The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-04-14
THE CAPITAL CITY.
THE TALK NOTHING RUr POLITICS
A D!ssus:ed Mars fxp.risAes with the Con,eIshe,
lnM People Of maslisEtoa-Ths Chameleon Fol.
lewsn Of PreaidshtiAi A,ptraats-A CITY OF
Enthusiastically OF ths Soeisiy.


Special Correspondence Of The fnitiiioeneer.
WASHINGTON, April ll.-In myshortsta,
In the City Of Magnificent Distances, with
out tho advantages that your regular cores
pondents 80 abundantly enjoy; have only
been ablc to skim about on the surface ol
things, and cannot make pretenso to know
any more than The law allows Of The gresi
problem Of the future, which is, Of course,
the nominations at Chicago. But it was
pr rcisely that which brought me here, and
as came so far for such important news II
| have not found the answer 10 the riddle
I'll try my beat to give II anyhow. lam
fain to acknowledge that since have been
here have been cruelty neglected by all
the aspiran,s of tho Wnitp House. They
do not, indeed, seem to have noticed my
presence at the Capital. I, i-sV. ,tVjs ~
BIO PEOPLE NOT INTERVIEWER.
It would be very pleaeant reading II I
could only have tho conventional cheek
and conscience Of the talented interviewer,
and tell your readers all that Mr.. Blaine
was pleasedl,o tell me while he was enjoying
drive down the avenue OF this city OF
one big street with mt; or how delighted
would they be II were permitted by an
India rubber conscience and brass
mounted moral esnse, to tpin out, in ele.
giant phrase, the long talks have had in a
private company graced by my presence
and that oi know not what all OF generals,
senators, and members, 10 cay nothing OF
old "Chet" and the boys Of the cabinet
with whom, 1t should seem, I would be
something more than familiar. But to this
make no pretenBions. l am only "poor
Snug, the joiner" Of such stray facts and
!ancies as find floating about the hotels,
or the streets and in the horse ca,s. Ihave
been listening to the people talk.
NOTHING BUT POLITICS.
In B.s.on 1t was politics nowhere; here
it is pelitics. Nothing bu! politics. Why,
the colored walters at the hotels and res.
taurante, tho boot blacks and ragged gam
ins on the streets, and the nobby little
pages up at the Capitol all talk like Con.
gressmen. The wnmen here all have the
ling, Of tie stump and the campaign, and
talk i. IS g'ibly rs ts.ir Boston sisters dis:
course about evo.utior, origin o. species and
the philosophy OF Pls,o. No. moment,
day or night, that don't hear little knots
OF idlers, well dressed and respectable
loa!ers oi 10 Ii ssxcf, All c,lors, sorts and
8 zes. DIS :u.s'Eg the chauc.s Ct Tilien,
Hsncoct, BAysrd, Blaine. Logan, Arthur,
Sherman, with as much zeal aud in as
loud voice rs yuu can hear the Sans mo-
mert,us matters discussed in any raloon
in Wheeling after 10 o'clock at night, and
with about rs muci, .iise.
Il A CITY cr MAGNIFICENT LoAfsRs.
lis q ely Of magnificent loaiers. They
toll not neither do they spin, but with
their tongues. Nobody works, except the
people in the departments who are shut up
for six hours daily in the various officep,
and then pour forth gessiping and CUB
bling to their dinner, empty Of head rs OF
generally. NIne-tcn'ls Of them
have seen better days, are d-cayed, sad,
sour. morose, 'discontented, snl would be
seedy were it not for their monthly pay,
their only eartl,ly hope. They see nothing
in this camp4ign-now do not laugh at
them, but a struggle to pull them away
from the public crib They look upon the
Democracy as conspiracy against their
daily bread and fiue cloths More than
this nothirg do they see in the campaign.
From this standpoint, grors, selfish and
material and severely practical as it seems
10 you, do they view the procession OF poll
tical eventp. Tho man they are ior-for
convictions they have none-is the man
who, in their opinion, can win.
POLITICAL uEATuRRCoCks.
have Eeard the same fellow OF an even.