The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-06-19

Fuller, of North Carolina, and w. W.
Murray, of Tennessee.
The way to reform abuses is to put an
end to them. Such evidently was the
opinion of Commissioner of Patents Nit
cbell when he issued his recent order
amending the rules of The Patent Office so
as to absolutely prohibit any attorney or
agent, who had been an employe OF that
Office, appearing in behalf of any applica-
ton upon which he had in any way acted
while a Government employee. The full
significance of this reform may be better
understood when it is known that for many
years Examiners in the PateKt office have
rejected thousands ofapplications, particu-
larly those from parties who they led
reason to suppose could not afford to put
up sufficient cash to appeal from the
Examiners decision, for no other reason
thar that they might afterwards, as attor-
neys, get a fee for getting the same allow
ed: thus, not only robbing the inventor to
the extent of the additional fee, bnt keep
ing him out of mis- patent unit, inmanycases,
it had become worthless on account of
later Inventions. In future Exami-
ners will have to decide applications solely
on their merits, and not as many of them
fortunately not all of them-have 50 long
done. with a view to their y future
profit.
Secretary Eos ter has by ne means lost
interest in Ohio politics since he entered
the Cabinet, and he has gone to Ohio to
assist in nominating a Republican candi-
| date for Governor, and he will also pro-
badly take advantage OF the gathering of
men from all sections of the State at til e
convention 20 put in some licks Tor s92, and
to find out how much danger there is for
the Republican party in the growth of a
| third party in the State.
Col. ". W. Dudley, who is usually
| classed as an anti Harrison man, hasn't a
! high opinion OF the recent anti-Harrison
gathering at indianapolis. He says of it:
They are acting like q lot Of fools. The
idea of their tying to do anything like
| IldA et2JNtGu tllO1NIlS OStl4t ttiC Scht biO
| The thing is not important or significant.
1t is simply a move of some of Gresham's
| friends to bring him out as a candidate
| There is always opposition to Mr.. Harrison
in Indiana. Whether that opposition is
strong enough at this time to prevent his
| getting the delegation no man can tell"
The Democratic view of The movement
was expressed by Elk. Representative Stock
lager, of Iudiana, nov here. IL says:
'there always has been considerable oppo-
| sition to Mr.. Harrison III Indiana, but the
Harrison people have the machiue, and
you know what that means in politi Is
Regardless Of the popular sentiment. hav-
ing the machine is apt to give Mr.. H~arrison
control Of the State delegation, but if he is
nominated [ do not think he can carry the
State in '02."
It is on the cards for the friends of SEN
ator German to make open war upon Mr..
| Cleveland, should he show any sigus of
crawling out OF the soup where the
| German people claim he now is.
Representative Mills is in town to remain
quite awhile, and he has sayagsly jumped
on the newspaper men who have been
printing interviews with him, and says he
has not been interviewed for months.
WESTON.