Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — A Consolation. [ARTICLE]

A Consolation.

The report comes from Washington that the lobby, finding its business blocked in the Democratic House of Representatives, is deserting the national capital in despair. i This is doubtless true. During the three previous Congresses in which the Democrats had a majority in the House tho lobby starved. Last year, under the Keifer-Robeson regime, the vultures flocked back to Washington famished and desperate, and for two years they wallowed in jobbery and corruption. At Albany a change of an opposite character is to be seen. There last year tho lobby birdtf of prey were driven off by Speaker Chapin. Lo Sessions, Barber, and others of the flock were under indictment, and during the entire session they flapped their wings outside the Capitol and only got a chance of seizing two or three mouthfuls of stray carrion. This year they are in a happier plight, with a Woodpulp Miller-Sheard House and a Belden-McCarthy Senate. Lo Sessions has escaped conviction. The indictments against Barber and his “pals” have been pigeon-holed and the entire brood is in fine feather. They fill the Senate and Assembly chambers, crowd the committee rooms, and seize with avidity upon every victim. If the lobby is killed at Washington by the Democracy, it can console itself with the knowledge that it is resuscitated at Albany by Republicanism.— New York World.