The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-15
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from Our Regular Correspondent
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defeat of the Morrison Tariff bill, Dus
it never has and never will tell you
of the many devices that were resort
ed to in order to crush out the senti-
ment in the House in favor of a gen.
eral reduction of the public burdens.
Here was a bill that provided for
off some $70,000,O 900 of our
war taxes at once, but Mr.. Randall
and his protection compatriots knew
that such a boon as this for the REQ
pie would only be disaster to the CAPT:
talistic nabob, and thus it is that
Randall has at last been as good as
his promise that he would have the
Morrison bill d~efeatedior not go home.
There wele about forty Democrats at
Randalrs elbow in this business,
some of whom were expected to ap-
prove the bill upon principle, and
for local reasons, but the four Mem
bers from California who voted on Mr..
Randall's side, and whose votes
slaughtered the bill and the hopes
of the Democratic party, went square
back upon their agreement with Mr..
Morrison to stand by the bill. I do
not know that there can be any
chance with this Congress to undo
this great wrong, or avert the terri
BILE blow that the defeat of the Morri-
son bill has dealt to the hopes of the
party. There was a chance for the
party to make a good record for it
ea1f ~ C0n~-1c, h,,f rotha, r-0,r1d
these few men doom the party than
that pig-iron interests in Penhsylva-
mia be permitted to be meddled with.
If from this time out the Democrats
in Congress will harmonize upon the
other important measures that have
yet got to be acted upon: they may
vet save for themselves records
enough to accomplish much toward
oy e%rthrowing from power the present
corrupt Republican dynasty.
It seems after all that the old pat
riarch Edmunds is no more proof
against the political scandal-mongers
than any other of the Presidential
candidates. In the tilt between him
and the cratic Phelps of New Jer-
sey, the latter came out a good ways
ahead, and left the incorruptible
judge with any quality of railroad
stock or hard, representing roads
that had been cutting no small figure
in the body over which he now pre-
sides. The man who can popularize
himself enough to be talked about
for the Presidency nowadays, is not
the man to e.cape an overhauling of
record, and Mr.. Edmunds can rest
assured that an accurate as well as a
complete. history of his political
career, with all of its side issues and
financial switch offs, will be prompt
ly furnished. And in this connec
tion it would hardly be out of place
to say that the elements of opposi
tion to Arthur and Blaine and the
other candidates of the Grand Old
Party, who are distinctively known
as machine politicians, are proposing
to concentrate upon Edmunds--the
noblest machinist of the whole pack
of til m!
The volume of tic tenth census re-
port which pertains to agriculture,
for which there has been an unpre
cedented demand, is delayed because
the maps showing the range ,ofcul-
tivation of the several crops have
not been engraved. This excuse for
a four years delay of this important
work is q most ample and plausible
one, because no farmer would evel
think of prosecuting any branch OF
husbandry without a ref renee to
these maps, which are the refine
ment Of the closest analysis of sci
entific humkuggery. The yellow and
the blue and the green and the red
and the purple spots on the maj
show TO the granger those meteorol
ogical conditions under which alone
he must s,w and reap and plow and
hoe, and his scientific mind will
grasp at once the simple aphorisms
that got the better ofLeDuc, though
they fail to confound the present
head ofthe Agricultural Bureau, who
is versed in both Hebrew and Greek
1t takes bit a very short. time fol
the average Government clerk to find
out that the country would get along
very poorly, if it got along at all
without his invaluable services
Webster, who was fired out the 9th.
er day as chief clerk in the Treasury
department., had been afflicted with
this sort of magnus caput for 80 long
a time that he at last became intol.
cradle. Indeed the head of the de.
partment himself found it very diff
cult at times to find out whether be
or Webster was running things over
there, for Webster was oftener found
on top bossing things than in his
legitimate and subordinate station.
The same state of things exists over
at the Interior department., where
Lockwood as the chief clerk has such
a realizing Sense of his own official
Importance that either he or the gov.
ernment will soon have to .abdicate.
The Caesar has grown great merely
from the long feeding at the public
table, and has become intolerant be.
cause of that self consciousness that
most chief clerks possess of their i'm
portance in the Governments con
servation. Now l will bet a new
hat that if Lockwood should take q
notion to get kicked out of his place
in the Interior departn ent, there nre
scores of deserving fellows in and
out of office who can fill the place
with infinitely more satisfaction to
the department, if not to the greater
advantage to the Government.
PHoNo.
Frank Hurd, in a speech in the
House, illustrated the distinction be.