Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

The President has control of SIOO,OOO to disburse in case of a dangerous epidemic in the country. Mb. Tabor, the thirty-day Senator from Colorado, is said to have paid nearly $1,000,000 for a divorce from his wife. Robert T. Lincoln, Mr. Arthur’s Secretary of War, is called the second Lincoln. It would be better to call him Lincoln No. 2. Democrats in the Senate and House, by declining to serve on the cut-and-dried conference committee, simply said to the Republican gag-law legislators that they could skin their own skunk. The Republican party should not be at a loss to find a man to succeed Marshall Jewell as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Dorsey made a very excellent Secretary, and there can be no doubt that he would prove a most capable Chairman. Ohio seems to have three Representatives in the United States Senate, in defiance of the constitutional provision that the States shall have equal representation therein. The third man is Swank, of the Iron and Steel Association, who dictates how the Senatorial vote of Ohio shall be cast.

The Chicago Tribune, not having the fear of John Sherman very largely developed, refers to his recent declaration that in the matter of tariff tax on iron “he spoke in the interest of his constituents,” and tells him that he “spoke falsely” and that “he knows it.”, Mr. Sherman won’t fight. Mr. Tariff Commissioner Porter has learned from a carpet maker in Halifax, England, that the United States are making their own carpets; and the information is volunteered by a protection organ that carpets are sold more cheaply here than anywhere else. Yet the protectionists- still insist on a duty of 60 to 65 per cent, on carpets. Jones, of Nevada, says, “at no time in our history has the country been so prosperous as it is to-day, ” and protection is what has done it. Yet there is not one of the protectionist organs in the land that has not something to say daily of the “extraordinary business depression.” Jones ought to consult the organs and come to an agreement with them on the subject of the country’s prosperity. The recent action of the Governor and his Lieutenant assures Indiana to the Democracy by a large majority in 1884. This is a simple question. Shall the majority rule? The Lieutenant Governor and a Republican minority in the Senate say “No!” The next Republican Convention should nominate Mr. Hanna for Governor. The dirty work that he has done for the party entitles him to the nomination.—lndianapolis Sentinel. Let us see. Was it old Two-Per-Cent. Hubbell who advertised to the country last summer that Senator Ferry could not and should not be reelected ? Hubbell was ridiculed at the time, but he has succeeded in making his boast good against the expressed wishes of three-quarters of the Republican members of the Legislature. The tail wagged the dog.— Grand Rapids Democrat.

Howgate is said to be in Florida, where he might easily be arrested if the Government authorities had any use for him. They appear, however, t<xbe no more anxious to bring him back to Washington than to compel Spencer’s return to that city. Howgate’s sojourn in Florida is beneficial not only to his own health, but to that of many wrellknown persons at the capital, and there is little prospect that his arrest will be ordered. Gen. Butler denies the revived charge that he stole spoons and horses when he was in New Orleans. He says he supposes that those who believe the spoon story will believe all the rest, but he states, to oblige a friend, that the horses he drove when in command in New Orleans were his own Massachusetts horses which were shipped home by sea after they had ceased to be of use to him in New Orleans. Senator Van Wyck’s charge on the extravagance and cost and endless trials which pretend to be in the interest of public justice was good and strong as far as it went, biit it did not go far enough. The ffial itself is a black disgrace to American jurisprudence, insomuch that it is believed that no conviction will ever be secured. A Judge turned prosecutor rarely fails to hang a jury in criminal trials, and this will probably be the result in the present costly mockery at Washington.- Omaha Herald.

Senator Edmunds succeeds the late David Davis in the chair of the President of the Senate. This is a respectable, and also a refreshing change. Everybody will know where to find Senator Edmunds as a Republican of positive views and unmistakable political identity. Nobody ever knew where to find David upon any question, except to gain a personal advantage. He would barter his votes with an oleaginous ease and audacity that was quite remarkable in a man who flattered himself that he was independent in his political action.— Omaha Herald. The man whom President Arthur now has at the head of the Naval Department of the Government is in a fair way to earn and receive s a vastly larger load of odium than fell to the lot of his venal predecessor, Robeson. Robeson was a vulgar robber, a pusillanimous thief. Chandler’s* record is not yet made up. How much he will steal is a matter of conjecture, but in point of arrogance and vanity he is already in advance of Robeson. His treatment of Lieutenant Commander Gorringe is exciting universal indignation and may yet lead to his dismissal. The Naval Department of the Government will not be able.to maintain intact its present obnoxious notoriety with such a man as Chandler at its head. It is bound to still further decline. The Republicans are getting a little sick of their bargain with Mahone, though the President only a few days ago gave him one of the best appointments in Virginia for John Paul, his man. Mahone was very anxious to ha u e a special session of the Senate, in order to shape the organization of that body and to get possession of the offices nine months before the regular meeting of Congress next December. He found a pretext for this proposition in the proposed commercial treaty with Mexico, recently negotiated by Gen. Grant, and urged it in executive session as a project of the utmost importance, Which might suffer serious injury by delay. 'Hie ingenious arguments of the repudiator and his persistent energy

in failed to make the desired impfession. The Republicans - knew very well that when Mahone endtreaty he meant Gorham and the other officers of the Senate. They were too sharp to follow him into the experiment of an extra session, which might be attended with grave consequences. Hence, when the direct question came to be put of considering the treaty now or of postponing it until next winter, Mahone could not muster half a dozen followers. This desertion, on what may be termed a test of personal strength, soured the temper of the repudiator, and made him realize for the first time that, while.he may get patronage trona the Executive, he is not in condition to dictate terms to the Republican party. —Washington telegram.