Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-03-10
CHAMP CLARk'S LETTER
Democrats Will Capture
the Next Congress.
AND WIN THE PRESIDENCY.
Republicans Are All Split Up
the Back.
RESTLESS UNDER REEDS RULE.

RESTLESS UNDER REEDS RULE.
Only .Equaled by Their Zeal In the
Service of Trusts and Corporations-At
Loggerheads Over the Civil Service, d.
vided on Cuba, Split on Currency and
h Tariff An Entertaining Character
Sketch of Chairman Dingley Senator
Thurston's Break.
Especial Washington letter.
Carthage delenda est (" was the q "
sgely prophetic sentence with which
Cato concluded all his speeches in the
Roman senate, no matter what the SUBJ
ject.
His revengeful prediction was fulfill
ed, and the proud city Of Hamilcar and
Hannibal was RACED to the ground.
Patriots who Long have prayed for the
destruction Of the Republican party
should be of good cheer, for it now
presents the appearance of a d~issolying
view.
If we stand together, we will capture
the next congress and clean the whole
platter in 1900, but 1t will require unit
ed and systematic action, for we have to
fight "the cohesive power of public
plumber" wholesale bulldozing by PAM
pered trusts and unlimited Doodle.
Republican Appetite.
The only thing on which Republicans
are agreed is the desire for office. They
are hungry-very hungry. The anacon-
da after his six months fast is not q
circumstance to them.
They ~sorrowfully ponder Lincoln's
sad plant as to the superabundance Of
pegs and the woeful scarcity Of holes to
put them in. Jefferson said, Federal
ofhceholders seldom die and never re-
sign" The only thing that will induce
a Republican to willingly let loose of
the public teat is a better paying place
in some corporation such as that with
which Jay Gould hired Judge Dillon to
resign his United States circuit Judge
ship and with which the Santa Fe rail.
road hired Judge MoCrary to give up a
life place on the bench. After serving
corporations secretly in congress Repub-
licans take to their open service natural
ly as ducks take to water.
The Republican appetite is abnormal
and appalling, knocking into smither-
Gems the theory that universal and un-
preoedented Prosperity, with q big, big
P, is right upon us.
Republicans in their mad rush for the
pie counter crush each other as ruthless
ly as a lot Of stampeded Texas steers.
They remind me of al acquaintance Of
my youth who had what the doctors
called enlargement of the stomach. "
No amount of grub could satisfy him,
and he ate all sorts with impartial raw
enousness.
Republican statesmen out of a Job
grab every piece Of pie, great or small.
One Missouri ex-congressman wanted to
be fourth assistant postmaster general
"headsman in chief" Failing that, he
after a civil service commits
That being too big for him, |
he pleaded for "any old'' consulate.
Even that being denied him, he was
happy in securing the postmastership Of
his Owl town, on the theory that "any
port is good in a Storm or that ''half q |
loaf is better than 10 bread" He re-
calls tho fictitious character IN JACK.
time who demanded a foreign en-
bassy and compromised on an old pair
boots.
just why Republican ex-oficeholders
go to work is a mystery. They
must think they are too good to labor
like common morta1s.
Republicans Split Up the Back.
Much depends on the point Of view. |
Those who judge from the successful |
manner in which Nh. Reed rounds up
the Republicans on roll call that they
dwell together in unity as brethren
should would change their opinions
suddenly could they hear these same
who are 8 unanimous
and so meek under the eye Of the speak
er, curse the roof off the house and
consign him to the hottest hole in hades |
when in the security of the cloakrooms. |
When a child, I used to hear the me-
groes sing this doggerel:
Beauty is but skin deep-ugly to the bone;
Beauty fades away, but ugly holds its own. !
Republican harmony is but skin deep |
exceedingly thin skin at that-while
heir differences are to the bone.
They are in precisely the same plight
We were in during the evil days of
1s93-4-at loggerheads generally.
Agreed only in appetite for office, as
loon as they have gobbled them all, like
'annibals they will turn and eat each
Even in the method Of getting offices
hey differ, some wanting to act honest
y and partially repeal the civil service
aw, while others just as hungry favor
'circumventing" the law by ''reduc-
ng" Democrats into resigning by q
system Of grading or ousting them
y star chamber methods ON bogus
which they have no chance to
ither refute or SIZE.
In the debate on civil service Demo-
rats, Populists and free silver Repub-
leans generally held their tongues and
ct the MoHannaites wool each other to
hearts content. It was a flow Of
owl, If not a feast Of reason. twas
richness" to hear 1.-THE lean and hun
~ Cassius'' of Indiana (Mr. Johnson)
cad out Of the Republican party Gen.
Grosvenor, who looks like q twin
rother to Santa CLAUS, for repudiating
civil service plank Of the st. Louis