Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1884-06-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

| - NJ UNIV AOC1s
l begin to think that it will make bu
very little difference who the Demo
cratic nominee at Chicago will be, o.
where he comes from, for he is going /,
be elected anyway. The revolt agains
Blaine and Logan has already lin two
weeks after the nominations) penetrated
every portion of the country, anC
evoked from the decent portion of tn,
grand old party an universal cry for ;
change. There was not among the ba
ker's dozen of Republican candidate.
before the Chicago convention, any one
man so positively bad as Blaine, vel
| there would have been open and hold
rebellion against the selection of the
best of them, because of the old feud
which as finally effected hopeless dis
ruption of the party. Granting thai
New York cannot agree upon the pre-.
Sentation of a candidate, there seems to
be sentiment enough outside of the En-.
plre State to make selection for her
and the choice cannot but fall upon Gov.
ernor Cleveland, who, next to Tilden
stands for all that is to be sought i'm the
way of a reformation of Our political
methods.
suppose that John Logan's Military
record is not to be questioned. and
don't know that any BODY desires to
question it, but in these piping times OF
peace We naturally inquire Something
about the record ofmen who arrooote
to themselves a claim to leadership in
civil affairs. Logan had no sooner en-
tered into public life than he began to
preclpltate his family and friends upon
the public exchequer, and his family
was the largest that has been known
since the days of Maccabeus. He has
9uartercd upon the military and civil
list horde ofpolitical lcormorants larger
thanany Senator or Representative was
ever responsible for before, and has
adroltly cultivated the friendship of
each succeeding administration to the
extent OF retaining the patronage not
only OF his own State but of the whole
Northwest, wherein he has made places
for that never-to-be-satiated host of
place-seekers nestled in the ranks of the
u. A. K. 1t is with this most unsavory
record that Logan now goes before the
people of this great country asking to
be given the esecond highest position in
the Government in which the opportu-
mites ofan increased patronage are the
sole inducement for his ready accept
ance of the nomination.
1t is possible, though not at all proba-
BILE, that Congress will adjourn in the
early part of July. Should the House
at once take up the business that the
Senate has prepared for it, and which
has been on the Speakers table for six
weeks, it can rush it through and adj
InIIpl hv thot titr1a Qi1t thnrn t,,
be a disposition on the part of both
Senators and Representatives to await
the action of the coming Democratic
Convention, in order to inject few
hundred campaign speeches in the Rec
ord and have them printed and circula-
ted at Government expense,
INfote to you sometime since about
the failure of the Middletons, and that it
was bad one all around. 1t turns out,
however, that the scoundrelism con-
nected with this failure is a complete
discount upon the Grant Ward diabo-
lism, and ruin has been wrought upon
many poor widow and orphan whose
money was confidingly tied up in the
hands of these aristocratic robbers. The
Middletons father and SOM had been
clerks of the United States Supreme
Court since the foundation of the Gov
ernment up to the time of the death
two or three years ago) of d. w. Mid
dleton, who left his son (another d. w.
Middleton an ample fortune, gathered
through the means of an elastic con-
science and constructive fee-bill.
When the younger Middleton started
his bank, he got Mckinney (the sue
cessor of his father in the clerks office
to do banking business with him, and
deposit the courts funds. Mckinney
did so, and is now beggar! The Gov
ernment.ofcourse is aloser,as nothing in
Washington can become bankrupt with
out involving the Government, but as
the sum is trifie over SS000O, we con-
slider it something of a lucky let-off. If
this failure is not worthy of the atten-
tion of a grand.jury, Iprotest against
the arrest and punishment of panel
thieves or bunko-steerers. PHoNo.