The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-07-14
WASHINGTON, d. C.. July 4 1886.

~. -, y utN 4, 1850.
EDITOR CLARION l sat in a big crowd
this morning at DIR. Sunderland's Presbv-
terrain church and listened to his Fourth
OF July discourse on the divine and to be-
protracted mission of the American ma
ton, which discourse also reached the ears
OF the President The man who has so re-
Gently and so cruelty discounted the whole
feminine race over twenty-five wears of age
and in such crowd ii would startle the
innocents to see how the bald headed and
grey-headed old male ganders," peep and
stare at and envy the Chief Magistrate and
hope TO tall into his good luck, as he sits
IN this church with his young and happy
looking wife The papers have criticised
Mrs. Cleveland without stint, but feeling a
iesIre to Judge her for myself, / took out a
pair OF 40-power magnHying, far seeing
glasses, and gazed to my fullest satisfac-
ton and the verdict of the glasses afore-
said, Is, that she is a fair, sweet natured,
poutiDg Tipped, deep, tender-eyed, sensible
and unaffected young woman whom we
may all respect. Her innocent, uncon-
sclous expression pleased me most. She
looked calmly about, as any one else
would, and seemed unaware that she was
the focus OF that vast circle of eyes Her
eyes are her chief beauty they are large,
intense, and with long lashes and pretty
arched brows. Her height is above the
I average, and though free from the sdroi'
tatre that makes up an elegant and grace
iul woman OF the world, she possesses a
natural ease and self-possession that gives
her an attractive grace and individual
character. The two might be termed of a
phlegmatic temperament, though suscepti-
bic OF merry enough emotions when the
| occasion arises; but there is about them a
staid, self-contained atmosphere that be-
longs TO an older couple.
We think here that the mugwump millen-
| Ium has come, and the political lambs and
lions nestle peacefully together in their
official life, while the old-fashioned ele-
ment looks on in wonder and asks when
will the end be? The Civil Service prob
| lem has been solved to mean the retention
IN office of the old Republican element.
unless some poor frozen-out Democrat can
make proof that the Office holder is steal
ing the public money, or otherwise run
ming riot in his career and thus the power
in the ascendant is day by day handing
over the rope, the knife, and the money to
execute itself at the next ballot box.
As this session of Congress draws to a
close, the character of the next Congress is
| descanted upon with interest, and the COM
| ing tniSS HlOnlIs VIII decide ltS tate. In
no one District is there more interest man
| Tested than in the 9TH Mississippi. now
represented by Hon. e. Barksdale, who has
been so faithful to his constituency. and TO
the country at large, and the universal wish
is expressed that he shah be returned. He
has proved most laborious, pains-taking
legislator and committeeman attentive,
earnest, temperate, and greatly respected
| by his colleagues. Personal resnect and
| friendship go farther to make a successful
legislator than anything else, and fiery elo-
quence and corruscating stump-speaking
are but as bubbles on stream, compared
with the deep, steady, industrious current
that pursues its unwavering course in the
great sea OF events 1t is the expressed
wish that Maj. Barksdale may succeed
himself, and thus by his personal friend
ships and close attention to duty, secure
the good to his constituency which results
from just such an earnest, persistent
course, session after session, in this vast
legislative body. Let him, then, be re-
turned. MoLLIE MYRTLE