The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-06-25
WASHINGTON 7 7
Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Dc,
June %, 1885.

June %, 1886.
About as bitter a contest over Pc
litical spoils as Mr.. Cleveland will
ever be called upon to decide is that
yer the Chicago Marshalship, which
he has just given to a man who does
not live in Chicago. There were six
teen applicants for the position, all
from Chicago, and all buzzing in the
PresideL It's ear, early and late, but a
still small voice came up from a Dem
ocratic Congressman, who told the
President that if he was after a good
man to fill the office he had one, who
like the President himself, had been
the sheriff of his county, and who, in
a county that ordinarily gave two
thousand Republican majority, had
been elected because he was the right
man in the right place. 1t cannot be
denied that the President has eXhib
tied more backbone in making this
appointment than has usually been.
accorded to men in his place, because
elements at work upon him in the
interest of other candidates embrace
ed the whole leadership Of the Chica-
60 Democracy, to say nothing of a
vast amount of outside Democratic
pressure from Indiana, Michigan,
Missouri and Wisconsin.
A colored Waterman in the Treas
ury was driven to incurable insanity
the other night on being told that
the Republicans we're bent on-killing
him for holding an office under q
Democratic administration. This is
the sort of diversion r1at the Repub.
licans all along have been INDUCING
in to retain their hold of the negro
vote, which, in Virginia and Mary.
land, counts for a good deal. This
African gentleman vas from Virgins
and had been one of Mahone's bes'
%lieutenants in many a Virginia cam
paign, but he was intelligent enough
at last to see the uses to which he
and his class were being put by thu
scallawag crowd that Malone led by
the rose and he flew the track
The elimination of the best part o
the negro element from Mahone'l
forces, has broken him up completely
and he who was only two short years
ago the master hand of the politica
destinies If the commonwealth, il
now so poor that he finds none to DE-
him reverence.
1t would seem from the evidence o
the architectural experts now being
examined upon al investigation o
the Capitol architect, Mr.. Clark, tina
the reign of shoddy commenced il
this country o good many years ago
From this testimony we are Informed
the very walls of the Capitol, which
we assumed would stand the wear
and tear of centuries of politics ant
politicians, have long been in a stat
of disintegration, decay and destruc
ton. The iron dome, weighing S,909
200 pounds is about to fall upon TIL
heads of the unfortunate visitors il
the rotunda, without a moment
warning, because of the shoddy ma
, terial with which it was composed
the shoddy printing that was put in
, to the paint, and the shoddy labo
with which the iron beams were join
ed together. Even the bronze femal
, that surmounts the dome to repre-
sent the freedom shriekers, is warp
ed out of all shape and looks as if i
! had just emerged from a Ease of sec
ondary ricketts,. Of course the archi
tect of the Capitol has his enemies
and they may overstate matter
somewhat, but 1 wish they could Sc
some of the botch work about thi
Capitol, for which we have paid frs
and last about seventeen millions c
I hard earned dollars. PHoNo.