purchase, the
Herald indicates the following as on
the programme for the dedication
Of the Forty -seventh Congress: The
first named is called the Mexican
lobby, which has for its objective
point the robbing of Mexico of sew
9ral of its Northern States, and their
subsequent incorporation into the {
Union, with q contingent legacy in
he shape of a war with that coun-
ry. Next comes the Peruvian lob !
~, which, according to the Herald, {
s "anXious to rescue the unusually
'ich fields of nitrate of soda and
suano from the grasp of the Gillian =
rmies," and all this, of course, to +
Increase the glory of the republic, f
nd put much money into the cof- '
ers of the patriotic but greedy
Then follows a Chilli I
n lobby, which is anxious to Sc 7
ure the intervention of the United s
tates in the affairs of two South b
american republics; and following
I the wake of these comes the in
canal lobby, and another g
)r the accomplishment Of General Il
rants pet idea, the acquisition of 81
an Domingo! Each Of these h
,hemes will be abundantly backed a
18th money, and it will require all e.
ne virtue possessed by the average f.
Congressman to enable "
i'm to resist the varied blandish- V,
Ient which the experienced lob h
visits knows SO well how to bring - -
, bear On him, and so we can only -
" to our Democratic friends that W
behooves them to be ever on the el
ert, to pray that they may not be h,
d into temptation, and 'keep their ~ ~
owder dry" tb
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