The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-02-05
STAND FROM UNDER,
When Patience Ceases to be a Virtue,


CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 4.-The News
Journal has the following correspondence
from Columbus: The representatives OF
the press who are on duty here--whiIe they
are not affected by it--resent the policy OF
casting aspersions upon them and their
profession by certain members OF the Leg
stature who never let an opportunity pass
to assail them as hreing liars and msrep-
resentatives Of public opinion.
l do not propose to enter into defense
OF my colleagues. They need none. They
are members OF one Of the highest profess
sions OF the nineteenth century They are
reputable gentlemen, and certainly stand
as high In all the walks OF life as the aver.
age legislator. Millions OF people depend
upon them daily for information OF the
public dolngs Of the men who call them
paid liars and starveling hirelings. 1t is
the press, and not the rostrum or the leg
islative forum, that shapes aud gives vitali-
ty to public opinion.
But for the press the doings Of the Legis.
lature would be a mere pantomime, or
wholly blank, to 900 out OF every 200 OF
tuo Pcople Vi Tue stalc.
We do not complain that we are excluded
from caucuses, but we do complain that we
are excluded on the ground that We are So
cial outcasts by men who are constantly
asking tina: they be fairly represented and
set right with their constituents in the cor
resPendence and reports OF men who are
constantly buffetted with the scorn and con.
tumey OF men who would not shine con-
spicuously among theif constituents In the
light of bare record.
The members of the press know the
mighty power Of the Archimedian lever
they hold In their hands-they know that
there is a pleasant way Of telling the truth,
and they know that there is a way OF telling
the same truth that will cut and burn like
red.hot sword. They have put up for
weeks now with scornful illusions, and
heard the free press denounced as one Of
the engines OF Hades and darkness; they
have heard their lofty and ennobling pro-
fession denounced without reason and
without stint, and one of these Lays-tor.
bearance ceasing longer to be virtue
they will fall back upon their reserved
rights and let the public Judge between ac-
cusers and accused.
Speaking OF the caucus, am opposed
to it because l am Democrat and the
representative, here upon the floor OF
the Legislature, of q genuine Democratic
paper.
A caucus 10 formulate mere party creed
might be permissible, and the press and
the public probably have no right to know
ha ~ raasnpipu and thu n
the debate that leads to a given conclusion
but take the broad ground that legisla
tive caucus, having the power to coutro
the legislative action OF the whole body anC
bind it to put the DEGREES of the caucu.
upon the statute books, should be open t.
the press, and through tn,
press to the peopls, SO that ever,
constituency represented In tn,
caucus may know whether Its servant prop
erly discharges his duty. II forty two mel
are empowered to bind eighty-two, and tn,
eighty.tw in turn shall dominate the leg
islatiye action Of 1888, then the public ar
entitled to know who the fOrty-two mel
are who impose taxes and the burden
and restrictions of Government upon them,
as well as their reasons for their actions In
the premises. 1t does not avail that doors
shall be locked and guards set to keep the
public in ignorance. The peoples millions
are being voted away In secret, and theil
rights and privileges disposed OF at the die.
tum of barely one-fourth Of the whole rep
resentatiye body of the people.
A state vt the mercy Of such policy Is il
peril, and the party that toierates aud en-
courages 1t is In still greater peri, for tn
people, to save themselves, will annihilatt
the party itself. I want to see the Demo
cratic party live, and take the national, a
it has taken the state government, out @
the hands Of Republican oorruptlonists anC
caucus jobbers, and for that reason wan
TO see the caucus rule broken, and tn
Democratic press and the Democratic vot
ers Of the state lcannot strike the exter.
minating blow too soon for the party
good.
A good many people were wondering
why Gen. Grosvenor was here few day
ago and so intent upon some unascertain
able aim. When one looks at the construc
ton Of the Fourteenth district, consistin
OF Perry. Morgan, Athens, Meigs, an
Gallia, shoestring extending from tn
National road to the Ohio river, so marrow
in places that bullfrog could lump acros
it at single leap, the work OF his fin
Italian hand becomes visible. 1t Is pre- else
ly the district that Grosvenor constructs
more than year ago. There are severa
other districts that will not bear scrutiny