Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1885-06-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 16, 1885.
About as bitter contest over politi-
cal spoils as Mr.. Cleveland will eyer be
called upon to decide is that over the
Chicago Marshalship, which he has Just
given to man who does not live in
Chicago. There were sixteen appli-
cantS for the position all from Chicago,
and all buZzing in the Presidents ears,
early and late, but still, small voice
came up from Democratic Congress
man, who told the President that if he
was after good man to fill the office he
had one, who, like the President him
self, had been the sheriff of his county,
and who, in county that ordinarily
gave two thousand Republican maJorl-
ty, had been elected because he was the
right man in the right place. 1t cannot
be denied that the President has eXhib-
tied more backbone in making this ap-
pointment than has usually been ac-
corded to men in his place, because the
elements at work upon him in the in
terests of other candidates embraced
the whole leadership of the Chicago
Democracy. to say nothing of vast a
mount of outside Democratic pressure
from Indiana, Michigan, Missouri and
Wisconsin.
A colored watchman in the Treasury
was driven to incurable insanity the
other night on being told that the Re-
publicans were bent on killing him for
holding an office under a Democratic
administration. This is the sort of di-
version that the Republicans all along
have been indulging in to retain their
hold of the negro vote, which, IN Vlr-
ginia and Maryland, counts for good
deal. This African gentleman was fro m
Virginia and had been one of Mahone's
best lieutenantS in many a Virginia
campaign, but he was intelligent
enough at last to see the uses to which
he and his class were being put by the
scalawag crowd that Malone led by the
nose, and he flew the track. The elimi-
nation of the best part of the negro eie-
ment from Mahone'S forces, has broken
him up completely, and he who was on
ly two short years ago the master hand
of the political destinieS of the old CON-
monwealth, is now so poor that he finds
none to do him reverence.
1t would seem from the evidence OF
the architectural experts now being ex-
amined upon an investigation of the
Capitol architect, Mr.. Clark, that the
reign of shoddy commenced i'll this
country good many years ago. From
this testimony we are informed the very
walls of the Capitol, which we assumed
would stand the wear and tear OF Gen.
turies of politics and politicians, have
! long been in state of diSintegratlon.
The iron dome, weighing S,9O9, 200
pounds is about to fall upon the heads
of the unfortunate visitors in the ro-
tunda, without a moments warning,
because of the shoddy material with
| which it was composed, the shoddy
priming that was put into the paint,
and the shoddy labor with which the
| iron beams were joined together. Even
the bronze female that surmounts the
dome to represent tho freedom Shrek
ers, is warped out of all shapeaRd looks
as though it had just emerged from
case of secondary ricketts,. Of course
the architect of the Capitol has its ene-
mics, and they may oyerstate matters
somewhat, but wish that you could
see some of the botch-wOrk about this
Capitol, for which we haye paid first
and last about seventeen millions OF
hard earned dollars. PHoNo.
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