McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.

the present generation Is Bre Wster
the legal nonentity of the present
gruesome administration 1t was
Brewster who told the other fellows
to stand back and watch him while he
landed every one Of the Star Route
thieves in the penitentiary. 1t was
Brewster who never landed one OF
them in the penitentiary, but made OF
himself a laughing-stock for the whole
country in general and the legal pro-
fession in particular. 1t was Brew
ster who then employed Bradley to
prosecute the civil cases against the
Star Reuters, and who with infinite
buster and bragadocio declared that
they should be drained to the last dol
lar of their stolen fortunes. 1t is now
Brewster who quarrels with Bradley
forcing the latter to retire from the
cases, and it is Brewster who now
threatens to lift himself by the boot
straps and inject Brewster bodily into
the civil cases for all he is worth.
And who doesn't know what will be
the outcome Z? After Brewster has
expended 100000 of the peoples
money to get verdict for the Gov
eminent, he will open his eyes to dis
cover that the other fellows have had
his jurors and his witnesses and the
whole court machinery from the start.
All in all, Brewster is fresh old par
ty. Speaking of Brewster, I am re-
minded to say that Brewster's arrival
at Long Branch the other day was
the only genuine sensation socie-
ty there has experienced this season.
The old fellow hauled up before the
hotel door with his coach and herald
emblazonry thereon, his gilt coat-of-
arms protruding from the door like
the cats heads from the Roman char
lots of a thousand years ago. Two
trunks and thirty valises, two footmen
and five liveried servants, comprised
the retinue Of the lordly barrister,
and this is a Government of the plain
democracy, and this one of its Cab
inent ministers
When a politician resorts to the
courts to obtain redress for libellous
upon his character, he gener-
ally comes out with a good deal less
of that commodity than he had when
he went in. Mr.. Blaine shows an
undue sensitiveness for a politician in
claiming $4,000 as panacea for his
character. Of course libels
even of political character are not
to be excused or defended when they
involve injury and perhaps lasting
disgrace upon the regulations Of the
innocent members of a family, and in
all such attacks the intention is the
gist Of the offense. Nobody suppos-
es that the editor of the indianapolis
Sentinel intended to defame the char
acter CT Mrs. Blaine or her children
in the reflections made upon Mr..
Blaine's early remissness, and in SO
far Mr.. Blaine will hardly recover
damages enough to be equivalent to
the loss he will suffer by attempting
It's reparation.
If there is any one thing that can
scandalize Mr.. Secretary Folger more
Than any other thing, it is to question
he abundance and infnitude of his
sgotism. The great minister Of finance
cts Wall street and its bowling der
7ishes 60 to the dogs, and keeps the
President and Cabinet in waiting
while he sits in the Government pho
:ograph gallery, back of the Treasury,
the artist to do his level
pest in posing him for the shop win
lows. The Secretary is running to
photographs fearfully and has been
aiken in every conceivable position
except that of standing on his head,
N acrobatic feat that Gov. Cleveland
performed upon him to his satisfac
ion two years ago. The Secretary's
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