New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-07-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington. July 9th, 1885

ooAAuSSOAs cuAy OoD9 1000.
The democracy of the District Of Co
lumbia are having their disappointment
in common with those of the states.
The Inauguration committee, which
from time to time was expanded so as
to include all who had aspirations for
Office, embraced number of excellent
| democrats.
For some reason or other the idea
prevailed that the President would Sc
lect from this committee the District
officers to succeed the Republicans, who
would of course walk the plank at an
early day. But they still hold on; and
the impression is abroad that their sue.
| cessors will not be taken from the in
auguration committee. When the
chairman of the committee went to
Albany to report the prospective mag
nificence of the arrangements and the
scale of grandeur on which everything
had been projected, the Presidents re-
ply was that he preferred rs quiet an
Inauguration as possible. He appreci-
ated the motives of the committee but
did not thank them.
1t was obvious on March 18th that Mr..
Cleveland was bored, and the commit
tee have better understood every day
since the significance of his remarks to
their. chairman when he told him of the
grand time they were then preparing
for him. Certificates of membership OF
the Inauguration committee have ceased
to be considered passports to executive
favor.
Neither Tammany nor Tilden comes
in for anything in the Presidents New
York appointments of Saturday. The
appointments will occasion much bitter
disappointment. Tammany has long
since given up the hope of gettine
either of the three great places and
their whole efforts were directed to-
wards preventing the county demoera-
cy from getting the collectorship.
With this view they are trying to bring
about the appointment of some man
outside of the city. Tilden recon-
mended Simmons, and confidently ex-
pected. it is said. that the weight of his
endorsement would be sufficient to tip
the balance in his favor. Hubert O.
Thompson recommended Mr.. Hedden,
but the appointment will be disap-
polntment to him, as he wanted the
place himself, and had no idea Hedden
would get it.. Yet the fact that Thomp.
son recommended it will be sufficient
to make Tammany irreconcilable to
Hedden's appointment. They claim
that Thompson will control the Custom
House But none of the politicians got
just what they wanted and the ap-
pointments are sure to be in perfect
accord with the policy laid down by the
President from the first. Hedden rep.
resents the business men, with lean.
ing towards the county democracy
Beattie is a county democrat, but is
more particularly Whitney's man, and
for that reason, if for no other, will not
DE acceptable to Tilden, and Burt is q
mugwunpp, representing the most pro
nounced type of mugwumpery, going
back among the ''astrays" from
Folger.
Adj't-Gen. Drum, of the army. thinks
that there is room for reform in the
system of education at West Point. He
would throw open the school to larger
number OF students and have only q
picked number of them actually APP
pointed to the army. He believes in
giving large number of students a
military education and then in sending
them back to civil life, where they can
be useful As military professors at the
schools throughout the country in
helping to keep up the various militia
organisations, and in case of an emer.
gency could be relied upon for organ
izing and handling troops. The pres
ent system at West Point has tenden-
CIV to make boy over into machine
and to give him false notions OF his po-
sition in life. None of them come out
Of there with any correct notions about
the character of this government.
Their after life in the army tends to
make them creatures of routine, excess
sively timid, and conservative. All OF
the great generals of the war were
West Point graduates who had left the
army and gone back to civil life.
Through their absence from the army
in their contact with people they had
acquired that broadening Of the mind
and knowledge of men which after,
wards made them successful generals