The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-23
THE BOSTON SYMPOSIUM.
NO Wonder the Republican Party Is AP
preaching Dissolution.


NO, Wonder the Republican Party Is APP
preaching Dissolution.
] The success which attends President
Cleveband's Administration az every
step Is causing such alerm' in she Re-
publican mind that it disturbS the faith
/ full even at their love-feaSts and causes
them to convert the napkin into \
bloody shirt. Senator Logan was SO
sgitatedi over it that when hs vas in
vited to- dinner on Monday night in
/ Boston he did not venture to speak
without the aid of carefully-Drepared
manuscript, which acted rs an air-brake
/ on his naturally erratie- OratOry. He
/ feared the effect of one of his pictur-
esque OutburSts on the conservative
minds around the board and he gener-
ously refrained from letting himself
loose on them in English ''as she is
/ spoke" according to Logan. We doubt.
however, if;he would not have produced
( a greater effect were his speech Geliv-
cred in genuine LOganese' shan in the
dull platitudes and threadbSre sOph-
istrieS. Leading off with an,allusion to
"a shareholders mob and the eman-
cipatiOn Of the negroes, very stale sub
iects for this year OF our Lord, 1885,
/ and rather perilOuS ones, considering
certain ugly features in Mr.. Logan's
recO-d, the eX-tail of the Blaine ticket
| lamonted the fact that lin the Southern
States, TO-DAY. there are millions of
/ both white and colOred peOpl,r unable
/ to .ead or write" and insisted that
''this humiliation must be effaced,"
without making any practical sIgges-
/ tor how it was to be done.
The fact is that more has beer done
in the South in the cause of education
since the emancipation of the people
from Republican carpet-bag rulo than
! would ever have been accomplished un-
der the Reconstruction regime. Then
| he timidly unfolded conner of the
bloody shirt from the next page of his
manuscript in limiting that some citizens
were hindered from exercising the. right
of suffrage. There ought to be. some
way" argued the Western orator; ''Dy
| which mems rights can be Sc -ured that
/ they may be free men" One excellent
plan, he might have added, was, 10 rid
the public service of the Lot;N rights
and Johnny DavenpOrts. who materially
iLterfered with vO5erS' rights He then
branched out into an unfamiliar subject
| -Civil-Service reform -andhlthough he
made the usual fraudulent claimi chat it
was the child of the Republican parry,
he was fortunately tied down ~ his
prepared manuscript from indulging in
some OF his characteristic remarks on q
theme as foreign to his nature and rec
ord as honesty and consistency are to
his party.
He sneered at Offensive partisan
ship which has been: always consid-
cred a virtue i'll a Republican office
holder. whose duty it was to be. ready
at the call of the master to prostitute
his office for the basast partN ends.
This Mr.. Logan calls frivolous and
unjust charges against Republican in
cumbents as "a Justification for Their re-
movaL" The author of thomauuscrpt
enlivened itwith IA sly toNeh of aumor
in remarking.that the prinotple of the
Republican party, knocking st the
door Of the conscience of the people.
will regain admission" 1t must have
cost Mr.. Logan an effort to, reStra n
smile when he uttered this ''whopper.
He next assured his hosts thai the Re-
publican parry is not dead. although
they could not help being convinced
that it was far froLE,beingr well and was
in the hands OF doctors. whose present
course of treatment is calculated to de-
prive it oflwhatever life remains in it.
Senator Hoar- supplemented Senator
| Logan's prepared remarks by claiming
foJ the Republican party the merit OF
the reforms instituted BY President
Cleveland. a nere repetition OF the old
cry of last:November: 1--WE e4aim every
thingW He made the extra ordinary
assertioH,that whilesseVeral 1ery worthy
men have gone. abroad none of th"m
but wouldfeel like,crawliDg under the
table if, 81 discussion OF the question
came.up of.o1mplimenting this country
for having put down the re0elllon. freed
the slaves and paidltis, National debt
so far. Dbl Mr. Hsau wish to insult
the. in nelligeAce, OF his bearers by in
sinusting that theDemOeratic party had
no Share. ia this work? Did he pur-
posely ignore.tfte thousands of Demo-
cratic solIiers wh0ssaled their devc tion
to. tie Union hx their blood. and had
I. not Demo 5ratic taxpayers something to
do IN paying off the p&olic debt?
Mr.; Henry Cabot Lodge made IN un-
fortunate allusian to the navy which
tina. Democrats, proposed to bunld up
ater icWas- brought 10 its pres sRt pitt
able. condition, by their predecessors.
Dir: Asa French was shockes3 at the
eresesce of 30. nsany ex-rebels N Wash
ingtcn. as II il wero somethinSsunhearSs
l of before. the Democratic A Eministra--
tom come into power. At this assenr.
blageA comprising the lead ng Republic,
an spirits OF Massachusetts. there vas
net q solitary new idea ADVANCED be,
yoThd the ahsurditie of tbs recent Ohio,
Republican platform. The, bloody Shirt,
. claim on all the good measures intro.
Gucef by President Cleyslan sad the
dead and buried questions cf the. Dr.
form the entire stock in trade of the.
Republican party East and Wese-AL-
bang argus.
-Rattlesnakes have txo hinged
teeth, or fangS. whis sh they project out
ward in attack, waich action frees a
poisonous liquid contained in small
sasks ut the root of the tech, The
te OF common water, garter and milk
SNAKES is not poisonous. ana black
snakes do not bite. but sg9eezs the
life from their prey, as docs the anaeon.
da--DenUer Tribune.
I'm marrying, men show better
| ind s'ment than women. In other things
women are anead- May be women
should beeducated in the art of marry-
Ing. Idle curiosity fills the time of
manv, an6 tho 0reas USeioritv of naonla