Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-07-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Jone 3Oth, 1886.

pointments in common with those of
the States. The Inauguration Com
mittee, which from time to time was
SO as to include all who
had aspirations for Office, embraced
q number Of excellent Democrats.
For some reason or other the idea
prevailed that the President would
select from this committee the Dis
trict officers to succeed the Repnbli-
cans, who would of course walk the
plank at an early day. But they
still hold on; and the impression is
abroad that their successors will not
be taken from the Inauguration
Committee. When the Chairman of
the Committee went to Albany to re-
port the prospective magnifcence of
the arrangements, and the scale Of
grandeur on which everything had
been projected, the Presidents reply
was that he preferred as quiet an in
auguration as possible. He appreci-
ated the motives of the committee
but did not thank them.
1t was obvious on March 4th, that
Mr.. Cleveland was bored, and the
committee have better understood
every day since the significance of
his remarks to their Chairman when
he told him of the grand time they
were then preparing for him. Ger
tificates OF membership of the In
auguration Committee have ceased
to be considered passports to Ex-
ecutive favor.
Neither Tammany nor Tilden
comes in for anything in the Presi-
dents New York appointments of
Saturday. The appointments will
occasion much bitter disappointment.
Tammany has long since gwen up
the hope Of getting either of the
three great places, and their whole
efforts we're directed towards pre-
venting the County Democracy from
getting the Collectorship. With this
view they were trying to bring about
the appointment of some man out
side of the city. Tilden recommend
ed Simmons, and confidently ex-
pected, it is said, that tho weight of
his endorsement would be sufficient
to tip the balance in his favor. HUI
bert o. Thompson recommended Mr..
Hedden, but the appointment will
be disappointment to him, as he
wanted the place himself, and had
no idea Hedden would get it. Yet
the fac. that Thompson recommend
ed it will be sufficient to make Tam
many irreconcilable to Hedden's ap-
pointment. They claim that Thomp-
son will control the Custom House.
But none Of the politicians got just
what they wanted and the appoint
ments are sure to be in perfect ac-
cord with the policy laid down by
the President from the first. He'd
den represents the business men,
with a leaning toward the County
Democracy; Beattie is a County
Democrat, but is more particularly
Whitney's man, and for that reason,
If for no other, will not be acceptable
to Tilden, and Burt is a mugwump,
representing the most pronounced
type of mugvumpery, going back
among the astraysn from Folger.
Adjt-Gen. Drum, of the army,
thinks that there is room for reform
in the system of education at West
Point. He would throw open the
school to larger number of students
and have only picked number of
them actually appointed to the army.
He believes in giving large mum.
Der Of students a military education
and then sending them back to civil
life, where they can be useful as mill
tary professors at the schools throngh-
out the country in helping 10 keep
up the various militia organizations,
and in case of an emergency could
be relied upon for organizing and
handling troops. The present sys.
tenn at West Point has a tendency
to make boy over into a machine,
and to give him false notions of bis
position in life. None of the boys
there are taught anything about
their own country. None of them
come out of there with any correct
notions about the character of this
Government. Their after life in the
army makes them creatures of rou-
tine, excessively timid, and conser-
vative. All of the great Generals of
the war were West Point graduates
who had left the army and gone
back to civil life. Through their abb
sence from the army in their contact
with people they had acquired that
broadening of mind and knowledge
OF men which afterwards made them
successful generals. The advantage
OF sending graduates of West Point
back into civil life throughout the