St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-11-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular oorrespondent.
OCTOBER 21st, 1884.


eclipses everything.
Although the District of Columbia
has no vote, there is no other portion of
the United States sointensely interested
IN the result of the election as we are.
1t is edifying, or, at least, suggestive to
hear the bread and butter politicians
who feed at the public crib talk. A
more soulless, heartless set of political
sharps do not live. They are all pocket
and stomach. None know better than
they that the late elections augur no
good for Blaine in November, and, at
the thought of Democratic success they
boil in their own venom. They realize
full we'll that the election Of Cleveland
will mean real civil service reform, a
reform that will not tolerate in places
of public trust, such dead-heads and
mere political bummers as they are.
They know that when discharged from
this Government Coddling Asylum they
will not be able, in open market, to sell
their worthless services for one third as
much as they are now paid. And then
oh horrors, they will have to do real
work for eight or twelve hours day
while here they only play at work for
six hours. Is it remarkable that they
look upon the advent of y party un-
friendly to this disorder of things, as
upon the advent of ruin. Poor
wretches! It will be ruin to them, but
the salvation Of the country demands
it.
A Democratic Administration will in
deed make great change in Washing.
ton, and, it must be admitted that
scarcely anybody, no matter what his
convictions and sentiments on political
questions are, wants change. The
commercial, industrial, social, and re-
ligious forces Of the city have become
identified and interviewer with the per-
sonel of the party in Office. A disrup-
ton of these ties will, of course, be
painful to many. / will never forget
the wan CONSERVATION expressed in
thousands of faces eight years ago,
when it was known, on the fifth of No
vember. that Tilden was elected. On
the following day lying dispatch came
and was posted at the corners of the
streets. 1t read, Hayes has 185 votes
and is elected, (signed9 Chandler" tt
was supposed that old Zach. Chandler,
now gone to his account had sent the
dispatch, but, later, it was known that
VIM. e. Chandler, not yet called to ae-
count, was father of the most stupen-
dous lie Of all time. Well, people gath
cred around that lie, wherever it was
posted, and sucked consolation from it,
and gazed at it with the alteration of
sayages for the sun. This dispatch was
the ralIying point of the crime of crimes
which nearly every person in the party
of moral ideasn abetted. Some may
think that John Sherman was the ring |
leader, in that villainy, others that
Grant who saw in it the opportunity for
another war did more than any other to
carry out the infamous plot. I think
that this dispatch of VIM. E. Chandler
(the present Secretary of the Navy,)
and his subsequent manipulation of the
Returning Board in Florida, had more
to do with cheating popular suffrage of
its greatest victory than the work of
any one man. Many of the perpetrators
of this crime like Garfield, Morton,
Zach. Chandler are beyond the reach
of earthly punishment. II those who
are still living shall not in some way be
called to answer / shall cease to believe
Drosaic justice. Let as pray and vote
that Samuel j. Tilden may live to see
the party that stole the presidency over
wheImed ON the fourth of November.
This Mr.. VIM. E. Chandler is the most
adroit trickster on the staff Of Blaine,
and his loyalty to his chief is like that
Df his dog for Bill Sykes. 1t was be
hat arranged the Butler Blaine secret
alliance on board the Tallapoosa. The /
7ile federation has now been fully ex-
,osed, it is now known that Butler re-
elves his orders from the Republican
committee and that his side ,
how is supported by the Blaine Hippo
rome.
/ have strayed from the subject Of my :
,tter, but it is now too late to get back /
} It, and the best I can promise is that !
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