Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-07-17
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Record Of the Democratic Congress-Cheese- Par.
ing Ref0rmers-The Sentence OF Brice
C0mmated-The Canvass.
From our Regular correspondeut.

From oar Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c.. July y, 1851
The beautiful record that the Demo-
cratic House of Representatives has
made for the first session of the
NLVlllth Congress will make the per-
sonality of the Democratic Presidential
candidate a matter of the last earthly
Importance When in the first DAYS of
the session they were all Boosting of the
great things that Democratic House
was bent upon achieving, predicted
that the outcome would be precisely
like that of eight years ago, when their
pledges to do something for the benefit
of the great commercial aud laboring
interests of the country were as SOL
EMMY made as they were triflingly I'M
needed.
The hundreds of millions of tax reduc-
ton that they promised last December
has been realized in the cheese pairing
business of cutting down the salaries
of n few fourth rate consulates, and a
reduction of the Post-Ofiice appropri-
alton that threatens to work irreparable
injury to the service and an exaSper-
ating Inconvenience to large num-
Der of people. In short, the Democrat
ic majority in the House, after seven
months of wrangling over the tariff and
other questions that possibly might en-
ter into Presidential campaign, have
| accomplished absolutely nothing. This
do-nothing House with its majority of
Il Democrats, all-powerful to perform
every pledge that it had so solemnlv
made, Twas theisuccessor or of a..Republi-
can House that had, without making
any preliminary ado over it, taken from
the shoulders of the people burden of
S3S, 900, 900 in taxes in the adoption of
single measure, and TO which the
Democratic minority presented an un-
broken front in opposition. Will the
Democratic stump speakers in the COM
ing campaign please fill their pipes
with this delectable material and smoke.
The President waited until the last
moment ana then committed the sent
ence of Brice, who was to be hanged to-
day,to Imprisonment for life. Whether
this was case of mistaken clemency
or not, | am not prepared to say, but
the frequency of homicides here, and
the utter disregard in which human
lives are held by class of people who
invariably carry firearms razors. and
other murderous weapons about their
persons, would seem to warrant the max
ingof an example of somebody. Between
the uncertainty of jury verdicts, the
magnanimity of the Executive, the
10 4 . i,n g
the man who has murder in his heart
scarcely needs to stop to count the cost
before going to his deadly work A
woman who deliberately and wilfully
murdered two children three years
ago, is still in jail here awaiting trial,
while there are some eight or ten other
murderers who either have been tried
or are awaiting the dilatory action of
some higher court hoping to be tried
over again and acquitted. >tC Gu
Precedent is against the idea of a
Presidential candidate taking the stump
in his own behalf, though Governor
Seymour did make slight innovation
upon the custom of keeping still, and
Hancock made more than one cam
paigne speech from his headquarters on
Governors Island. But this Is an aua
of innovation, and the Republicans hav-
ing nominated for President and Vice.
President two of the best stump-speak-
ers that this stump-speaking country
has yet produced, the people will gladly
overlook any little lack of modesty that
may be displayed by Mr.. Blaine and
Gen. Logan in saying word in behalf
of the great Republican party and its
yet unfulflled mission. 1t is doubly ex-
cusable, too, for Mr.. Blaine to enter up
on series of campaign speeches, be-
cause no other man, either with tongue
or pen, could wipe out the malevolent
attacks upon him SO effectuaily. With
these two men in the field in person,
nothing could check the enthusiasm
which they would excite throughout
the country, and nothing would more
greatly contribute to the success of tho
Republican ticket and the perpetuation
Of Republican principles. JUNIUs.