The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-10-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, DEL
Oct. IL 1886

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WASHINGTON, Del
Oct, 13 18S4.]
There is joe Medill with his Chi
cago Tribune, there is Horace White,
and there is Bill Grosvenor, all three
Of them slashing away like all pos
sessed in favor of Blaine and free
while Blaine himself is tramp
ing with his hippodrome all through
Ohio d~enouncing free trade and
splitting the ears Of the groundIings
with his bowls for protection It is
no wonder THAT such a bevy OF In
congruities should scatter themsel-
yes and keep as far aloof as possible
from each other. How politics and
politicians can be utilized so as to
suit localities and adap: themselves
to circumstances, has never been so
fully exemplified as in the present
campaign. In the wool districts of
Ohio, and the iron districts of Penn
sylvania, the Republican orators
whoop it up for protection, while the
same fellows go into free trade Iowa,
Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois and
scream the other way. However,
Blaine's career as a politician and
fnancier makes the tariff question of
minor Importance with the people
who are sending up almost earnest
cry against the elevation of such a
man to the most.exalted position on
earth. :
A prominent Republican lawyer
in Indiana writes relative to the
Democratic prospect in that State,
that Commissioner Dudley's resign
ing of his position as Commissioners
of Pensions, to take effect after cleo
ton, is one OF the most barefaced and
atrocious cases of malversation in
office that has ever occurred in our
political history. This very act OF
Dudley's is going to cost the party
in Indiana twenty Thousand votes,
and it ought to. Dudley was a tandi
date for the Republican nomination
for Governor of Indiana, and having
been worsted in that, has of course
received a promise of something fat
from a Republican administration in
case there should be one next year.
The attention of President Arthur
has been frequently called to Dud-
ley's transgression of the Civil Ser
vice law, but Mr.. Arthur's junketing
propensity must first be gratiied and
then-he will leave Dudley do as he
pleases.
There are upwards of 100000
books in the Congressional Library
to-day, with room upon the shelves
for about me. fourth of them. What
on earth can be expected in the way
of utilizing a library with 400, 600 oil
its best volumes piled up heller.
SHELTER on the floor, and the other
200, 900 in double rows on the shelves,
may be demonstrated by those who
are crying out against the construc-
ton of a new library capacious
enough for the storage at least OF
this vast multitude of books-the
largest in the world. Besides this
slowing away of books, valuable
maps Of reference, engravings, etch.
ings, etc, are necessarily hidden
away from public view, possibly not
to see the light of day for another
generation. And there are news
papers and periodicals that are in
tended to meet the current wants oil
the member, which are likewise con
signed to the dark recesses of the
basement of the capitol. 1t is 8
positive shame and disgrace to the
American name, that foreign visitors
who come here should always FIND
the Congressional Library the fl
subject for their canting criticism
when a four-hundredth part of the
money lying idle in the Treasury
vaults would furnish library build
ing that would be a lasting credit te
a people who can thus show theil
ability to sustain the largest library
in the world.
1t is perhaps entirely appropriate
that Mr.. ex-senator Window should
take the stump in Ohio to help ou'
his friend Mr.. Mulligan Blaine, in
asmuch as they both belong to tina
class of Republican office holders
who have been able to real magnif
cent palaces on Insignificant salaries
When MIR. Window was a candidate
before the Minnesota Legislature
two or three years ago, for re election
to the Senate, soEe meddlesome fel
low sent on to St. Paul and had dis
tributed among the members of thu
Legislature a photograph of Wind
om's palatial residence accompanied
by a vivid description of the inlait
panel work, the tiled floors, the cost
ly ~staircases. the elegant brio a-brac
and all that sort of thing. The photo
graph did it's work, and did it s.
e1ectually that Mr.. Window has no
been accounted a factorin Minnesot'
or any other politics since. TIL
plain farmers of Minnesota could no
comprehend the arithmetical pro
gresslon that enabled Mr.. Windon
to rut $780, 900 in a residence, on
salary of $4,000 a year, unless Their
was some kind of extraneous jobber.
which the people of Minnesota ha'
not chosen him to indulge in. MI
Blaine's mansion is still costlier an
more elegant in all its appointments
as you may judge when I tell yo
that Mr.. Letter, the recentd dry good
prince Of Chicago, pays $4,000 pc
annum for its rental! Promo.
Gen. H. V. Boynton, who for 8
many years the Washington CORES