Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-10-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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"Ar'i"et tcNs ~ ~ Oct. ~ coo.
The result OF the Ohio election is moi
disappointing TO the majority of Demo.
Gratis at the capital. Ohio Il a Republj.
can State and there has never been
much confidence that the Democrats
could carry II, except through some
combinati0no OF circumstances especially
unfavorable TO their opponents. When
ever national issues are at stake, as they
were this year through the Senatorship
the Republicans have the advantage OF
their large party majority, Just as the
Democrats have in Missouri or New
Jersey. But there are other reasons
why the Democrats hereabouts do not
feel much disappointed. Had the
Senatorial contest been between Allen
G. Thurman and John Sherman every
Democrat would have earnestly hoped
for the success of his party, but as IL
was understood that John r. Mclean
had his hooks upon the Senatorial seat
In case of Democratic victory on the
Legislature, there was not few who
preferred Sberman's return.
The Supreme Court of the United
States commenced its winter term last
Monday with oil of the court present
aud all apparently in robust health.
The Chief Justice especially, who has
been receiving the honors due to his
rank in England together with q new
lease of life, looks infinitely better and
stronger than he has at any time in the
last six years. The court has put in q
good deal 0fwork in the past year hav-
ing disposed Of six hundred and fifty
cases, some of them of the greatest COM
mercial, political and financial impor-
tance. The number of cases on the
calendar at the beginning of this term
is some sixteen hundred which might
be disposed fin matter of three years,
were it not for the astonishing increase
in the number of new cases that are
filed continually, both in vacation and
term time. From time immemorial
the attention of Congress has been call
ed to the urgent necessity of doing
something to relieve the court of this
accumulation of cases, and the public of
the tremendous loss of both time and
money resulting from the exasperating
delay in important cases. Bill after
bill to remedy these evils has heen
prepared, but as often they have been
shelved by one house or the other,
probably in the interest of that great
body of lawyers who flourish by the
inevitable laws delay. The one pre-
pared by Judge David Davis while he
was in the Senate, and which passed
that body only to be defeated in the
House for want of time to reach it, has
undergone some modification and will
be introduced again in the Senate by
Judge Edmunds this winter. The pros
pect that it will become law is most
cheering one.
1t may not be generally remembered
but it is nevertheless fact that Mr..
Brewster was the name of the gentle
man who was Mr.. Arthur's Attorney
General. With this prestige, Mr..
Brewster has been doing Europe for all
that it is worth. He has been dined
and wined by Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge, and by the lawyers of Temple
Bar He has been to Rome and osculat-
ed the Pope's great toe, and he has been
to Paris to invest his hard earned dol
lars in the rare gems and bric-a-brac of
the French capital. 1t is not likely,
however, that the political career of Mr..
Brewster secured to him the attentions
of the European snobs, in such degree
as his wellfilled purse, which is the open
sesame to any and all classes of aristoc-
racy as well as to royalty itself.
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