Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-09-30
WASHINGTON LETTER


WASHINGTON. Sept 25th, SO
The president has returned TO the
city and found the departments NOV
ing as on oiled gudgeons under the
skillful, careful and honest manage
ment OF the many trained republican
employees whom the democratic cabi-
net officers have been wise enough to
retain. It Is an open secret here that
the employees do all the intricate and
delicate work of the government, and
that in nothing requiring either judge
lnent or .jineSse are the recently APP
pointed democratic employees called
upon or trusted.
Mr. Cleveland Is If possible more
unwieldy than ever since bis summer
outing. lie got out of the cars and
into his carriage ut the station with
ponderous difficulty, when he got to
the White House lac was quick to seek
his bed, and he seems little inclined TO
20 to work again and sign his name to
the many papers which have accumu-
lated on his desk. He spent good
part of the first day after his return at
his new country home, whittier he was
accompanied by Mrs. Cleveland and
Mrs. Folsom. The country house is
being thoroughly reconstructed, and
its barn like Jeffersopian simplicity is
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ual common sense and beauty. ]
think there Is bat little doubt that Mr..
| Cleveland intends to spend the eve
ming of his life at pretty Prospect, F"
AS the place has been christened. But
there is just as little doubt that he
hopes to have another term Ia the
White House. It is only necessary to
scrutnize his appointments, the meas
ures he approves as well as those he
vetoes, to see that his policy is to make
himself solid In New York and in the
south. There is ample time for him to
blunder during the two and half re-
naming years of his term, but medioc-
rity is less liable to slip than is genius
The probability is that Mr. Cleveland
will be as strong before the next
democratic nominating convention as
he was before the last. But will the
furnished democrats, now hopeless of
loaves and fishes, again open their
barrels and poll their votesl 1t is too
early, however, to talk about presi-
Dental candidates and my excuse for
mentioning it must be that the subject
is omnipresent in the air OF Washing
ton. Apropos of the air, it is quite
cool and bracing at present, and the
| absent summer dwellers at seaside and
mountains are fast returning to the
city. But little has been done during
the summer towards improving the
streets, parks and public buildings OF
the Capital. The penny wise, pound
foolish policy OF the party in power
will soon reduce this beautiful city to
it's ante bellum dilapidation. The
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prises. The houses that are now
building are cheap and common as
compared with those which have gone
up during the last decade. In their
desperate effort to display reduced
budget on the hustings, the democrats
have deprived the Capital and the
country of the necessaries of lite.
1t is too early in the season to ex
pect anything of interest in the socia.
or political world. Nothing is going on
in the departments. Not half the cabi
net officers have returned from their
| protracted summer vacation. At the
cabinet meeting which will be held
early next week, the cabinet officers in
several departments will be represent
ed by their assistants. 1t seems to be
still unsettled whether or not Mr.. Man
ming will resume charge of the Treasu-
| ry department. 1t is believed by those
best informed that he will come to
Washington about the first of Octo-
Der, and with the help Of his assistants
conduct the affairs of the department.
There is no question about his mental
condition being entirely unimpaired,
and the only trace of his recent illness
that remains is the slight halt in his
step that will probably never be cured.
One of the first questions to be con-
sidered in Cabinet session will be the
disposal of Geronimo. Gen. Miles Of
fetal report of the surrender" as it
is called, has not been made public,
and there is general impression that
the willy cut-throat has received prom
Uses of protection and immunity from
death. If there ever was an occasion
and a subject for lynch law, we have
it in this unspeakable monster.