The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-11-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. c.,
Nov TX 1884

H w ION L. Ny Il
Nov. Is, 1886. |
Every day now Senators and Rep
are coming in from their
recent battle fields. A few members
elect Of the Fiftieth Congress are here
too, and have visited the House just
to see how it looks. A lively time is
expected from now until the first
Monday in December, when Congress
meets. Members who are not re-
elected will be trying to get their best
work in shape, a great deal of wire
pulling will be going OH, and the ses-
sion is expected to open up actively
whether much business will be &C.
complished ornot.
Democratic Senators express them
selves as thoroughly satisfied with the
outcome of the elections, and consider
the party in good shape for 1888.
They agree hat the Democrats did
not go to the polls as they might have
done, but where the Democratic votes
came out, the Democratic party more
than held its own. They retain a
good working majority in the House.
and in States where the Legislatures
have TO elect new Senators the effect
of the elections will reduce, if not re-
verse, the Republican majority in the
Quilted States Senate.
Should it prove true that the DEM
ocrats have captured the legislatures
of New Jersey, Indiana and Califor-
mia, as'is now believed, the Republi-
cans in the Senate of the next Con-
gress will hold the majority only by
tho do,,rrorNy,,txy ,orr0 ,,orpp IF
two. These will be Senator Riddle
berger of Virginia and probably Van
Wyck of Nebraska, neither of whom
is in harmony with the Republicans,
and both of whom are uncertainties
when it come to voting.
But, however this may be, there is
no disappointment among Democratic
politicians with the campaign. They
expected nothing better in an off year,
and the few Democratic losses are in
no wise prophetic of defeat in 1888.
On the contrary, it is thought, they
will serve a good purpose by showing
the necessity of organization and har-
m%oniOus action in the Presidential
battle.
The Republican press, in its deter
~ SotitACIuti CNCt Lille III
der the new Administration, has ut
tered a great deal of abuse about the
manner in which Commissioner
Sparks has managed the affairs of the
Land Office. They have expatiated
on the outrageous hardships he has
imposed upon the "honest settler" up
on the public domain, and the vast in
jury he has done to the present Ad-
ministration by his policy. A most
significant answer to these charges
came through the last weeks elections
In the very States and Territories
where the effects of Mr.. Sparks de-
%cisions and rulings are particularly
and Immediately felt, there were re.
markable and unexpected Democratic
gains, and the voting was done by
these same much injured, shonest set
tiers"
Another excellent record of re.
trenchment comes from a Govern.
ment Bureau. since it went into Dem.
ocratic hands. 1t is that of Engraving
and Printing, where all the paper
money, all the postage stamps, and al
the stamps of every kind used by the
Government + made. The total ex'
penses of this Bureau are more than
100000 less this year than last, and
less than in any year since-1S78 Tit
same work is accomplished with ,
greatly reduced force of employees
1913 persons having been discharged
since March, 1885. The amount saved
from their salaries and for labor ant
other expenses, makes an aggregate
saving of $1S2,7S5, which will be re,
turned to the Treasury unused.
The President is at work on hi
message now, and will decline to re
ceive any moro promiscuoms private
callers until Congress meets. WheI
he alluded, at Boston 10 the ''silly
mean, and cowardly lies that arr
found in the columns OF certain news
papers, which violate every instinc
of American manliness," he had ref
erence to the barbaI III gossip which
deluges the occupants of the Whit,
House. The allegation of the Tribun,
that, "What CALLED him was the public
criticism of his official acts" wa
quite unfair and uatruthful. Mr.
Cleveland has never objected to an!
sort of criticism of his official acts
whether decent or otherwise. Wha
has disguised him in the determine
ton, of what he carefully calls "cer
tain newspapers that he shall no
have any private and domestic life o
his own: that the walls of his HON,
shall be made of glass, and that al
that transpires behind them shall b,
reported in some form, if not correct
ly, then invented. His utterance viii
probably not do any good, for tn
"certain newspapers" to which he oil
ludes live on fictitious sensations
and would cease 10 exist were they t,
abstain. Juno.