Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-06-18
Our Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON ID. c., June 13, 1885,
When the whole stock in trade of the
Democratic party for the last fifty years
has consisted of the invocations to the
memory Of Andrew jackson and the
hallowing Of the principles and measures
that he urged and adopted, it really
seems little queer that so soon after
the advent of the first Democratic adj
ministration IN quarter Of century,
there should be serious disposition to
abolish a measure which with Jackson
was an absolute frenzy 1t was upon
the question of the establishment Of the
sub-Treasury that Jackson discounted
all his enemies and oyerawed Congress
into submission. 1t was the sub Treas
ury issue that doomed Mr. Clay to polit-
ical disappointment, and placed the I'M
known Polk in the Presidential chair in
1914. Yet we see Mr. Manning, a
Democratic Secretary of the Treasury,
seconded by such old Democratic war
horses as Sam Randall and Bill Morri-
son, looking with favor upon the entire
and absolute abolition of this pet mea-
sure of their patron saint What is the
Democracy coming to, and can such
thing be and not overcome us with una
bated establishment?
The Regents of the Mount Vernon
estate have just got through with their
annual meeting These Regents are all
ladies, and that is doubtless the reason
of their interminable session. From one
of the reports read, it appears that more
people visit the memorable mansion this
year than ever before, save the Centen-
NAL year. Consequently the captain of
the steamboat which carries all the
passengers to Mount Vernon, and has
the exclusive monopoly of the business,
pocketed more than the usual amount
of patriotic lucre. The board has re-
solved to make some extensive additions
and repairs upon the property, conspic-
uous among which is the rehabilitation
of the banqueting hall at the north end
of the house, which is called the New
York room, and several hundred dollars
are to be devoted to the propagation of
plants, a pastime to which Gen Wash
ington paid much attention. The Pc
hick Church where the immortal George
worshipped when in the flesh, is old
fashioned enough. The pews are sim
ply boxes with uncushioned seats, very
much as | remember those in many of
the New England towns. The backs of
the pews are SO high that no encourage
ment whatever is given for the display
OF millinery, and the bald heads that
show their polished surfaces over the
rails, look too funny for anything
About as bitter contest over politi-
cal spoils as Mr. Cleveland will ever 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 applicants
for the position, all from Chicago, and
all buzzing in the Presidents ears, early
and late, but a still, small voice came
up from a Democratic Congressman.
who told the President that if he was
after good man to fill the office he had
one, who, like himself, had been the
sheriff of his courtyard who, in coun-
ty that ordinarily gave two thousand
Republican majority, had been elected
because he was the right man in the
right place. 1t cannot be denied that
the President has exhibited more back
bone in making this appointment than
has usually been accorded to men in his
place, because the elements at work up
on him in the interests of other candi-
dates embraced the whole leadership of
the Chicago Democracy, to say nothing
OF vast amount of outside Democratic
pressure from Indiana, Michigan, Mis-
souri,, and Wisconsin. JUNIUs.