The Dillon tribune., 1882-02-18
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WASHINGTON LETTER
tFsom our regular Cosrcspoadsne.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10th, lSS


1t Is clear that the enemies OF Mr., Blaine
have not yet succeeded in putting him at a
disadvantage. The spectacle OF retiring
Secretary Of State hurting open letters at
the President accusing him Of vacillation
and blunder'ng in the foreign policy ri the
Nation is sufficiently novel to attract at
tentton. MIR. Blaine's position Ia not orlv
plausible but caltulated to be popular il the
public mind becomes Interested in the
subjected. 1t is a fact that our foreign
policy has deteriorated to a farce. We
have had none since the davs Of tina,
harmless jellyfi>h, whose notion Of
American dignity was confined to the
proper adjustment of letters Of PASSPORT,
and who had no conception Of the growth
anh power and force Of the United States
IN the diplomacy ofthc world.
! The advent OF Mr.. Blaine IN the scene in
the high capacity Of diplomat was notice
served that the spinal column Of the Gov.
ernment was about to be sti!fened, and it
was stitfensd with u viyor whc,, recalled
ths: pal,ny days Of Jay and Webster and
Hu'hanan. Some people suppose it is the
proper policy OF powerful nation to wink
at all manner Of indignitics to which ten
cent Governments propose to subject it and
its representatives, and that conservatism
means nothing more or less than an alice,
Willingness ~ b. peaceful ut any cost
BY publishing the text OF his dispatch pro.
posing pace congress of American
powers, and hv his letter to President
Arthur, Mr.. Blaine has topped d ,wn a
structure of misrerre >entatior, the r>,riny
Of which cost its authoaS several weeks Of
| lahor!ous Justification. am hot guing to
champion the side Of the ex- Secretary bu,
| | can see thaough the attacks that have
been made upon his diplomatic career
! The business of beli,t!riny ana malignns
one OF the ablest and most pornlar States
NM of our time Is a' hest poor one, but
1t becomes what insuran u men call "rx.
ira hazardous" when it is pra.ticed upoa a
man Of Mr.. Blaine's tiy'rin" ca>actv.
Some Of the bills for the Yorktown cel.'
br'tion are beginning to turn up, and like
nearly all bills tor entertainments of that
sort they are quite curious. One cf t',c
items regarded as ,einark able is a charge
of twenty five dollars tor water furnished
an official party from Washington. It is
said to be the first time party o' tha. sort
has used water. Water, however, was
not all that was drank, for there are sever
III charges for wines, amounting to thous-
ands Of dollars, and other charges Tor
things called ente, tainmcnts, under which
disguise n great deal of wine was paid for
It was the boast ot one who attended the
Government expense that the boat on
which he travelled was literally swimming
in champagne. 1t is even at this late dav,
rather a comfort to know that somebody
had some fun at Yorktown, even though
the Government has to pay the bill
About the time tn" affair came off i.
wasn't safe to say Yorktown to anybody
around Washington, the disappointed
visitors were SO mad
Teh railway & nrations are getting
some attention just now in Congress
Firing has cnmmenced all along the lines
The Northern Pacific is in the jaws Of the
Judiciary Committee, the Kansas Pacific
has been bomb,r.icd with shot and shell
nv John Anderson Of the First Kansas
District with an array Of facts and figures
to startl. Congress, and the Wavs and
Means Committee, ard tried to choke q
piece Of Jobbcry i,,r the Reading Railroad
down the throat Of the House, was defeat
ed by the crushing vote Of 100 to 4S. al
+ these facts. occurring winhin Il few DAYS
!; are convincing proof that Congress ha.
. some notion ot protecting the government
interests from the land parties who have
settled on the public domain. Mono,wl>
will experience few paralv'is. shock
within the next ninety days. Bear this
IN mind.
1t i<i"t'rcsti,- on receiving days 10 see
the stream Of callers on their round, in oul
{ ',o!i,iro fashionable society Since tht
tir>t winter Of the Havcs administration
+ the Cabinet has not taken 50 prominent :
place in official society as it had done to'
F many wears prior to ila: time, nor have
/. the Cabinet families SO many calls tn re
turn. The number Of callers each "Cah
, i,:.t LADY, receives on her day has tale,
. OF from nine hundred to four or five hun
: cred. No hostess can more than gree
her visitors as they pass in and ont "r
. hos, davs. One Of the Cabinet iadi y
). who has done her best TO visit, as vel a
;. ~ .t.cnd to HON" and other duties. men
}, tions that she now has over five hundred
}. unrt.urncd calls. Speaker keitcr's wif
has, | think, had more calls on each r,'
I, ,p,ion dav she has had than anv othe
lady row in official >oc'rtv here A. tn
Speaker lives at 'hc hotel in the ccntr:'
;. part OF the citv it is always c"nvenien
e oven in bad weather, for ladies to cal! o
z "Wednesday to see his wife and She ha
= taken pains to make her receptions YER
!, agreeable. She seems likely to rctriev
r hv the make up of her social committee
n some Of the popularity her hnshan! az
c rarcntlv i,npcriled Ivy the arrangement {
:: those Of the House Of Representatives.
: DON PEDRO