News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., ]
July 6, 1885. (

WASHINGTON, D. C.,)
July 6, 1885.
The appointments to the New York
offices have been the absorbing topic
of conversation for the last few DAYS.
Comments have been various, but gen.
orally the course of the President is
approved. Very enthusiastic friends
of Tammany speak out pronounced
~ against the entire batch of ap-
pointments, and are asserting that
Tammany made Mr.. Cleveland Presi-
dent as much so as did Conkling and
Grant, and their following, make Gar
field President in 1880, and that
Cleveland is treating Tammany as
Garfield did Conkling and Grant. The
Mugwumps are also for some reason
rather unfrieEdly in their criticisms,
which is rather unfair, as they got one
of the three good places. It looks
strange to see Tammany and the
Mugwumps agree in opinion in oppo-
sition to the Irving Hall and County
Democracy who are jubilant over the
appointments.
Republicans generally have little to
say, except that "we will see it de-
ponds upon the successful or unsuc-
cessful administration of Messrs.
Hedden, Beattie and Burt as to the
presidential succession" The Ma
tional Republican expresses the opin-
ION that the President has done the
best possible for the interests Of his
party in doing what he has.
Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, is here,
it is said, in the interest of brother
Svspf the Enquirelngsses,nnn1lIiiI
T7nas n6s received erat.. aces
public patronage that he thinks is his
due. The Governor does not appear
ambitious to make another race
against Foraker. He says he is not
a candidate. He will run, however,
if it is the desire of the administra-
ton that he should.
Every move of the administration
now being made is with a view to eff
feet the approaching fall election in
Ohio and New York, as it is desired
to have the Democracy win in order
to give northern endorsement to the
President and his cabinet,
1t now appears probable that the
President will back Mr.. Whitney, his
Secretary of the Navy, for the guber-
Material nomination in New York, as
it is clear that he is opposed to the
denomination of Gov. Hill. Such an
experiment may, however, prove as
disastrous as was President Arthur's
securing the nomination of the late
Judge Folger. If Mr.. Whitney Sc
cures the nomination, all the power of
the administration will be used to Sc
cure his election, as a defeat would
certainly prove disastrous to Demo-
cratic prospects in 1888.
A strong effort will be made In both
New York and Ohio to place the De-
mocracy in accord with Mr.. RandalPs
views on the tariff question. Should
succeed and defeat follow, the Car
isle Morrison view will then be heart
lily endorsed by the House of Repre-
sentatives which meets in December,
and the party again placed in accord
with its anti bellum position. If sue
cessful, however, in Ohio and New
York in October and November it is
hoped to so influence the House that
Carlisle and Morrison will not be able
to rally their supporters in favor of
tariff reduction, either horizontally or
perpendicularly. The uncertainty as
to the result of the elections in these
States is the cause of no definite poll
cy being laid down or attempted to be
enforced by the administration.
In Virginia the two parties are
buckling on their amor and preparing
for a desperate struggle. General
| Eitzhugh Lee, Colonel Lee, a son
of the late confederate General Rob-
ert E. Lee, are ahead in the race for
the Democratic nomination, but it is
uncertain as to who will carry the Re
publican banner. Maybe Malone
will himself.
1t is pretty we'll settled that the
temperance advocates will have a
ticket in the field in both Ohio and
New York this fall. The Republicans
as consequence are a little uneasy
thereat, and charge that the whole
movement is being engineered by the
Democratic leaders in order to draw
off support from the Republican tick
ct, and it is even alleged that some of
the head temperance people of Demo-
cratic procli1 tiles are here for the
purpose of fixing matters up with the
aforesaid Democratic leaders.
The President has determined to
take vacation and rest from his la
bors for fortnight or mole shortly,
but he has not definitely fixed upon
the time when, and place where he will
go, though the last of August and
first of September, and the Adiron-
dack Mountains in New York would
be what your correspondent would
name if he were to bet oD the matter.
The crowds of office-seekers at the
White House and different depart
ments do not diminish as it was sup
posed they would after the first of
July. The real office-seeker is an in
defatigable hopper. No amount of
disappointment seems to dishearten
or discourage him. Gu.
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