The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-05-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent
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49, " Atss AAnNAS NhNN WV tHHA
dent is very much embarrassed un.
der the weight and the multiplicity
Of his duties. He possesses both
the capacity and the habit Of hard
continued work, and be has been
accustomed to examine every mat.
ter brought to his attention before
giyingit his official sanction
This plan may have been feasible
in the Mayors office at Buffalo, or
even 10 The Gubernatorial Office in
Albany. But the presidency Of the
United States is a different sort Of
a contract Mr.. Cleveland knew
this before he came to Washington,
but he now realizes it in a way
that experience alone can teach
He at tirst tried to delegate the ap.
pointing power to various Cabinet
officers, and to thus relieve himself
of an army Of Office seekers, but he
soon found that the appointees Of
his Cabinet needed careful snper.
vision in order to avoid those mis-
takes which the French statesman
saidwere worse than crimes. These
are some of The reasons why the adj
ministration is going slow, why
the rascals linger and hold on
Another reason is the absence Of
Col. Lamont who is the Presidents
most trusted lieutenant aad co.
worker. The President has long
been relieved by the skill and tact
Of Colonel Lamont from a hundred
daily vexations, and his prolracted
illness at this time is keenly felt
by him.
The necessity Of turning the ras.
casls out becomes daily more ap.
parent. This is nominally a Dem.
ocratlc administration, but the
camp, the COURT the woods are full of
traitors and assassins, synonyms
not too strong for a majority Of the
republicans now in Office. They
are at the desks in all departments.
They guard the doors to the Offices
off the Bureaus, and play the
part of malignantspies while pro.
tecting themselves with shield Of
Civil Service. Last week an ut.
terly worthless sot was discharged
from ofiics, but he happened to
have been a Union soldier and the
incident was the occasion for con
certed howl from the whole radical
press. If the Republican partyex.
poets to mourn in this way for
every drunken ex.Union soldier
that shall be discharged it will
need an ululating choir or it had
better get a concert Of locomotive
whistles with triple brass lhroats.
The Government Departments
must not bean asylum for drunken
worthless partizan loafers, and the
fact that they served in The Union
Army may have entitled them to-
bounties and pensions, but it
should not entiIle them to clerical
positions which owing to natural
incapacity and contracted vices
they cannot fill.
There was great rejoicing in the
Government offices over the elect
ion Of Logan to the Senate. Some
clerks tried to conceal their Joy,
but with many delight was ire.
presSible. There was Logan can.
nonade on Wednesday last at the
untimely hour of one o'clock at
night. A big gun was dragged to
the nearest available spot to the
White House and fred one hundred
times to the great annoyance and
vexation Of hundreds Of sick and
sleepy citizens. The first report
was believed to be dynamite ex.
plosion and the continuation of the
woke up the entire city.
As the firing was without permiss.
ion Of the city authorities and
against the law at such an hour, it |
has been the occasion of much in.
dignation and complaint and will
be the subject Of an investigation.
Hundreds Of people who were
awakened by the racket believed
that General Grant was dead or
that some great event had occurred
and came down town to learn that
it was in honor Of LOgan's re.elect.
ion by a lot Of goyernmet clerks
who had not the bravery to make
their demonstration except in dead
hour Of night. Turn the towards
out. D
Our readers will remember The
account Of the shooting which took
place at a Caltlesburg house of III.
fame in which three men were shot.