The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-02-28
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
From cur Regular Corresper dent.1

L n
is still in want of a pedestal, AID
New York is in want of fRnds to p,y
for one. There is vast amountlf
sentiment about a female figure a
couple of hundred feet high holdfig
in her hand a tallow dip with which
she is enlightening the world, but
there is something miserably reslis-
tic about going down into the bril-
vate pockets of the people TO paythe
scot. The fact that the Foundation to
support Mr.. Bartholdl's gift to the
country is to cost something ike a
halfa million ofdOllars. demonstrates
that the New York mOney-chapgers
are bent upon getting out of the job
all there is to be gotten out, and
while the treasury is as empty as the
proverbial contribution box, the as
ISOLATION fluids 1t both prudent and
necessary to pay the salary to a i've
thousand dollar secretary, and cor
responding salaries to corresponding
ly useless officials, to say nothing Of
the small fortunes that haze baaF
made by smaller contractors Whb
have thus far furnished the york
and material for the unfinished bat
Element of the structure. Il Mr.. Cox
gets Congress to contribute one hun
dred thousand dollars of the peoples
money to be swallowed ap in this
vortex of Gotham mendacity, there
will be fine opening for like enter
prises all over the country which will
make their successful raids upon the
national treasury.
The cranks throughout the country
are already after Mr.. Cleveland.
There is not much fear of such fell
lows as DR.. Ray, who has had "mis-
sion" from Heaven or somewhere
else to remove" the new President,
bit there is something like a threat
ened calamity in prospect from the
demand that will be made on the
Executive for some sort of innOva'
ton upon established customs. Here
comes an appeal, for instance, from {
handful of so-called temperance wo
men of Washington, among whom
readily recognize some as the wives
of gentlemen who nightly search ir
vain for the part of the door to intro
duce the latch key, because of colo
tea, and these persistent females pc
! tition Mr.. Cleveland to Danish wine
from the White House. There il
| another cOterie of women here WHIT
desire and probably will compel thu
President to accede to their company
and the social festivities of the Man
sion. In this respects Mr.. Arthur
has allowed himself to be hampereC
to deeper extent than any predeces
sor except Hayes, and if Uncle Gro
yer escapes them he has more Yerte
brae than he has been given credi
for having.
| can scarcely see why there should
be so much ado over the composition
Of Mr.. Cleveland's Cabinet. Nc
President-elect in the last forty years
has given even sign ofhis intentions
as to the formation of his Cabinet I'm.
til the time of Inauguration. We al
remember what surprise Grant
gave US by the announcement of his
Cabinet on the afternoon of Inaugu'
ration Day in 1869. People knew
who Mr.. Washburne, for Secretary Of
State, was, and they knew who A
L. Stewart, as Secretary of the Treas
ury, was, but when it came to Mr.
A. M. Borie, for Secretary of the
Navy, | do not think man in Wash.
ington had ever heard of him. 1t is
not likely then that Mr.. Cleveland is
going to be so stupid as to make his
Cabinet known single hour before
the time comes for its necessity. and
| furthermore firmly believe that he
has not decided upon one single
member so far as to invite him to a
seat as one of the Presidential fami-
ly.
JuNIUS