The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1884-06-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent

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To that portion of the grand old party
who have been accustomed to acrow diet,
the nomination of Blaine and Logan af
fords delightful repast of the favorite
dish. Even the Massachusetts fellows
who are swearing by the honed spoon
that they cannot go Blaine, are beginning
to anticipate the possibilities of Ben But
Ter as the Bourbon candidate, and ask
themselves where they can go, if they
cannot cat crow? Yes they will all even
tually swallow Blaine with the Mulligan
letters and Little Rock bonds as relishes,
because they know that the man who can
overcome such odds as Blaine did at
Chicago, with simply a whoop with no
barrel, can accomplish mighty things
with whoop that has q barrel accom-
paniment. The high toned and top shelf
philosophers like George William Curtis
and his brother man milliners Schurz
Roosevelt and company, will either wheel
into line or profit by the example of
Trumbull, Doolittle, Palmer and the rest
of them, who in the turbulent sea of Rep
ublican politics have never been permitted
to get noses above water.
Johnny" said Mrs Logan to her hus-
band, when the latter hesitated about
taking second place on the ticket, John
nv. stick; there are lots of Guiteaus
around Washington yet" And Johnny
stuck. And it beats all to think of the
number of available points that these two
particular candidates have developed
For instance, Blaine has to 90 back but
Two generations to run against. an Irish
progenitor, while his own mother was a
Roman Catholic, and he himself was born
and reared in that faith. That he has
since espoused the doctrines of the Con-
gregationalists, is no business of ours.
L0gans father seems to have been an
Irishman of the 'rale ould shtock," and
his accomplished wife had the unmistak-
able Celtic pronomeD that comes of the
Cunninghams. Therefore, between the
two of them, it is evident that they have
got the deadwood upon the ever 10 be
envied Irish vote, unless the two candid
ates of the Democracy should happen to
come cavorting on the track with better
pedigrees.
The June roses have come and wilted,
and Congress is yet in session. Not until
a few of the corpulent members melt
/ down into their boots, will these fellows
get ready to go home. The excuse foI
failing to accomplish in the way of bust
ness in short session, might as well be
duplicated for long session, as little be
sides President making is ever done. The
weeks that have been thrown away upor
the Tariff bill, the Fitz John Porter cast
end other measures that had no earthly
significance or public importance, is real
ly and absolutely criminal waste of TIT
public money All over the country The
Federal courts have been compelled Il
suspend business for want of the necess-
airy Appropriations out of which to pa,
the fees of jurors, witnesses, Sc, Will
the best part Of the year for work in TIL
improvement of the rivers and narbors o
the country will have passed long before
the new appropriation for that purpos
can be made available.
The House is now engaged in the dis
cussion of the bill repeating the Preemp
ton and Timber Culture Iaws-two meas
ures that have developed more fraud AM
downright rascality than any others eve
adopted by Congress that were intended
to benefit the people Out of the Preemp
ton law has grown an abuse that ha.
turned over millions upon millions o
acres of the public domain to foreign AM
domestic land grabbers and spectators
J and the reports of the special agents VIII
J, have been sent out to investigate, com
; prise chapter of the grossest and mos
: Infamous instances of frauds that histor
t has yet furnished The continuance c
: this law with the possibilities of Grim
: that its loose provisions engenders, mean
: simply the speedy obiteration of our en-
q tire public land system. OF course tn
i lobby is on hand to defeat the propose
, repeal, and few of the Members IN til
, interest of the land grabbers are maxim
/. every effort to postpone action upon
5 butt am glad to say that the majority {
= the House, and / think a majority of tt
7 Senate, are in just the right temper
= cut ont this gigantic land robbery rot
: and branch. DON PEDRO.