Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1885-03-26
FROM THE STATES.
a Visit to the Exposition at New Or
leans---'rhc lnauguratiOn---S --Shak.
ing the Paw of President
Cleveland.


THOMAS DuNN, ESQ,
Sun River, Montana:
DEAR Tom Have been waiting unxi.
ously for some time to hear from you. ]
wrote you short note when | started to
Now Orleans. We spent eight days there,
most OF the time in looking over the Ex.
position, whicl, is n grand show OF the in.
genuity of men and the products of the
soil. More Of these can be seen here in
short time than could possibly be seen in
n life times travel.
We visited the cemeteries which are all
built above ground. New Orleans being
lower than the Mississippi river, water is
struck some six inches beneath the top
soil. We took In Lake Pontchartrain
and the Spanish Fort, French market,
Cathedral, and had Il ride up the Missis.
sippi river and across Lake Pontchar.
train. am glad the people are satisfied
with their city. ] would not accept of
the entire city as gift and be compelled
to live there the balance of my life.
Stopped over one night at Franklin and
wended our way to Washington TO see
Democratic president insugurated Ar.
rived there in time to see Congress in scs
sion. The Senate is Il very sedatc body,
but the House Is regular Bcdlam per.
feet Pandemonium. They seemed to pay
less attention To each other than our Ter
ritorial body. After all, there is not so
much difference in the makeup of the
human family. The educated and litter.
ate, the wiso and the foolish, the rich and
the poor are all governed pretty much by
the same motives. The longer we live,
the more we find out how little we know.
Boss Shepard, while he may have filed
his own pocket, certainly deserves credit
for making SO beautiful II place of our
capital city. Washington's monument,
near the banks of the Potomac, Is 55 feet
square at the base and is 555 feet tall. If
the old man while living had had any idea
Of what future generations were going to
do, me thinks he would have made will
prohibiting such u lavish waste of money
to his memory, and advised that it be
spent for the education and benefit of the
living.
The 4th OF March dawncd bright AMI
bnlmy All nature, us well as the great
Ruler of the universe, seemed to be in
perfect harmony with the incoming ad
ministration. Cleveland looked rs firm us
the Rock of Gibraltcr. Such an ovation
as he received gladdcncd the hearts of
many old-time Democrats and must have
made Cleveland to feel that he was on the
topmost round of the ladder. Such u
crowd of people was never before in
Washington. 1t was day long to be re.
membcred. Cleveland has made one mis-. |
take. refer to his silver letter. But his |
promises well. lie will /,
either he the most popular President we
have ever had or the most abused. His |
Cabinet, while not entirely satisfactory to
the West, upon the whole gives general |
lie starts out on business
basis, seemingly TO think the American
people 'pay ME fifty thousand IL year TO |
manage their affairs and by the holy
Moses intend to manage them for the
greatest good" Clcvcland's aims nrc in
the right direction, but it remains to be
seen what the result will be. His ap.
pointmcnts thus far seem to he for the
benefit of the party, which think is his
object. In other words, he has no use for
We attended the "Inaugural ball (which
was another jam Of human beings. Nine
thousand people in attendance. They
looked like bees in hive ut work. We
visited Cleveland ut one of his reception
'ooms and shook the old fellow by the
paw, rs well ms his old maid sister, whose
makeup suggests woman's rights.
! saw lIauscr, Conrad, Joe Baker, Day.
dson, John Murphy, W. A. Clark, Sam
Word, Tom Napton, Bonner of Deer
l.odge, Mccormick and Eddy of Missoula,
John Shobcr, w. ID. Smith, Joe X. Toolc,
Maginnis, Chas. Curtis and many others
rom other sections of Montana, and was
With Flowerrce and Ashby
Think Cleveland will carry out the plat
'orm in reference to Federal appoint.
ncnts in the Territories. But he is going
low on all appointments
Have not determined when | will re.
urn home; may possibly remain until the
citing OF Indian supplies, which will
axe place about the latter part of April.
Yours truly, r. s. FoKD.