McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-11-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 16. 81.


The bare prospect that the Demo.
Gratis have succeeded in gaining vic
tory, has had the effect to bring out
more impossible roosters of still more
impossible breeds than anybody sup
posed the world possessed, and these
are of every conceivable size, shape,
hue and attitude, depending upon the
zeal and earnestness of the bucolic
editor, who in many cases devotes the
four pages of his newspaper to this
sort Of poultry. In this presentation
of the emblems OF decisive political
victory, the exultation of the victors
over fallen foe find vent in the mock
ing humiliation presented by Are
publican rooster who has become
deathly sick and whose stomach re-
fuses to retain the obnoxious Mulligan
Letters and other vicious matter
which is presumed to have been the
undoing of one Of the Presidential
candidates, while the Democratic
chanticleer, having Cleveland face,
is standing upon the prone and pros
trate forms of two other like birds
bearing the semblance of Blaine and
Butler.
The advent of Mr.. Cleveland if he
should become the ruling spirit of the
White House, would make only the
second bachelor who has been invest
ed with executive power, in this coun-
try, instead of the fourth as some of
the newspapers state. Every Presi-
dent down to Mr.. Buchanan had been
either married man or widower at
the time of accession. Thomas Jeffer-
son, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van
Buren, and Mr.. Arthur were widowers
when they became President. while
John TYLER lost his wife and married
again before the expiration Of his
term. The wife of Gen. Harrison sur
vived him many years but she never
came to Washington, having received
tidings of his death just as she was
about to start for the Capital. Dur
ing the Generals brief month at the
his daughter-in-law, Mrs.
Jane Franklin Harrison, did the hon
ors. 1t was at this time too that Mrs.
then Virginia widow, got
acquainted with the late James
Brooks of the New York Express and
subsequently married him. The wife
of Gen. Taylor though an accomplish
ed lady, was unable to preside at the
Executive Mansion during any por-
ton of the fifteen months of her hus-
bands administration. The wife of
President Fillmore lived through his
administration and died at WiIlards
Hotel only few days after his sue
cessor, President Pierce was inaugu-
ted. Mr.. Pierce entered the White
House under bereavement, having
lost most beloved boy by a railroad |
accident in Massachusetts, only few
weeks before. The social life at the
White House during Mr.. Pierce's term
was so subdued that no one can be
said to have been mistress oft, though .
several lady friends of Mrs. Pierce
were always on hand to do the honors.
Mrs. Polk was royal hostess, and,
next to Mrs. Madison, is remembered !
more gratefully than any of the later
mistresses of the mansion. Mrs. John
son was an invalid during the term Of
her husband, but the social affairs Of
the White House were most admira-
bly, managed by Mrs. Patterson and
Mrs. Slower, her daughters, whose af-
ternoon receptions are most fragrant
Mr.. Cleveland has two sis
Lers, either of whom is we'll fitted to
grace the White House, both having
shown their adaptability in this regard
ov the smaller but not less exacting
demands of the Albany social coterie.
Dom PEDRO.