The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-06-12
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lFrom Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, d. c., !
June 6. 1884. {

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an inglorious figure as the defeated
chairman ofthe Republican pow-wow
at Chicago, is the same Clayton who,
as Governor of Arkansas inst after
the close of the war, out Heroded
Herod in the infamy of his carpet
bag administration of the political
affairs of that State. 1t was a be
fore breakfast past time with him to
proclaim martial law overt the people
of any county threatened with a
Democratic majority, and of course
it was not long before he had the
whole State under the military On
troll of his carpet bagging subalterns.
After he had completed the dirty
work laid out for him Is Governor,
the grip-sack Legislature. sent Clay
ton to the United States Senate,
where he nobly served his country
by providing fat Federal positions
for his brother and other members of
the Clayton household. But the
worst feature in this Clayton bust
ness at Chicago, is the false p~retense
of putting him forward Is one of the
empty sleeve brigade, which was
made the text of several of the
speeches made in his behalf, when
every mothers son of the Republican
committee, and those who spoke of
him, too, knew that Clayton's empty
sleeve came of shooting at pigeons
and mallard ducks, six years after
the Confederates had expended all
their ammunition! Yet, with Clayton's
unsavory record known to every del
egate in the Convention, they dared
not make it an issue against him,
simply because there were so many
more of them in the same boat.
The country will hail with unal-
Logged satisfaction the adoption of the
bill now pending in Congress that
abolishes the fee system in the
United States courts and which has
been a'scandal upon the administra-
tion of justice in these courts
throughout the country. Under this
fee system the marshaPs office has
been turned into an engine of the
most outrageous oppression, tyranny
and injustice, because there was no
limit to the exactions that these
officers might demand under the pres
emit statutes. We all remember what
an Infamous history these officials
made in the administration Of the
general bankrupt act O few years
ago, and the same scamps who then
filcted fortunes out Of the insolvent
estates, by collision with the equally
rapacious assignees, have been here
this winter lobbying for another
bankrupt act just like the last, and
against the abolition of the vicious
fee system. So far they have beer
defeated by Congress, but no one
knows here what may yet transpirt
to enable them to defeat Congress.
At last a use has been found fol
the Government Printing Office. i
has printed the biggest book that tht
world has yet seen, it being a volume
bound in calf, of course, weighing
14O pounds ayoirdupois, and con
tanning more than 10000 pages
Whether the huge volume is a cata
logue of the employees of the Office
or q speech of some Congressman
upon the best means of getting rid O
the Treasury surplus, the public is
not informed.
Ben. Harrison has in soma way be
come assured that the grandson O.
old Tippecanoe has got the Chicago
fellows where the hair is short, anG
has turned his proxy over to his al.
ternate from Indiana. 1t was only
a day or two ago that Ben caused
himself to be interviewed and to say
that if he were q candidate be
wouldn't be in Chicago. Since then
he has packed his grip-sack and lief,
Chicago, and you may gather your
own conclusions.
Some idea of the intense love fol
agriculture that thrills the bosom Of
the gay red man Of the forest, may
be formed from one item gathered
from the report of the Secretary O
the Interior this year. The great
OlOuA hSS6IfdblUu COuGdluS fO,OA1
square miles, or about six times as
many as comprise the State of Mas
saehusetts. 1t has q population OF
$4,000, or about one to every two
square miles. Notwithstanding the
fact that special effort has been made
to teach these these Indians some.
thing about husbandry, there have
been cultivated just 3,4S4 acres, OF
about five and three quarter miles
scarcely more than the size of an or
binary Kansas cornfield! But what
is worse than all. the Secretary takes
especial occasion to say that even
this small tract is so wretchedly cul
tivated that it can hardly be consid.
cred as cultivated land at all. Yet
by the beati.udes of Congression
al enactment, and a policy that is
pusillanimity itself, the white mar
who proposes to work every acre o.
his farm is kindly allowed 160 acres
to the Indians 1,32O-if he will only
pay for it. Is this a white mans
Government, or is it On Indians?
PHoNo.
The proceedings of the Third Dis
trict Congressional Convention
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