News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

being made in the figures, and all par,
ties seem ready and willing to extend
to Governor Cleveland that cordial
support which a President-elect by
the people is entitled to. In view OF
the result of the count in New York,
! much bitter feeling is expressed here
towards the National Committee, and
especially towards the treasurer there
of. Up to the very moment of the
commencement Of the count, Chair.
man Jones, Secretary Fessenden and
Mr.. Elkins, by their kilograms, led
the people to believe that they had in
their possession evidences of fraud
that would wipe out the apparent plu-
rality for Mr.. Cleveland and insure
the election of Mr.. Blaine, and only
two days before the close of the count
Mr.. Treasurer Weeks te~legraphed
most hopefully, and asked that Mr..
Clapp continue his collections to help
secure the honest count that would
make Mr.. Blaine President. Misled
by these assurances, many men were
led to lose their money, their
time and rest, and look in vain
for a result which the committee
must have known could not possibly
be reached. If not in possession of
a~scertained facts to sustain their proc
lamations and kilograms, they COM
mitted an objectionable wrong, to say
the least, and if this act is to be TAX
en- as an evidence of their manage
ment, an escape from total disaster
everywhere is most miraculous, and
certainly not to be credited to them.
1t is popular just now to discuss
the many reasons that led to Mr..
Blaine's defeat in New York, and
nearly everyone has a different theory
to advance. These discussions are
useless, and the sooner they are
stopped the better. The bolt of the
Independents, the detection of the
Prohibltionists, and the ''knifeing," or
assassinating process of the person
ally disgruntled Stalwarts would not
have been sufficient in and of them
selves to have defeated Blaine and
the great Republican party, and it re-
quired the intolerant and entirely un-
justifiable use of the three words,
"Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" by
DR.. Burchard, to accomplish what all
other agencies failedin accomplishing.
Mr.. Blaine can congratulate himself
that with all these agents and agen-
cies at work a change of less than
600 votes in New York would have
made him President, and that he,
even in defeat, has a popular majority
in the Northern States of about
400, 900.
The probable course of Mr.. Cleve-
land in regard to civil service is being
generally canvassed, and the depart
ment employees are very anxious in
regard thereto. 1t is generally con-
coded that as far as Mr.. Cleveland is
concerned, he will be conservative,
and probably rather favor the enforce
ment of the present law, but that he
will leave it to his cabinet to control
the affairs of their several depart
ments, and that in the desire and de-
mand for place on the part of those
who have been out for so many years,
there will be a gradual reduction of
Republican employees to make place
for Democratic partizans and friends.
There is no place or thing in Wash
that receives more attention
visitors nowadays than the
Washington Monument and the shops
around. The pilgrims to the
the commonaiity here give to the park
in which the monument stands,) all
avail themselves of the granted privi-
of sitting for a moment on the
top Of the capstone, which is now
and ready 10 be hoisted in
to position. The monument will be
finished before next Christmas. Its
height is now 500 feet, which is con-
siderably higher than any other struc-
ture in the world.
The court-martial Of Adjutant Gen.
convened in Washington on
Objection was raised by
the counsel of Swain to the legality
of the tribunal, but the objection was
not sustained and so the trial will 90
on, and it now looks as though it
would end by ending General Swaim's
career as an officer in the United
States army.
Col. J. o. P. Burnside, the ~rascally
late disbursing officer of the Post Of
fee Department, who is now under in
dictment in Washington for the en-
bezzlement of over fifty thousand dol
lars while in office, has become insane,
and for the reason that he is entirely
p~enniless, and unable to pay anything
for his treatment, he has been sent to
the government insane asylum in the
District of Columbia. Again is the
proverb verified-"the way of the
transgressor is hard"
Said a prominent New York print
er to your correspondent to-day:
''There were not less than five thou
sand printers and mechanics in New
York city who voted for Cleveland,
who would have cast their ballots for
Blaine had it not been for the war
the New York Tribune on the prin-
ters' union of that city" And SO it
wasn't DR.. Burchard after all, who did
it it was the New York printers
it seems.
Mr.. Blame will come to Washing
ton this week and take a house on Far
square, where he will reside
his winter, and complete the second
of his book, Twenty Years
Congress-" Mr.. Blaine's elegant
house near "Stewart CASTLE" in the
northwestern part of the city, is rent
to a California Democrat, and dur
the great Democratic demonstra-
ion here last week was gaily decorat-
ed and brilliantly illuminated. The
Incident was a matter of general re-
mark among the Department people.
Much money will be spent next
and summer by persons in far
away quarters in pilgrimages to, and
stay in, Washington in quest Of office,
and many a low credulous Democrat
will a year hence, know something of
The hollowness of the promises of pol
and how much happier he
who wants and expects nothing is
Than he who has hoped and worked
nOcifiOp and haon 1ieoDNnSntol