National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-02-11
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men and Measures.

i AhN hobo Wdo hhbou w bHc Ndsulnkloh
asylum (the poor house), and ran as follows:
We arc suffering with cold. Mr. stoutonburgh
Is saving the coal and does not allow any fire. The
men are underwriting, and i is raining, and
fire since the the third day OF this MONTH and it Is
hard TO tell how long we will DO wlthoutit.
"Now, this is simply shameful" continued
the speaker. "These people arc not crimi.
nals-they arc paupers-many Of them old
and very feeble, and some of thom completely
disabled by disease, so that ii is impossible
for them to earn a living. To deprive
them of fire at this season of the year TO save
few tons of coal is piece Of inhumanity
that should be punished by the prompt dis
missal of the man who thus economics at
the expense OF these few shivering wretches.
The statements made in this note will be in
vestigsted, and If found to be true intend
to call the attention of Commissioner West to
the condition Of things at the poor house. and
If necessary will call u meeting of citizens to
insist that these poor old paupers shall have
decent treatment"
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"What presidential candidate do the Mas
sachusotts republicans want~ This question
was directed straight at the Hon. f. S. Rock
well, representative from Massachusetts,, and
successor of Gov. George ID. Robinson. Mr..
Rockwell said: arthur" and was thought
full for a few minutes Then he continued:
81 mean that the great working body of Mas
sachusetts republicans are for Arthur. Thoy
are pleased with his administration, and they
think that his course since his Inauguration
has been wise and judcious. They were
pleased with his action when he
called halt on the river and harbor
bill, and, although they arc not
opposed to the improvement Of rivers
and harbors, they thought that congress might
have acted little less hastily than il did in
passing the bill over his veto without appsr-
emily considering his reasons. Yes, Arthur
is the choice of tho mass of Massachusetts,
republicans"
"What about Senator Edmundsp
There is undoubtedly sentiment in favor
of Senator Edmunds, and delegation in his
favor may go to the convention, but it will
not represent the republican party of Massa-
chusetts. They want a leader with big heart
and soul, Edmunds is an able man, no doubt
of it, but no hasn't the qualities that draw
men. The people want leader with heart
and with sympathy and they will even fol-
low demagogue with these qualities rather
than q purely intellectual man. Sec what
they did with Butler. They elected him
governor of Massachusetts,, and he is dema-
gogue. l know they say that he was elected
by the scum Of the state, but that's all nom
sense. More than half OF the people of Mas
sachusetts are not scum. The trouble with
the republican party of Massachusetts, is in
the continual cry that the better element Of
the party must control it, Mind you, I've
no objection to the better element of the
party really controlling it. / want that, and
all of us want it, but when four or
five men get together and say: We're
the better element of the party; we're tho
saints, and we must CONTROL Then they drive
the voters away These are not the better
element of the party. They are men who are
bound to have office, and who have associated
with them few good men, like Prof. Seely,
for example, who are actuated, as we know,
by pure and noble motives. These good men
are put forward by the others as cover.
They want to form new party. They want
to do anything to get Office for themselves.
They do the talking, and are supposed to
represent the republican party, but they
misrepresent it. l think that Massachusetts,
was misrepresented at the last national con-
vention. Massachusetts was really for
Ulysses S. Grant. The thing for her delegation
to have done was to vote for one of the strong
candidates whom they could have helped to
nominate. But they didn't do it. They
said We've got pious little man sitting on
a rock up here in New England, and we'll
cast our votes for him. That's what they
did, and they threw their votes away. They
may do the same thing this year, but if they
do it will be because the genuine republicans
get disguised and let the whole thing go. The
newspapers that call themselves independent
are helping to make trouble. Now, you and
/ know that a newspaper cannot be politi-
cally independent. An independent paper
is simply in opposition to the dominant
party. So the independent Massachusetts pa
pers get to be really democratic. They have
nothing to do but attack local nominees of
the ruling party, which is republican,.
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Said a southern statesman: Eyes, 1 was
called here once as witness before con-
gressional committee. The question of the
negro exodus from my state was deemed inn
portant enough to be gone over after the
manner of such investigation, and as 1 was
thought to be pretty well posted, and was a
good democrat, was subpGnaed The day
before was to go before the committee its
chairman came to me and began to talk over
the scope Of investigation, and what he hoped
to bring out by my testimony. / got right
up and said: Don't call me or you'll spoil
everything I know what it was that made
the negroes leave, and If you draw 1t out Of
me and print in your report you'll start the
whole country to wondering why the white
people don't leave, too / never testified"
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"There seems TO BIO a fatality pursuing us,
said democratic representative. ave were
way on top last year, so far as our chances
in the next presidential contest were con,
cerned, but we have wasted at both buug
and spiggot until now 1 don't believe I'd
have what We will win. Bill Morrison ha
{ been figuring up to keep his name before the
public as great revenue reformer, but hi
90 per cent, horizontal, FIRE and burglar proc
tariff bill will grease the rails for US. Nor
rison says this bill is his own funeral. Now
I'm inclined to agree with him, but tn,
great agony is that the democratic party will
have to ride in the hacks next to the hearse
, l tell you well never mako the white hous
with our man until we have some first-clas