The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-10-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE OFFICE sEEKERs-THE PRESIDENT |
NOT IN: MUCH PATRONAGE TO DISPENSE, |
BUT NOT TO CRoNIC BEATS AND BoREs- |

THE OFFICE sEEKERs-THE PRESIDENT
NOT IN: MUCH PATRONAGE TO DISPENSE,
BUT NOT TO CRoNIC BEATS AND BoltES.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct z, 1881.
TO the Editor Of The Mor1 istown Gazette:
The Situation here is full of interest,
and not without novelty. President
Arthur will have to be credited with
originality, if not accused of eccentrici-
ty. Who ever heard of President that
would not live in the White House?
And yet there may be excellent reasons
for preferring to make a home of the
elegant and commodious private resi-
dence of a friend ly Senator. The extra
session of the Senate will assemble in
two days. The regular session of Con-
gress will convene in six weeks. The
American plague Of office-seekers is al
ready beginning TO swarm about the
hotel Hobbies. President Arthur is not
ignorant of their means and methods
He knows that he will be less acces sa-
BILE TO the Offlce-seeking rabble, with its
influential backing, at the private resi-
dence of Senator Jones, than if he were
at the White House, a place that the
chronic office seeker knows 10y heart,
and invades Mt pleasure. But this is not
the only departure of the President
After the extra session of the Senate he
proposes to live at Soldiers Home until
mid-winter, when it is thought that re-
pairs at the White House will he COM
pleted. The Soldiers Home is three
miles from the city, most discnuraging
distance for the average Office-seeker,
who is not able to hire conveyance.
The President has said that he is deter
mined that the time aud energy which
he owes to the whole country shall not
be wasted upon a horde of pestilent,
brassy beats, many OF them of the type
of Guiteau, who hang around the lob
bics Of the White House, hungry for a
place in which they hope to be paid
from 5000 to $500, or at least three
times as much as they would be COmpe-
tent to earn as employees in any COM
mercial or professional pursuit. He has
said that the Cabinet officers must at
tend to the official appointments of their
respective departments. This will dis
tribute the burden that has been in great
part borne by the President to the
shoulders of seven different men, and
the fact the President is not in town, or
not at home to this class, will do much
toward purging Washington Of moral
malaria from which the capital HIS long
suffered.
President Arthur enters upon the eX-
ecutive office with more patronage to
dispense than has been the lot of n new
President in a great many years. He
has one Justice of the Supreme Court of
the United States to appoint, and will
have another within n few months.
There are three foreign ministers of til G
first class and two of the second class to
select. There are many changes to be
made in consular offices, and many 9TH
err important judicial and civil offices to
be filled.
Preparation for the reception of the
French guests are nearly complete, and
nothing will be left undone to give the
descendants of our allies at Yorktown a
favorable impression of the city and
citizens Of the capital of the United
States.