The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1885-01-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From cur regular CorresP0ndent.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 13, 1Sos


WASHINGTON, Jan. 13, 1883.
The monotony OF the week that has |
vasaad was broken by the celebration OF |
fbs anniversary Of the battle OF New Or-
iaans "Jackson's Day" as 1t is called.
The election Of Jackson marked the
overthrow of a corrupt party despotism,
"a n was fitting that the names OF
Iackson and Cleveland should be assOcl-
80 in celebrating the victory Of New
OrIears when the country is rejoicing
IN the overthrow, through Cleveland,
~ the gigantic and despotic oligarchy OF
ofacs sfeaIers and holders known as the
RenuIicap party. The celebration here
was Democratic, eloquent and snecess-
ful. ,
parture, all in forty eight hours, OF Col.
lamont. the private secretary OF the
PreSident-elect. Col. Lamont came to
Iook for a home and to scan the field of
his fnture labor. He had not been in
the city before. He has wife and chill
dren and must have a house. lie did
not succed in getting house, bat will
trv again after the fourth OF March,
when a few hundred residences will
doubtless be vacated.
II is difficult to believe that only six
weeks remain of President Arthur and
a Republican administration. Prepara-
tion is sleepless, and expectation Is on
tip-toe for the fourth of March. 1t is
estimated that there will be 25O, ,OUO VS.
itors here at the inauguratlan. L can
not think there will be so many. b1t the
number will doubtless be large. As Is
usual the interest of the country in
washington matters ceases with the ad-
iouTn ment of Congress, but this year it
will grow with the inauguration of a
new President, a new policy, the ap-
poiptment of a new Cabinet, and numer-
Gus other changes in all the departments
of the public service.
1t is edifying to see the desperation
with which a large number OF drones
and sinecurists are trying to get them
selves converted into real little civil ser
vice reformers and Democrats. Many
of them are shuffling over with an alac-
rity that is not graceful.
Congress is at work on the appropria-
tion bills. The Navy bill has been pas
sed by the House, and the Consular aud
Diplomatic bill is under discussion. 1
heard Republican statesman, so called,
| bewailing the fact that the trained and
improved Consular and Diplomatic per-
sonel which, he said, had been establish
ed in the last eight years by EvaTts and
L
| ocratic bummeTs and ward politicians.
! Well, it will be pity if it is so, but if
! this noxious class must have offices, by
! all means let's send them to the foreign
| courts where they will have nothing TO
| dc, and will, therefore, be incapable of
| harm. Modern diplomacy is an anachro-
! nism and farce. There is not the
! slightest necessity for our sending rep
| resentatives to foreign governments, or
! for foreign governments to send repre-
| sentatives here. We have no foreign
| relations Steam and electricity and
| the press, have made the amSaSsadoTial
establishments of contiguous States use
! less, then how utterly needless to keep
| them up between our country and trans
! Atlantic powers. 1t would be better to
recall our fimsy ships, cruising in for
! eign seas, exposing our weakness and
| costing millions annually. II would be
/ better to dismantle our diplomatic es-
/ Establishments in European capitals. The
/ press, with steam and the Atlantic Ca
( be will furnish us prompter and more
| accurate information than can possibly
| be obtained by our heavy representatives
! abroad We will know State secrets as
| soon as they are known by kings and
/ their ministers, for we will get them
| from the same source, the press.
/ L was walking on Connecticut Ave-
nue. yesterday, which is the fashionable
! Sunday promenade of the city, and
among other noted people was Mr.. Jas
/ G. Blaine, the late candidate. He was
/ walking with Miss LUring, daughter of
! the Commissioner of Agriculture, aud
/ another young lady. The ex- candidate,
/ OF, should Isay the perpetual candidate.
! is looking pretty strong, bIt he has a
/ sinister face, face in which his vault
/ ing, foiled ambition is darkIy written,
face which seems to say, II would
rather be first in Hades than second in
! Washington"
! The situation of the Blaines in this
! city IS not happy one. Mrs. Blaine is
/ not magnetic, she is repellant. She has
/ taken occasion 70 snub many ladies in
! society here, who openly rejoice at her
/ disappointment and humiliation now.
/ Mr.. Biaine's course since his defeat
| has been such as to enstrange many per
/ sOnal friends that he had among the
! Democrats. In the long years of She
! new epGch that will date from the fourt b
/ of March, 1895, the Capital of the Uni.
/ ted States ought to be an uncongenial
/ place for malignant disunioDists like
/ Jas. G. Blaine. K.