National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-04-26
ON THE AVENUE.
Small Talk About Men ana Measures.

I'VE went to Utica dead sure We had overy-
thing our own way" said tho New Yorker
with n preference for Blaine, "and 1t was not
until we had been wiped up in the contest for
temporary chairman that we realized that
the majority of the delegates were against us.
All this might have been avoided by good
management and proper attention to details
but what was evorybody's business was no.
body's business, and so we went to the
convention swelled with q sort of foolish
confidence that must have made the
Arthur and Edmunds managers smoker
when they looked at us. Wo were in q sort
of FOOLS paradise, and while on our way up
there we had lots Of fun, discussing how wo
would bury tho Arthur boom, and plant
hollyhocks aud daisies over its little grave.
Well we got to Utica and the funeral went
on all right according to programme, but
when il was over and we looked into tho
matter we found we had got the wrong corpse
In tho coffin
saa
| She is lady of prominent station, and,
away back at tho opening of the season, dur.
| ing one of her receptions, there were two of
her callers who have won enviable positions
as writers for the press. An acquaintance of
! tho hostess noticed them enter and said to
| her. "Do you know" With sort of
superclious drawl the hostess answered.
ooh ! used to know them years and years
ago. They are newspaper people, you know,
and l can't afford to be bored with them
now"
By some unlucky fortune this remark was
! overheard and now distinguished lady
lives in o state Of nervous apprehension. and
two female journalists are on the warpath
| with pencils sharper than scalping knives
waiting for that opportunity which sooner or
later will come, and then the stately dame
will wish that she was an angel and out of
the reach OF personal paragraphs.
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An old member of the house says "All
tho talk about an early adjournment of con-
gress is pure buncombe. Mr.. Randall may
deem it advisable to get through before the
LIST of July in order that he can 90 to Chicago
end personally supervise the handling of his
boomlct in tho convention of his party; but
If ho does he will havo to take o leave OF
absence and take chances of some one
knocking the stufllng out of his pot schemes
to choke of any tariff legislation during the
to cripple the public service by q
system of grinding, choese-paring parsimon y
will have the effect to delay all the important
appropriation bills indefinitely. There arc
several democratic senators, notably Senator
Beck, of kentucky who have set their faces like
q flint against this so.called economy, and dc
not hesitate to say that they will not permit the
democratic party to be made odious by its
crppling the government for the lack of the
funds necessary to carry on work that is in
dispenssble to the welfare of the country
Unless Mr.. Randall makes up his mind to
1 adopt now policy in dealing with the ap.
preparation bills we will be hammering away
with conference committees and other matters
of that character far into tho month o.
August"
The Blaine man was hotter than ever
Wouldn't you believe it," said he, awe
have been treated shametully in some papers
no matter what the Associated Press may
have done. The publishers of Puck have this
week added insult to injury by printing
another one of those detestable cartoons il
which Mr.. Blaine is represented as chasing
the ignis fatuus of the presidency over tn,
miry swamps of disappointment. Thel
they've got another low-hung thrust in it
where it is intimated that Gail Hamilton i
the author of his book, Twenty ioars il
) Congress- Now, while 1t may DO fac
! that Miss Dodge may have assisted
somewhat in the preparation of the mino
, details of the work, it's a cowardly thing Il
undertake to give her credit for the who'll
thing. Mr.. Blaine's friends were anxious /,
have him institute libel suit against thes
traducers, but we have information that som
| of Mr.. Blaine's opponents have contracte
+ with the Puck people for 100000 copies of tn
r two last numbers of that detestable sheet
0 which they propose to send out broadcas
over the country, with special marked copie
, to every one Of the delegates to the Chicag
| convention. / think that is the meanest tricl
that was ever put up, for if Mr.. Blaine SHOULD
enter a suit against tho vile sheet it woult
create an increased demand for these papers
S It's q shame"
II can't understand" said tho "Tarheel
philosopher, "why Zeb Vance should occup
the position he now does with regard to tn
. tariff When j was in congress, before tn
. wah.' Zeb and were old-line wings aud red
o hot protectionists Then we had four cotto
factories in North Carolina, and we used I
make strong speeches whenever an opportu
nifty offered to fire off our ideas about tn
dignity of American labor, AID all tina
To-day we have seventy-seven cotton fac
tories and four wooden mills in the state, anC
y would you believe it, Zeb is the rankest adv,
cate Of free trade in the senate, not exceptin
Beck Consistent? Well, | don't know;
went from the old line wings to the republ
= can party, and Vance is in the ranks of tn
4 democracy. 1t seems to mo he has swun
: around some"
o Pa
8 Some strange people apply for warrants
d said Mr.. Prince, clerk of the police couT
d yesterday afternoon. "They come hero wit
u all manner of complaints. For instance, OF
d man wanted warrant for tho arrest Of Ii
o next-door neghbor on the charge Of mai
d tanning a nuisance. Tho nuisance was
i rooster, which the complainant declare
d awakened him every morning at da
IL light. Another party wanted wa
j. ant for the arrest of u barb
W who disobeyed instructions and cut h
boys hair close to the head. He declared tn
tho barber was guilty of assault and batter
r An old and respectable lady insisted on ha
u ing warrant for Mrs. Blank, because Il
" latter stared at her in an impudent mamie
j. every time she met her on the street. IA
l, man with IA GRAVEYARD eXnression ON his fn(