Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1885-11-13
Letter from Washington.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 10, 1885,

WASHINGTON, ID. o., NOV. lO, 1880.
Editors Register.-Already has the ar
dent devotion Of the Washington Post to
Mr.. Cleveland urged that paper to put
his name mp for reelection in 1885, with
Governor. elect Fitzhugh Lee for Vice
President. The Post may or may not
have Mr.. Cleveland's permission for
this, but AS the President is pretty
sturdy stickler for consistency he may
call the fact to recollection that it was
his declared purpose not to run for
second term. Perhaps the declaration
was mistake, but as lie made it he may
choose to stand by it. Mr.. Lincoln did
the same thing; nevertheless, he ran for
a second term and was elected, but the
second election was far from blessed.
Such pledges should be sparingly made,
but if made should be kept. With re-
gard to the victory in New York the
Post says it sis the Presidents own, and
a most emphatic endorsement of him."
One OF my previous letters noticed
that 'Puck," the able caricaturist, had
depicted as bouncing along upon the
track of time an irresistible railroad
train, carrying Carl Schurz, Henry
Ward Beecher, and other independent
mupwumps, who were to run down and
destroy Governor Hill and the Demo-
cratic mule he was mounted on. Fully
confident that this would be the case
and that Davenport would be victorious,
PUCK" last week anticipated his regu-
lar day of publication and displayed
poor Hill and his mule as wrecks by the
track of the all-Smashing, victorious
train. How "Puck" Will deal with this
mischance we shall see, but he has an
opportunity for learning that he is not
so much of a prophet as he had sup
posed. "Puck" evidently thought he
would be doing the agreeable to Mr..
Cleveland in clarifying Davenport and
the mugwumps, and overthrowing Hill.
The Chinese question OH the Pacific
coast looms up seriously. 1t is pity
that the Government and the people
mostly concerned cannot agree on this
matter. The Washington Star thinks
that "abstractly, the Chinese have a
right to settle in this country and get
rich by undertaking native labor, but
practically, they will have an uncom-
Portable time of it while thus engaged"
Where the abstract right comes from it
is hard to see if not from the will of the
people whose country the Chinese often
sively invade. The Presidents procla-
nation, possibly called for by considera-
tons of public order and international
duty, will unfortunately be construed
in favor of keeping the Chinese abomi-
nation still in the land. The Morey let
ter (whoever was its author) took about
the same view as the Star, that the Chi
nese are right in coming here ''to I'M
derbid native labor" But the Morey
letter was not extensively popular even
in New England.
Mr.. John Kelly has declined continu-
ance of his headship over Tammany.
He continues to be Il Sachem, however.
The Canadian rebel leader, Louis Riel,
has been again respited to the 10th inst.
Mr.. Mallct yesterday applied to Presi-
dent Cleveland to interfere and prevent
Riel's execution, but the President de-
cidcd he could not interfere.
An investigation before the Interior
Department leads to the probability that
not Professor Graham Bell but an old
Italian, Antonio Muercci, was the real
inventor of the telephone.
The new Civil Service Commission,
Messrs. Eaton, Edgerton and Trenholm,
with Edgerton for President, COM
menced business yesterday.
Nominations for President are cOnta-
gious. Thus the name of Gov. David
B. Hill, the Bald Eagle of Chemung, is
put forward for President in 1888.
Yours &C. JADIS.