McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-12-25
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington. D. c.. Dec. 20. 81.

An addition to the bronze mon
strosities with which Washington al
ready abounds, is to be unveiled in
the presence Of the public dignitaries
at the Capital, next Saturday. 1t is
the figure of Admiral Dupont the he.
70 OF Port Royal, but it bears more
striking resemblance to Robinson
! Crusoe III his best stage of despair.
The Admiral was fine looking man,
and all officer of such consummate
courage and thorough ability as to
jump from captaincy to the Admir-
atty at one bound. Therefore his
memory deserves something better
than this amateur botch- work. have
been for years pegging away at Con-
gress and protesting against this
sqnandering of the peoples money
upon the inartistic abortions in the
simiiitude of statues that one meets
at every street intersection. They
have cost the Government all the way
from ten thousand dollars to one hun
dred and ten thousand each, and after
all are nothing but a public eye sore.
They are derided by foreigners, de-
tested by ourselves, and must defy
the merciless criticism of the spirits of
those whom they are intended to COM
memorate-if said spirits do conde
scend TO revisit the Capital.
The invasion of Washington by the
expectant office-holders has already
commenced, even after Mr.. Cleveland
has taken twenty thousand of them
by the hand at Albany. The hotels
are already more than full, and all the
morning and evening trains bring its
additional population to make up the
half million people who will be here
on the twenty-second day of Februa-
ry to stay until the Inauguration and
as much longer as they can. Fifty
representative citizens of Washing
ton, without gard to party affiliations
have been selected as a committee to
get up an appropriate as we'll as an
elaborate programme of ceremonies
for Mr.. Cleveland's Inauguration.
Apropos of the $50 pair of boots
that IA Wytheville, Va, cobbler pro-
posed to present to the President
eject, but which the latter insisted
upon paying for, reminds me of the
fact that Mr.. Perry Davis the origina
tor of the celebrated ''Pain Killer"
made and presented to Andrew Jack
son the pair of boots that the Gener-
al stood in when he was lnaugurated
on the fourth of March, 1929. Davis
studied out his formula for the Pain
Killer while at the cordwainer's bench
i'll Fall River, Mass, and from it left
a fortune equal to the deserts of a
patent medicine man. In this case of
boot presentation, the thought never
entered Davis head that Jackson
would give him an office, nor did Jack
son entertain the least idea of giving
him one, and he didn't. However, in
these more degenerate days it were
better that Mr.. Cleveland should pay
for his boots just as every man does,
only he should insist upon not being
particularly marked for victim of
eXtortion.
The outlook for the conviction of
General Swain is not so encouraging
as it ought to be. should think that
an ordinary court martial would hard
ly need any stronger proof of guilt
than the miserable pettyfogging that
has characterized the defence from the
outset. When Swain was first brought
face to face with these charges, he de-
clined the interference of military
commission to investigate them, and
when that commission was ordered by
the Secretary of War and found a
basis for the charges, he resisted the
court martial that the President was
compelled to order TO try him, and
here he has interposed every possible
obstacle in the shape of demurrers,
rebuttals, surrebuttals, and what not.
until his counsel have succeeded IN
getting the court into confusion worse
COMPOUNDED. Swain, however, should
be hustled out of the army anyhow, on
general principles. Dom PEDRO.
SOME men have tact. Said the
bridegroom who didn't wish to either
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