Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-06-05
Washington Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WAsUINGToS. Nav % 1885

From our Regular Correspondent.
WAsHINGToS, May %, 1885.
Il have learned from those who are
admitted to the inner councils of the
White House that the President is
veiv much embarrassed under the
weight and the multiplicity of his
duties. He possesses both the ca.
pacity and the habit of hard con.
tinued work, and he has been accus
toned to examine every matter
brought to his attention before Civ.
ing it his official sanction. This
plan may have been feasible in the
Mayors Office at Buffalo, or even in
the gubernatorial Office in Albany.
But the Presidency of the United
States is a different sort of a con.
tract. Mr.. Cleveland knew this be.
fore he came to Washington, but he
now realizes it in way that exper.
j. nee alone can teach. He at frs,
tried to delegate the appointing
power to various Cabinet officers,
and to thus relieve himself of an
army OF Office e-seekers, but he soon
found that the appointees of bis
Cabinet needed careful supervision
in order to avoid those mistakes
which the French statesman said
were worse than crimes. These are
some of the reasons why the Admin
istra,ion is going slow, why the ras.
Gals linser and hold on. Another
reason is the absence of Col. Lamont
who is the Presidents most trusted
lieutenant and CO. worker. The
President has long been relieved by
the skill and tact Of Col. Lamont
from n hundred daily vexations, and
his protracted illness at this time is
keenly felt by him.
The necessity of turning the ras-
cal out becomes daily more appar.
ent. This is nominally Democratic
Administration but the camp, the
court, the woods are full of traitors
and assassins, synonyms not toe
strong for a majority of the Republi
cans now in office. They are at the
desks in all the departments. They
guard the doors to the offices of all
the bureaus, and play the part ol
malignant spies while protecting
themselves with the shield of civil
service. Last week an utterly
worthless sot was discharged from
office, but he happened to have been
Union soldier and the incident
was tho occasion for q concerted
howl from the whole radical press.
If the Republican party expects tC
mourn in this way for every drunken
ex. Union soldier that shall be dis
charged it will need an ulnlatine
choir or it had better get concert
of locomotive whistles with triple
brass throats. The Government de-
partments must not be an asylum
for drunken, worthless, partisan
loafers, and the fact that they served
in the Union army may have entitled
them to bounties and pensions, but
it should not entitle them to clerical
positions which, owing to natural in
capacity and contracted vices, they
cannot fill.
There was great rejoicing in the
Government Offices over the election
of Logan to the Senate. Some
clerks tried to conceal their Joy, but
with many delight was irrepressible.
There was q Logan cannonade, on
Wednesday last, at the untimely
hour of o'clock at night. A big
gun was dragged to the nearest
available spot to the White House
and fired one hundred times, to the
great annoyance and vexation oI
hundreds of sick and sleepy citizens
The first report was believed to be 6
dynamite explosion, and the contin
uation of the cannonade woke up the
entire city. As tie firing was with
out permission of the city authori-
ties and against the law at such au
hour, it has been the occasion ol
much Indignation and complain,
and will be the subject of an inves.
tigation. Hundreds of people who
were awakened by the racket be-
lieved that General Grant was dead
or that some great event had oc-
Cured and came down town to learn
that il was in honor of Senator Lo
gan's reelection by a lot of Govern.
ment clerks who had not the bravery
to make their demonstration except
in the dead hour of night. Turn
the towards out. Dem.