Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1885-06-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular csrrs,p ond,nt.,

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being q woman, l am unable to
mprehend the heart burning, that
are said to have. risen among the
gentle creatures who constitute the
womankind OF high officials over
oa 43cions 0; femme pracedance.
One really hears very little of such
ma,uers nere, but from those In
valuable purveyors Of fashionable
intelligence and information, the
ladies who furnish the press or the
country With the social doings at
the Capital, am led to believe
that thu bosoms Of Cabinet la
dies 40 the wives and daughters
of Mr.. Cieyeiand's CONSTITUTIONAL
advisers are delicately denomi-
nsted--are being rent with anguish,
not unmixed with jealous psngs,
as tc who shall be considered "tle
first lady," Miss Cleveland or Mrs
Hendricks. Without venturing to
attempt the solution of important
a question, it seems to me that the
proposition is one which might he
elucidated by an application OF the
rules of ordinary common sense.
Ii the President is 'the fest gentle
man" OF the land, by reason OF his
Chief Mag,stracy. then the lady
selected by hlm to preside over the
Executive nenage, be she wife, sls-
ter, or mother, would ex-officio be.
come "the first lady" This Ia the
view the average masculine intelli-
Eelice would take OF the matter.
Nowhere does any social law, that
/ have knowledge OF, declare that
masrimony has anything to do with
it. 1 grant that there may be oc-
cnsions in which This question of
precedence should be clearly de-
fined and understood. In such an
event, it wcald seem rather absurd
that the lady who has taken charge
Of the domestic economy of the
White House at the Presidents d re.
quest sloald be disposed by the
wife any otner petsonase in the
goversment and 1 believe the
common sense OF the la
dies who are most concel ned will |
coucul in this view of the quss-
ton.
LIVERY Democratio i5oIattodiis + HI ii I
the county is here, | bslive, tx
cept Payne, of OHIO, and Black
burn. of Kentucky" said Congress
man John l.. Vance to party of
friends at the Riggs last night. II
am certain | met fifteen of them al
least to-day on the street" l ven-
iured to ineoAly inquire what they
were after. "\Vhy they are here
looking after the offices, of coarse.
Don't yoa remember how the Con-
stitution reads ? The President
shall appoint with the advice and
consent of tho Senate. Ihey are
here to give advice and consent"
Senator Dan Voorhees,, "thc
.all Sgcam ore of the Wabash," is
Dne of the most approrlate men for
Senator from the Hoosier State
that could be selected Out in that
they do things i'll IN off
hand way, and he knows just bow
20 get up on stump and make'a
good speech, kiss a baby. even il
is face is little dirty, and shake
hands with the horny-handed sons
Il toll. When | saw him the other
lay up in the Postmaster Generals
,ffice with a dozen Hoosier office
'eeksrs about him he appeared to
)e goodegl of . patriarchical gov
anyhow, and the senators
IRE the patriarchs. Senator means
Id man and old man is a patriarch.
The pavement on Fourteenth
street near the Treasury i'm front
4 what was once Newspaper Row
re being extended and placed in
pple-pie order. THE result is
hat the scrlbes areall moving back
nto their old quarters, and the
Rsw" looks once more as of yore. /
he General, Colonels, Majors,
IdmIrals, Commodores ard Cap
sins, to say nothing of the 6over-
ors, Senators and Judges who !
eep our hotels alive all sum- ,
ssT are also delighted with the J