The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-04-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
FROM Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., I

tous Arthur boom appears to be as
suming the character of a Blaine
stampede of very considerable pro-
portions, particularly in the Presi-
dents own State where the whole
stalwart army seems to have broken
ranks and completely forsaken their
old commander. In the New York
deal the President finds his most
dis~comforting surprise, because he
had counted upon the aid of a class
of men in nearly every Congressional
district, whose lives had been devot-
ed, as his own has been, to the ma
nipulation of the machine politics of
the State. But there was eX-Gov.
Cornell with his sores of 1881 still
%unhealed, and there was Mr.. Conk-
ling, who is out of politics only in
the sense of repaying old scores, and
whose hand is seen in all of this
anti-Arthur work, and there was,
above all, the apprehension among
the leaders of the party that the
Democrats could MT nominate a can
didate who would not easily put New
York in the Democratic column next
fall as against Arthur. That Arthur
has been unfortunate in the distribu-
ton of patronage in New York, goes
without saying. His appointees in
New York city were selected for him
simply from the want of courage to
select them for himself. The result
was a class of officials that care as
little for Mr.. Arthur's preferment
now, as he car ed for them when he
was anxious to give their places to
those in whom he had confidence
Upon the idea that honest men get
their dues when rogues fall out, the
disturbance in this once happy Re-
publican family will as surely give
the Empire State to the Democracy
next fall, as that Vermont will go the
other way.
Mr.. Morrison has got his tariff bill
before the House and in Committee
of the Whole, in spite of the predic-
tions of his failure. His opening
speech was a sound, common-sense
presentation of its leading features,
spiced with some historical dates
touching the manner in which tariff
measures in past Congresses had
been secured in the interest Of the
manufacturers and capitalists .ofthe
country. An ANALYSIS of the vote
by which the bill was taken up FOR
consideration, develops a pretty
strong indication that the contest
over it will be both long and excl.
ting. 1t is known that while quite
a number ofDemocrats who voted to
take up tie bill will. finally vote
against it, there are also a number of
the 80 Democrats who voted against
its consideration will ultimately re-
cord their votes for it.
There is rit b reading for the econo
mist in the speeches made in the
House the other day upon the appro
priation bills for the construction
of public buildings in the country
Singing out a few instances in which
the Government has been more out,
rageously plundered than others,
find from the Supervising Architects
report that the site for the Govern.
ment post office in Boston cost 81.
SOC, 200 of the peoples money. wills
the building itself sunk $4,3G3, 6Sl.%
In Fall River, in the same State
Uncle Sam paid $l33,00O for tie ste
that has been occupied by little 7xe
grocery store, and which site could
have been purchased by any private
individual for one tenth Of that
amount. The building here cos
$360,135, while within stones throw
of it there is another worth two Of it
built by private enterprise for $75,
600. 1 believe thaT this Fall Rive
steal out ranks and out gen rails any
other like piece of public 1obbery
that has taken place in modern times
and no one can wonder that the peni
Tertiary at Concord has so large
repres entation of Republican Sunday
school superintendent from -thii
manufacturing Gomorrah.
1t seems that Mr.. Bob Lincoln
aspirations are a trifle higher thai
those which satisfied his boss, ,,fou
years ago, and the fellow is playin!
double for al he is worth with boil
Logan and Arthur. While he send
dispatches TO Chicago announcin,
that his name cannot be used Will
he is in Mr.. Arthur's cabinet, he i
knitting Arthur in the East an,
throttling Logan in the West upol
every possible occa ion. it canno
be that the President is not cogni
zent of this duplicity on the Fart O
a member Of the cabinet, but wha
is he going to do about it fine is? !
he should kick him out, what woul,
, become of the prestige of that nam
under which the son of his father go
, into the cabinet, and how many woul,
view it as an insult to the memory O
Garfield? From the time that Lin
coin was taken up and carried int
the office of town supervisor of Chi
> cago ten years ago, upon this senti
mental sort of politics, he has beel
afflicted by the political bighead il
its worst form, and it shoxs.the pos
sibilities of American politics in
Guiding its civil service reform, whel
such a man MS Robert Lincoln cal
be seriously spoken of in connection
with the highest political office il
, the world. PHoNo.
The Old Republican Policy.
New York Sun.
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