The Washington critic., 1886-11-02

lunch with Mrs, Chilus, ana aI ClocN
will leave for New York, where to.
night he will attend the ball given by
the Lafayette Society. At 1 o'clock
tomorrow morning he will leave New
York for this city, accompanied by the
other French visitors. wednesday
night he will return to New York, and
on Saturday he will sail for Europe.
And he is as fresh as daisy all the
while and as lively as a sparrow. The
great ditch digger could probably give
a merry.go.round a good start and then
beat it. When he is a hundred years
of age he promises to be the giddiest
young man in all France.
NUMEROUS explanations of why the
President is not in Buffalo to-day vot-
ing the Democratic ticket and "whoop.
ing it up" with the boys with all his
old.time vigor are being made. About
the silliest of the many reasons given
Is that the President does not wish to
vote for General Rogers, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Buffalo district, that gentleman hav.
ing made u speech some time ago, In
which it is alleged he showed that he
was not in sympathy with the Admin.
istration. The other explanations are
nearly all of about rs llimsy u charac.
ter. The whole thing is matter that
amounts to nothing, but as usual In
such cases there has been much alo
about 1t. There is one explanation, If
any were really necessary, that does
amount to something, aud that is the
fact that the Presidents name has
been stricken from the poll list and
the entry removed from the district
inserted. That seems to constitute a
very good reason why the President is
here to-day instead of there Although
a citizen of Buffalo aui entitled to
registration, it would appear that he
prefers to be disfranchised like all
other residents of Washington.
DTFGcuLTY is experienced in prop.
erly lighting the Blrtholdi statue, and
the experiment last night was pracu-
cally failure The light refuses to
flood the statue, and ut Il little distance
the figure Is entirely in the shade, and
the light might as well be stack up on
telegraph. pole. The officers in charge
say they will remedy this defect by eX-
periments, and, to save them time aud
expense, we would suggest that large
reflector be placed over the statue, to
throw enough light down upon it to
bring it into clear relief. This re-
flector, TO be in perfect harmony with
art, should be constructed in the form
of an umbrella or parasol, as the case
might be, which in sunny weather
would protect the statues complexion
and in foul crises keep the rain Off,
thus combining the useful aud the
ornamental. Believing that 1t is the
duty of every citizen to do all he can
for the sake of Liberty, which is the
genius of our republican institutions,
we will make no charge for this
advice.
THE total of the public debt of the
| United States, interest and non-interest
bearing, is to-day 81, ,354, ,3E,041. Ten
years ago twas 81, 1S0, ,305 ,061. Twenty
years ago it was &2,7,3 236, ,173. Since
1866 the debt has been reduced 81 1,lle,
| OnE go ns a. nts IN. Ia ng o,lt
81 goo 900 year The total interes
bearing debt is now $l,1j3, ,443, 112
This speaks well for the resources O
the country, but it is questionable
whether sound public policy warrants
us in doing so much for the benefit Of
posterity and so little to maintain the
National bank system.
THERE has been slight misunder
standing between General Bingham o
Philadelphia and Mr. Randall, occa
stoned by the formers reference to th(
latter, in speech last Saturday night
as "poltroon and coward" 1t is un
derstood that the difficulty will be set
tied without any efruson of blood, bu
we haven't the slightest doubt in the
world that if Randall could give Bng
ham the gout he would do it with the
most intense satisfaction.
Mr.. BLAINE finished his genera
campaign work at Camden, n. j., las
night, addressing an audience of abou
5000 people. who greeted him, in tn,
evermemorable parlance of the Asso
ciated Press, with 1.-THE widest enthu
siasm." 1t should be borne in mind
however, that this concluding per
formance of Mr.. Blaine's campaign
work is by no means his last perform
ance. His own canvass has two year
to run yet.
The New York Star announces thi
morning that it intends to issue spe
cial Washington edition, and we wisi
our esteemed and enterprising contem
porary abundant success in its new
scheme. Its news. .gathereIs will fiut
no lack of material, especially if the.
carefully utilize the valuable columns o
The WASHINGTON CRITIC, TO whicl
we tender them most hospitable access
lT SEEMS little odd that a grant
nephew of the great Napoleon shoul
meet with such an undemonstrative re
cepiion at Washington. Were it som
Russian grand duke there would be n
end to the attentions shown him. YC
liberty in Europe owes not little t
the Napoleonic era; it owes nothin
whatever to the RomanoR family.