The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-05-23

ing and Blaine, exchange snuff, and
aebate whether or not they shall play
their next game of cut-throat euchre
without ''joker."
Ii created no little as.onishment here
when the news came that Silas B. Dut.
sher. prominent New York politician
in fact the second assistant statesman
OF the Conkling faction. and probably
he lrst comptroller of primaries in the
world - had gone into bankruptcy.
choosing to avail himself of the priv
ieges OF that act before its final repeal.
butcher. who is well known here. was
an intimate friend of President Grant,
and was by him appointed Appraiser
OF the New York Custom House. at q
salary of $50, 900 Inclusive of pickings)
per annum. Mr.. Ben Wood, brother
OF Fernando Wood, and proprietor OF
the New York penny paper, the Daily
Ns'ss, has also filed a petition in bar.
kruptcy. Both of these gentlemen
were, year ago, considered wealthy,
and had Unlimited credit. There has
evidently been shrinkage somewhere;
but where, that is. as Dundreary says,
lone of those things which no fellow
can find out"
As In commercial centres they say,
The talk on Change is 30 and So" SO
here we say, THE talk in the depart.
ments is so and so;" and just now oil
the talk there. is about the coming DO
iltical campaign and the President
order regarding 30 called State Associa-
tions. which has not been rescinded
Considerable speculation exists as to
what will be the coarse Of the Repub-
iican Congressional Committee with
reference to this matter. and whether or
not solicitations for subscriptions will
be permitted in the departments. Un-
der the Grant administration they had
o very simple and effective way Of ar.
ranging these matters: Government
employees we're assessed a certain
amount each, and if they did not choose
to pay this. they were decapitsted (po-
litically). and somebody else who
would pay the annual political assess.
ment was appointed in their place. But
under our Civil Service reform regime
that won't work, and some other plan
has to be be rcsorted to, to collect the
sinews of wa. What this other plan
will be 10 not yet settled; but that
some means will be employed H. reach
indirectly the pockets of the Govern
ment clerks, there can be no doubt.
Stump speeches and campaign docu
ments cost money, and this money
must be Forthcoming. somehow. 1t is
the old saying of the rogues over again:
1--WE must have money, honestly If we
can. but we must have money"
And, doubt not but that the money
will be forthcoming.
Warm weather puts dull edge not
only on politics but on society as we'll
Consequently, very little has been 60
ing on worth recording in upper ten
DOM" aud with the exception of the
marriage of Senator Don Cameron and
Miss Sherman, on the 9th inst, no i'm
portant society event has been booked
for the coming week. In another month
the exodus will commence, and every
body who is any body will leave Wash
ington. shall 60 to Europe. leaving
Baltimore by the steamer Nuremberg.
of the North German Lloyds'. on the
18th prox.. and will try to write you
some interesting letters from the other
side of the Atlantic, taking in Northern
Europe and Germany on my way to
Paris. ALPHA.