The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-05-15
Democratic Statasmanshin.

GRESS. The JUST AND SWEEPING CENSU RES
| OF THE PRESS.
The extracts given below from newspapers
of various political affiliations are fairly illus
trative of public sentiment regarding the policy
and performances of Democratic congressman
First we have the New York Herads scathng
rebuke of Senator Bayard's charge against the
executive departments of the government
Senator Bayard has been generally accepted by
the country as gentleman. as somewhat con-
| servative in his judgments, and not given to
| loose assertions. The language the Herald
crlticiSes is therefore surprising, coming from
| him; but it shows that Mr. Bayard has de-
| scended to the level of his party in the use of
| false and unjusitiabe accusations against those
who happen TO be opposed to him in politics.
Mr.. Hewitt. of New York. appears in an even
| worse light. His insinuation that the Secretary
of the Navy had not put into the Treasury the
money received from the sale of old ships, and
that he might be keeping it for an electioneer-
| ing fund, was absurd upon the face, impossible
improbable, and was so readily refuted that
! the correction went to the country smultan-
eou>ly with this wanton attack upon the head
of the Navy Department. AS the Washington
| correspondent of the New York Herald SAYS
| "W hat makes Mr.. Hewitt's accusation in the
| House more ineXcusabe is the fact that he is Il
member of the Committee on Expenditures in
the Navy Department. 1t was in the line of
| his duty and authority to make careful in
| quiry before he ventured on so gross charge,
| and if he had done this he would never have
made his charge" He did not mend matters
much in his attempt at an explanation on the
following day, in which he shifted his ground
and in conclusion said that he chad desired to
make no charge nor to cast any imputation of
dishonesty on the Secretary of the Navy" Mr.
Calkins of Indiana. replied to Hewitt in a vig-
orous speech in which he went over the whole
ground i'll controversy. The Boston Journals
Washington correspondent furnishes a synop-
sis Of his remarks which may properly be in
serted here:
He asserted that the construction given to the
law by the Secretary of the Navy was correct,
and that he is not required to cover into the
Treasury beyond the reach of his warrant the
money received from the vessels until he has
pad all the expenses of sale, and also of break
ing up the vessels not sold. In his closing re-
marks Calkins was very severe with Hewitt.
ne denounced him As man who would spring
public officer. He said that IIewitt's speech to-
day was a mere subterfuge. an attempt to
| eNade and cover up the charges which he made
| the other day, and which We're substantially
that the Secretary OF the Navy had not deposit
! ed or placed i'll the Treasury the moneys re-
ceived, and that they Were somewhere possibly
| drawing interest which did not inurc to the
| benefit of the United States. These charges,
| CaIkln> claimed. had not Only been refutcd. but
shown TO be lacking in common decency and
| Will.
| plaudcd when he sat down.
The course of Mr.. Randall. chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations, with regard to
the naval appropriation bill, is universally con-
demned. Says the New York IIerald'S Wash
ln@ton correspondent; ''lIc had persuaded the
llousc-by what was no better than a gross
m>statement Of account>-to refuse the neces-
>ary appropriation for guns for the new cruis-
elS. Ii Is not too much to say that he came to
the House with the authority Of lis Chairman
OF Appropriations. and by a mi>>tatcmpnt
which. if made in ignorance, shows him to be
uhh( Tor his place and unworthy of the conf
dence which The House ought to be able to but
IN rs Chairman of Appropriations, led it to re-
fuse the money for the required guns" He
has pursued like course with regard to tile
consular and diplomatic bill; but claims, and
no doubt truly, that he is simply the exponent
Of his party No better evidence is needed If
the untitne>> of the Democratic party to ho d
the ren> of government in this country than
NAV be found in nm. fo,Io>v,ne, ,,.,,.,,,.,,l,.
" - WIS P''' "f''>
WILL SENATOR BAYARD SPECIFY.
In his letter to the Iroquos Club Senator
Bayard made this sweeping assertiou:-
The evils of moia,Ininistration ara o,e,r,,bor.
apparent: they are confessed in many ana nrnyrn
o exist in nearly every department Of The eXecu
i've branch.
The executive branch of the national poy-
ernment COMPRISES besides thp Prrsifrut.s
office the following departments :-State Ire,,s
Wy, W"l, Navy IoSI Once, Interior and JUS
"eel"IeS ill"t eNllS OF
nroTen ~ ~ h1nt "llu
n.rt,nnnt. Whn,.n o., H. 0'it ~ VI .h' ~ t
tha naiaIr,r St ~ ~ Y v ny !,
whom and ~ IDh",,, ,,and W. '1
whnra j. tha nronf MINK HI 'nvy li.u' NY
ahnse in neaIv orer 1 dnrar' " nv VI
4for Ravard eiya ~ ,tli /" =,
his whoios.lo oharnasa lN'''0 Il
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of these hpranse ,bnr tonnl ~
that thr yarons eyprutive onat,,t, ~ M
onrarn,na,t ~ w i,'' ''nI '',I VI 'il'
ettiricmtlv ndmn.tnreI INA tnt in't
Sruatnr Rn,.ari nndort,-a ""'. ii;@,'ei 'I'' NV
star route frand Rt,t tha.n hy hon;, o,,l w
ed and thoronrhJv rafrnd Nv, 'a -
whose adn,nist,tio ~ thn ~ a'9 Inuei
Wcwnra nnt s,'rnri.oI - AZ, Il; ~ g. a. v,
letter tn mo Irnn,1ni Ci,b .Ii,,' - i.t
eyervthino in i, he donnrnot M ;ns'
tnn i hi , ',, ~, "a, t'no's d. y asn'iia
old gentIeman's pet hobby and his chief uolir-
cai STOCK III trade lhe pubIc has also be-
come somewhat famiIlar with the plalntlNe
,'pptals oi our Jealous contemporary the sun
70 turn lhe rascas out But Senator Bayard
las been looked upon as a thoughtful, conser-
Sa'lVe democratic statesman. not given TO
eAaSSeralloh or political claptrap. Hence we
were not prepared to hnd him lndulSlnS in the
tN'fhNaSahee OF expression so common with
U.s. inoucraie ana CONSCIENTIOUS men. New
OK Herald.
DEMOCRATS AND THE NAVY.
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natriotism or vida If ipt,l p,ti,, -,
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