Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-11-21
Washington Letter.
[Fr ON our Regular Correspondent

IFrom our Regular Correspondent
The pulsatiOns Of a new, but not nn-
familiar life has awakened Washington
from her long siesta in dshabllc and
the return of her migratory loves from
the four corners Of the Republic is at
hand. La belle Vile always wears a
somewhat slipshod appearance during
the vacation, but now, mirrored in the
Nations eyes, she has made an elabo-
rate toilet, and, with the aid OF such
substantial cosmetics az, brick. wall
oarer, paint, and paving stones, she Is
ready to receive her legislative. joAr-
nslistic, and fashionable sui'ors in
rairer array than she has ever before
worn.
Private building enterprises have
taken a marked impetus within The last
year or so, and the sights of Washing
ton are no longer coudned to h. pub
lie buildings, monuments, and colossal
bronze horses, bot include as well the
mansions Qu other lapds they would be
called palaces that Blaine, and Shyr-
man. Window and RObeson have built
out Of their thrifty politics. Some
months ago Mr.. Blaine, speaking OF his
new house, asked a lady If she had
seen is folly, she ans",red: Il do not
know why you call 1t your folly unie's
because you must so soon leave it Tor
The White House" The house was oc-
cupied by Mr.. Blaine last winter and
was the scene Of one or two elegant
entertainments. Now he has rented it
TO Mr.. Letter Of chicago one OF The
many enormously wealthy men who
will make II home in tie Capital during
the winter.
Nothing that 80 prominent man as
Mr.. Blame does is uninporlant, aud
the letting his house has given rise TO
various conjcclures. Some knowing
ones say that he has taken warning
from the fate OF Window and Robson
whose houses 10 Washington were sup
posed 10 be the cause of defeating the
one for the Senate. aud the other for
House Of Representatives. Others say
that Mr.. Blaine is not as rich as has
been supposed, and That the expense Of
such an establishment was too much
for bis purse. The number OF political
friends whom Mr.. Blame knows by
face and name is perhaps as great as
was eyer retained in tie memory OF
one man, aud his house OF the dimen-
sions OF a hotel would have proved too
magnetic 10 his peripetetic friends from
all parts of the country. They would
have eaten him ard drank him literally
out of house and home. But l think
that Mr.. Blaine prophetic soul knows
that a democratic administration IS TO
follow this regime of fraud, grated up
on The usurpation Of Hayes, and, no!
relshing the role Of relic, the magnetic
statesman proposes to move toward
the North pole, to return, in short, 10
his native Maine, There will be more
houses rented aud sold, 10 all proba-
bility, in a year from now, for the In
dicatlons are that Washington will not
then be a congenial home for thousands
who abetted, and tens of thousands
who prodted bv, the electoral commis
sion business. An exodus was sternly
demanded eight years ago by the peo-
pie at the polls. Since then the re-
publican party has never ceased TO eat
The bread OF theft, Tor nothing but the
fraudulent tenure OF Hayes made The
purchased succession OF Garfield posi-
BILE.
More president makers, aud more
presidential possibilities will be gathered
together IN Washington this winter
than were ever before assembled 10 one
city. They will meet one another in
the hotels, on the streets, in the Capt.
toll. and at the fes.al board. Some Of
them are already on the ground aud
they will ali be here before the winter
is over. Senator Thurman has had
rooms at the Ebbl.t House. lie owns
a modest little house on "A b. Street
but it been rented for more than a
year.
Ex-senator Mcdonald of Indiana
will have rooms at Willards. Ex-
Speaker Randall will vscat- his hou-e
on Capitol Hill, aud live at ho RI thl'
winter.
A small private home is not con-
yenlent residence in Washington for al
ambitious public m,n. H. eau see and
be seen with better advantage at large
hotel.