Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-10-02
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. C, Sept 50. 1890
No matter what else Reed has done
he is certainly responsible for the hap
pening of some of the most disgraceful
scenes that ever disgraced the American
congress. Loud and foul language
such as would not be tolerated in any
concert hall. free and disgusting fist
fights with both principals republicans,
and resorts to petty tyranny on the
part of the speaker which would call q
halt to any European monarch with
any kind of legislature, and lastly,
locking up the representatives of the
people as if they had perpetrated a
crime, instead of endeavoring to pre-
vent one, and these things, and more
have occurred, and been repeated, until
the national legislature has become one
of which Tom Reed is proud but every
other American citizen is heartily
ashamed. 1t is said that history
repeats itself but in this case, although
with equal tyranny, the relations are
opposite, for Cromwell locked his par
lament out while Reed locks his repre-
sentatives in.
After all the sound and fury emitted
by Mckinley and his crowd they have
walked into the conference room on the
tariff and quietly but witln WY face.
swallow the reciprocity amendment.
Again. therefore. has Blaine proved
tnat he is the master of the republican
party. and Reed and his gang are biting
their lips in rage because where the
must all play the second fiddle or not
play at all. 1t viii be remembered
that but a few short weeks ago these
same men were affirming that the tao
iff could go to- ''the demnition bowwows-
before Blaine should hypnotiZe them
with the reciprocity fiction. The deed
has been done, however, and Mckinley
will soon be shouting the Blaine recip-
rocity program with all the vigor of q
late convert.
While thinking of Blaine it comes to
mind that he is enla-ging his dining
room ard making other repairs to his
residence in this city preparatory to q
season of brilliant entertainments in
which reciprocity Is to be doomed for
all it is worth. The secretary intends
to exert and display all his adroit and
popular talents to make the business a
success, as he well knows that failure
to meet the peoples expectations siE
put the laugh on Blaine
A large party went down FROM this
city to Annapolis to watch the nasal
people exhibit the skill with which they
can knock the British war ships TO
pieces. even with our six-inch improved
guns, the smallest of the lot the governs
-ment is turning out. They didn g
have a British ironclad 30 shoot at so
average thickness of ship armor and
blaZed away at that. AS tho said
plates were somewhat demoralized at
the fighting distance, it seems some
what reasonable to the naval experts te
say that if a foreign ironclad be moored
up TO within thirty feet of one of our
coast defenses, after we get one, why,
if the said ironclad was left there long
enough something would very likely
happen to it, or our fort. As IS is.
however, in the absence of any war
ship, it was one of the most beautiful
and perfect tests ever conducted 10y our
modern navy.
The treasury people claim that they
have knocked the panic in the head.
1t is victory, though, from the like OF
which Secretary Window prays ever 10
be saved as it pretty nearly rifled the
treasury of all its spare change. In
the opinion of leading men here, The
! secretary had not SO much to do with il
as the popular favor with which the
admission was received that the iniqui-
! ties of the new tariff would not be per
petrated earlier than February next.
A. b. s.