New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-04-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.

tai. Delegations of colored politicians
and colored bishops and clergymen call
ed at different times at the White
House. Each delegation delivered an
address to the president in which some
notable things were said, and each
listened to a reply from him, which
was marked by significant assurances.
The colored people of the District
celebrated the anniversary of their
emancipation with a long procession,
much music, much enthusiasm, and
many spectators. The pageant was a
very motley, social and characteristic
one, presenting many amusing scenes
and incidents. President Cleveland
stood on the portico OF the White House
and reviewed the line as it passed. The
days festivities were closed by speech
es from Frederick Douglass and other
colored orators. In the course of his
remarks Mr.. Douglass said, ''the power
and vitality of the Democratic party
had been greatly underestimate. 1t
still lived, although it had INDUCED in
crimes and vices enough to kill a doz-
en- parties. Speaking of Mr.. Cleveland,
he asked if he would keep his promises
of March fourth?" .'He might" con-
tinued the orator, 'adopt policy of in
difference toward the negroes of the
south, or he might pursue a temporiz-
ing one-a policy Of good Lord and
good Devil; or he might accept the
Mississippi and South Carolina plan
and keep by fraud and blood 1853 cleo
toral votes for a Democratic candidate
in 1888; or he might sustain a course of
fidelity to the Constitution, protecting
white man and black man alike He
said, rs certain as the Democratic par
ty fell into old ruts and forgot that
slavery was anarchism, it would
be driven from power four years hence.
And unless it applied a corrective to
the negro outrages of the South, the
Augusta speech Of James G. Blaine
would be the key note of the next cam
paign.
Change is the order of the times in
Executive Departments here. When
the Secretary of the Treasury returned
from New York the other day, he in
formed the President that number of
important places in his Department
should be filled with Democrats as soon
as possible. and the President gave Mr..
Manning carte blanche. A number of
these changes have since been made
and others are awaited with interest.
The President relies implicitly upon
Secretary Mannings recommendations
in regard to them, although he is re-
puted to be an independent Executive,
I with no partners in the Presidential Of
fee. These removals were made, not
because of any ineficiency, but because
the incumbents were Republicans. and
since partisanism had been defined to
be Republicanism by the new Admins
tration, all Republican Office holders
who were ever presidents, secretaries,
or treasurers Of State organizations. are
trembling lest they may be selected as
additional examples of the new mean
ing OF the word
Secretary Manning is very reticent
in regard to the alleged frauds in the
Treasury. The report gained circu-
lation the other day that gross irregu-
larities had been unearthed in the In.
ternal Revenue Bureau, and that a
severe investigation was in progress.
When questioned as to the import OF
the rumor, Mr.. Manning replied: II
know nothing of reports. We are
always Investigating"
The employees of the Post Office De-
partment and the Patent Office are
doing extra work in order to bring the
business of these offices up to date. In
consequence of the efforts being made
in the Patent Office to catch up, and
the vigorous manner in which the Ex-
aminers are working day and night,
the issue of patents for the present
month will be the largest in the history
of the office. It will embrace over five
hundred patents per week.
The President made number of
Diplomatic appointments during the
week including ministers to Bolivia,
Greece and Persia. Generals McClel-
Ian, Rosecrans and other distinguished
aspirants are impatiently expecting to
get the mission to China. TIE rivalry
for the Belgium mission is interesting.
1t can only be filed by rich man, and
the Democratic millionaires of New
England and the West are in the con-
test. Secretary Bayard adheres to his
desire to send abroad men who have