The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-09-29
- " ith that dire retf'fsp pecu0a fnr-t
Ny only s9laes is . kho~
Whatefe fer betides, I've seen Inc worst.

with an indifference which seems TO say
| with that dire retrespectioa eurst
/ Ny only solaee is . kHoT
Whate-er betides, I've seen the worst
What is that worst? Why TO bet OF
jim Blaine aud lose the money he had
| borrowed at ten per cent. interest pei
month, and then to be dismissed foi
offensive good .fOr-nothiDgness. But this
as we Democrats say OF the war, is
ancient history.
Modern or contemporary history as
viewed from this standpoint is iat
enough. 1t will be more interesting
when the President returns and when
Congress gets back. After the fall elec
tions it viii be iiyelier still.
The Departments are moving along in
their old ruts. Ia the Treasury Depart
ment they are keeping books, counting
the revenue, making contracts, calling
in bonds, auditing accounts, and paying
the great army of clerks known as the
civil service, as well as the small but
expensive army, and the formidable on
the payroll navy Now that Geronimo
and his band Of forty thieves are cap
tured the United States army will be
able 10 take q rest, fer it is the intention
of Secretary Lamar TO shift the Apaehes
from Arizona TO Florida and end Indian
wars forever All the other warriors
have either joined Buffalo Bills circus
or are so civilized and cowed by Gov
ernment tough beef that they are as
harmless as their wooden etigies IN
front of tobacco stores.
Without any Indians to fight, with
diving torpedo boats that can blow up
the iron-clads Of foreign navies, and
with a diplomacy carried Oh by special
envoys, how much longer viii these
triplets of barbarism, the army, navy,
and a sham foreign service have reason
To be. Your correspondent Is not quite
ready to announce the millenIIm. Jim
Blaine has broken out in the old place,
and the government OF the United states
is still Ia a adminIstrated, in great part,
by the convicts condemned by the last
presidential election TO outer darkness
with wailing and gnashing of teeth.
When will the sentence of Inat election
be carried out, and when will we have in
the Departments at Washington a body
of employees placed there for some other
purpose than to work for the Republican
party aud who now have no dearer object
than to hamstring the Democratic adj
ministration
All the Cabinet officers, Mr.. Bayard
excepted, are out Of town Mr.. Lamar
is up in Vermont, writing big speech
that he is expected to deliver ut the un-
yelling of statue of Calhoun In Char
lesion, ,. Z. The wonder is that Mr..
Lamar takes time to write his speech,
for the impression prevails that he can
say brilliant things ON any snbject for
two hours, watch Ia hand. But the ne
cessity for accuracy and precision OF
epithet is great nowadays, and Mr..
Lamar perhaps does pot wish TO have TO
recant as had Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Frye
in reference to expressions in their
recent speeches.
The usual summer improvements,
both public and private, have been going
on in the city. Many houses have been
built. Parks have been extended, trees
planted, sewers dug and streets paved.
The great improvement of reclaiming
the Potomac Flats with view to the
expurgation of malaria is going on, and
it is thought that the city will be in
trim be.times for the great centennial
celebration OF the inauguration of the
first President in 1889, when the Wash
ington Monument entwined with the
national colors will look like d barber 5
pole, and the Grant memorial bridge
spanning the Potomac will furnish an
easy approach for the Virginia truck
gardeners. CAS-.