New-York tribune., 1885-10-25
4 HIDEOUS REVELATIOM.

According to that leading exponent of De-
mocracy. The Sun the vice which is looked upon
with greatest adherence by all good Demo
Gratis has broken out ut Washington in the most
conspicuous of Democratic circles. OF course
we refer to the wee known as OhicchOlder-
Voluntary Contribution. The Sun reports, of
course on trustworthy authority, that Office
holder Grover Cleveland, President of the
United States has made Voluntary COntri-
button. of $1,000 for campaign purposes; ;
that OfiicehOlder Daniel Manning, Secre-
tary of the Treasury, has made a
Voluntary Contribution Of $1,000 for cam
paign purposes; that OflicehOlder William G.
Whitney has made Voluntary Contribution of
81, 600 for campaign purposes; that Office
holder Charles S. Fairchild Assistant Secretary
of the Treasury, has made Voluntary Contri-
button of $500 for campaign purposes that
Ollicehodcr Daniel s. Lamont, private sccrc-
tary to President Cleveland, has made Nolun-
tary Contribution of $500 for campaign pur-
poses.
We have no heart to comment upon this hide
GUS revelation, which will come home
with a dull and sckcping thud to
every sensitive Democrat. All! this
will be a sad Sunday for General Spinola. He
will 90 about with Grape wound around the
battlemcnts of his wonderful shirt collar, ever
AID anon murmuring to himself death !-
in the name of Civil Service reform, what's the
party coming t. when cilice-hOlding Democrats
N and about the White House are caught red
handed IN Voluntary Contribution y AEd
Tim CaIlpbcll-tlc news will so completely
PROSTATE him with grief ard modification that
he is likely to abandon his canvass for Congress
IN order that he can give his entire attention 10
wiping his weeping eyes with black -bOrdcrcd
handkerchief. "Talk not to me OF Congress
sional honors," Tim may well and is likely to
exclaim. "whcn | am forced to behold the
monumental Democratic disgrace, a Demo-
cratic President of the United states unblush-
ingly making a Voluntary Contribution for
partisan canvass. ct tn Dan Lamont His
friends want to watch Tim-thc fear is that
he may go of into hopeless melancholy,
1t is unnecessary to say that all Democratic
newspapers ard stump speakers IN good and
regular standing will share the grief and NOR
tifcation that is certain to smite these two
statesmen, SpinOla and Campbell For, as
everybody knows, while ont of power Dcmoc-
racy was continually hurting curses red with
uncommon wrath at the Voluntary C0ntribu-
ticn of the oicchOlder to- partisan uses. For
long time before Mr., Cleveland was elected
President these impressive carmine curses
constituted the bulk Of the party's stock in
trade When asked to outline its principles,
to give uttcrance to its convictions, to define
Its policy, it colsmonly rolled up its eyes and
called men and angels and Thomas jefferson
and Carter Harrison and William II. Barnum to
witness that hope for season bade the world
farewell and freedom shricked every time an
oiliceholder made a Voluntary Contribution to
politics.
If the manifest destiny-but we stay our
hand. The thought of the terrible depth OF
shame, humiliation and four -sylabled pro-
family into which these Voluntary COntrIbu
tors have plunged our friends the enemy
on this tranquil autumn day may well depress
every sympathetic soul. "What," SAID the old
lady TO her minister, "what would be without
my total dcpravity - What, the political stu
dent may well inquire, is Democracy going to
be now that il is dcbarrcd from lifting up its
voice against the Voluntary Contribution