San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1885-11-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


The present occupant of the White
House can always be found at his
place of business. During the week
the whole fashionable world within
reach of the Washington race course
have been attending the autumnal
races. President Arthur could al
ways be found there, usually in COM
pany with Attorney General Brews-
ter. President Cleveland is known
to be an admirer of horses, and dur
ing the meeting of the Jockey Club,
prominent men belonging to it made
an effort to have him attend, but the
chief executive would not be moved.
Mr.. Cleveland would have liked to
have visited Richmond, Va, on the
occasion of the opening of the State
Fair, but he was afraid that his pres
ence might be construed as trying to
influence the election in that State.
After consultation with the Cabinet,
the trip was abandoned.
Much nonsense has been circulated
recently concerning lack of harmony
in the Cabinet, and the resignation of
it's members is now being discussed.
It is believed by persons who would
be most likely to know, that the Presi-
dent receives the most cordial sup
port from his Cabinet, and that their
relations are not strained in any case.
The presenceof Senator John sher-
man in this city was made the occas-
ion of serenade at the Ebbitt House.
A sufficient sum was raised by the
faithful Ohioans who did notgo home
to vote to pay for the music, and a lit
tie crowd of about 200 people gath
cred to listen to the cheap melody
and still cheaper eloquence of the
tall, angular Senator, who came out
and Haunted the bloody shirt vigor-
ously. He said, near the close of
MS speech, that he was on his way to
Virginia. eyes," said bystander,
'and if you repeat there your speech
,f tonight you will surely elect Fitz
Lee." This sally caused a good deal
If laughter and applause. Senator
Sherman spoke for about an hour.
The purity of the ballot was his prin-
,ipal hobby. He declared that every
national election since 1868 had been
ainted with fraud and terrorism, and
shaking his fist at the White House,
,e asserted that last year, by unlaw-
ul combination and fraud, Grover
Cleveland had been elected President
If the United States, when if there I
lad been fair vote and fair count,
James G. Blaine would have been
elected.
He said many other things illus
ratiye of his immense powers Of
alsehood and venom, but his declara- 8
ion that Mr.. Cleveland was elected
" fraud is edifying, coming from a !
nan who helped to steal the Louisia- !
IA vote for Hayes in 1876. A threat {
10 made of reducing the representa- d
ion of the South in Congress is sn-
tiled to attention merely as furnish Z
ng an insight into Mr.. Shermans 2
purposes and hopes. 3
Mr.. Cleveland holds receptions in i
be East Room on Mondays, We'd I
esdays, and Fridays. The attendance o
{ them is increasing every day. Il
Iany come desiring TO see the first 4
Democratic President since Buch y
nan. All that they ask Is q hand .
bake. and the President gives them q
bat rs q solemn duty There are d
lany bridal couples among his call a
rs. who VIII remember the glimpse I
bev thus catch Of the President, and c
meat The account Of Their vislt 70 a
1eir children and graDd-children, and b
-sasure the little Dosegay be gives .
ber as an heiriOon- -