The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-06-03
Washincton Letter.
From our Regular Correspondent
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| From our Regular Correspondent
May %, 1885.
Editor Herald:
| have learned from those who are
admitted to the inner councils of the
White House that the President is
very much embarrassed under the
weight and the multiplicity of his
duties. He possesses both the capacity
and the habit of hard continued work
and he has been accustomed to exam.
inc every matter brought to hi> atten-
ton before giving it his official sanct ion.
This plan may have been feasibI.. in
the Mayors office at Buffalo, or ven
in the GubernatOrial Office in Albany.
But the Presidency of the United States
Is different sort of contract. Mr.
Cleveland knew this before he came to
Washington, but he now realizes ii in
a way that experience alone can teach.
He at first tried to delegate the appoint
ing power To various Cabinet officers,
and TO thus relieve himself of an army
of office seekers, but he soon found that
the appointees of his 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
administration is going slow, why the
rascals linger and hold on. Another
reason is the absence of Col. Lamont
who is the Presidents most trusted
lieutenant and co worker. The Presi ..
dent has long been relieved by the
skill and tact of Colonel Lamont from
hundred daily vexations, and his
protracted illness at this time is keenly
felt by him.
The necessity of turning the rascals
out becomes daily more apparent. This
Is nOminally Democratic administra-
ton, but the camp, the court, the
woods are full of traitors and assassins,
synonyms not too strong for a majority
of the Republicans now in office. They
are are at the desks in all the Depart
ments. They guard the doors to the
offices of all the Bureaus, land play the
part of malignant spies while protect
ing themselves with the shield of Civil
Service. Last week an utterly worth
less sOt was discharged from office, but
he happened to have been a Union
soldier and the incident was the occa-
sion for a concerted howl from the
whole Radical press. If the Republican
party expects to mourn i'm this way for
every drunken ex-Union soldier that
shall be discharged it will need an
ululating choir or it had better get a
concert of locomotive whistles with
triple brass threats. The Government
Departments must not be an asylum
for drum ken, worthless partisan loafers,
and the fact that they served i'm the
Union Army may have entitled them
to bounties and pensions, but it should
not entitle them to clerical positions
which owing to natural incapacity and
contracted vices they cannot fill.
There was great rejoicing i'm 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 Logan cannOnade on Wednesday
last at the untimely hour of one 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 of
hundreds of sick and sleepy citizens.
The first report was believed to he a
dynamite explosion and the continual
ton of the cannonade woke up the
entire city. As the firing was without
permission of the city authorities and
against the law at such an hour, it has
been the occasion of much indignation
and complaint, and will be the subject
of All investigation. Hundreds of
people who were awakened by the
racket believed General Grant was
dead or that some great event had oc-
Cured and came down town to learn
that it was in honor of Senator Logan's
reelection by a lot of government
clerks, who had not the bravery to
make their demonstration except i'm
the dead hour of night. Turn the
towards out.