Eureka Daily Sentinel

MR. FIFIELD, of Vermont, now denounces as "Democratic" the opinion of Judge Swayne that "personal solicitation" in cases like that in which General Garfield allowed himself to act for a lobby agent while Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations is not a legitimate sort of professional service. In a speech which he has just delivered about the Supreme Court, Mr. Fifield assails Judge Swayne as being of "Democratic tendencies," and bewails the prospect of the reorganization of the court in harmony with these terrible "tendencies." Mr. Fifield will hardly take the country with him in this matter. It is awkward for General Garfield that the only "services" which he is sure he rendered his employers of the De Golyer lobby should have been of a kind stigmatized by Judge Swayne as "illegitimate"—but the "tendencies" of all thinking men in these United States just now in regard to the relations between legislators and the lobby happen to be quite as distinctly "Democratic" as those of Judge Swayne.