The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-07-23
THE eosroN syMposluM.

THE BOSTON SYMPOSIUM.
No Wonder the Hspdbilcan Party Is An
tfoaehins Dissoldti0h.
The success which attends President
Cleveland's Administration at every
step is causing such alarm in the Re-
publican mind hat it disturbs the faith
full even at their love-feasts and causes
them to convert the napkin into a
bloody shirt. Senator Logan was SO
agitated over it that when he was in
vited to dinner on Monday night in
Boston he did not venture to speak
without the aid of a carefully prepared
manuscript, which acted as an air-brake
his naturally cratic oratory. He
feared the effect of one of his pictur-
esque outbursts on the conservative
minds around the board and he gener-
ously refrained from letting himself
loose on them in English 'tas she is
spoke" according to Logan. We doubt,
however, if he would pot have produced
a greater effect were his speech deliv-
cred in genuine Loganese than in the
dull platitudes and threadbare soph-
istriss. Leading off with an al1usion to
"a shareholders mob and the eman-
cipation of the negroes, very stale sub
jects for this year of our Lord, 1885,
and rather perilous ones, considering
certain ugly features in Mr.. Logan's
record, the ex-tail Of the Blaine ticket
lamented the fact that 'in the Southern
States, to-day, there are millions Of
both white and colored people unable
to read or write," and insisted that
without making any practical sugges-
ton how it was to be done.
The fact is that more has Eeen done
in the South in the cause of education
since the emancipation of the people
from Republican carpet-bag rule than
would ever have been accomplished un-
der the Reconstruction regime. Then
he timidly unfolded a corner Of the
bloody shirt from the next page of his
manuscript In limiting that some citizens
of suffrage. ''There ought to be some
way" argued the Western orator, ''by
which mems rights can be secured that
they may be free men," One excellent
plan, he might have added, was to rid
the public service of the Lot Wrights
and Johnny pavenports. who materially
iEterfered with voters rights. He then
branched out into an unfamiliar subject
-Civil-Service reform-andEalthough he
made the usual fraudulent claim that it
was the child of the Republican party,
he was fortunately tied down BY his
prepared manuscript from indulging in
some of his characteristic remarks on a
theme as foreign to his nature and rec
ord as honesty and consistency are to
his party.
He sneered at offensive partisan
Ship" which has been always consid-
cred a virtue in a Republican office
holder, whose duty it was to be ready
at the call of the master to prostitute
his Office for the basest party ends.
This Mr.. Logan calls frivolous and
unjust charges against Republican in.
cumbents Is a justification for their re-
moval." The author of the manuscript
enlivened it with a sly touch of humol
in remarking that the principles of the
Republican party, knocking at the
door of the conscience of the people
will regain admission" 1t must have
cost Nj. Logan an effort to restrain 6
smile when he uttered this .'whopper.'
He next assured his hosts that the Re
publican party is not dead, although
they could not help being convinced
that it was far from being well and wa:
in the hands of doctors, whose presen'
course of treatment is calculated to de
prive it of whatever life remains in ii.
Senator Hoar supplemented Senator
Logan's prepared remarks by claiming
for the Republican party the merit o
the reforms instituted by Presiden
Cleveland, a mere repetition of the ole
cry of last November: ..We claim every
thing!" He made the extraordinar,
assertion that while several very worth,
men have gone abroad, nom of then
but would feel like crawling under thu
table if a discussion of the question
came up of complimenting this countr,
for having put down the rebellion, freet
1.-THE slaves and paid the National deb
SO far. Did Nj. Hoar wish to insul
the intelligence of his hearers by in
sinuating that the Democratic party ha,
no share in this work. Did he pur
posely ignore the thousands of Demo
cratic soliiers who sealed their devotion
to the Union by their blood, and ha'
not Democratic taxpayers something t,
do in paying off the public debt?
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge made an un
fortunate allusion to the navy whicl
the Democrats proposed to build u
after it was brought to its present pitt
able condition by their predecessors
Mr.. Asa French was shocked at tn
presence of so many ex-rebels in Wash
ington, as if it were something unhear
of before the Democratic Administers
ton came into power. At this assem-
blage, comprising the leading Republic
an spirits of Massachusetts,, there wa
yond the absurdities of the recent Obi
Republican platform.-Albany argus.
], CHAINED TO THE DEAD PAST