Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-20
HOME AGAIN.
Tar. C. H. Earratf, and what He
Saw, What He Heard, During
His Trip East, and What He
Now Thinks.


l. liberty to give the entire conversation, bu
/. are pleased to give the following, which
will be of interest to all:
Reporter-Mr Barratt, tell us, if agree
. able, concerning your trip East.
Mr.. b am SO delighted to be al
home, and so good-natured that you may
ask what you please, and l will tell you
all know-and more, perhaps; that is,
if you will permit me to lounge and talk
and smoke all at once. First, you know,
we never tire of talking about our eli
mate. think we are TO be excused, and
that Beecher was right, for once, when he
said his idea of Heaven was Salt Lake in
May. / have been in and out of the CITY
several times, and was never more i'm
pressed with our advantages in this re-
gard than when running down from the
Wasatch among green fields and bloom
ing orchards. With the exception of a
few green patches, and very weak ones at
that, about Denver, there is not blossom
or a sprig of green from the Rockies to
the Atlantic Coast.
"The longest stay made at any one
place was at Washington, and that only
three days. Neither you, nor your
readers, care to hear about railways, eat
ing stations, or the buzz and whirl of
wheels and saws in furniture factories. /
was in New York, of course. Having two
suits due me from Republican friends
here on election account, | DELAYED the
matter because 1 was anxious that the
outfit, both in price and style, should
meet the approval of the gentlemen, who
are of known liberality and acknowledged
taste. In my efforts to satisfy them in
this regard, gathered some information
on fashion items which may be interest
ing to our more dressy or dudeish young
/ men.
The proper thing now is to ape our
next OF kin across the water. The
Knickerbocker Club of New York has
the complaint worse than all others, and
has attained nearest to perfection in
the matter. A few days since, gentle
man leaving the Club saw young &C.
quaintance step on to the sidewalk with
umbrella raised and pants rolled up.
What does this mean?' he said; the
day is bright and the streets dry, and you
have your umbrella spread and your
pants turned up?' Yes, my deah boy,
| but they have Just had a cable at the
Club from London, you know, and its
raining in London, you know, deah boy;'
replied the devotee of the Club.
"The latest feature in the fashion line
with the other sex, and which promises
to be more general than heretofore, may
also be illustrated by a story A gentle
man upon being asked how the ladies
were dressed at a recent fashionable din
ner party, answered that he did not look
under the table"
What have you to say about Wash
ington as regards Utah, her appointments,
etc. ?''
81 was twice in Washington, three
days each time. l have something to
say, but the relations between Washing
ton and Utah and her people are too
serious and important TO gossip and rat
tie about thoughtlessly. propose to be
at home a while, and think little; fools |
rush in where angels fear to tread | |
beg you will believe | have no disposition !
to magnify the importance of my visits to !
Washington. The humblest of us may I
be instruments of good; at least we may |
try, and it Il neither decent ner modest I
to advertise ourselves. II there is any !
honey TO be had, l do not propose to
hunt the bees wiH-a brass band'
AS TO appointments. about as much is
known here as there to the outsider. No !
one pretends to guess where &le light
ming will Strike. There h little probable |
ity of any considerable changes until the
expiration of terms. The exceptions mav
be made to occur at any time It is not
improbable the vacant jHdgeship and one
other may be filled from without the
Territory. II the President has said to |
those assuming to handle the patronage
from other sections: Before YOU ask ap-
pOlntments, suppose you settle your home
quarrels and show some uhanimity among
yourselves; if he has said this to others,
why not to applicants from Utah? Can
you, or any one, suggest a name for any
office in Utah, that could be
sent up with anything approaching
unanimous approval; that would not, in
fact, be lauded by some past all sense
and condemned by others beyond all '
decency-and this perhaps existing be-
tween men claiming to be of the same
party? Should the President be blamed |
# he fail to satisfy us, and for relief turn !
10 the outside? '
81 saw considerable of Democratic pol
ticians, both in Washington and else t
where, and have talked with editors in r
he larger towns and cities. l made it a a
point to do this. lost no time thereby. L
Dut lots of sleep, for stores close, YOU
Know, and merchants are supposed to
leep; but newspaper offices never close n
md newspaper men never Sleep There =
S no question but that there is some feel =
ng, lot of smothered undertone of a,
at the Presidents delay in y
turning the rascals out - something like y
spoiled child when it goes off in the y
orner and grumbles and mumbles in an 2
ndertone, because it can't sit at the first =
able. But they might as well, and must. y
e patient; and like the child's, their y
Urn will come, and the pies and good II
lings be none the less enjoyable because IL
the delay. as as
" He is right. The mass of his own and ::
liberal amount of the opposition party ap- W W
aud his action thus far. 1t is the opin- u
N of those best informed, that neither re re
nor his Cabinet will be turned aside Ia Ia
ON the course mapped out, by the fault - -
ndlng of the lesser politicians. the II
rumblng OF the ultra press, the growl- ~
g and swearing of the moss backs. nor ". W,
lie earnest (but not wholly disinterested) ~
of the Republicans on Civil -
ervlce reform. If Mr.. Cleveland and M
IS Cabinet are Democrats, they are gem
emen, and know it would be vulgar. as
ell as impolitic, to devote the early weeks
the Administration to unseating politi- 'B
Il enemies and seating political friends. cit
nd further, he is aware that the party CHI
succeeds is the party of refinement
I'd culture, and since they are not in
mpathy with his policy, and prophesied,
the event of his election, dire and
eadful results, he has reason to, and
obably does, expect designations. II