San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-06-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Iprom Our Regular cOre.ponisni'l


WASHINGTON June, 10th, 1884.
During the last week Washington
has yielded to Chicago in politica
interest. All eyes have been turned
toward the city on the lake where
some imagine the next president ha'
been nominated. No doubt the nex'
president will havegotten his nomina
ton ut Chicago, but has he beer
nominated That is the question
The excitement over the nomination
has caused people to forget, for an
instant, tho abundant matter fol
excitement here. No town with a
dozen discarded or still hopeful
presidential candidates, moving about,
can be dull and when wo have, addcd
to these, bank failures, defaulting
government officer, the House, and
lobby in session, there can DO no lack
of matter to make paragraph, point
n moral, or patch up a sermon.
Colonel Burnside who took S45,,
900 from the p. o. Department, has
been long conspicuous in society and
politics here. His accounts had not
been audited for three years. 1t
was known that he had lost money
in stock speculation, and this sng-
gested the propriety of IN invcstiga-
ton of his three years unsettled
accounts. A deficit of $4,000 was
soon discovered Big local sensation.
Hurry Col. Burnside to jail! But
remember the Republican administra-
ton that neglects to audit its accounts
for three years, that embraces.
Burnside, Grant, Kellogg, and all the
other Star Route thievcs,is the party
of purity, honesty, and moral ideas.
Is there no tribunal before which
this mammoth hypocritc, and UNI
speakable thief can be brought to
trial? Yes, md it holds its quadron-
ial session this year of our Lord
1884, and unless the tribunal shall
provo to be less powerful than the
thief rs was the case in 1876, or
succumbs to bribery (soap) rs it did
in 1880, there will be general audit
ing of accounts and some remarkable
disclosures. If the Republican Office
holders reluctantly raise terrible
stencil with homeopathic tooth
brush, what may not be expected
when the Democrats enter the
Augean stables with pitchforks and
wire brooms
Very few have yet left Washington
for sea-shoro and mountain side.
Congress is still in session, md the fact
that here will be the great campaign
centre. base of supplies, and source
of soap of the Star Route party dur
ing the summer and fall, will not
allow any suspension of interest in
the res gcSta ctdicta at the National
Capital. This city has grown to be
much more tolerablc summer home
than it was ten years or even five
years ago. The streets are shaded
with young and mxuriant trees. The
parks and lawns with fountains serve
to temper the summer heat, and the
conversion Of the Potomac swamrs
into solid ground interpcrscd with
lakes, though not complete, has had
an appreciablc effect in improving
the general health. There has been
little or no complaining of malaria in
Congress during the present session.
Our legislators must lind some other
scapgoat for gluttony and intemper-
ancc, malaria has kcen almost dis
sipated.
The halls Of Congress are no doubt
very imperfcetly built before the
Importance Of pure air was apprccia-
ted, and the condition of Congress
was once said by Senator Conkling to
be Ike rats in an exhausted receiver.
1t is now proposed 10y 4 system OF
pipes to supply our national legislq-
tors with air drawn from the top Of
the Capitol The air they breathe.
the meat they cat and the liquor
they drink is by a wonderful alchemy
transmitted into legislation AMI GOV
eminent How important then that
the constituent Of lhcir physical a.
4 useir political 20, shall b. pare
There are ouliuous Signs 81 2eiec
zion IN The Republican ranks here.