New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-31
.ryer,vG Words FROM MR. SPooNER.
.v VIEW WISCONSIN SENATOR ON POLITICS AND
RAILROAD PROBLEMS


WV WISCONSIN SENATOR ON POLITICS AND
RAILROAD PROBLEMS.
csnator SpoOner, of Wisconsin, on ms way
sa,o, from Asbury Park, N. j. with his lamhy. eDpr
" Nrryork couple OF days last week. Chatting WIN
sr reporter he alluded to the fact that ne was
..r,ng hack to wisconsin to try law case anu. 10
".nnsrine that Mr. spooner had a wide ralroao 10"
,,ce his opinion was asked as to the raiio"" s"a"
ion. He replied: ..ooo. ia that
.Mv opinion, founded on wide experience 70 49,
hero is too much individuality in railroad
s,ootboders need protection from mHhssoi' -
v.r. which are demorazing to honest business 90
~ destructive of railroad properties, are o
sor, sometimes on the slightest provoeatoh, Vi -
an an imaginary pretext involving the loss " aua
NJ dollars and bringing about generai f,.,noa
public distress 1t is a dangerous power, 49,
which is lodged IN the management Oh faino
!. M Won believe then, in Governmental coh'roi,
-, a., soroe leeslaton If it can be Formulated
,cn while It will protect the people from UNJUST Viz
examinations and extortions shall protect inc =.
ara AGAINST the waste and loss OF needless ra.o wa"
a. ,h sub,ect which the Cullom Committee Is
with its problems Of the relative COST OF snoi' ~"
haus. rebates, openly advertised rates. ETC. -,
"What do you think OF the Ci'h o'i
this Administration u -. -. .ho,.r "a
,,stands the President by his oath on inaugurauon'
,ora "a administer He seems to have ehoea'oie" w Wv
an He has enlarged. think ana extehueo i's oP w.,
In one or two respects but he Is only opeynk ~"
passed by the Republican party ans, as DuSv"ar
erally opposed by his party Certainly the hePu'"o
4. NOT fairly geable with lack OF fealy 10 .ne
pncne Of civil Service reform have heard u statsu
that Georse thar snbect IN our last National platform
Whosyer drew It, he did not object 10 IL asr y
memory Is p ysar ago commended President Arthur IN
very warm terms for the course OF his H
orn seems to be rot the Democratic ana inc
Republican party so much as II Is a 70 he any sem
fluent in his party which warmly favors GIVE trS @
REFORM nor 1t reasonably TO De eHpec'eu iioi" "'
hstory and traditions OF the party m
How about offensive partisanshipF 49,. rov
don't know except that NAVE snT vote. could be
pnstered in Congress for bill that would draw the nne
Of eligibility 70 Oce at the pSint war %sTksa would make
sysry party newspaper editor ana EYER! on''' "
member Of political committee snsecb in ohio
"Ony portion 1t seems TO me that the force Oh
s sostS opsrstes to give to the southern white
voter undue power be broken by the cry OF Ie
bloody shirt not nOs settled 'I question il is
burning, living, vital issue-a Question Oh soy
osoe as he chooses and his be honestly
counted The talk that the negroes have become De a
Sslssates in the Republican National Convention at
Chicago believe there was not one Ia the Democrac
u was no place for them don't believe the
negro has abandoned the party OF Lincoln and Grant ana
Danyille and Copiah, we met nat uoniaL
We we're told that there had been no lhti n3s
lion of the = negro vote. When the man. Mead;
who presided over tho Copiah meeting. naa
nroeursd an appointment 10 office and his Identity was
disclosed his commission Withdrawn, thus CONFESS
Ing thai the charges had made were trne IL cahnot
be claimed that COpah County and the sentiment VIII
permitted and perpetrated the ourages therc on lne
snfraee is an exception the spirit or the sonth
on the subject Its the every where IN the SOUTH
though II may not everywhere be so violent Inc de-
fence OF the suffrage is the function OF the HspuDcah
party from which IL Will not be driven"
" What about OhiO's electiOnP' ., ~.
al know nothing OF course, about the stuatlon nut
I'm common with great many others think wono ue
national calamity John sherman TO be retired from
the United states Senate His marvellous experience,
great ability and level-headedness cannot be saIeiy
spared from the public councils" ..,.,
." What is your comment on the Administrator
at isn't time to speak OF that yet Inc most
iaughable thing in the Democratic outfit the appeal
for public confidence because few Republicans nave
been turned having into power on the CRY
OF Turn the raseals OUT. -.
what about confirming the PRESIDENTS appoint
mentsf" ~ -,
Al should not Ike to say anything about that Will
say this however that far ain concerned, tnere
win be deal any kind with any one TO Keep Tbs
or that Republican in Office at the OF some other
Republican whose Office is given to a Democrat