The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-30
HOWLlNG AT DEMOCRACY.


Failing to Injure the President, RepuI-
Iican Hounds Fierceiy Attack the Adj
ministration and Stink into TER
Holes.
The friends of honest government,
who have watched with interest the
course of the Democratic Administra-
ton, can not but be particularly i'm
pressed by the venomous character of
the opposition. The work of reform
has been fought at every point,
and the batteries of SANDER and
Misrepresentation have not been idle
for a moment. The enemies of
the Administration resemble a pack of
hounds ia full cry, always on a
false scent, but none the less persistent
in their work. They brayed at the Presi-
dent until even their threats became
hoarse, and desisted for a time only
when they found that they were adj
ding UNNECESSARILY to his popularity.
Every thing that malice could suggest
and hatred furnish was set forth in the
columns of the coyote journals. some
of which put on the disguise of De-
mocracy to render their attacks the
more deadly, to injure the President
in the estimation of the public. But
Mr.. Cleveland was proof against all
assaults. and the disgust of the public
towards his asSailants was so plainly
manifested that many of them gave up
the fight in despair. Then they en-
deavored to injure the Administration
by attacking each member of the Cab
met in turn. The Secretary of the
Navy was for time the object of their
combined assaults because he chose,
in the interest Of honest government,
to cleanse the department from the
corruption and knaverY which pre-
vailed in it from the days of Robesor
and to drive away the band of thieves
who had so long been robbing the
Government under the pretense of re-
pairing old ships and fulfilling con-
tracts obtained by fraud.
The misleading statements of the re-
duction of the public debt, by which
Republican Administrations were en-
ablcd to make a favorable showing be-
fore the people, were SO completely eX-
posed by the new form adopted by the
Democratic Administration of the
Treasury Department. truthful, COM
prehensive, Ineligible and business
like statement, that the coyote pack
turned savagely on the department,
ceaSing from their attacks only when
they found how utterly fruitless they
were. The firm stand taken by the
PostmaSter-General against the dicta-
ton of the Pacific Mail lobby drew on
him for time the fury of the bowling
pack, the lobby acting as whippers-in.
Then their venom and malignity were
displayed against Acknowledgement
Garland, whose high reputation and
sterling integrity formed al inseparable
barrier to their efforts against the Law
Department of the Administration.
Here again they were foiied by the
manly, straightforward, explicit ex-
PLANTATION of the telephone business
by Mr.. Garland. an explanation which
fully acquitted him in the estimation
of all fair-minded citizens from the
lying charges brought by the enemies
of the Administration. On Secretary
Lamar's department the most deter
mined attack was made. The Pension
Bureau was such valuable adjunct to
the Republican National Committee
during the campaign of 1884, when
that Jealous, INSCRIPTIONS partisan,
Dudley, was in command of it, that the
enemies of honest government could
not permit the sweeping reforms insti-
tuted by the gallant Union veteran,
General Black, Kidding the bureau OF
the corruption and fraud with which it
was permeated, pass without an exhi-
bitiOn of their venom. They had
traded upon the most sacred feelings
of the American people, their gratitude
towards the saviors of the Union, so
long and found it 50 convenient to pay
off political debts by filling the pension
list, with the names of people who had
no right or title to pensions, that they
tiercely resented the Interference of
General Black with their Schemes
A!6Gny argus.