The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-05-28
washington Letter.

WASHINGTON, May %, 1851 have
learned from those who are admitted to
the inner councils of the white house
that the president is very much en-
barrassed under the weight and multi
plicity Of his duties. he possesses both
the capacity and habit of hard cOntin-
ned work, and he has been accustomed
to examine svery matter brought to his
attention before giving 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
contract. Mr., Cleveland knew this be-
fore he came to Washington, but he
now realizes 1t in way that expert
ence alone can teach. He at first tried
TO delegate the appointing power to va
rious cabinet officers, and 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 raseals linger 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 trelieved by
the skill and tact of Colonel Lamont
from hundred daily Yexations, and
his prOtraCted illness at this time is
keenly felt by nm.
The necessity OF turning the rascals
out becomes daily more apparent.
This is nOminally democratic admin
istraJion, but the camp, the cyurt and
the woods are full of traitors and as
sassins, synonyms not too strong for a
majority of the republicans now in Of
fee. They are at the desks in all the
departments. They guard the doors to
the offices of all the bureaus, and play
the part of malignant spies while pro-
tecting themselves with the shield of
civil service. Last week an utterly
worthless sot was discharged from of
fee, but he happened to have been a
union soldier and the incident was the
occasion for concerted howl from the
whole radical press. If the republican
party expects TO mourn in this way for
every ex-unhon soldier that shall be
discharged it will need an ululating
choir or it had better get a concert of
locomotive whistles with triple brass
throatS, The government departments
must not be an asylum for drunken,
Worries nartizan loafers, and the fact
that they served in the union @ 80.
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 in the gov
eminent over the election of Logan to
the senate. Some clerks tried to con-
ceal their joy, but with many delight
was irrepressible. There was Logan
canonade on Wednesday last at the
untimely hour of one o'clock at night.
Il 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 re-
port was believed to be dynamite ex-
plOsiOu and the continuation 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 coca
sion of much. Indignation and complaint
and wiusbe the subject.Of an inves-
tigatiOn, Hundreds of people who
were awakened by the racket believed
that Gen. Grant was dead or that some
great event had occurred and came
down town TO learn that it was in hon
or of Senator Logan's reelection by q
lot of government clerks who had not
the bravery to make their demonstra-
ton except in the dead hour of night.
Turn the towards out.