The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-07-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WAsH1kGroN, DEL
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Politics makes strange ~bedfellows,
and the career of the Republican
party in the last dozen years has de
veloped q revolution in the political
sentiment that is without anomaly in
American history. The sight pre-
scented in New York this week of
such men as T. w. Higginson, Chas.
R. Goldman, George William Curtis
and Carl Schurz, each endeavoring
to Guido the other in layishing praises
upon the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency and in Remuneration
of the party to which they have been
attached since its organization, is one
that demonstrates the utter putridity
of that office holding hierarchy. In
the formal endorsement of Gov.
Cleveland by the Independent Re-
publicans at their New York confer
ence, we see the most cheering indi-
cations of success in the determine
ton of the people to wipe out this
rascally outfit, including Blaine and
Blaineism.
Price, the Commissioner o Indian
Affairs, the Miss Nancy of the saint
lly wing of the Republican party, and
Dudley, the organized appetite of the
Pension Bureau, have been in wait
ing on the Pittsburg Prohibition
Convention TO get the temperance
folks to endorse Blaine rather than.
put up a candidate of their own. OF
course Dudley expects nothing short
of a place in Biaine's cabinet should
Blaine ever get one and his efforts
with the cold water crowd at Pitts
burg have been proportionately zeal
GUS, though not successful SO far as
heard from. Price is an innocent old
nonentity, who does his praying on a
salary, and became Indian Commits
sioner under the Quaker policy and
Grant, who knew that his heart was
as soft as his head. He has been in
office SO long that he has got it
chronic so that the election of Cleve-
land will bring about at least one
welcome official fatality.
There are some curious things in
the aspects of the present campaign.
While MI. Blaine is making a dema-
gogue bid for sthe labor vote" his
two leading newspapers, the New
York Tribune and Philadelphia
Press, are engaged in a desperate
fight with and against the laborers
in their own oflices.the printers
who simply ask for fair wages. "The
cheapness of labor" is one of the
signs of the times, cited by Jay
Gould as proof that prosperity is re.
turning to the country, yet Mr..
Gould is one of the most enthusiastic
supporters of MIR. Blaine. 1t is un-
fortunate for Nj. Blaine that the
great capitalists among his following
scandalize his efforts to conciliate
the workingmen. Mr.. Gould's argu.
ment will be as offensive q Chair
man Jones' record in regard to i'm.
porting cheap labor from Europe. A
feeble attempt has been made TO pre-.
JUDGE w~orkingmen against Governor
Cleveland, yet Investigation shows
that he has been the consistent
friend of the workingman all his life,
in office and out. What has Sfr.
Blaine ever done for the working.
man? If there eyer was q monopoly
candidate it is James G.. Blaine, who
all his life has been the active tool Of
railroad rings, and big steals of every
kind. He has enriched himself BIZ
some of the worst monopoly jobs that
ever went through Congress, and his
chief supporters to-day are the
Goulds. Sages, ct al, who expect
him to serve them as President as
willingly as he did while Speaker
We here in Washington who have
watched Mr.. Blaine's career, know
just how much of a laboring mans
friend he is.
Ex-Governor Warmoth, of Louis
lana, who cut SO much of q figure in
that State during the milk and honey
days of carpet-bag reign, was in the
city several days recently and has
just left for Europe via Boston. He
married q rich wife some time ago,
and is now a prosperous sugar plan
ter. The sugar planters ofLouisiara
find that under existing conditions il
costs above five cents per pound to
produce sugar, which they have to
sell for just about the same amount.
Unless change occurs they will soon
have to come to a full stop. They
are informed that in France a milling
process is used which yields about
twenty per cent more s%accharine
matter than that IN use in Louisiana,
at no greater expense. Gov. War
moth goes TO France to examine this
process. He desires to take with him
DR.. George E. Spencer, one of the
chemists of the Agricultural Depart
ment, if he can obtain for him leave
of absence for that purpose. War
moth used to be an exceedingly
handsome man, and be is still fine
looking, though years have changed
his appearance somewhat. 1 saw him
at Wizards seated at the breakfast
table with Kellogg who persisted in
reading Blaine's letter to him with
approving comments. From War.
moths manner and expression OF
co~untenance, l judged he did not feel
a very deep interest in the PluIned
Knights lengthy epistle. PROMO.
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