Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-06-11

conducted than they had supposed. and
so faithfully and economically that they
have not been able to get along without
the aid of the Republican officers pre-
yiously in charge of the different branch
es of the service.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette: Per-
sons who suppose Blaine or Sherman is
disturbed about the popular feeling for
General Logan, that broke out after his
election to the Senate, lack some shades
of understanding.
New York Herald: We advise Mr..
Cleveland to tell Hanna to go home: he
is not fit for any diplomatic position.
Mr.. Bayard made himself ridiculous by
offering to send him to Persia. lie
may have meant it as joke, but if So
it was a very bad joke. 1t would be no
joke at all, but shameful abuse of the
appointing power, 10 send Hanna to
the Argen tine Republican anywhere
else, in fact-to represent the United
States in any capacity whatever.
La Crosse Republican,: The present
national administration is apparently
forming museum of relies of treason
and mementoes of the Lost Cause
The latest contribution to this cabinet
of curiosities has been made by Secre-
tary Lamar, who has appointed as
Waterman and messenger, in his de-
partment, man named Jordon This
same Jordon was personal messenger
to jeff Davis when secretary of war,
and was afterward appointed a private
messenger by Jacob Thompson, of I'M
savery fame when secretary of the in
terror.
Milwaukee Sentinel: The organ Of
the administration at the capital. The
Washington Post, mournfully SAYS:
1--WE can conceive of no political crime
more dastardly than, for the sake Of
some private emolument, to take adj
vantage of the manifold perplexities
that surround the executive and belay
him into errors for which he and not
his betrayers will be held accountable.
Yet senators, representatives and 9TH
ers of high standing who might be
named, have been guilty of this fraud
and deception, this veritable treason.
But what shall be said of party whose
leaders are guilty of such thingsa 1t
looks rather like pleading ''the baby
| act to attempt to shield the president
from the responsibility of blunders, by
| attributing them to senators and repre-
sentatives whose names are not given.
La Crosse Republican and Leader:
Editor Horn, of the Cedarburg News,
is haunted by suspicion that the dis
pensers of Democratic pap have been
using him as door-mat. In the last
| campaign he made himself exceedingly
unanimous aud omnipresent. If Dem
ocracy needed champion to defend
any political absurdity. Editor Horn
was the first to volunteer. If a politi-
cal burglary was to be committed. Edi-
tor Horn put on the mask of Reform.
seized the dark-lantern of ''fne work. -
and was ready for midnight excursion.
He was the swift Mercury, the never
| firing Hercules, the Argus with hun
dred eyes. His acknowledgements dubbed
him ''the Louis Napoleon of the party
in Wisconsin. But on the entrance of
his party into the promised land, Editor
Horn seems to have been forgotten.
His eyes were longingly fixed on the
United States Marshalship at Milwau-
kee, and the flattering mention of his
country exchanges kept his cup of
hope trimming full. But that hope
was only "the baseless fabric of vis-
ion. y General West was the man who
got the plum. Editor Horn is seeming
~ calm; no reverberating echoes Of
profane Horn disturb the silent air of
Cedarburg. But he is said to some
times murmur suspicion that Mr. West
was little better than Mugwump; that
his Democracy was not the real thing.
but veneer, as it WERE Editor Horn
has been walked upon. He is door
mat. He is sad