The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-06-05
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From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c..

WASHINGTON, d. c.,
June 2, 1SS4.l
Things seems to be working ad-
mirably for q grand explosion at
Chicago next week, and when the
pieces come down old John Sherman
is going to be on hard to gather them
up. 1 have thought oil aleng there
was something in the wind, when
John affected indifference while the
eyes of the rest of the party were up
on Chicago. Believe me whenI tell
you that the willy old coon has sbeeni
at the bottom of every family quar-
rel that has happened among the Re
publican leaders for the last four
years, and now it is at his instigation
that Gorham, the Cheap John of the
Stalwart phalanx, has gone to Chi
cago to kick up q muss between the
adherents of Arthur and Edmunds
and Logan. Chandler, the high,cock
a-lorum Of the Cabinet, and Frank
Hatton, by whose kind permission
the world revolyes, have both gone TO
Chicago in the interest of Mr.. Ar
thur first, and the man who prom
Uses the most afterwards-and he is.
John Sherman. The status of the
Blaine movement is one of the sur
prises of politics and politicians. 1t
is Of the Irishmen's flea order, and it
won't be discovered until it hops up
at Chicago and surprises Blaine him
self. BY the the way, Ifsaw the in
.exorable Jim to day upon the street.
looking as complacent as anybody
who is'nt'a candidate.
Ohio wool couldn't save poor Nc
Kinley after all. By O. majority of
SIS the House jerked his seat from
under him and gave it to Wallace,
the contestant, who gave a better
showing for his title thaneis ordina-
rily the case in these contests for
Congressional honors. Within three
hours after the vote was taken Nc
Kinley was on his way to Ohio, with
clenched fists and teeth grating
Mac did yeoman service and a good
deal of dirty work for his party in
the last Congress, but in this he has
scarcely been heard from.
fell to talking with a garrnlous
chap yesterday, whose business is
to cater to the Houses stomach. He
says that since the thermometer be
gan melting, the restaurant in the
basement has had q better regular
attendance than the sessions of the
House. In the matter.of wine, the
past winter has been a mostsucccss-
full one, because Cox and I)orshei,
mer, Of New York, make it a speci.
atty, and have drank hearly enough
to float a frigate. The other wine
drinkers in the House are few and
moderate, but the eaters are hume
reus and yoracious. Here is q fel
low from New Hampshire and anoth
er from Maine, however, who tackle
a fifteen cent lunch and go away rer-
fectly satisfied, while Davis. of Chi
cago, and Joe Blackburn never think
of eating n mouthfui without tossing
a dollar over the counter. Perry Bel
mont eats his terrapin stew, like q
Chinaman, with chopsticks, and al
ways growls at the price. Carlisle
and Tom Ochiltree are the two eX
tremes of feeding, the Etter being
something of g%ourmand, and the
Speaker eating about enough to per
petuate a canary bird. The restau.
rant sometimes gets LETT financially
on account of being too eonfding
with some. of the members, who run
their faces for quite a large sum to
ward the end OF the session, and then
lose their memory.
A delectab.e discussion has been
on in the Senate between
Brown, Of Georgia, and fTcar, oi
Massachusetts, which, il printed Ger
6atim in the Record, would bring
the blush to the check of a street
walker. The debate sprang from the
bill to punish polygamy among the
Mormons, and Brown thought that
Congress might as well go into the
business simultaneously ofpunishine
foeticide in Massachusetts andsNew
England. Then of course Hoar had
a pill for Brown. in saying tltat the
highly moral white gentlemen of the
South ought to. examine themselves
and ascertain the exact numb4r OF
mulattoes they lnveY got toSnsyer
for in the great hereafter. Ofeourse,
a great deal of stuff will be expung
ed from thu official report, but as it
is there will he as lively a demand
for the Record containing the debate
as there was for Madame Columbier's
delicious work on Sarah Bernhardt.
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