Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1881-04-21
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

larity, especially in times OF some eN'
citement, reports from all sections of
the country as to their political affairs.
In one way or another almost every
village in the Union is represented
here, besides that general representa-.
tion supposed to be found in Congress.
Every Government clerk has his home
correspondents. Every other citizen is
nearly or remotely connected with some
community in Maine, Virginia, Texas,
Wisconsin, or elsewhere. When the
right man and the proper time arrives,
there may be political reports sent out
from Washington as correct as the
weather reports now forwarded by the
signal bureau. This is merely by way
of introduction. | began with the in.
tention OF saying | was surprised at the
small interest which seems to be felt
throughout the country in the existing
Senate contest. II is considered here
as more important than any other for
the last three years-since the Demo.
cratic fight to prevent the interference
OF United States soldiers at State cleo.
tions. Democratic Senators were never
so thoroughly in accord on any other
subject. Their belief is that the rights
OF intelligent people in the South are
in danger, and that negro and carpet.
bag government are sought to be reviv.
ed in that section, through a corrupt
bargain between an unworthy South.
erner and a faction of the Republican
party. Believing this, every Democrat.
ic Senator feels the occasion to be
most important one.
In speaking of faction of the Re.
publican party, | do not allude particu.
larly to the Conkling, the Blaine, or
any other recognized faction, but to
few able men who have some influence
in the party and who think they can
extend it by the Malone coalition. If
they shall succeed, the present Congress,
Republican in both branches, will mark
out course for the Republican party
which will hardly leave the South in as
good condition as when the carpet bag
gers and negroes had full sway from
Texas to South Carolina.
President Garfield is a man of excel.
lent impulses as has often been shown
in his speeches in Congress, and as was
conspicuopsly shown in his inaugural
address, but it is yet an open question
whether or not he will have the iirm.
ness to Withstand the pEiy pressure
which, in the event Of the triumph Of
Radical ideas in the Senate, will be
brought to bear on him. lie has never
yet shown nerve enough to withstand
the party lash, and he will therefore BE-
likely to do As he has always done ia
the past-suppress his own views and
yield to the behests OF stronger men.
Gen. Morgan, Of Alabama, in his last
speech in the Senate spoke Of the peo.
pie who helped Mr. Hayes to the vote
of Louisiana in 1876 as having their
names perpetuated on the pay.rolls Of
a grateful country, aad further on com.
pared them to parasites. lie mention.
ed several OF them by name, including
Mrs. Agnes jerks, who was sitting in
the gallery at the time. The fair and
fiery Agnes was a. much iucensed for
being called parasite " as Daniel
OConnell's fshwoman was when he
called her parallelogram. She to day
posts the Alabama Senator as an econo.
mist OF the truth, as a maligner of the
good or a lover of treason, and as a
parasite himself, and winds up by tell.
ing him If she was man he would
quickly retrnct his epithet.
Except this senatorial squsbble, there
- uOtulUB Nhtktd VI mere Out tht new
loan negotiated by Secretary Window,
He has assurances that the owners Of
nearly ell the government six per cent.
bonds will allow them to run on at ~
per cent. rather than have them paid
There i no doubt but The fives will be
a extended on the same terms. The
extension is for time not stated, and
Of course the whole transaction i sub
iect 70 review BY Congress. Opinion is
very much divided as TO the effect the
seerctary's success will have on the
question Of passing or not passing a 3
per cent. funding bill, but most money
men here believe Congress will find in
c new reasons for thinking 3 per
ssnt bond can be sold al par. Dos.