Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-06-30
OGR vyAsHlNGTOY LETTER.
From our Regular correspondent.
WAsnINGros, JpBe }8, 1885.

litica spoiIs as Mr.. cleveland will
ever be called upon t9 decide is that
over the Chicago Marshalship, which
he has just given to a man who does
not live in Chicago. There were six
teen applicants for the position, all
from Chicago, aud all buzzing in the
Presidents ears, early and late, but a
still, small voice caino up from .
Democratic Congressman, who told
the President that if he was after q
good man to fill the Office he had one,
who, like the President himself, had
been the sheriff of his county, and
who, in county that ordinarily gave
two thousand Republican majority,
had been elected because he was the
right man in the right place. Itcan-
not be denied that the President has
exhibited more backbone in making
this appointment than has usually
been accorded to men in his place,
because the elements at work upon
him in the interests of other candid
ates embraced the whole leadership
of the Chicago Democracy, to say
nothing OF a vast amount OF outside
Democratic pressure from Indiana,
Michigan, Missouri and Wisconsin.
a colored Waterman in the Treas
ury was driven to incurable insanity
the other night on being told that the
Republicans were bent on killing him
for holding an office under Demo
cratic administration This is the sort
of diversions that the Republicans all
along have been indulglng IN to retain
their hold of the negro vote, which,
IN Virginia and Maryland, counts for
a good deal. This African gentleman
was from Virginia, and had been one
of Mahone's best lieutenants in many
a Virginia campaign, but he was in
telligent enough at last to see the u.s.
es to which he and his class were be-
ing put by theIscalawag crowd that
Malone led by the nose, and he flew
the track. The elimination of the
best part of the negro element from
Mahone's forces, has broken him up
completely, and he who was only two
short years ago the master hand of
the political destinies Of the old COM
monwealth, is now SO poor that he
finds none to do him reverence.
1t would seem from the evidence
of the architectural experts now be-
ing examined upon an investigation
of the Capitol architect, Mr.. Clark,
that the reign of shoddy commenced
in this country a good many years
ago. From this testimony we are in
formed the very walls Of the Capitol
which we assumed would stand the
wear and tear of centuries of politics
and politicians, have long been in a
state OF disintegration, decay and de.
struction. The iron dome, weighing
o,909,200 pounds is about to fall upon
the heads of the unfortunate visitors
III the rotunda, without moments
warning, because of the shoddy ma
terial with which it was composed
the shoddy printing that was put into
the paint, and the shoddy labor witt
which the iron beams were joined to-
gether. Even the bronze female tina
surmounts the dome to represent the
freedom shriekers, is warped out Of
all shape and looks as though it hac
just emerged from case of seconda
ny ricketts,. OF course the architect
OF the Capitol has his enemies, anc
they may overstate matters somewhat
but | wish that you could see some O
the botch-work about this Capitol, fo
which we have paid first and las
about seventeen millions of hare
earned dollars.
The scramble for Office in the Dis
trict of Columbia, where no Office hun
ter can say that he is entitled to re-
ward because he voted the Democrat
&c ticket, is as intense as it is any
where else. The President has bu
about bakers dozen of Federal pla
ces at his disposal here, but he lind.
them quite as troublesome as he ha.
those OF Chicago, wherein he took tn,
ward politician bull by ,be horns ane
made the appointments to. suit him
self. 1t is to the credit OF MIR. Cleve
land that he has practically ignored
the opportunities of the bosses in ma
king up his appointments, both in tn,
important positions and those il
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