The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-10-09
Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
Taking Some of Their Own Medicine
Secretary Warnings Return-The
Slaughter of Government EN-
ployees, &c.
WASHINGTON. d. C., October 9th, 1885.

WASHINGTON, d. c., October 9th, 1886.
Editors Union:-"Earthquak in the South,
six hundred inches of rain in British India and
scarcely drop in Texas for over year, sudden
and startling changes in barometric pressure and
in temperature in beth Europe and America are
the remarkable phenomena of nature that scien
lists are unable to account for. It is wonder
that some of the intelligent pencil showers who
edit Republican papers haven't discovered that
these things all attributable to the fact that
have Democratic administration"
This paragraph found in one of the local
papers of your county last week. Has the editor
of that paper begun to find out how it is himself?
While the Republican party was in power the
Democratic papers and orators wont to
cuse that party of all sorts of improbable things,
some of them no more reasonable than the above.
For instance the hard times, money panics, depres
sions in business and even the low price of wheat
we're all attributed to NAL Administrations of the
Republicans. One Democratic orator of whom
am informed, and who is now candidate for re-
election to Congress as he was candidate then
for election appealed to the former for their votes
or the Democratic party and told them that III
Mr.. Cleveland was elected wheat would be $l.5O
per bushel." That was two years ago, both that
Congressman and Mr.. Cleveland were elected,
wheat was lower last year in price than the year
previous when he made the assertion, and promises
to be lover this year than last and the hard times
and business stagnation continue the same as before
NJ ed these Democrats now complain If q little
of the same treatment is bequeathed to them if
the chalice erstwhile commended to the lips of the
Republicans is now applied to their own? ween
that the Republican orators as well as the editors
of the Republican papers mildly pointing out
some of the possible shortcomings of the present
administration as well as of the Democratic party
at the late session of Congress, and it is to this
that this editor is Objecting. But should the
withers of the Democratic party become so
soon that it is already wincing, although the adj
ministration is not yet two years old?
There is talk here now that Secretary Manning
may return and take charge of the Treasury De-
partment in a sort of pcrfunctory way. He is not
to do any work. so the report goes, but he is sim
ply to supervise the department and to see that it
is run in accordance with the policy of the admin
istratioh and the wishes of Mr.. Cleveland. The
reason assigned for Mr. Manning's return is that
Mr. Cleveland is unwilling to spare him out of bis
Cabinet, being conceived to be the Presidents
right hand man, whom he relies to look after
his political interests in the State of New York,
where Mr.. Manning has great influence and is
known to be first class manager. If Mr.. Man.
ming were to leave Mr.. Ceveland's Cabinet there
are some who think it would be a serious blow to
Mr. Cleveland's chances in New York for a re-
nomination for the Presidency. II Mr.. Manning
returns it is at least not likely he will do before
next week. and when he comes back one of the first
things that will be presented to him will be the
preparation of his annual report to Congress, al
though it is not likely that he will do much work
towards this, only giving supervisory attention
to it and it being prepared by subordinates.
In addition to the large slaughtering of en-
ployees being done at the Government printing
office, which now amounts to about five hundred
in number, there have also been very heavy dis
charges made at the Navy Yard here in conse-
quence of the conclusion to convert it into an ord
nance manufacturing station. All the former
bureaus, with one or two exceptions, have been
abolished, the officers changed, employees dismiss
ed, and the machinery contained in the yard not
adapted to the present purposes of ordnance man
ufacturing is TO be sent elsewhere. The rule of
not giving out a list of names when large dis
charges are made has been adopted by the public
printer But still the names of the discharged
persons become known and it is said that a large
number of Nlarylanders who were put in he print
ing Office by Senator German, Congressman Shaw
and the other representatives from Maryland have
not been spared. 1t is said that Mr. Shaw was at
the Government printing Office yesterday looking
after the interests of some of his proteges. l met
him at the Postofice Department giving attention
TO some of the postal matters of his district.
Monday night the Maryland Democratic State
Association of this District held their first meet
ing in their new rooms at the hall of the Wash
ineton Endowment Association. There a
large number of Democrats present, both of Office
holders In tie departments and other residents IN
the city or of Maryianders who do business in the
District Mr.. Edmonton, Of Prince Georges
county, Md, a prominent grocer in this city, pre-
sided. Among the speakers from Maryland that
had been invited to attend were Col. L. Victor
Baughman, candidate for Congress from the Sixth
district DIR. Shaw, representative from the Second
district, and Thomas G. Weeks, the Labor Bureau
Statistical of Maryland. The latter made q
lengthy speech but the remarks of the other
speakers were quite brief. Representative Comp
ton, of the Fifth Maryland district, was not able
to be present but sent regret letter. ANON.