Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-05-23
WASHINGTON LETTER.
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suppose Mr.. Arthur might as we'll be
of junketing or hobnobbing with his New
York boon companions rs to be here where
nobody, not even Congress, has any use
for him. While the politicions have care
fully shelvcd him, because they dared not
trust him, they seem to be yicing with
each other in giving him character for
the satisfaction Of future employees. Yet
Arthur himself llas not gwen up the ghost
by a long shot. Though he failed, with
all his tremendous patronage mud ward
working aud wire-pulling experience IN
New York, to get half the delegation in
hs own State, lie has the temerity, or l
might say imprudence, at least, to still con
slider himsvif.in the field. Tine anti. Blaine
papers, such MS tile New York Times, the
Post and Ha,per's Weekly. are pouring hot
shot into the Blaine camp, but they have
about as much effect as the water on u
ducks back. Blaine is running his can.
vas for all ii is worth, and he has run too
many of them not to know how. While
his sun stroke business killed him in 1876
and the Mulligan letters in 1880, lie be-
| lieves that the effect OF all that was then
charged up against him has worn OF, but
once let him get the Chicago nomination
and you will see him shown up with as
crooked a record rs has been exhibited TO
public view since the days Of Martin Van
Buren, and with still more viluperative
campaign.
The unveiling of the statue of Chief
Justice Marshall, last Saturday, was a
rather tame affair, although no more so
than the statue itself, which is simply an
addition to the already large stock OF
cheap bronze and hybrid marble worked
into all possible styles of grotesqneness
that confront us all over the city. Really
one cannot compass the motives that have
inspired the raising of these hideous mon
sirosities at nearly every street corner.
With the possible exception OF Clark Mills
equestrian statue of Gen. Jackson, know
of no single work here that possesses the
slightest merit, for the figures are not only
poorly executed, but the faces have no
resemblance whatever to the originals.
And the cost Of some of these unartis,ic
abortions is simply fabulous, because they
were ordered by Congress and the Gov
ernment foets the bills. The statue of
Mcpherson, which is as unlike him MS the
sculptor could possibly make it, is set
down ss having cost S2S,000, and would
be dear at any price. The Jackson statue
cost $50 900, and the rest of them all the
way from $25 900 TO $4,000 each The
poor soldiers and sailors put in their mites
to that monumental burlesque ut the Cap
itol entrance, called the Peace Monument.
This pile cost over 100000, one half of
VIII icl, was contributed by Congress. AL
though commemorative oil peace, the sight
of this MAI BILE abominalion makes true
American want to 20 slupging alter the
sculptor. II there is anything in the statue
/; line more positively ludicrous than this, l
do not know what it is unless it he
Greenoughs "Washingion," on the east
side of the Capitol, which cost $4,000
, and is as awkward piece of business as
ancient or modern times has produced. ii
!, represents George Just out of the bathtub
with one towel over his knees and another
over his right shoulder, while in his hand
h il 4 strange looking sort af an instrument
of the knife pattern, with which lie is evi
IDENTIFY about to pare his toe-nails. He il
! seated in chair, and this chair is the only
single-redeeming feature about the entire
work. 1t is elaborate to the finest cary
e ings necessary to display the lineaments o
the animal faces upon its arms. Provi
dentially, the inscriptions upon this siatu,
are in a lost tongue. SD that our iutur,
generations may be able to palm it off fo
Reddy the Blacksmith OF j. l.. Sullivan.
The eternal fitness Of things is special,
y manifest in the financial downfall of thos
who persist in defying Fate and living no
only beyond their own means but beyon,
j. the means of those whose charity towar,
% them has been so woefully misplaced. Wal
street has CHEEKY welcome for all opera
l. tors so long as their ducats entitle then
= to consideration, but no tyrant is NOR
. relentless when the seed time and harves
" tim to the wall. Here is lesson -bu
E. we have had many one before. Til
u Grant family went into business simulta
neously under the prestige of II nam
alone, having no considerable amount 4
capital of their own, but plenty Of that c
!. other people whose confidence in thei
d integrity was simply boundless. Thei
e operations seem to- have been confined
II fleecing the very friends whose money ha
given them start, and among them wn
y St. Louis widow who advanced $1,000
a which was returned 10 her with $4,000
Z. more, the proceeds of its Investment fu
# nine months. OF course the bait tool
. and tile marvellous manner in whc
u money could thus be made to quadrupl
" itself, led the dear lady to put in tina
I. $4,000 and another with it, which q
70 course is now of the earth, earthly. Tn
Grants are laying all this financial vi
o ciousness to Ward, who is no doubt
y: grand rascal. but while he was stealin
v ten millions from their neighbors, wher
' were the Grants? Dom PEDRO.
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