Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-11-25
AT WASHINGTON.
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS GO.
ING ABOUT WITH wRY FACES.
A CursOry Review of Proposed Leg.
fslatiOn-rhe Key to n Situation
In the Hands of Democrats.

Aey TO the
In the Hands of Democrats.
An occasional correspondent sends us
the following communication from Wash
ington under date Of Nov. 16:
Ed. SENTINEL: The time for the begin
ming of the last session of the Keller Robe
son Congress is near at band, and discom-
fitted Republican politicians, Senators and
members Of the House are again seen about
the streets and in the lobbies of the hotels.
1t is interesting to observe the effects of
defeat, shown in a wryness of visage, and
in a certain bedragglement of mien and
manner which they all have. A beaten
politician looks as much like a discarded
lover as anything you ever saw.
Not since the election of Tilden have
the office-holders here been so alarmed and
so respondent. The machine barrel is
empty. The immense sum that jay Hub
bell levied is worse han lost. 1t is now
realized that his audacions bribery has not
only ruined his party, but has made its
ruin disgraceful. Many believe that the
regime of theft, corruption, bribery and
bossism, which has debauched the Govern
g for sc many years, and, under the
banner of moral IDEAS" has stolen every
NhhO " pVutioICIN w
Tilden's presidency, is on its last legs.
Notwithstanding this is the hope and be-
lief, one sees very little of the exultation
that was conspicuous here when a Demo-
cratic Congress was elected in 1874, or
when Tilden was elected in 1876. This
peculiar serious way of solemnizing a VIC
tory by reserve and silence is all the more
trying to the anquished. They regard it
as ominous of a morale and a reserve force
that will be more destructive, in the final
onset, than noise and enthusiasm.
1t is curious to note that the Republi-
cans base their hope of success in the next
Presidential election on the p~rophesied
blunders of the coming Democratic Jon
gress. Wait, they say, until the next
House assemblies and has q rough-and-
tumble fight over the Speakership. Wait
until it has to face the tariff question, the
civil service question, the River and Har-
Dor and Pension bills. If the next Demo.
cratic Congress wishes to accommodate
it's Republican friends it will certainly
blunder, blunder early and often.
The Republicans draw a hopeful augury
from the fact that although they lost the
House in 1874, they gained the Presidency
in 1876 (?). There might be some reason
in the inference if they had gained the
Presidency without the help of Returning
Boards, Eliza Pinkston, and the Elec-
toral Commission. 1t may be said that
these forces will not make the next Presi-
dent.
That the Democrats will make some
blunders in the next Congress is pretty GER
tain, but they will be numerically stronger
than the Congress that was elected prior
to Tilden's election, and they will be
stronger in the talent and experience of
their personnel. On the other hand, the
Republicans will be weaker in number,
and by the absence of Blaine, Butler, Gar
field, Conger and other able parliament
tarians and debaters. 1t seems to be con-
coded that the incoming Democratic Con-
gress must tackle the tariff sphinx, claws
and all. And, so far, all suggestions for
candidates for the Speakership have been
made solely with a view to this question.
There is another important question, how
ever, which no party can afford longer to
ignore. 1t relates to the reform Of the
civil service. The Democrats could not do
a wiser thing than to pass a law that no
clerk shall be removed from an Office in
which he has proved himself honest and
competent. To enact such a law would be
right as we'll as polite. 1t would make
Democrats of a large number of Govern
ment clerks, and of the friends of civil
service reform everywhere. 1t would de-
prive their adversaries of their most telling
taunt-that all the Democrats want are
the spoils of Office.