Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1885-02-25


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| am afraid I an getting behind. lden't
know that I want An ofIles, but / don't like
70 - them gobbled up in such hurry. I
win write TO Mr. Cleveland 70 sst asids
abeee Anif dozen good. fat oass for me to
ta1re oh0ice Of when make up my mind
WAS ruminating over tNo OF thxss that
would pay pretty Noll e4A LET Ne stny =
homo most Of tn t mt there are :
dozen on more fslle1 aatsr them. and what
worries ne d, they want my help 10 ct
them. I gst alstter most every day from
SONS snAsrins Dsmocrst - - bssp
'lwor41ao fx ~ taxty ~ ysAxs ard ysassy
and is just obliged to hsve an ONCE. l
can't 20 to town but Whist some feller
wants me to sign q petition. I don't know
how many have signed for different men
for the same ofics. for like all the boys
and want them all to have chance, 20
sign every one they put at me. reckon
Mr. Cleveland will understand It. wish
there was good, fat ONCE for everybody
who wants one, for there are lots OF clever
fellers in this country that work don'tagree
with. Their constitutions need an easy,
ssdentary life, whore they can sst around,
and smoke and talk, and entertain thsir
friends, and take on flesh, and accumulate
some ''sm bong pong" a. the French call
it.
I admire q good, fat of8ceholder. II
Mrs. Arp and conclude that must have
an once, want ono Of the kind they call
sinecure or sine qua non or sine die
or something siney. An Office with large
pay and little to do-one that can be Allied
by proxy-where can draw the salary,
and have cheap feller to do all the work.
It would be . splendid thing for Mrs. Arp
and the children to have about e200 coming
in every month. I think would like that.
What harmonizing effect it would have
on domestic affairs. The money comes
from tho treasury. and it seems like it don't
cost anybody anything. Public money il
easy to spend, and if man steals q little
it don't seem near 20 bad as to steal from
his nabor.
My father used to tell about old Major
Dade, who rode Soo miles on his gray mare
to get an office from John Tyler. He was
friend and naber to Tyler's father in
Western Virginia, and had got old and
poor, and so he hitched his marc to tie
| Wnlte-nonse Ience ana went IN ana told
him his business. Nov, john" said ne,
me and the old man talked 1t all over,
and ne told me to tell you to nx me all
right. l want an Office with good pay and
nothing to DO. MY old oman what used
to give you ginger cakes il dead and gone,
and had about Is leave Be hero in wash
lngton - anywhere. Looking out OF the
window no said: = sec the Old mare has got
ioose and you nad better step out and hitch
her again, John, for I'm powerful tired
rignt now.
80 Mr.. Tyler thought over all the vacant
offices, and finally made the old Major .
warden OF the district penitentlary, and he
made the convicts little speech when ne
took charge, ana told them all about old
man Tyler and John, and how many miles
he had come for an easy place. and he
wound up by saying that if tEsy all be-
haved and put him to no trouble it would
be all right all round, but if they got to
cutting up he would turn the last ono Of
them out of there and let them shift for
themselves.
/ But they say that Mr.. Cleveland means
reform, and Pm afraid there won't be many
sinecures. The Democracy can save halt
the expenses it they want to. They can
abolish about half the Offices, and cut down
the pay OF the other half to living sum.
Our judges got only 81 600. and it takes
$500 of that to pay travelling expenses.
But the postmaster at Rome gets $4,000.
and don have to travel at all. can find
dozen good men who would be glad to
take it at $1,000 = year. know mon in
the Revenue department who get $3.50 q
month, who don't have but little to do.
There are millions upon millions that can
be saved. They say that there ID surplus
Of $50, 10000 in the treasury now not
withstanding all the stsalage and all the
extravagance. Now, II we keep up the
present tariff and cut down expenses 30
per cent, want to know what We will dc
with all the money that will How like
stream of gold into the treasury. That ID
what bothers me. II we keep on protect
ing with high tariff, what will reform do
with the money? Well, l reckon We car
divide it out among TIE States, and take the