Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-04-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. C., April 6, 1885

WASHINGTON, ID. C., April 6, 1895.
The professions of almost every kind
throughout the country will soon re-
ceive large accessions from the effects
of the Democratic guillotine at Wash
ington, which is now getting into good
working order. Lincoln, who was a
most conspicuous failure as a War Sec
retary, has joined the grand army of
Chicago shysters from which he was
drafted by President Garfield, and even
Mr.. Arthur goes back to New York to
enter the c0partnership which was bro
ken up by his more successful practice
as a politician. The ex-Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, Walter Evans,
Esq, whose career has been all too
short because he was a most excellent
public officer. will return to his law
practice at Louisville, KY, where,,a very
large clientele awaits his service. Old
man Ben. Brewster, with his ruffied
shirt and English heraldry, has never
been in Washington long enough at one
time to say that he has left his law bu-
siness in Philadelphia at all. AS for
Chandler and HattOn, the twin dudes of
Arthur's Cabinet, the public cannot be
much concerned as to their future; they
can both pick up living anywhere-if
nobOdy's watching them.
The grand army of political hacks
and dead beats that have found their
way into the Treasury Department. in the
capacity of special agents, is to be COM
pletely broken up and scattered. Sec
"etary Manning's attention was called
early in the hours of the new admins
tration to the useless and expensive host
of scalawags who for years have done
nothing under Heaven but draw their
salaries and play into the hands of the
! very men they were set to watch. In
fact these fellows had so much influ-
ence with the last administration that
neither Arthur nor his Secretary of the
Treasury could find it possible to lop
them off.
The Senatorial junketing parties for
the summer that had been laid out un-
der the miserable pretense that they are
for the promotion of the public inter-
ests, have come to naught through the
instrumentality of old man Van Wyck,
who has lately been stirring up the Re-
publican galoots of the Senate with q
very pointed stick. Mr.. Van Wyck is
a veritable Miss Nancy in appearance,
but lie Has dDulluttllIly SIOWH hlS ubli'
ity to hold his own in lip contest with
some of the best men in the Senate.
The appointment of postmaster Pear.
son at New York City is not defensible
under any circumstances, nor under
any conceivable principle that governs
party management, or the demands .
civil or any other service. Next to the
Custom House at New York the posi-
ton of postmaster is of more cOnse
quence in its relations to New York
politics and partisan success there and
in the State, than the administration it.
self. To say that nobody in the Demo
cratic party in the great State of New
York is not as wellqualified to discharge
the duties of that office, is an offront tt
common sense, and an insult to the or
ganization that rolled up two hundred
thousand majority for a Governor wht
now, as President, selects the bitteres
Republican in the State for the seconC
best Office within his gift. tell you thu
. great bulk of the Democrats of thi
!; country cannot and ought not to put VI
with this sort of thing, and no amour
of special pleading form Geoge William
Curtis and the Mugwump tribe, wht
have gone back to their first love, cal
excuse this throwing away of the frs
and best fruits of a costly victory.
PHONO.