The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-05-08
WASHINGTON T T
From Our Regular Correspondent
WAsH1NGroN. T. c..

Mr.. Walter Evans idea of civil
service reform is embraced in the re-
mark made by him, semi-officially,
to the effect that no man has a right
to be in antagonism with the admin
istration under which he holds Off
cial position. This idea, entertain
ed by the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, is doubtless harbored in
the minds of many another Republi-
can official who is working up Mr..
Arthur's boom, and compelling his
subordinates to do the same, though
their preferences may be all in a diff
ferent direction. 1t would be exhil-
Grating to know just how many of
the Pledged Arthur delegates to the
Chicago shake-up are not figuring
in some capacity or other upon the
Government p%ay-rolls, and how many
of them will swear that they were
never for Arthur in the event of his
discontinue, but were always for the
other fellow who is successful. But
what I was going to particularly r e
mark about, is the anomalous man
ner in which the chieftains Of the
Grand Old Party are conducting
their preliminary skirmish for a
nomination. There never was such
an era Of high toned back-biting,
such a season Of polite mud sling
ing, and such a campaign generally
Of political slop work. Though the
country will be the gamer from the
exposures made by these bespatter-
ed statesmen against one another, it
is humiliating in the extreme that
there should have been so long q
lease of political depravity that has
had no check through legal convic-
tion or punishment through the
forms of law.
The evidence thus far adduced in
the Kellogg case would be most dam
aging were the culprit any other than
Kellogg, but in a land where courts
are organized TO acquit, who shall
say that the jury shall be compelled
to give weight to any amount of
character of testimony? What a ter
rifle mountain of evidence was piled
up against the S%tar-route cabal, and
how easily was it all swept aside
through the agency of political inlu-
ence! The point-blank testimony of
Price in the case of Kellogg, starts
him out with 500, 900 received for his
influence as a Senator in the expedi-
ting of two routes in Louisiana and
Texas. Price dared not, or at any
rate did not approach Brady with
his money, but he boldly went to
Kellogg and offered him the $4,000
to boss the job with Brady, which
Kellogg agreed to do, and finally did
do it to the eminent satisfaction Of
Price whose pay was then Increased
from $2.723 to $2S,403 on n route,
and from 1880 to $22,367 on the
other. Il will probably not disturb
the serenity of MI. Brady to be ad.
vised that Price wears that this
money was 10 be divided between
himself and Kellogg, and it only re
mains TO be discovered from the ties
timony of Nj. Walsh, the broker in
the case, whether the money was sc
paid, and if SO paid-what are yol
going to do about it? l don't know
what the line of Kellogg's defence i:
to be, but it is highly probable thai
his counsel will contend that it wa:
a perfectly legitimate transaction
throughout, and will place his Glen
upon the country with the plea tina
they all do it.
! And what a power there is behint
a politician after he gets up among
the high muck a.mucks Of the party
: Here is Sabin, of Minnesota, *ho
was eve heard of until last fall
furnishing to the country o successor
} to Knox, Comptroller of the Curren
cy. in The person of another man who
was never heard Of or heard from, al
though his name is Cannon. The re
s~ponsibility that attaches to thi
| office of Comptroller is simply i'm
: measurable, and the men are few VIII,
possess the requisite capacity for
discharge of the vastly importan'
trusts involved in it. Mr.. Cannon
} may be a most excellent man for th,
position, but the business men o
the country, and particularly tn,
, men who run the National banks
would prefer to know something o
the man who is to boss the finance
of this great Nation.
:, The movement in behalf of reve
nue. reform inaugurated in New Yorl
: the other day, has done much to
ward encouraging Mr.. Morrison il
pushing his bill to a speedy, if not
completely successful conclusion
There is no installing the fact tina
the present majority in the Hous'
are going to do their part TOWARD
) Tightening the burdens upon the PEG
, pie by reducing to the lowest Ets ssh
BILE limit those taxes that have beef
imposed by eason CT the war. 1t il
matter of detail only upon which tn
, Democratic members are disagreed
: for Mr.. Randall himself has repeat
eddy declared himself in favor of tn
identical propositions embodied il
the New York resolutions. No on,
knows any better than MI. Morriso,
that human ingenuity is not capabl,
!, of devising a that will sub
l serve every local i%nterestin the coun
try, and if Ohio wool and Pennsyl
r vania pig-iron and Louisiana suga
and Maine hackmetack and Mass
achusetts calico cannot each look GU
for themselves when it comes to Con
5 gressional action, it will be no US
, to try to find anybody to look out 70
them. PHoNo.
3 The trumped-up political prosecu
lions in South Carolina have all bee.
abandoned by the U. S. authorities
5 there not being sufficient evidence o
j which 70 boca a onDy-ictiop nictrio