National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1886-03-27
breakfast Table Letter to the President.


great senatorial debate concerning your right
to dictate what papers in public repositories
of the government shall be accessible to Con.
gress, Republican senators eau justly claim
the palm Of victory. It was noticeable that,
throughout the discussion, you were treated
with great frankncss and equal courtesy. All
these speeches will be read by the people and
should receive your most considoratc attcn.
ton. II was evident that Democratic senator's
appreciated the keen thrusts of the Damascus
blades of such mon as Edmunds, Evarts, In
gals, Harrison, and Logan, when they held
up to the light Of day the secret workings of
your offensive partisan policy as executed by
your Postmaster General, and their utter ami
hilation of everything that had a senblancc
of foundation to rest upon, in law, In reason,
or fair dealing between man and man.
The best political speech on tho Democratic
side was delivered by the young senator from
KennO you are most indebted for Dem ocratic
support, In q contest that has proved a Water
loo to the Democracy.
The best thing, under tho circumstances
that the administration can do is to have Post.
master General Wins hire dray and invite
Garland and Lamar to rcpurchase the old
vermont horses which they sold with such a
flourish of trumpets at the opening of the adj
ministratlon, and transport a load of letters
concerning fourth.class postmasters to tho
capitol, and dump them into the room of tbs
judiciary committee. Senator Harrison, ofln'
diam, will know what use to make of ttem
Ingolls's singing, stunning arnignment
would make good reading ~ the next
Democratic convention. E'munds Is bet
ter adapted for Cabinet, ss he thinks there
Is but one member Who is fit for presl'
Dental adviser of q .sivil service reform ad-
ministration Lorln hit the hardest blow, for
he furnished tbl proof that you appointed bad
men TO Office and knew 1t when you did it,
and that you are now playing the role Of
Cusrr, for which he predicted that your
hoji on power would be as short as the coh-
aitution would allow.
The slandormlll invented by Villas ia already
odious with the American people, and tho pres.
ent debate has stirred up the stencil so that
nothing short of powerful disnfectant will
purify the atmosphere sufficiently to Justify
congressional conventions this fall to indorsc
tho grip of the throne upon the public papers
in the shape of afIidavits, or reconcile the con.
nict of opinion on silver, the tariff, reform, the
Offices and the Mississippi massacre.
Don't you WISH Mr.. President, that you had
followed the example of Washington in the
Fishborn case? The people have an idea that
George, in his time, was patriot, aud as your
name commences with G, they would have
hopes Of Grover, were 1t not for those six
wicked Democratic Cabinet officers to whom
Senator Edmunds referred.
It's all very we'll, however, to complain
| OF n President, but let any of our sovereign
citizens run the gauntlet from mayor to gov
crnor, and governor TO President, all in iouI
years, especially if their knowledge of the ma
tonal capital had been limited, like yours
to steamed oysters, and see If they could dc
| better.
Most OF these senators who have been crltl
c!sing your acts have been long enough In
| public life to become statesmen; none of them
| would have failed, however, to have issued q
| proclamation denouncing the recent Mlssls
| siopi outrage.
Sixty thousand colored men could emigratl
from Mississippi 10 Florida, TENNESSEE, West Vir
| ginia, and Missouri, where they would be per
| mitted to exercise the franchise, engage in tn
pursuit of happiness, and receive the rewards
honest labor, and thereby change thirty-eigh
| electoral votes. The oolored men of thl
country can organize and do this themselves
II without the white man or his money, anC
\ what is better they are determined to do it.
The special telegram which was published
in this paper yesterday morning, giving an in
i teryiew with ex-senator Mcdonald, of In
diana, furnishes q warning that the western
Democracy are organizing to elect House O
Y Representatives that will be hostile to you
administration. Your only protection is in tn
large amount Of patronage you have on hand
They all love pap They learned this natural
as they sucked their mothers breast. Civil
service will do to swear by, but the pap vii
do to live by. ThGss The reason trhy they sur
port you in debate now but will oppose you il
conventions hereafter.
Mr.. President: The sudden illness of secrC
tary Manning is national sorrow in whic
you share most keenly, as he is pillar {
strength to your administration and a persona
friend whose council and support you can i'll
afford to lose in this trial hour, which need
both wisdom and irmess,
The NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,.