The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-06-20
WASHINGTON LETTER
philosophy, Politics nnd
Pleasant Gossip.

Pleasant Gossip.
special Cor OF the Examiner
WAsHlNdToS, June 1i.-It is fortunate
for my readers-and myselt--thnt [ am
not required to furnish ideas. 1t would
| be severe tax upon tue brniniest cor
respondent to send out two or three
columns of ideas freeh from the mind
every week; aud yet idoas, and faucica,
! and personal gossip are all that the
| bnrcnu of correspondence and the asso-
/ ciatcd press reports leave iis. | suppose
/ 1t wonld drive the most patient white
/ American crH2y to bayc to wait whole
| week Tor news, and yet | eau remember
| when people were qnite content with
| one mail Il month from the states.
/ Aud we sit down to breakfast. take our
/ new paper up and behold The who'll
| eHr,h IL before us. All the important
| events Oi the civilized world Tor "a hours
| past Rrc recorded IN that daily opitome
| of human deeds. that marvellous triumph
| OF civilization and enterprise, daily
/ news Hpcr Yet there nrc thousands
[ not content with that
/ MI oF "rRuE GSwARDNEss
/ The true inwurducHs of TINT retiring
] clnusc IN tho army bill durp not seem to
/ have is proper plncc IN the press dis
/ patches. Thc sole object Of the e au-c
| Is TO make Sheridan oummandcr-in.c chief
/ instead OF Sherman II In well
1 known fact here, that when Tildeu
WAS elected aud the republicans were
seeking some desperate msnsure to pre-
vent his Inauguration, Ora sent for
General Sherman, and asked HIM il he
NirHuJ could roly upon him sherman
to usc the army to keep Grant IN Office
until after the Ith of March and prevent
Iildcn's Inauguration, and Sherman re-
piled, "No, Mr.. President, myself
wuul lead the amy against you II you
attempted such "a thing" Winch noble
aud patriotic reply Grant aud the stal-
warts have never forgotten or forgiven.
But should Il similar crisis occur in
1894, and | tell you IT IN nnticip ted, 1t
would be well, think the slHlwarts, to
have man IL command upon whom We
could rely Such man they consider
him who made Of the lovely Shenandoah
valley desert, and ~ ho, in time uf
pence, was not afraid III Louisiana.
j by hari work, the age of retirement WAS
| placed at 81, instead Of sixty-twU, and
, that gives Sherman two years more-nnd
the country two yeaTs NOR. Long
: enough Tor u leuple like ours to right u
. wrong done TO their liberties, think.
General Maxey sent me copy of his
speech on thl. clause, which sets forth
it's tendency IN very plain aud forciblc
4 language. lie was one ~ the first to
y see through the plausible arguments
which were intended to hide it's real OBJ
Joct, and he opposed it with brave and
7 manly cluqucncu. I Hm sorry General
. Logan should be - party to such u
plan ~ tins, FOR | have always consid.
. cred linn - patriot 1T heart, and would
a Nil
I covert blow at the liberties Ui n people.
l HgrUuLICAS uNBAsISEss.
! Evidently the republican party is very
r uucnsy about the next presidential elec-
, ton. They dared not tackle the tariH
question fairly, so they dealt 1t u stun
ming blow on the back ut the hcnd.
which will keep 1t down for awhile.
q They have rcvulutiuuizcd he house, and
spent thousands ~ dollars III Virginia
to gHln tue Henair, and now they have
b tried To secure the army, IN cusc all
other things should fail, to place their
/ own men IN uiiicc-Hnd X cpthcm there.
, Another Slgn of uncns.nuss is the uutI-
sunlly heavy HsscRsmeuts in the depart
ments, and one oi their re sons Is "th,.
, grunt importance OF securing congress
siouul MINORITY next fall" place 10 re-
IiapGc upon any splits III The republican
purity. ! have noticed that their quar-
: Is all occur IN "oir years" They fight
(ou paper and lond each other with
, abuse FOR three years, and ON the fourth,
make friends, embrace tenrtully, and
walk together to the polls to "vote IN
they shot-or got others to shoot.
TEXAS LADIES NOT EXCLUSIVE.
do not think it was amy idcn of cx.
rlusvcncss Tia / prevented the Tcxns
lndlos from taking pnrt IN the rotuuda
tea party. | hayc mover seen any ten
= dcncy to cyclusivcucsg ON their purt.
= But they hive very little to do with any
. of the public charities or associations ~
, the city, although their hearts nod
purses ure opcu to every appeal Of dis.
trcss thht reaches their eurs. They nre
very Iuict RI lring, domestic women
o. and shun every sort uf newspaper uuto-
rirty, although not nyorsc 10 gnycty and
pleasure, such ns TX compatible with
mntrnuly dignity There IL no doubt
they would greatly enhance their hus.
hunds influence here il they would be.
come society people give large rcrcp-
tlOnH, aud cutcrtuu socially, hat they
consider IT would hardly compensate
them for the loss ut rrnl home happiness
| suppose,
! nm glad to -o, my words about silk
culture ARE hearing fruit. This IL very
grutcful to mo Hg one chief dcslrr 81 my
lifc Is tu see these small but very prof.
table industries introduced IL q Texas
When my people shall hnvc cmauri
pHtcd Themselves from tn il slavery tn
King Cotton, they will have made
great step towards true Independence
Yours truly, \ ii. MuHL.