The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-10-15
WASHINGTON T
From Our Regular Correspondent
WasH1NGroS, DC,
Oct. IL 1882

WasHINGros, DC,
Oct. II, 1885.
To those who cannot sleep Of
lest Mr.. Cleveland should
fallinto The hands o ftiie mugwumps,
it may be said that the President
has not indicated by word or deed
that he intends doing anything of
the kind. There is one thing, how
ever, that the President has deter
mined upon, and that is that the
spells element in the Democratic par
ty shall not get the upper hand of
him or get into a position by which
they will be enabled to dictate to him.
1t is this determination that has an
~tagonized so many Of tue spells seek
ers who made the mistake of berat-
ing the President for the one great
feature that creates the excellence If
his administration. He is the presi
dent of the people, and not of the
faction who suppose that he is sim
ply sent to Washington to dole QUO
the offices. He has been elected by
the people to exercise his great of
fec in the improvement of the public
service and thus improve the public
welfare. He said just this before he
was voted for by the people, and why
should it be expected that he should
change? If the Democratic party
cannot accept him as its leader with
the admirable purposes that he has
set out to accomplish il, it were bet
ter that it should disband, and Or
ganize under sny platform that elm
mates patriotism and dccency, to
adopt the despicable motto of the
spokesman.
Washington is about to put on her
best bib and tucker to receive in a
suitable manner the man wio was
mainly instrumental in making the
city the most beautiful and attract
i've in the world. When Boss Shep-
herd was at the head of affairs in
the District of Columbia, he was
boss with all that the name implies.
He struck out with a determination
to make Washington what the capt.
tai of a big country should be, the
pride of the American people and
how thoroughly he has done the
work the streets aad parks and gen
eral appearance of the city abun-
dainty demonstrate 1t mattered not
that Shepherd practically impover-
ished the taxpayer of the District in
the grading and improvement of the
streets, by the e~xtravagant prices
that he paid both for labor and ma
%terial, for property was enhanced in
varue to that astonishing degree
that the tide of better feeling against
Shepherd to one.of absolute admira
ton. The government pays one hall
of the tax levy Of the city while the
citizens pay the other half and a lit
tie more, because that for gas and
water is levied directly upon the con,
sumers, at exorbitant rates. From
1868 to 1874 while Shepherd was in
the vi9or of his administration, he
expended about thirty one millions
of dollars in bringing Washington
out Of its poor estate as a swamp
, and a malarial swamp at that, sc
that beside the extraordinary adj
vances in the value Of the real es
tate of the city there was a CORES
: ponding increase in the healthful
ness as well as cleanliness of its pop
ulation. When the Potomac fats
shall have been decpened and tn,
sewerage of the city completed as i
is Low proposed to complete it, there
; is no reason why Washington shout,
: not show as clean a bill of freedom
t from mortality as any city in the U
S., for all of which she stands in
debted to Boss Shepherd.
, The prospect that the occupation
of the ccmpositor and consequen
dictation of typographical union:
will be gone, is prom sed by the ap
pearance ola machine which is capa
BILE Of setting type and s:erotvpins
the matter as it goes along. The III
strument has not yet been put upol
; public exhibition, but it is said tina
, it works admirably. A company o
capitalists have at any rate become
so thoroughly convinced Of its utility
that they have agreed to invest
quarter of million dollars, making
thorough experiments with it. Tn,
, machine does away with c~ompositors
it ~dispenses with stenographers, an'
it has no use for anybody about
> printing Office so far as the mechan
ic..l part of the work Of getting up
newspaper is concerned. 1t Will onl,
claim. perfection when it furnisho
4: off hand editorials to suit the politi
cal tastes of all readers. The machin
is Of Baltimore manufacture but til
name of the inventor has not trans
e pired. Surely it looks as if W. wer
) going to have a revolution as well a
a revelation in the black art.
, Dom PEDRO.