News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-02-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c..

w ASHINGTON. u S.s
Feb. II, 1884.
The greatest soldier of the Republic,
LAYING upon bed of pain from the
result of a recent fall and now made
serious by complications of the liver
and kidneys, watches with apparently
great interest the success of the Re
publican party. To friend recently
he said, ''After four years of strife to
sustain the vital doctrine that we are
a Nation, and not a sort of political
co-partner-ship to be dissolved to suit
personal or sectional animOsitles, the
Republican party by its progressive
ideas and enlightened spirit, has
brought the Nation up to a higher
plane of development, enterprise and
prosperity than ever known before
and it is a duty the people owe to
themselves, to perpetuate this state of
affairs by perpetuating the Republican
party but to do this, think we need
a candidate who fully represents the
progressive and aggressive spirit of
our institutions, and | hope such
selection will be made at Chicago"
How like the grand Old patriot that he
isl These words should go ringing
through the ears of every Republican
and every lover of liberty, of justice,
and of right, throughout the land,
until they find Judgement in the
mind and in the heart, and impel to
earnest, untiring work until the best
men in the party are nominated at
Chicago, and their triumphant cleo
tion,is assured.
What the nation demands to-day is
earnest, honest, aggressive, positive
men men of convictions, who, know
ing the right, will fearlessly pursue
it. 1t has been sickened of the
stagnating, do-nothing, happy-go-
lucky policy, that might have done for
time, but is now placing the nation
in a somnolent, ifeless, soulless con-
dition of decay and dry rot. What
is needed is life energy, national pride
and ambition, and All administration
strong morally, politically and intel
lectuallv.
The Republican party must pre-
serve its honor by setting its face
against star-route thieves, and the
crimes committed in the name of JUS
tice, in so-called attempts to bring al
legged star-routers to justice. 1t must
disavow the men and measures by
which thousands have been made to
suffer and the Treasury depleted, I'M
der the guise of enforcing the inter-
nal revenue laws. The rights of each
and every citizen must be respected
at home and abroad, and every priv
ilege guaranteed must be upheld, even
at the point of the bayonet.
Washington has been thrown into
a fearful state of agitation over the
question as to who shall be consider
ed the first lady of the land and The
precedence that shall be shown the
wives of the members of the Cabinet
President of the Senate, Speaker o
the House, Justices of the Supreme
Court, and of Senators and Represen
tatives. In the face of this momen
tous question the tariff, internal rev
enue, civil rights and civil service
dwindle into insignifcance. A spec
ial committee of Congress should b.
appointed at once to settle this vexe(
question or there is danger of NOR
false hair, false teeth, false noses
ears, cotton batting and padding
being shed in the inevitable conflic
to follow than was ever known il
the Nations history.
When snobbery is on top ant
Mackey's, OBrien's Or Tabor's none.
is the open sesame, where modesty
retiring intellectual culture, and ma
tive worth and refinement are forbid
den to enter; in a republic where tn
people are the sovereigns and crea
tors, and the officers the servants an
created, and such quairels arise,
am reminded of a certain quarrel be
tween a grocer named Stokes, and
liveryman named Todd, in the Stat
of Missouri in the-day s-when til
negro was not regarded as man ant
brother. The grocer had grown ia
and rich from the trade of the livery
man and others, and as he waxed ia
and rich he assumed airs of superior
ity, and when his old customer
would meet him and say chow are 20
to-day, Mr.. Stokes?" instead of til
familiar answer of other days, b
would fix his thumbs in his vest an
say, ''strictly prime or "from ia
to middling," and gaze with ia
away look Todd had stood tn
about as long as he could, and NEE
ing Stokes one day, and getting
his CHEEKY salutation, the far-awa
look and naughty expression, ''stric
ly prime," he turned to Stokes al
said, s'Stokes, don't say you are
niger, d-n you, but 1 do say if yC
will dig six feet where your gran
father is buried you will find woo
d-n you" In quarrels of this cha
acter l always look out for wool.
Among the measures presented
Congress to which very little attentiC
in the past seems to have been PAL
but one of incalcuable interest to Il
people, is the bill offered in the Hou
by the Hon. P. A. Tulley, of Califo
mia, to prevent the use OF the mails
advertising noxious medicines ar
compounds. From the medical fir
territy, from Maine to California, Il
measure meets unqualified approve
and the people will endorse it whe
its provisions are fully known.
passed it will prevent the murder
thousands annually who die from IL
effects of the quack preparations wit
which the country is flooded. Nj