The Russellville Democrat., 1885-05-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

OUR WASHiNGTON lEIIlah' Correspondence of the Democrat.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May l9, lSso. Republican letter writers take a great deal of pleasure in deluding their readers with the belief that there is an impassable gulf that is gradually widening between imagin- ary factions Tn the Democratic party. | If thrs affords them any comfort or is any compensation for the defeat that they have suffered and the bene- fit the country derives from being ] !n s:s..sr Democratic rule, it is proba- Ibly but right we should let them en- joy this slight pleasure. The fact IS, however, that there is not the slight est foundatlon for the silly rumors of Democratic disaffection, but, on the contrary. nav party ever came into power in the government where there has been so little friction, or where so many changes have been made with so little fault finding. That there should be disappoint- ments was natural and to be expect ed, but the general excellence of all appointments made dlsarms criti- cism.
 The distribution of patronage has been equitable among the States and all shades of opinion in the par tv. The statements largely made that the administration was run in the channel marked out by Mir. Ran dall, or in his interest, has no shadow of foundation, for in all it's branches it was as anxious for the election of Mir. Morrison, as Senator from Hi nois. as it could be for the success of MT. Randall in Pennsylvania.
 The cry that Watterson, of the Louisville Courier Journal, Speaker Carlisle, Senator Blackburn, and other Southern leaders, would not find favor with or in the adminlstra- tion is the silliest of stuff. Mir. Watterson has visited the President and gone home loud in his praise, while within the week Speaker Car lisle and Senator Blackburn have had pleasant and cordial interviews, and will most earnestly support the Presi- dent and his advisers
 Those who expect to see fight and quarrel in the Democratic party over the election ot a Speaker next winter will be most woefully disap- pointed. There wall be but one can didate for the Speakership on the Democratic side of the House, and he will be John G. Carlisle, who will have the support of every Democrat. He has made one oi the best fairest and most popular Speakers, honest, upright and fair. even his political opponents according this, and the Democratic party IS not ready to dispense with his services in this most important position.
 The rumor circulated here on Fri day last that Judge Lambert Tree, of Chicago, had been elected as Sen ator from Illinois created great joy among Democrats and consequent depression among Republicans, but all united in saying that if elected he would prove a worthy representa-. tive of the great Sucker State.
 The cause for the extraordinary exertions now put forth by Republi- can officials in Utah to see that the "unlawful cohabitation" feature of the Edmunds law is enforced, as against the Mormons, is so clearly understood by writer in the Wash ington Post that we take the liberty of giving quotation therefrom
 "These Mormons say in effect: sMr. President, this law is most faith fully executed in Utah, but it is a dead letter in the District of Colum- bia; there is no attempt to enforce it in any Territory except where Mermens are the yictims.' This, it seems to me, Is unfair. If 1 were a Mormon, 1 too would protest agaist thls partialiLy. As said, they have all the argument on their side.
 Are not those high toned, moral Republican reformers a little too jealous just now? They have run the government for twenty -four years and no extra effort in the in terests of mortality has been made until after November, 1884 There are some good offices in Utah filled by Republican reformcrs. There are five commissioners appointed under the Edmunds law who draw salary of 5000 each per annum; also attorney, marshal, judges, gov ernor, secretary, and others, all of whom have been very active, for the last few. months, in putting down immortality among the Mormons.
 "Of course these Republicans do not care to keep their offices; their only desire IS to exercise a moral influence.
 .The President will do well to select some good Democrats for those offices, for from high moral Republi- cans l pray, good Lord, deliver me-"
 Senator Don Cameron has sold his fine residence here to former New Yorker, Mir. D. F. Borgan, for the sum of $95,000. By some it is thought that the Senator will soon retire from public life. His health is very pecarious, he having been compelled to loose much time from the Senate.
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