The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1884-08-07
our WashingtonL Letter.


Headquarters are closed this week, a
large majority of the committee having
gone to New York to attend the meet
ing of the national democratic COM
mlttee, and to visit Albany to officially
notify Governor Cleveland of his NOM
ination. The action of the indepen-
dent republican conference committee
in New York has had very depress-
ing effect upon the republicans here,
while the d smocrats are elated thereat.
Much amusement is created at the
expedients planned by the republican
| Committee to secure little money from
the poor clerks and civil service en-
ployees of the various department Is.
These employees just now are loud for
a strict construction OF the civil SER
vice rules; they roll their eyes in holy
horror at the idea OF being called up
on to help the e. o. p. in this its time
of need. Some would like TO give but
| fear that it would work against them
when Cleveland comes in as president,
while the great majority prefer not to
give at all, 1t is said the screws will
be applied indirectly, but if indications
are correct very little juice will be ex-
tracted this year; the boys will hold
on to all they have and get all they
can for fear Of a cyclone after March.
n6 outrageous eboIlCS
primarily by the Cincinnati Enquirer
are now retailed by those who seem to
grow fat on mud and who are never
happy unless defaming the characters
OF better men, are not given credence
here. On the contrary those who be-
lieve in the purity of Governor Cleve-
lands character, and they include nine
tenths of all the people, republicans as
well as democrats, are indignant there
at, and no doubt is expressed that this
campaign lie, although started by a
democratic paper, will work rather to
the injury OF the person and party not
intended,
The mason work of the Washington
monument has been substantially COM
pleted. The shaft is now feet hundred
feet high. 1t is now pretty certain that
the pyramidal cap sheaf (roOf they call
it) which will add fifty five to its sky
ward approach will be completed by
the first of November, and then on the |
22d of next February, ten days before |
new president is inaugurated, your cor |
respondent will be glad to see you and |
your readers here at the dedication,
and hope you will remain over and |
hear President ClevelaDd,s inaugural |
address.
The second president of a republic |
that has ever visited the United States |
during his term of office is now within |
our borders and was in Washington this |
week. The person of whom we speak
is the president of San Salvador, who
has been on visit to France and En-
gland, and is on his way back to his
Central American home. OF course it
would not have been proper thing for
the head of one republic on this conti-
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public and not go and say how d. you
do to the chief executive thereof; so
President Zalzirar took a little run
over here from New York the first OF
the week to see President Arthur, and
the two had quite as agreeable time
together as the governors of the Caro-
linas had or are reputed to have had on
one occasion. The other president of
repu bile that has been within the
bounds of our happy Union was the
chief executive of Guatemala, also in
Central America. We have had as
guests two or three eX-presidents, an
emperor, Dom Pedro of Brazil, king,
Kalaku of the Sandwich Islands, and
some other notable persons, but as they
haven seemed so much like relations as
real presidents of republics, we have
not felt with the former so much like
expressing our hearty interest in their
welfare and inquiring after the health
OF their families when shaking hands
with them as we have with the latter.
1t may be noted in this connection
with what ease republic can run it.
self. President Zalzirar has been alb J
sent from San Salvador for several ;
and it is stated that the affairs {
Df state are moving along down there
with the utmost smoothness; and at the ,
present writing the only representa-
i've of our administration in Washing
on is single member OF the cabinet,
he president, the rest Iof his ministers
and most of the bureau officers having {
gone away on leave of absence, and yet /,
his "best government that the sun ever !
ihone upon" is going along as quietly,
steadily, and with as much poetry of
notion as Mrs. Lawyer Lockwood on
Ter velocipede on the smoOth-paved '
treets of the capital, and it doesn't /
how half as much of its hoofs' in its l
progress. s, B. lr