Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-07-17
Washington Letter.
FROM our Regular Correspondent.
WAsnINGrON. july 1. 1888.


WASHINGTON, July 1, 1855.
The Washington papers are teem-
M with advice to eX clerks, Repub-
hcans SUPPOSED to have been turned
out If office, but Il is to be regretted
that there are comparatively few to
whom the advice applies. 1t has
been remarked that the number dis
charged is fewer than is usual at the
beginning of the fiscal year. The
,dyIcs given to the alleged dis
charged Republican clerks may be
summed briefly rs follows: Gro out
INTO the county, cultivate q truck
garden and an Independent spirit,
plant eggs. raise hens. dig potatoes,
make the bleak brick yards about
Washington, in Maryland and Eir-
ginia blossom like the rose. 1t is
plain that the Washington editors
have 1t down fine and know all about
farming. They evidently thought
myriad or two Of Republican clerks
would be discharged on the 1st of
July, and have had this good advice
" III pickle for them, and although
only about two hundred were dis
charged, they launched their cata-
pults Of counsel. Since Ocean
wrought itself into tempest "to
watt feather and to drown fly"
there has been no better example
Of overdoipg thing. About all the
Republican clerks have ever known,
or ever will know, of farming has
been learned in their regular cultiva.
uon of the beer gardens which
abound in Washington. In these
they sit from dusk until midnight
drinking great quantities OF beer,
and refreshing the spiritual mall
with music from brass band.
Nothing Of particular Importance
has occurred during the week. 1
had hoped 10 be able to give you
a detailed description of clean
sweep. but very mild feather duster
has been substituted for the heroic
hickory broom. Verify these are de.
generate days.
Among the episodes of the last
few days has been the discharge of a
Democrat, Mr.. Wallach, for often
sive pariisanship, and the appoint
men, Of n Republican, Kellar, who
is n very offensive partisan. MIR.
Wallnch was clerk in the Office CT
tho District Marshal, which Office is
still held by an appointee of Presi-
dent Arthur. Mr.. Wallach had been
IN an exuberant Growing condition,
like an indefatigable Democratic
rooster, ever since the election Of
Cleveland. His great cbeeriulness
WAS wormwood to his bitter.hearted
Republican associates. To cut his
Growing short, Marshal McMichael
turned him out. 1t is we'll enough
perhaps, to make an example of an
offensive Democratic partisan; it is q
poor rule that will not work both
ways. Growing is n vile and vulgar
habit; but if all the Growing Repub-
licnn clerks and cackling female
clerks were turned out of the depart
ments in Washington, the ruins of
Babylon are not more desolate than
would be these marble halls.
The offensive Republican partisan,
who has been appointed to Office un-
der tins Confederacy in.the- sad
die" Administration, is Mr.. Keller
Of Ohio, who, like Byron and Hig-
gins, awoke to find himself famous.
Mr.. X. passed the civil service exam
nation aud was appointed to a ST.
300 position. lie started from his
Ohio home for this wicked Republi-
can city. but the Democratic mem
ber Of Congress from the Democratic
district from which Keller was ap-
pointed. wired his protest; Be-
ware Of Keller. an offensive Republi-
can partisan. who is bearing down
on Washington with o civil service
appointment in his pocket" The
protest Of the Democratic member of
Congress was unavailing, Keller re.
cslved his appointment, and if be
conducts himself properly in office,
his ofIensiveness, previous to his ap.
pointment. will not be counted
against him. This is good politics,
aud pretty fair religion, but it is a
stumbling block and foolishness to
spoilsmen whose morals and con-
sciences have been perverted by six
teen years Of Grant, Hayes. Gar
field aud Arthur. Both Democrats
and Republicans will learn the fact,
sooner or later, that q purer, ulster
political era dawned upon the United
States CD the 4tL Of March, 1885.
DEN.
LIrrr. Commander Gorriuge, who
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