The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1885-01-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
from Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, DC,
January 10, 1885.

January 10, 1885.
Not the least of the beneficial re-
suits to grow out of a change in the
administration, is that of a partial
return to the Republican simplicity
of 8 bygone and better age. In other
words, l believe that snobbery is to
be snubbed by Mr.. Cleveland, and
the excessive prudishness that Of
late years has obtained at the White
House and Washington society gen
orally, is to be frowned upon and
discountenauced. 1t may takeha
good daaloffrrness and no neon
siderable amount of fortitude to with
stand the fulsome blandish rents of
this Capital life, but from what I
know of Nj. Cleveland, and of those
who are to compose his immediate
household, 1 a assure the people
of the United States that there will
be a most wholesome change for the
better. Society here is unlike that
of any other part Of the country OF
the world, from the fact that official
station is the open sesame to the
highest ranks, even though it be &C
companied by the coarsest manners
or absolute buffoonery. A bureau
officer with a salary of$2,000 year,
with a wife who has been habituated
to the wash-tub every Monday since
her wedding day, is just as much
swollen up with aristocratic pride as
the premier of the Cabinet, and his
demands upon society ten times
more exacting. Even Hayes, who
occupied the White House during
Mr.. Tilden's term, caused some
thing of a reform in the social man
ners there, and established a sort oil
plane of decency that might we'll be
cited for example. 1t was the n re
deeming feature of the Hayes dy.
nasty.
The Chief Justice of our Supreme
Court get ten thousand five hundred
dollars per year, while the Associate
Justices receive ten thousand dollars,
The five hundred dollars addition is
not because of the additional dignity
that attaches to the position, but be-
cause the Chief Justice really does
more work than any If his brethren.
For instance, all the motions tina.
are made in court on motion day
Monday,) have to be considered and
determined upon by the Chief Jus
tice alone, besides which he is ex
pected to bear his full share Of the
other work of the court.
In the matter of the writing and
delivery of the opinions of the court
there is as much variance in stha
manner of these nine Judges as one
could possibly conceive. While
Stanley Matthews and Harlan are
verbose, and exhaust both the law
and the patience of the court in the
reading of their opinions, Gray.
Blatcbtord, Bradley and Miller ar
rive directly at the point and strike
the marrow of the issue involved
without circumlocution or other judi
cial travail. Justice Gray particu
larly must be cited as an exception
to the rule of those Judges who reac
their opinions from manuscript, be
cause. although his opinions arr
written, they are delivered off hand
in an easy conversational style tina
gently les down the litigants on bott
sides. Justice Field cannot be sale
q be much of a jurist, although III
acquired something of a reputation
as a railroad lawyer. In fact a frs
class lawyer will not go on the bencl
when his own practice is worth any
where from two to five times the sal
airy paid to a Supreme Court Judge
At the time that Mr.. Conkling wa
offered the Chief Ju~sticeship b,
President Grant, he peremptorily re
fused and told the President that h
had at that moment a ca5e in which
the retainer was larger than the sal
AIRY of the Judge for a whole year.
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