National Republican., 1884-02-25
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About sron and Meas,

| Small Talk About nIen and Measures.
! "What do you think Of Englands gift Of
tho Alert to the United statcs?' was tho
, question which Capt. O'Meagher Condor was
/ called to struggle with.
"lts rather late return for tho shin that
wo Ravo her A ship is not worth the life Of
| man. A little ago she wouldn't give one Of
our citizens five minutes respite, though the
| United States congress unanimously asked for
il. Now, she needn't think to atone for that
insult by tho gift of bloody old boat
Courtesy between nations is all right, of
course, but don't believe in tho American
congress passing o vote of thanks every little
while about nothing"
"Will the gift not make the people of this
country feel moro friendly toward England?'
mo. Just see how thoy treat us. A lot of
| Englishmen como over here and we do nVth-
| ing but run after them and court thom and
feed them Then thoy go homo and write us
up rs q lot of barbarians. The Toronto Week
is the swell organ of the Canadian govern
ment Whose visit do you suppose 1t stated
was the greatest blessing that had befallen
America for 100 years. Matthew Arnolds. 1t
called him tho enlightener.' 1t was about as
sensible as Carlyle when he said that the
eighteenth century had produced only one
great man and that was Frederick Of Prussia.
He forgot that there was any such gentleman
as George Washington"
s@a
''I have just received" said the doctor, "a
letter from u friend of mino in Orion, Ohio,
and it contains something that might be of
interest to the statesmen who have been and
now arc considering the Fitz.John Porter
case. There was Grand Army post organ
lied there last week After the formal core
monies were completed one of the members
took voto on the Fitz.John Porter case.
out of the twenty-six veterans present
twenty-four voted that Porter ought not to
be restored to his forfeited rank; two voted
the other way. 1t appears that Porter must
look to the other army for his supporters. 1
don't remember that any confederate soldier,
now congressman, voted against him the
other day"
aea
1--WE had an episode at our meeting on Fri.
day last that was not down on the pro-
gramme," said member of the democratic
national committee. ave were getting along
with our work very smoothly, when the
member of the committee from Nebraska Mr..
j. Sterling Morton, introduced a resolution
to tho effect that it was the sense Of the ma
tional committee that congressional legisla-
ton during'the present session should be di-
rected to securing tariff for revenue only.
This was frcbrand, and dozen men were
on their feet at once, appealing for recogni-
tion. There was ~ red hot discussion that
lasted for nearly half an hour, during which
there was somo spicy talk between eastern
and western members. At the end of this
some of the cooler heads, who deprecated the
committee going on record OH tho tariff
question, prevailed upon Mr.. Morton to with
draw his resolution and peace was restored.
1t was agreed, however, that the whole sub
iect should be stricken out from the minutes
of the committee, so that the resolution and
the scenes attending its discussion only 1.-Two
in the memory of those who were present"
e@s
1t is openly asserted now that tho success
Of the Chicago delegation in capturing tho
democratic convention was due to the fact
that they bought the votes of four members
of tho national committee outright Some
Indignation is being expressed by democratic
statesmen who favored other locations, and
one of these says that it was but the logical
result of the construction of the Chicago
: delegation, which, according to Joe Mackin,
the factotum of Mike Mcdonald, ran from the
cologne bottle to the Jimmy"
"Yes," continued the irate democrat, Eve
might have expected just this from delega.
tion headed by Mike Mcdonald and old
Potter Palmer and tailed by Joe Mackin
and Carter Harrison, but We'll mako some
music for 'em when we get to Chicago"
~
A prominent democrat, who has long served
his party in congress, says
TITS about time that the star route frauds
and all their attendant complications were
buried out of sight. 1t has been popular
delusion with some of the young hot heads
of the democratic party that this matter
would make excellent campaign material to
be utilized against the republicans in the
presidential campaign just now opening up. |
have no wish to SEQ my party take
any such course, for if we do greatly fear
that in the borrowings that will be instituted
into this great scandal it will be developed
that number of leading democrats had a
hand in the swindle Indeed, from what is
already indicated, fear that we arc liable to
contribute fully as many accessories before
the fact as the republican party will furnish y
#Se
"John w. II. Porter, editor of tho Ports
n mouth Enterprise, who was arrested last week
0 for being about to engage in duel with Mr.
J. Glennin, of the Norfolk Virginion, is quite
+ duelst" said Virginian yesterday
"How's that?"
"Well, remember that on ono occasion he
Y challenged an office boy employed on riva
Q paper The boy had circulated a rumor thai
jack Porter's paper had only thirty-eigh
: Subscribers. John heard of it and demanded
o, an apology, which the boy refused to make
=. John sent him a challenge, which the boy
. accented, and that was tho last heard of it.
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