The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-07-08
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From Our Regular Correspondent.

WASHINGTON Jlsy 4, 1885.
Thewashinglon papersafs tenn.
ling hadyice 70 ex.clerks, repub.
licans supposed to have been turn.
led outof Office, but it Is TO be re.i
GREETED thasthete are comparative
Ply few 70 whom the advice applies.
II has been remarked that che
number discharged Is fewer than
is usual at the beginning Of the
fiscal year The advice given 10
the alledged discharged republican
clerks may be summed briefly as
follows 60 out into the country
cultivate truck garden, and an
independent spirit, plant eggs,
raise hens, dig tomatoes, make the
bleak brick yards about Washing.
ton, in Maryland, and Virginia
blossom like the nose. II is plain
that the Washington editors have
liz down fine and knew all about
farming. They evidently thought
a myriad or two Of republican
clerks would be discharged on the
first July, and have had this good
advice sin pickle" for them, and
although only about two hundred
were discharged they launched
their catapults Of counsel Since
ocean wrought itself into agtemp-
ess"to'waft q feather and 70 drown
a fs" there has been no better ex.
ample Of over doing q thing
About all the Republican clerks
have ever known or ever will know
of farming has been learned in
their regular cultivation of the
beer gardens which abound in
Washington, In these they sit
from dusk until midnight drink.
ling great quantities Of beer, and
refreshing the spiritual man with
music from a brass band.
Nothing ofparticular Importance
has occurred during the week. l
had hoped to be able to give you a
detailed description Of a clean
sweep, but a very mild featherdus-
ter has been substituted for the he
roic hickory broom. Verify these
are degenerate days.
Among the episodes Of the last
few days has been the discharge Of
a Democrat, Mr.. Wallach, for often.
sive partisanship, and the appoint
men! Of republican, Keller who
is very offensive partisan. Mr.:
Wallach was a clerk in the Office Of
the District Marshal, which Office
is still held by an appointee of
President Arthur. Mr., Wullach
had been in an exurbant growing
condition, like an indefatigable
Democratic rooster, ever since the
election Of Cleveland. His great
cheerfulness was worm.wood to his
bitter hearted Republican associf
ates. To cut his growing short,
Marshall McMicheal turned him
out is we'll enough, perhaps, TO
make an example Of an offensive
Democratic PARTISAN, but i! is a
poor rule that will not work both
ways. Growing is a vile and vul.
gar habit. But if all the growing
Republicans clerks, aud cackling
female clerks were turned out Of
the Departments in Washington,
the ruins of Babylon are not more
desolate than would be these marble
halls.
The offensive Republican parts
an who has been appointed to Of.
fee under this "Confederacy.in.the
saddle" administration is a Mr..
Keller Of Ohio, who like Byron and
Higgins awoke to find himself fam.
Gus. Mr.. X, passed the civil ser.
vice examination, and was up.
pointed to $1,000, position. He
started from his Ohio home for this
wicked Republican city, but the
Democratic member Of Congress
from the Democratic district from
which Keller was appointed wired
his protest; beware Of Keller an Of.
feusive republican partisan who is
bearing down on Washington with
a civil service appointment in his
pocket The protest of the Demo.
cratic member Of Congress was un.
ayailing, Keller received his ap.
pointment, and if he conducts him.
properly in office, his offensive.
ness, previous to his appointment,
will not be counted against him.
This is good politics, and pretty
fair religion, but 1t is a stumbling
block, and foolishness to spoilsmen
whose morals and conscience have
been perverted by sixteen years Of
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, and Arthur.
Both Democrats, and Republicans
will learn the fact, sooner OF later,
tina! a purer, juster political era
dawnod upon the United States on
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