The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-05-08
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A Washington correspondent some
thine ago deseiibeip party recently
given III that city ,byiMr. ana Mrs.
! Stewart. Stewart is q Senator from
! Nevada, and four years ago was u
| poor man. He is a man of no profess
sional eminence, and has i'll no honest
way come into possession of wealth
since that time. Yet at his party or
| bali, given at public hail, there was
J a display of weaithlhat CrCesus might
ihnye envied. Read it, honest work
ingmen and farmers, who, by the
hardest toll, barely keep yourselves
and families iii coinior', and yet out
OF whose hard earnings every dollar
of this mans wealth came, as, well as
every dollar which Congressman vote
themselves, or is stolen through the
operations OF the lobby. Money does
not grow. on trees or drop from the
skies. 1t is the product of labor, and
every man who labors contributes his
share to support the extravaganza
here described. -4Egy r4i ira
A platform crossed the further end
of.tIie hall, on which were five draped
arches, on the pilasters aud bases of
1 which We're baskets of exotics aud
pois of costly flowers. A special
4 train from the South-charges paid
by Huntilgton's new Chesapeake and
] Ohio rold-brought a quantity of
palm leaves, which were draped be-
tween the arches. SurInounting the
center arch was the Goa. of arms of
Nevada. with the motto altered SO as
70 read, -.All from our country" An
entire aviary of mocking-birds paro-
| oueta and birds of paradise, were i'm
ported by Garison's steamers from the
West Indies and hung about the hall
| in decorated cages-charges paid by
services in expectancy co the Brazilian
| Subsidy and Sahnata Bay Company
schemes. Neba's band furnished the
music, at a cost OF five shares of EN-
ina, limited.
/ Mrs. Stewart-except the decOllete
was iattired in the cosGliest crimson
satin train, with white lace founces
aud overdress, that Worth's Paris es-
tablishment could furnish, or the
| Alaska Fur Seal Company pay for
The decolLetc was dressed principally
in Lubin's powder and rubies-though
not the same rubies that George Rob-
erts gave the Senator from Nevada
for engineering through the clause in
the mining bill allowing diamond
| fields to be patented. Miss Stewart,
to quote Jenkins, "was lovely in gros-
grain salmon silk; overdress Of tllle
embroidered in colors, aud pearl jew
els. But the Senator himself was the
| center OF attraction, and the splendid
toilets of the ladies lpaled into COM
mon fabrics before the rainbow raj
mcnt with which the eye of fancy in-
vested his stalWart form.
| sc nd
were composed of George State
| bonds, the defaulting Georgia Govern
or, Rufus B. Bullock, fflched from the
State Treasurer and distributed among
the "working" members of,the, Senate
reconstruction committee of the for
ty-frst Congress, i'll order to secure a
proper and speedy admission of that
state under proper auspices. Your
readers will remember how Stewart
worked night and day for the Bull
lock admission bill.1 His pataloons
were cut from loan certificates once
! given TO Sharon and Italston for ad-
vances OH The Amador mine and can
celled by illegal services" in The mat
ter of combating the SutrO tunnel
and amending the mineral land law.
His vest was u work of art; on the lett
side was embroidered q map. OF the
city OF Duluth, the lots set apart TO
| him by the Northern Pacific Railroad
company, for services on the Senate
railroad committee In the winter OF
1868. being designated by frosted sill
| yer fsgs. On the right side was trae-
esi the route of the Texas Pacific, with
representation, of a train of cars
loaded, with first mortgage bonds
rushing into the open vest pocket
| Blocks of the malachite of the shape
| OF the Preside lots served as buttons
TO this beautiful vest. whose lapeis
were of Alaska seal skin. a
The embroidered shirt front of. the
| Senator was GENERALLY admired. In
the perspective could be seen San
Francisco with grass-growIl wharves,
| while in the foreground loomed wa
ter-bound city of stately warehouses,
| ou the site of what once was Goat
Island, and on every fourth building
on the island appeared the placard,
''For rent: apply to VIM M. Stewart,
Attorney Central Pacific Railroad
| Company, San Francisco" The Sena-
tors coat was cut after the fashion of
Elijah's mantle. On the collar the let
| ters w. NJ. s., appeared above the half
eftaced words Jno. Conness-the body
| of the garment was composed of Cen.
tral Pacific 6rst mortgage bonds. One
of the tails of the coat was shorter
than the other--ssid to have been cut
to meet the exigeRcies of his last Sell
atorial election. .lff..T4u4
Seri ously, was not this entire Stew
art reception, brilliant as it was. de-
fiant mockery of the aroused public
sentiment which is everywhere awak-
ing from ils long sleep to summon its
corrupt stewards to q reckoning?-
Here is a man whose pay and mileage
tor two years would be required to
meet the expenses of his Thursday
night reception. and who four years
ago was SO poor, that he met his ordi-
nary expenses with difficulty, and to-
day he is lavish in the disbursement
of wealth he has neither Inherited nor
acquired by any process that will beaF
the sunlight. He is not q profound
lawyer; he is not a great statesman
his homely assaults on his mother
tongue exhibit the fact that he is not Q
great student. lie is, however, a man
of untiring energy, great Disregard OF
public opinion and utterly without
conscience: and SO he thriVes, and will
probably continue to thrive SO long as
the Central Pacific is willingto repur-
chase his seat for him, and his rott0n
borough constituency are base enough
to sell. .5,,.. -....t
Is it any wonder that Congressman
cannot afford to live in Washington
in "style becoming their stations?"
IT is an absolute fact that all good
and successful business men adver-
tisc literally. The man who has not
business enough To afford to tell the
people of the fact, and apprise them
from ilme to time of fresh arrivals he