Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-07
GLORY AND GOLD.
The Assembling Of the aultitudes at the National
Capitol Some Bent ON one and Some on
the Other.

The Assembling OF the Multitudes at the National
Capitol Some Bent on one and Some ON
the Other.
Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 2, 1882
For a week or two before the opening
of the Congressional session our lovely
city commences to emerge from its state
of chirysalis. At first two or three new
and brilliant equipages, a few groups of
unaccustomed pedestrians, with here
and there a well-known face or two or
prominent politicians or Lawmakers,
appear upon its broad and t~ree-fringed
avenue. Then commences the yearly
hustle of arrivals at the prominent ho-
tells, the approaches to the National
Capitol begin to be dotted with groups
of three or four coming and going to
and from its stately marble colonades;
and finally the roar and hustle OF the
newly awakened city seems to rival the
turmoil of London. Although Wash
ington is yearly adding to her perman-
ent inhabitants a large proportion of all
whom the nation delights to honor, still
they are scattered far and wide through
out the length and breadth of this great
Union until the opening of Congress
calls them alike to business and to
pleasure.
This year the week preceding the
opening of Congress was rendered uu-
usually lively by the hustle and attrac-
tons of the Garfield Memorial Fair.
The vast rotunda, with the stately old
Hall of Representatives, the various cor
ridors, the massive aud gloomy crypt,
and in fact almost all the available
space within the walls of the nations
gorgeous marble palace, was for several
days alive with a moving mass of glow
ing colors, through which the winters
sun by day and the electric light at
night struck levelled lances of living
rays to light the scene. The streets
have been full of people, brilliant uni
forms of Templars, shining bicycles,
melodious bands, and the like. As a
display the fair has been a brilliant sue
cess, but from a financial standpoint
the measure of its success falls far be-
low the expectations Of its projectors.
About $4,000 were expended in the ar
engagements, and during the first days
it seemed doubtful whether even this
sum would come back in receipts. The
closing days, however, were better,
though am not now prepared to say
whether there has been any consider
able profit realized. Many would have
given largely and cheerfully to a Gar
field Hospital who gave out little or not
at all for monumental purposes. There
is moreover a growing sentiment deep
down in the hearts of many thinking
men and women that enough and to
spare has already been done to glorify
our second martyred President and
they point to Abraham Lincoln and the
unfinished monument of Washington
and wonder if all the national gratitude
and reverence is to cluster round a
statesman whom we knew but yesterday,
Already the hum and preparation for
the yearly hustle of contending parties
floats drowsily to the ear. A prominent
Republican member talking to the writer
yesterday remarked that no inconsider-
sble portion of the great struggle for
supremacy in 1884 would be fought and
won this winter. The Tariff will come
| up again not only for discussions, but
for some measure of absolute settle
ment. Internal evenu will have to be
adjusted upon a much smaller basis:
important questions concerning the
public domain and the great railroads
are pressing for speedy action, while
the confliction interests of capital am
| labor, the admission of new States. the
question of polygamy, and a hundred
others are knocking at the doors of Con-
gress for hearing and for action. There
will be but little Don for the personal
quarrels and chickering's which marked
the recent session. We must work hard,
all of us. A pOrtly and pleasant-faced
Senator of the Democratic persuasion,
while walking to the Garfield Fair the
other day, dropped for my personal
benefit the following pearls of Bourbon
thought, which | Immediately picked up
and proceeded to ruminate upon: 'ln
every effort" he said, (which the Re-
publicans make to retrieve their fallen
fortunes by promises of present relief to
languising industries, or from opposite
burdens they will find us neck and neck
with and ever before them in tn e race.
Internal revenue and Tariff reform.
civil service regulations, the Indian
question. cheap and improved water
transportation, with a hundred other
difficult problems will find within the
Democratic ranks alike their advocacy
and solution; while those who always
point triumphantly to the time-worn
accusation of Democratic quarrels and
plumbers viii find themselves most woe
fully mistaken during the present ses-
sion. ''You bet they will!' Well, we
shall see. JUNIUs.
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There is "goah'' in the air in "ole
Virginny.'' Unless Senator Riddle
berger shows the white feather there
win be a crimson tinge on the face Of
the moon before long.
Snspending the Entries.
Owing TO the land frauds of startling