The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1884-12-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER,
From our Regular Correspor dent.l

From our Regular Correspor dent.l
WASHINGTON. d. c., Dec. 10, 1884
Here is Southern Dakota, where
fOrty-Seven counties east more votes
than Del aware and Rhode Island
combined, asking Congress to be ad.
mitted to the sisterhOod of States, but
upon the plea that the application is
made in the interest of politicians
who want to get into Congress, the
Democratic majority of the House re.
fuses the petition of these three hun.
bred thousand people for the orgaui.
zed State government that they have
been entitled TO for at least two years
There were no objections like tiieV,
coming from these Democratic saipts
when Texas WAS admitted with bare
~ population enough to entite her
tOa Congressman, nor have they
ever objected when they wee sure
that the new State would senda Dem
Ocrat to Washington. If the Demo
cratic majority in Congress really
means to keep Dakota out during the
present session, it will be apparent
to all that the motive is ore purely
partisan and will result in he same
disaster to the party that overlook it
in 1875, when the majority of the
House ousted twenty-five Republic.
can contestants from the seats to
which they had shown themselves
entitled.
The cranks who always herald the
approach ofInauguratiOn day, haye
begun to put in an appearance a..
ready. A female member of that
numerous family presented herself
at the White House last Monday
and demanded to see the President,
for whose special benefit she had in
vented machine that would lay out
a troublesome ghost colder than a
wedge. She desired the President
t. communicate to Congress the irn-
portance of her invention, and tn ask
that body for an appropriation to en-
able her to prosecute her invention
to perfection. She also had psychol-
ogical wheel with which by turning
it from you information il trans
mitted to people to the remotest cor
ner of the earth, and by turning to
ward you the answers from the pei.
pie addressed are received when de.
sired. The attendants at the Fxecu.
tive mansion have become so familiar
with faces of visitors that they seem
to know a crank when they see one,
and so after much difficulty and an
infinite amount of persuasion the
woman was led out of doors and kept
out.
During periods of political excite.
ment these cranks make Washing.
ton a sort of Mecca for carrying out
their Authorizations, and as we too
well remember, assassination in tive
cases has been the successful result OF
their mission. At this moment
suppose that there are not less than
a hundred men and women in Wash.
ington whose proper place is at the
insane asylum for treatment for men.
tai disturbance. They may be ever
so sane and rational upon some sub.
jects, but upon that pertaining to the
offices and their distribution they are
mad without the virtue of having
method in their madness.
Mr.. Arthur's chances for become.
ing Senator from New York are
rapidly waning. The difficulty that
has existed between the StaIwart elt.
ment and the HALF Breed section OF
the g. o. p. since 1881, has not been
adjusted either in New York OF
in Illinois, where Logan will un.
doubleday be knitted to give Half.
Breed Charley Farwell his place in
the Senate. 1t is a little strange that
Farwell and his friends should have
looked on with complacency when
Gov. Hamilton, the friend of Logan
was fixing up his decision in the
Chicago fraud case, in the interest Of
Logan. The Illinois General Assem-,
bly,, however, is exactly tied, and
one Democratic vote would BE- neces.
sary to elect either Logan or FarwelI
and the latter has said to have can.
tureo that in the shape of a renegade
Republican, who is to establish him
self in favor when the Legislature
meets. JUNIUs.
London in a Panic.
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