The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-06-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.



WASHINGTON. d. c., June 3, 1884.
What a Washington correspondent
does not know about politics and pol
iticians, is hardly worth while for
anybody else to inquire about, In
the last four weeks they haYe by
turns nominated and killed off every
man in the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties who had been mention
ed as possible candidate, and now
they are bringing up some more vic
tins for Journalistic slaughter and
newspaper aggrandiZen. emf. Judge
Miller, of Iowa, is the coming man
for the nomination at Chicago. and
Judge Foraker, of Ohio, is to be the
second on the ticket. Then follows
column after column of slush, COM
prising second. hand opinions that
the corr espondent has picked from
the hotel cuspidorS, and which re-
fleet the political sentiment of the
public men at the Capital about as
accurately as a boot-black might
gather such inspiration through his
profession. These fellows as a rule,
are liars of the most gorgeous sort,
and handle the characters of public
men as glibly as if they were the oc-
cupants of the bull-pen Of a police
court. They hold interviews with
men that are so entirely imaginative
that have known one of thefell0ws
to get kick ed an entire block, as fit
ting reward for his fanciful perform
ances, and Roscoe Conkling never
performed prettier feat of gymnas-
tics than when he lampooned Gath"
with pair of boots specially manu-
factured for the use Of such officious
NEEDLES with private characters.
A delectabie discussion has been
going on in the Senate between
Brown, of Georgia. and Hoar, of
Massachusetts, which, if printed rer-
bGtim in the Record, would bring the
blush to the cheek of a street-Walker.
TIE debate sprang from the bill to
punish polygamy among the Nor.
mons. and Brown thought that Con.
gress might as well go into the bust
ness simultaneously Of furnishing foe
ticide in massachusetts, and New
England. Then of course HOar had
a pill for Brown, in saying that the
highly moral white gentlemen of the
South ought to examine themselves
and ascertain the exact number of
mulattoes they have got to answer
for in the great hereafter. OF course
a great deal of stuff will be eXpupged
from the official report, but as it is
there will be as lively demand for
the Record containing the debate as
there was for Madame Columbier's
delicious work on Sarah Bernhardt.
/ fell TO talking with garrulous
chap yesterday, whose business is to
cater to the Houses stomach. He
says that since the thermometer be-
gan melting, the restaurant in the
basement has had better regular at
tendance than the sessions of the
House. In the matter of wine, the
past winter has been Il most success
full one, because Cox and Dorshcimer,
of New York, make it specially
and have drank nearly enough to
float frigate. The other wine
drinkers in the House are few and
moderate, but the eaters are numer-
Gus and voracious. Here is fellow
from New Hampshire and another
from Maine, however, who tackle Il
fifteen cent lunch and go away per-
fectly satisfied, while Davis, of Chi
cago, and Joe Blackburn never think
of eating a mouthful without tossing
a dollar oyer the counter. Perry Bel
mont eats his terrapin stew, like Il
Chinaman, with chopsticks, and al.
ways growls at the price. Carlisle
and Tom Ochiltree are the two eX-
tremes of feeding the latter being
something of gourmand, and the
Speaker eating about enough to per.
petuate IA canary bird. The restau-
rant sometimes gets left financially
on account of being too contiding
with some Of the members, who run