The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-05-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. DC,
Nav 25th, 1885.

One of the strangest episodes of
modern political campaigning is that
which has just resulted in the cleo
ton of Gen. John A. Logan to sue
coed himself as United States Sena-
tor from Illinois. With the Legisla-
ture a tie, and Republicans in the
body whose antipathy to Logan had
already kept him out of an election
for very near five months, it needed
only Democratic Gee in n OF
the strongest Democratic districts in
the State, to not only prevent Logan's
election, but to ultimately insure the
success of some Democratic candi-
date, by the election of a to
Mr.. Shaw. Relying with the utmost
confidence upon their strength in the
district, Mr.. Morrison HES himself
away to Washington to see after
the distribution of official pap, leav-
ing the only assurance to Democrat
ic success to the tender mercies of
such manipulating Republicans as
''Long" Jones, Dan Shepard, Anne
Babcock and ex-P Postmaster Palmer.
These men went down into this Dem
o~cratic stronghold, organized their
forces in the dead OF night, held
them in reserve at every balloting
place in the district until after 3
o'clock in the afternoon, lest the enc
my might suspicion their intentions,
and when the vote was counted that
night they had carried off their Sen
atorial prize by a round majority. AT
l o'clock on the morning after Lo-
Lgan's election, the Presidents ears
were greeted with the thunde of 3S
guns, fired under his very windows.
1t is no wonder that the Democratic
party is charged by the enemies OF
Democracy with never learning and
always forgetting.
Decoration Day, which is always O
day of distinguished observance in
Washington. is to be more than usu'
ally attended to this year. The Presi'
dent is expected to speak at the ex.
%ercises at Arlington, and the usual
amount of bad poetry will be flung
in by way of airing the ambition Of
those whose poetic souls were disap
pointed by the cold, bleak spring thai
we have had. Col. Joyce, the Poe
Leaurate Of America, whose divine
affiatus has been appropriated by
Ella Wheeler, the Sweet Singer o
Chicago, will read n of his Iambis
illusions, surviving which, the audi
ence will be treated to an idyllic eff
fort from the pen and tongue of DR.
Mary Walker.
The project of p~ropelling the car
upon elevated railways by electricity
: has long been considered feasible
r but has not yet been put into practi
cal operation because of the claims
of several persons for priority of in
Z vention. Edison, who has been claim
= ing everything in the way Ct apply
ing electricity, was one claimant o
the discovery of this method of loco
motion, while Sir William Siemen,
was another, and MI. S. D. Field, o
New York, another. Through all o
the stages of the contest in the Pat
ent Office here, Mr.. Field has carried
off the award for the original dis
covery of the application, and thi
award has to day been confirmed b,
the Commissioner of Patents. Thi
decision, under q recent opinion o
the Supreme Court, is q fnality, AM
, Mr.. Field will at n c proceed to ap
ply his invention upon all the eleva
+; ted roads in New York City.
PHoNo.