The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-28
wAsz1NaroN LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON. D.C..
Aug. %, 1884.

Aug. %, 1884,
There can be no end TO the com
parisons between the brief and alto
gether sensible letter of acceptance
written by Governor Cleveland, and
the demagogical; elaborate and in
terminable trash sent out by Mr..
Blaine. The letter of Gov. Cleveland
will be read ond viii be admired for
it's sentiments by both friend and
foe. In this letter we find in a few
lines the platform Of a great party
whose mission is to effect a reforma-
ton in the corrupt political methods
that have become tile fundamental,
groundwork of tue dominant party,
and to wrest that party from power.
His reference to the patronage of the
great office of the Presidency, "the
allnrements of power, the template n
to retein public place once again,
and, more than all, the availability a
party finds in an incumbent whom a
horde of office-holders, with q zeal
born of benefits received and foster
ed by the hope of fayors yet to come,
stand ready to aid with money and
trained political service, We recognize
in the eligibility efthe President for
re election n most serious danger to
that calm, deliberate and intelligent
action which must characterize o
sgovernment by the peorle," are
words that should be sufficient to
constitute a platform that ought to
secure the emphatic endorsement of
the American people.
The Republican papers all over
the country are publishing-a table
which may or may not be authentic,
showing the aggregate receipts OF
Government during the several ad
minis.rations from Washington to
Arthur, the total losses in each OF
the said administrations and the loss
on each 1000 of collections, From
this table it appears that Washing
toms thefts were enormous as COM
pared with Grants and that Martin
Van Buren, could outsteal Ruther-
fraud Hayes eleven times over and
then give him odds. Even Arthur
with the Star Route thieves and ten
or twelve millions of the Govern
ment's money in their pockets, only
gets away with u and eight-tenths
mills on the $1,000, while MI. Lin
coin is accused Of appropriating
seventh six cents on the $1,000, be-
fore John Roach was a factor in the
Government!
The reliability of this tabulated
statement, prepared by Mcpherson,
may be estimated from the cold facts
of the developed larcenies of the
Burnsides, the Belknaps, and hun
dreds Of other thieves, convicted and
unconyicted, who have alone robbed
the Government gilmore money than
the aggregate percentage of every
stealage from the first administra-
tion down to the end of the Hayes
dynasty. Why, the Indian contracts
alone, would cover a larger percent
age of stealings in 1884, than the
whole four years of Van Buren's ad
ministration which show the enor-
nous amount of Sill on the ST.
600, according to Mcpherson, but it
is altogether probable that what Nc
Pherson calls stealing under a Dem
ocratic administration, becomes only
a pardonable and unavoidable def
cheney under Republican supremacy.
Mr.. Dorman B. Eaton has written
a letter in reply to somebody in Gev-
eminent employ who has been fright
ened into a contribution for the Re-
publican campaign fund. Mr.. Ea-
ton, as one of the Civil Service Com
mission, had better have left this let
ter nnwritten, though it is scarcely
more than gibber:sh anyway. Mr..
Eaton tells the Government clerks
that they may safely refuse to con
tribute to the campaign fund of the
grand old party, butat the same time
it should be understood that it is
necessary to the existence of free
Government that there should be
parties in general and the grand old
party in particular, and these cannot
exist without the sinews of war,
which must come from somewhere,
and who better than those in Gov
eminent employ a afford to furnish
them! In spite of all that Mr.. Ea-
ton says to assure these overworked,
underpaid and hungry employees, /
can safely assure every last one of
them that the places they know will
know them no more forever if there
should be a refusal or a neglect to
obey the call for contributions that
Steve Elkins and his coadjutor Clapp
are now clamoiing for. PHoNo.