The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-01-16
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, January IS, 1885.
OUR wAsHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 18th, 1886.
The monotony of the week that has passed wal
broken by the celebration of the anniversary OF
the battle of New orleans.-"Jackson's day." as II
is called. The election of Jackson marked the
overflow of a corrupt party despotism. and il
was fitting that the names of jackson and Cleve-
land should be associated In celebrating the vic
tory of New Orleans when the country Is rejoice
ing in the overflow. through Cleveland, of the
gigantic and Of Office stesers
cratic. eloquent and successful.
1t is difficult to believe that only six weeks
more remain of President Arthur and Republic
can administration. Preparation is sleepless
aud expectation is on tip-toe for the fourth OF
March. 1t is estimated that there will be ESQ, 600
visitors here at tho inauguration. cannot think
that there will be 30 many, but the number will
doubtless be large. As usual thing the interest
the adjournment OF Congress- but this year it will
grow with the Inauguration of new President, a
new policy, the appointment of new cabinet,
and numerous other changes In all the DEPART
ments of the public service.
1t is ed flying to see the desperation with which
large number of drones and sinecursts are try
ing to get themselves converted into real little
civil service reformers and Democrats. Many of
them are shuffiing over with an alacrity that is
Congress is at work on the appropriation bills.
The Navy bill has been passed by the House and
the consular and Diplomatic bill is under discus
sion. l heard Republican statesman 80 called,
bewailing the fact that the trained and improved
consular and diplomatic personnel which, he said,
had been established in the last eight years by
Evarts and Freinghuysen, must give place to
Democratic bummers and war politicians Well
it will be pity IL 1t is So but IL this noxious class
must have Offices by all means let's send them to
the foreign courts where they will have nothing
to do, and will therefore be incapable of harm.
Modern diplomacy is an anachronism and farce.
There Is not the slightest necessity for our send
ing representatives to foreign governments, or
for foreign governments to send represent
atives here. We have no foreign relations
Steam and electricity and the press have
made the embassadOrial establishments of con-
tiguous States useless. then how utterly need
less to keep them up between our country and
trans Atlantic powers. 1t would be better to re-
call our flimsy ships. cruising in foreign seas,
exposing our weakness, and costing millions an
nually. 1t would be better to dismantle our dplo-
matte establishments in European capitals. The
press with steam and the Atlantic cable will
furnish us prompter and more accurate informa-
ton than can possibly be obtained by our heavy
representatives abroad. We will know state
secrets as soon as they are known by kings and
their ministers, for we will get them from the
same source. the press.
The situation of the Blanes in this city Is not a
happy one Mrs. Bl inc is not magnetic, she Is
repellant She has taken occasion to snub many
ladies in society here, who openly rejoice at
her disappointment and humiliation now. Mr.
Blaine's course since his defeat has been such as
to estrange many personal friends that he had
among the Democrats. In the long years and the
new epoch that will date from the fourth Of
March. 1885, the capital of the United States
ought to be an uncongenial place for malignant
dsunionists like James g. Blaine.