News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-04-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. G..
March 81, 1884.

committee have selected their olilcers
and established their headquarters,
and are evidently intending TO enter
earnestly upon the work of the cam
paign as soon as the candidates shall
have been placed in the field. Their
present work is to send out documents
favorable to the parties respectively
to build up the faithful, strengthen the
weak, and If possible convert the un.
decided. This work will be carried
on until the meeting of the conven-
tons, and after that the character OF
the literature will be changed to pres
eutation of the merits and fitness of
the nominees.
The great work outside of the CON-
mittee rooms is to see that the proper
candidates are nominated, and it is
here the confusion commences and
the harmonies of the committee room
are changed to the discord engendered
by personal preferences.
Since the time when Presidential
nominations were made by congress
sional caucus, the session proceeding
the election is an attractive one to the
politician, and this session is more so
than usual, inasmuch as most OF the
candidates named by the Republican
party are here, in the Senate, or in Of
fetal positions, and in private life
Edmunds, Logan and Sherman in the
Senate, the President, and Secretary
of war, Lincoln, in their official po'
sitions, anil Mr.. Blaine at home
Either of these gentlemen receiving
the nomination at Chicago, would,
without doubt, receive the united vote
of their party in the nation.
The Democratic party has no IA
vorable candidate here, except Kan
dali, for Mr.. Dana Killed Holman by
that libel on his personal appearance
published in the Sun, and Hewitt and
Eaton are practically out of the race
nevertheless the consultations are as
earnest and the interest is as deep as
on the Republican side. The Demo
Gratis here appear satisfied TO regulate
the whole result of success to New
York State, and profess to have found
a winner in Mr.. Flower.
As far as can be judged from our
standpoint, the best infermed Demo
Gratis here say the unfriendly relations
existing between Gov. Cleveland and
Tammany Hall put him out of the
question. Tammany with her SOLID
vote is too important a factor IN the
canvass to be disregarded, in view OF
the fact that Democratic success IN
New York State must depend upon a
very large majority in the city. The
friends of Mr.. Flower here claim that
he is the man for whom the united
vote of the Democratic party will be
cast. His name here is strong one.
He made many friends while In con-
gress, and gave satisfaction by DIS
action as Chairman of the Democrat
ic Congressional Committee, and is
regarded by all as most genial, hon.
est and candid gentleman.
The number of government clerks
who deal in stocks and bonds now-a-
days is mattec of surprise. Two or
three years ago one seldom or never
heard of a department employee who
knew anything about the stock, wheat
or oil markets, or who ever invested
any part of his or her salary in Wall
street affairs while to-day in the
commonest boarding house the state
of the market is daily discussed. "Pe-
troleum moved but single point to-
day, and we made five-eights," 'there
was q ready selling of Northern Pa
cific. and it showed a decline of three
Fights for the day." "Reading, genera
skies sold down to a hundred, ano
other like apparently learned express
sions on the state of the stock marx
ct NAV be heard. OF course no large
scale dealings are done, but number
of clerks combine and form syndi-
Gates, and strange to say they gener-
ally make money. Women are the
greatest dealers, both with respect to
the number that engage in transac-
tons and the amount put up. The
government clerk is unhappy without
a chance in something. A lottery
ticket or two a month, used to fill hi:
or her cup of happiness, but now
that sort of commodity is given the
"go-by" for financial investments
Minister Sargent, now at Berlin
who was last week nominated ant
unanimously confirmed for the Rus
sian mission, made vacant by the deatf
of Judge Hunt, has cabled to Secre
tary Frelinghuysen in response to the
telegram informing him of the trans
fer, that he is proudly grateful for the
high compliments paid him by hi
government, but is constrained out o
consideration for his health, and fo
other reasons which he will state in 6
letter, to decline the promotion, anc
resign from his present position al
representative of the United States
to the German court. 1t has been al
open secret for some time that Ssr
gents relations with the German
Councillor Bismark, at Berlin, hav'
been unpleasant, but as the American
Minister has in all things acted il
strict accord with his instructions, Thu
State Department at Washington has
regarded all Sights of Bismark al
aimed at the United States. 1t il
likely now that Minister Sargent ha'
resigned, the Berlin mission will b
left vacant for some tune.
The latest scheme of the Democratic
free-traders-the one which is being
discussed about the hotel Hobbies to
nights to postpone debate on the re
gular Morrison bill, and taking up
discussing, and if possible, passin!
the several bills charging the tre'
list and reducing the tariff on distinc
articles. The belief is harbored tina
these separate measures can be carrle'
through without strenuous opposition
and that more can be done towar
reducing the tariff by dealing wit
it in that manner, than by considerin
such a stupendous proposition as tn
Morrison bill at one time. This moo
of procedure reminds us of the yer
svmnathetic man who desired to Gro
his dogs ears, and with the purpose
hurting the poor creature as little a
possible, cut off little each day unit
he had trimmed them as closely as b
thought looked well.
Ex-Congressman Shultz, of Ohio
is in Washington, and is ventilatin