Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1884 — Political Notes. [ARTICLE]

Political Notes.

Arthur has two Presidential booms in his Cabinet, Gresham’s and Lincoln’s. These with his own boom make the boom business pretty lively about the White House. Senator Anthony declined to accept his approximation prize in the lottery of assassination, and Edmunds, the maple sugar favorite of fortune, is now enjoying the honors and emoluments. Prairie-dog Logan wants to be President, and it will be remembered that Guiteau wanted to harmonize the Republican party. The way the harmony business panned out is a matter of history. It may be that Henry B. Payne is a millionaire, and that the Standard Oil company used money to bay his way into the United States Senate, bnt the Republicans are the lasi men who •bould lament over the lapse of virtue in this respect. How many oi the men whom they have placed in the Senate are rich and -powerful and may have been aided to their exalted position by means of money and the wealth of monopolies? How does Don Cameron hold his seat in the Senate; how Miller, of New York; Tabor and Hill, of Colorado; Sabin, of Minnesota, and a score of others placed there by Republican votes? In most of the States where the Republicans are in the ascendency the Senatorship is in the market for sale to the highest bidder. For the* Republicans to refer to Mr. Payne’s election as corrupt, and venal is the sheerest kind of hypocrisy. —Frankfort ( Ind.) Crescent. - Since the Republican party eame into power their purpose seems to have been to make the old White house appeal as much like a palace as possible, and thousands have been squandered upon it. A contemporary says: “The partition dividing the publio hall is of opalescent glass, molded in sheets, rongh gems, ovals, and circles. They are set in lead, and borrow a fresh luster with every light that slitters through the tinting. The east room is hung with old-gold satin, brocaded with plush flowers a few shades darker, and the wall is inlaid with mirrors. The green room, papered in Nile green and silver, is a pretty apartment. The hangings are of Nile Seen satin, and the fnmitnre is simirly upholstered. The bine room, the old red room, and the state diningroom are perfect gems in their way.” Into this princely abode Chet crawled through a bullet hole, and can have his little game of draw without molestation. —lndianapolis Sentinel.