The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-08-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, DEL
Ano 12 1854

Aug. Is, 1881
After about eight years of contin-
uous complaint, the Post Office De
partment has been brought to realiz-
ing sense of the scandalous business
John A. Logan has during that time
been guilty of keeping Dan Shep-
ard and others on the Government
pay-rolls in the Chicago post office.
Shepard has been a sort ola man-of
all-work for Logan during the last
dozen years or more, and through
Logan's influence has been kept in
as Secretary of the Republican Cen
trail Committee of Illinois, as clerk of
Logan's Military Committee in the
United States Senate, as secretary of
Postmaster Palmer at Chicago, with
a salary attachment of s., 500 a year,
and I don't know how many other
positions. 1t is said now that Ores
ham is about to drop Shepard from
the pay roll ofthe Chicago post office,
but it is dollars to cents, that it is
only to give the fellow some letter
grip in order that his work for Logan
may be more effective. Logan's hand
in this species of political dealing,
and the recent promulgations of the
list of nephews, nieces and relatives
who have got their t~entacles upon the
Treasury, form q pretty good de-
rnonstration of his ideas of Civil Ser,
vice reform.
l see that Blaine has got Emery A,
Storrs, the Chicago Euripides, to hell
bolster up his damaged reputation
down in Maine. Who that remem
bers Storrs and his desperate efforts
to defeat Blaine's nomination in 1880
will wonder at this change of senti
ment. But Storrs is a lawyer whose
tongue is kept running in exact pro
portion to the number of ducats re
ceived therefor. Storrs was q stall
wars among stalwarts so long as
Grant was in trim for nomination
and was expecting to get the At
torney, G. neralship, first in the even
of Grants election, and second, wheI
Arthur became the of Gar
field. He slipped up OH both ex
%pectations and now goes back to thu
half breeds to lick the hand tina
smote him. And of such is thi
epoch of political poltroonery.
To Judge Ingraham, of New York
are the people of the United States
indebted for the first judicial recog
milton of individual rights abov
those of corporate monopolies. Th'
telegraph companies everywhere
acting under chartered privilege
from State legislatures, have hither
to taken full possession of both side
of every important street in ever
important and unimportant city ant
town in the country. They have no
only planted their poles in the street
and in the door yards of privat
property owners, but they have takel
and held undisputed possession o
the roofs of dwellings and bushes
houses until they have been recog
nized by common consent as entitled
to all these encroachments upon pri
vate right, without saving by you
leave or extending q thank YOU
Judge Ingraham, upon a case bro
by one of these companies against
private person for interfering in TIL
erection of n of the companies
poles, judicially declares that the fe'
in the streets is q sacred trust 70
the ,usesof the public distinctiYely
and which the legislature canno'
grant to any body or corporation 0
bodies; that abutting property own
ers are fully justified in treating sucl
telegraph wires and poles as impedi
ments to The use of the streets, ahG
any citizen may go to work to ge
rid of them in the same manner tina
would justify him in Kidding hi.
property of any other nuisance.
Some more ofthe rascally maneu
vres by which the Government il
swindled in the purchase of sites 70
its public buildings are being derel
oped in the case of the Brooklyn
Federal building. It seems that tn
same Michael j. Dady who has beel
instrumental in handing over tn
Washington sewer contracts TO
New York firm, has his finger in tn,
Brooklyn pie in al attempt to brib
the District Attorney, and in gettin.
a delay in the purchase of tn
ground, to make room for a deal in
volving another site, so that Dad,
could have a sight for the money h
had expended in hunting it up, ant
in the scheme laid for his CRANE
swindle. PHoNo.