Iron County register., 1885-07-23
THE BOSTON SYMPOSIUM.


THE BOSTON SYMPOSIUM.
No wonder the Republican Party Ii APP
proaching Dissolution.
The success which attends President
Cleveland's Administration at every
step is causing such alarm in the Re-
publican mind that it disturbs the faith
full even at their love-feasts and causes
them to convert the napkin into a
bloody shirt Senator Logan was SO
agitated over it that when he was in
vited to dinner on Monday night in
Boston he did not venture to speah
without the aid of a carefully prepared
manuscript, which acted as an air-brake
on his naturally erratic 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 deliv-
cred in genuine Loganese than in the
dull ''platitudes and threadbare soph-
istries. Leading off with an allusion to
"a Shareholders mob" and the eman.
cipation of the negroes, very stale SUBJ
jects for this year of our Lord, 1885.
and rather perilous ones, considering
certain ugly features in Mr.. Logan's
record, the ex-tail of the Blaine ticket
lamented the fact that 'in the Southern
States, to-day, there are millions of
both white and colored people unable
to read or write," and insisted that
''this humiliation must be effaced,
without making any practical sugges-
ton how it was to be done.
The fact is that more has been done
in the South in the cause of education
since the emancipation of the people
from Republican carpet-bag rule than
would ever have been accomplished un-
der the Reconstruction regime. Then
he timidly unfolded corner 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, ''by
which mems rights can be secured that
they may be free men," One excellent
plan, he might have added. was to rid
the public service of the Lot Wrights
and Johnny Davenports. who materially
iIterfered with voters rights. He then
branched out into an unfamiliar subject
-Civil-Service reform-andlal although he
made the usual fraudulent claim that it
was the child of the Republican party,
he was fortunately tied down by his
prepared manuscript from indulging in
some of his characteristic remarks on q
theme as foreign to his nature aud rec
ord as honesty and consistency are to
his party. a9t 3
He sneered at offensive partisan
Ship" which has been always consid-
cred a virtue in Republican Office
holder. whose duty it was to be ready
at the call of the master to prostitute
his Office for the basest party ends.
This Mr.. Logan calls frivolous and
unjust charges against Republican in
cumbents as a justification for their re-
moval" The author of the manuscript
enlivened it with sly touch of humor
in remarking that the principles of the
Republican party, knocking at the
door of the conscience of the people,
will regain admission" 1t must have
cost Mr.. Logan an effort to restrain q
smile when he uttered this ''whopper. !"
He next assured his hosts that the Re-
publican party is not dead, although
they could not help being convinced
that it was far from being well and was
in the hands of doctors, whose present
course of treatment is calculated to de-
prive it of whatever life remains in it
Senator Hoar supplemented Senator
Logan's prepared remarks by claiming
for the Republican party the merit OF
the reforms instituted by President
Cleveland, mere repetition of the old
cry of last November. 1--WE claim every
thing!'' He made the extraordinary
assertion that while several very worthy
men have gone abroad, none of them
but would feel like crawling under the
table if discussion of the question
came up of complimenting this country
for having put down the rebellion. freed
the slaves and paid the National debt
so far. Did Mr.. Hoar wish to insult
the intelligence of his hearers by in
sinuating that the Democratic party had
no share in this work? Did he pur-
posely ignore the thousands Of Demo-
cratic soldiers who sealed their devotion
to the Union by their blood. and had
not Democratic taxpayers something to
do in paying off the public debt?
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge made an un-
fortunate allusion to. the navy which
the Democrats proposed to build up
after it was brought to its present pitt
able condition BY their predecessors.
Mr.. Asa French was shocked at the
presence of so many ex-rebels in Wash
ington, as If it were something unheard
of before the Democratic Administra-
ton came into power. At this assem-
blage, comprising the leading Republic
an spirits of Massachusetts,. there was
not solitary new idea advanced be-
yond the absurdities of the recent Ohio
Republican platform. The bloody shirt,
a claim on all the good measures intro
duced by President Cleveland and the
dead and buried questions of the war
form the entire stock in trade of the
Republican party East and West. Al
bany Argus. sA
-Rattlesnakes have two hinged
teeth, or fangs, which they project out.
ward in attack, which action frees a
poisonous liquid contained in small
sacks at the root of the teeth. The
bite OF common water, garter and mill
snakes is not poisonous, and black
snakes do not bite, but squeeze the
life from their prey. as does the anacon.
da--Denver Tribune.
Tin marrying, men show better
Judgment than women. In other things
women are ahead. May be women
should be educated in the art of marry.
ing. Idle curiosity fills the time Of
many, and the great majority OF pcopl.
never ask why they are in the world. =
The leader. of the Adventists has
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