The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-06-26
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From Our Regular Correspondent
WAsHlNGToN. D. c.,
June %. 1884.

June 20, loS4.l
] begin to think that it will make
but very little difference who the
Democratic nominee at Chicago will
be, or where he comes from, for he is
going to be elected anyways. The
revolt against Blaine and Logan has
already fin two weeks after the nomi-
nations) penetrated every portion of
the country, and evoked from the de-
cent portion of the grand old party
an universal cry for a change. There
was not among the bakers dozen of
Republican candidates before the
Chicago convention any one man 80
positively bad as Blaine, yet there
would have been open and bold re
bellion against the selection of the
best of them, because ofthe old feud
which has finally effected q hopeless
disruption of the party. Granting
that New York cannot agree upon
the presentation Of candidate, there
seems to be sentiment enough out.
side of the Empire State to make a
selection for her, and the choice can
not but fall upon Governor Cleveland,
who, next to Tilden, stands for all
that is to be sought in the way of
reformation of our political methods.
I suppose that John Logan's mill
tary record is not to be questioned,
and / don't know that anybody de-.
sires to question it, but in these pip
ing times of peace we naturally in
quire something about the record of
men who arrogate to themselves a.
claim to leadership in civil affairs
Logan had no soone entered into
public life than he began to precipi-
tate his family and friends upon the
public exchequer, and his family was
the largest that has been known
since the days of Maccabeus. He
has quartered upon the military and
civil list a horde of political cormor-
ants larger than any Senator or Rep
resentative was ever responsible for
before, and has adroitly cultivated
the friendship of each succeeding
administration to the extent of re-
tanning the patronage not only of his
own State, but of the whole North
west, wherein he has made places for
that never-to- be-satiated host of
place-seekers, nestled in the ranks of
the G.. A. R. 1t is with this most un-
savory record that Logan now goes
before the people of this great coun-
try asking to be given the second
highest position in the Government
in which the opportunities of an in
creased patronage are the sole in
ducements for his ready acceptance
of the nomination.
The Senate has had a genuine SEN
sation this week-the first, and prob
ably the last of the session. 1t was
an emeute between the massive In
gals, of Kansas, and Father Brown,
of Georgia, in which it is generally
conceded that the conceited Ingalls,
came off second best. The interpo-
lation of the Record that ingalls,
charged upon Brown, amounted to
nothing, even if true, and it only
shows that ingalls, was attempting to
gain a little cheap notoriety as a
Senatorial BLACKBOARD, in selecting
for his victim one whose age at least
should have shielded him from a pub
lie insult of this character.
1t is possible, though not as all
probable, that Congress will adjourn
in the carly part of July. Should
the House at once take up the bust
ness that the Senate has prepared
for it, aud which has been on the
Speakers table for six weeks, it can
rush it through and adjourn by that
time. But there seems to be a dis
position on the part of both Senators
and Representatives to await the nc
ton of the coming Democratic Con-
vention, in order to inject d few hun
dred campaign speeches into the
Record and have them printed and
circulated at Government expense.
l wrote to you some time since
about the failure of the Middletons,
and that it was a bad one all around.
It turns out, however, that the scoun-
drelism connected with this failure
is q complete discount upon the
Grant-Ward diabolism, and ruin has
been wrought upon many a poor
widow and orphan whose money was
conidingly tied up in the hands of
these a~ristocratic robbers. The Mid
dletons Gather and son had been
clerks Of the United States Supreme
Court since the foundation of tie
Government up to the time Of the
death 1.-TWO or three years ago) of D.
W. Middleton, who left his son AN
other D. W. Middleton an ample
fortune, gathered through the means
of an elastic conscience and q con-
structive fee bill. When the young
er Middleton started his bank, he
got Mckinney 1.-THE successor of his
father in the Clerks office) to do
banking business with him, and de-
posit the courts funds. Mckinney
did so, and is now q beggar! The
Government of course is a loser, as
nothing in Washington can become
bankrupt without involving the Gov
erument, but as the sum is a trife
over $4,000. we consider it sore
thing of q lucky let off. If this fail
ure is not worthy of the attention of
q grand jury, I protest against the
arrest and punishment of panel
thieves or bunko-steerers. PHoNo.
The State Prohibition Convention
met at Columbus on Wednesday of
last week. They put in nomination
the following ticket: Secretary of
State, E. j. Morris, of Cincinnati;
Supreme Judge, j. w. Rosbrough, of
Fulton county: Member Public