Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-01-10
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
NEWS, Excrs, AND GOSSIP.

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,From our Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, January 9.--WhcI
Che Puritan hthcrs resolved that thu
land occupied by the Indians belonged
to the saints, and that they were thu
saints, they but foreshadowcd th'
course of many Of their descendants
and others in regard to the Offices Of
the Federal Government. Until the
selection Of Cleveland was placed be.
yond doubt Republican otiice-holders
here, not only representing their own
States, but Virginia and ether southern
States, regarded themselves generally
"A entitled to these places for life.
From their standpoint the United
States proper was bounded on the rorth
by the St. Lawrence and the south
by the Potomac. All south
of the Potomac was political Soudan,
and entitled in their judgment neither
TO the right Of self-goyernment nor to
the privilege Of holding any place at
Washington. A little fellow, for ex-
ample, who would hardly turn the
scales at hundred would walk 1.-THE
avenue y before the last election clad in
a slim, long, brown oyercoat, such as
tradition says John Randolph wore,
and honestly think that southern SEN
ator ought to give him the right Of
way. II is true that he was but
a small barnacie on the Government
ship of State and received only
81 200 year. but then he believed he
belonged TO the privileged SAINTS who
were to rule the country for all time.
Then he had answered, after being
duly coached, the civil-seryice questions
as to the length Of the Merrimac river,
the height of Bunker-Hill monument,
the age Of Minister Lowell, the wealth
Of Jay Gould, and the year the May
flower landed. Then he knew, too, the
height of Mount Saint Elias and who
struck Billy Patterson. This know
ledge, coupled with the fact that he
parted his hair in the middle and could
say, "Arn't you going,n gave him a
right, he thought, to feel superior to those
who said, Jeems river" and some
times drank coffee out of a saucer, even
though Queen Victoria, hear, is guilty
of the same improperly. He can hardly
now realize that " the grand old party"
has gone under and that southerners
are to have equality under the Govern
ment. Ii will not dc to talk to him.
His hope, however, is that his patron
saint, Dorman b. Eaton, will manage to
keep him in his place, even though he
has gone home at every election and reg
ularly boosted Of the immense aid he
has given the Republican party machine.
There are other types of Ofice-hOlders
from New England and elsewhere who
have not been as dressy, and who, in
their free-and-easy way. now declare
they are Democrats. The situation here
is study, and there is great deal of
human nature in it. The more robust
Republicans, however, who have given
the Democrats the hardest ticks, ac-
cept the situation as the fate of war,
and declare that, come what may, they
dii their best for their party, but luck
and Burchard were against them. They
would. they add, do so again. They
plGckily assert that they will roll up
their sleeves four years hence and elect
Blaine or some other Republican. The
Democrats admire their pluck, and
reply that they will be on
hand in increased force.
VIRGINIA MATTERS.
The petition of the School Board of
the city of Richmond in favor Of the
Blair educational bill, laid before the
House by the Hon. George ID. Wise,
to-day, went to The Committee on Edu-
cation, of which Mr.. Willis, of Ken
lucky, is chairman. Hon. John S.
Wise ridicules th1 idea that he wants to
be law professor at the University of
Virginia. He says to be professor
there is to be brrisd, al he is not just
ready vet for interment, And yet
there are Democrats here who really
think lac is dead politically. He walk
around quite briskly. however, and
does not outwardly show any signs of
being aware of his condition. Judge
William J. Robertson was in the city
to-day. Hon. John 5. Barbour has
gone TO New York. Senator Riddle
berger is making most active opposition
to the Spanish treaty. He iavors.
hear, an open discussion of all
treaties. Mr.. Libby vents the PEN
sion Of Henry Barton increased.
Hon. Holmes Conrad is in the city.
Senator Mccormick left to-day. Gene
raj W. II. Payne's brother Charles,
who has been sick for some time. died
II Warremton to-day. II. NJ. Smith,
IT., Of the Richmond bar, arrived this
morning and has been busy all day in
aw case.
THE ARTHUR MEN AND THE sENA-
IpRSHIP.
The Arthur men now display bitter
hostility to Morton for senator from
New York. They say that as an APP
,ointee of the President as Minister to |
France il was indicate for hun to enter |
he race against him. They add that he |
lid more than any one else TO force MIR.
Arthur from the senatorial race. IL is
'vident that they want Evarts TO win,
wen though he does perspire ice-water.
other Republicans here feel differently. |
md think that Morton's money ought
o win. A Democrat of prominence
avs that the blackguardism of Eyarts
bout the South in the last canvass ex-
ceded anything except Blaine's stump
peeches.
BASEBALL AT THE MONUMENT.
A number of local baseball players
rent TO the W ashington monument to-day
nd endeavored TO catch a ball thrown
rom its top, distance Of 535 feet.
cyeral attempts were made, but none
Tere successful, as the ball fell at least
fly feet from where they judged it
-ould fall. This indicates that bal
IONS can never be used successfully in
with baseball games.