Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-06
WATCH OHIO.

WATCH OHIO.
 Persons who find pleasure ih watching the kaleidoscope of politics should keep their eyes fixed ou Ohio where a very interesting and exciting battle has already begun as result of the senate's rejection of Editor Halstead as minister to Berlin. MT Halstesd is man who doesn't quite understand the meaning of .be vyo7 deceat. n his lexicon there Is no such word as surrender. and he has begun to whoop 'e', u)'' in lively style for his enemies.
 Whether. II, Hslstead is ambitious of securing a seac in he United States senate himself, Or whether he proposes to have himself elected governor of Ohio, one ching is certain: he has no thought of letting up on the men who prevented him from going abroad. He has begun to let daylight in, through his Comme- cial Gazette, on Cbeir public his ,ory. and : its columns furnish some mighty in5e-. 1 esting reading 5hese days. Beginning 1 with Senator Evarts, who spoke apd | voted against confirming MT Halstead, he says 5hat while secretary of stste under President Hayes he ':threa 5ened the Diaz government in Mexico with non- recognition at the hands of the United States unless General Diaz would , agree that certain railroad grap;s .hat had been made by ,.,e JCarez government to raino - elt, iI,fN Nf,. orSc r., r. I,o /, confirmed to them.'' IL adds. too, that i ''the knowledge of the methods by which the repuolicsn caucus in New Work was saiG 70 ha.< oeen purchased 10 support Mir Evarts' election to the senate ! was held over his head y Coal Oil dem- oci a S to compel hin to vote, as he dld, Ill opposition to an investigation of the Psyne co1&a'ptiol.'' The Commercial Gaze. hits Senalo- lnSa,,s unde1 the fiftn "i oy Gey;ng O." ais .ea son fot voting 2 ainst S et ioor t,la5 ''a fellow feeling m; kea us wouG- ovs kind hi.> own elec- tion having been '':s :nted by bribery end co uption," wi h the ss me defense as Senatol Payne's-shat he C'idnt know of t.. Senator Plumb is touched up with ex ,scys from a eport of a con-
 nittee of the = o. tv-tnird congress ia,pli- c; ing ,im, when 9, D oyost marshal ;l Gbe army, i'd he robbery of a citizen of Missouri of live stocn: oiled at $G50, bCG iov which he w.s to receive only $50 and actually got nothing. Senator Iellel is charged wtu having s,sued and I al, >c 1>ss as sec, elary of tvle ia,e-ior "pe tents for an enormous quantity of unearned rail- road land,'' with reipsta5iug swindling pension attorneys and with holding as senator relations to the loboy." And Senator Dawes is reminded of his alleged connection with the Credit Mobilier scandal
 l As One reads the Commercial Gazette these days with a realizing sense that it is leading republican journal he must feel a solemn conviction that everything isn't lovely and the goose doesn't hang high in the republican party. "When t..le wine is in the wit is out'' is an old oloverb that in the Halstead csse might be paraphrased to ''When 3be dander is Up the truth is out" Morar Aalstesd as 2 leading republican editor. g. a shining light io the republican paety and a mighty powe: io its coursels enjoyed ex- ceptional opportunities for knowing the true inwaId-less of republican political methods, and when he lets the cat out of the bag it may be expected to jump With tue fsiskiness.
 AS a whole the democratic party can cast its weather eye in the direction of Cincinnati and as it takes in the squalls that darken the horizon of its ancient antagonist can enjoy the situation as only democrats can. There is. truly, a good deal of solid fun lying around for democrats just now.