New-York tribune., 1886-02-10

To The D-NOCRATIC Ply.
Now II reform 10 be done for,
Pray tell us why It ever was begun for
Nour brand new Cabinet Uncle Sans unable
quite to distinguish from an Angean stable
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There is no more ptiabe sight in the world than
n droopng ambition hunting around for knot-hoe
10 crawl through.
morning contemporary prints the following
oersoual" card: a Day ls every to me. ana TO the
dear price. More objects are for you ana anxiety
f,- ,r,,r result. give complete silence The only
arrangement OF words that rivals this u dense IN
comprchcnsibility is by that well-known author oi
aphorisms g. Cleveland and roads, " Public oihce
Is a public trust
Monetary systems are like the weather What is
a perfect day for one man gives his ne.ghDOF the
govt.
These be straure stories that hear Of PROPOSE
,ion mad, by a member of Con gress TO investigate
Holman with relation to his tour OF inspection
among the Indian reservations Every body who
knows Holman. who recalls his face, very
sausage of honesty. who has listened to ms
stern voice lifted up in the cause OF Jeier-
souian economy. who has seen him place HIM
self in front of the Treasury doors and cry aloud TO
his aduIriug countrymcn, Fear not, good friends,
fear not Iour bun honest old man - here, -
those 10 whom such scenes are familiar well hho"
that IN, story Of Holman's summer junkct Is base
fabrication and that the man who prctends that
on, pl,in. homcspun Holman careened over the
prairics in a palace car that his lips qnaled OF
pouurry Sec and pdlled at choice Iavanas. that he
dtut visit any rescr, ations outside of Yellowstone
Park. Snlt Lake City aud san Francisco and worse
than all that he actually spent Sl5.oOo oil the
public money, must be a wholly drprared and reck-
less person. 1t is no proof 10 show that lie haSh
made any report and that he does not know any
more about Indians and rcseryat Ons now than be-
fore That good man Is not kept IN Congress ior
what he knows does, but solely aN living proof
of the fact that the voters of the lNth Con
grcs.iona District of Indiana are about the most
easily satisfied and supplemented citizens IN tho
world
The substitution of Goode for Garland in the tele-
phone suits was but clumsy device. What tool ~
40 dull as not to that Garland pulls the string
which works GOode
The presence of n workngman in Gladstone's 3
ministry greatly shocks the DucheSses OF Bedford
ana Westminster. and they decline on that account
10 accept the Prcmiers appointments to the house
hold OF tho Queen. The hostility OF the peeresses
will probably bother the Workngmen but little
bnt let the pecresscs tremble when the workingmen
turn the tables and pronounce against theu. In
these davs the fact that states can get along lar
better without an aristocracy than without nborers
is established.
The telephone scandal is somewhat like malaria
II is not in the Attorney Generals Office. nor IN the
Interior Department close by, nor in The Executive
Mansion but little further on-h some ol tho
newspaper oihceSI
The President not long ago went out of his way
to rebuke the American Press for It's alleged habits
of scurrilous defamation. His personal organs are
now representing him making most reckless
statements about the venality and corruption OF
New-York journals. Is the President on any higher
level than the most hardened organ OF political
defamation when he allows his confidential friends
to use his name as the authority iOr Wahtoh ana
wicked charges against reputable Journals-whch
they challenge and defy him 10 provef
The laws gravitaion have drawn the Rogerses into
tho Fell caual. The buies, the humbuSs. the frauds
and tho inohopolsts aro gathered uhIer oIS ona anu
aIrayed against them are the peoples rights, common
decency. law and equity. more monstlons ahd ihpu'
dent conspiracy IMAM tha III WhlCn tno bo.i PooPo @ M
engaged was never organized ny human craiI Dut
II Is confronted by power thaI KNOWS no roar
ington Post
We have been wondering what disposition the
Administrations apolOgIsts would make of the
Rogers family. The cider Rogers Is the Attorney
Generals benofactOr as well as cOparcencr, having
given him ~ 300 900 IN various telephone stocks.
lie was also one OF Mr. Garlands prOmpteSt III not
most discreet defenders when the original expos
ures occurred last autumn. rho Democratic press
for some occult reason have printed that re-
markable defence of Mr.. Garland aud have persist
entity overlooked the claims of Rogers and son.
But now the silence has been broken. That terrible
Bell monopoly has actually got control of the
Rogers family I'm their stronghold vt Parthonon
Heights. Rogers and father arc now swallowed up
in the Bell cabal and the next we know The Wash
iagoR Post will be asserting that the celebrated
letter to The TRIBUNE written by one of those
INSCRIPTIONS Bell lawyorsl
According to the fashion editor of The Boston
Transcript u tailor at the Hub has Just completed
oyercoat for which he is paid 1000. That is a
good deal OF money to eXpend on II single garment,
but no doubt Mr.. Garland would be willing to give
ton times that for robe Of righteousness
warranted to cover his Pan Electric nakodness.
II the Government suit shall ba successful II Will
simply revoke Bell patent because born or fraud.
give patent Elisha Gray, or 10 may settle the
fact alleged, that Tho principle OF thn telephohe
known aud applied before the claims OF elther Bell
Gray, Meucc eiss aud Others and that there can
be monopoly by any In its use. hsyOklug the Boil
patent giving II to Gray, would not benent the Pan
patent should be refused TO ALL the public would profit
millions thereby without special advantage 10 the fan
Electric any other oompany.-lrhe Philadelphia
Times.
Why, then, did the Pan-Eectro people apply
first to the Attorney General aud subsequently to
the Solicitor General for the Governments inter-