The Washington critic., 1886-06-29

catonal city will increase in largely
more rapid proportion.
In whatever wcunderal,e, therefore,
towards Identifying the scat of Gov.
crnmcnt and adding to It's metropolitan
features, whether It be in the shape OF
public building, the extension of
streets aud avenues, the construction
Of monumental bridge across the
Potomac, the opening OF parks and
Improvement Of waste places, or the
erection of hotels and theatres and mu.
sic halls, we should be governed by no
narrow, contracted considerations of
immediate necessity, but by the de-
mands Of magnificent aud constantly
expanding future.
Such, we are glad to see, seems to be
the moving inspiration of many of our
public.spirited citilons; such also
should be the governing policy of the
District Commissioners; such the
broad, patriotic view Of Congress. We
are building year by year, not merely
for city Of 300 600 inhabitants, but
for the worlds finest capital, with u
population of million and the centre
OF commonwealth of States of a hun
drcd millions.
THE close of the fiscal year is to be
marked officially by great many re
movals from office. Throughout sew.
oral of the departments changes are
announced TO take effect at this date
Some Of these removals are necessi
tated by the new appropriation bills
some are justified by the demands Of
the public service, and some, no doubt
are ineXpedicnt and contrary to the
principle Of retaining employees who are
Conspicuously fit and faithful. To such
as these the Presidents famous Christ
mas letter will read like snare and
dclusion If not n hollow mockery, in
connection with the postscript sent
them in yellow envelopes, dispensing
with their services. Such, however,
is fate. 1t is only now and then that
we catch glimpsCs of the political
millennium; the real thing is far in the
future.
ACCORDING to Senator Ingalls,, the
citizens of the District have only Re.
publican Senate to thank for the re.
lection Of the nomination of Mr.. Mat
thews. They allowed THE CRiTGC to
grind its axes, but when it came to
using the axes, they hid themselves in
the background. On this account, 1t
would have been no more than fit
ting rebuke for the nomination to have
been confirmed. 1t is to be hoped that
the President will use his own discre-
tion in the appointment he next makes.
We honestly think that the Office OF
Recorder of Deeds is n strictly local
office, but none Of the men who lacked
the courage 10 go before the Senate
Committee and protest against the
Matthews nomination ought to get it.
Mr.. BLAINE, we are informed, has
gone to Bar Harbor "to begin the
preparation Of an important speech"
which he is to deliver at the opening
Of the State campaign in August.
From the air of delibcration with
which he is credited in the announce
ment, IT is to be presumed he intends
to infuse little more forethought and
sagacity into the forthcoming address
than he did into his famous Augusta
speech, or, for that matter, his late
pronuncamento on Home Rule. Mr..
Blaine cannot afford to be any less
careful what he says than other men.
SENATOR MALONE evidently thinks
that there is life yet in the Republican
party in Virginia. As chairman of the
Republican State Executive Committee
| he has issued an address calling on the
Republicans to be up and doing and to
get ready to contest the coming Con
| gressional elections The general i'm
preston is that the Republican party
in Virginia is pretty much of a corpse,
but General Malone thinks otherwise,
and is eager to again try conclusions
with the Democratic party.
ALTHOUGH the Twenty.sixth Penn.
sylvania Congressional District de.
clined to renominate Mr.. Boyle, it is
no sign that his usefulness is to be cur,
tailed, for his friends have worked ur
a Gubernatorial boom for him, and he
may be the Democratic leader agains
General Beaver. His chances for get
ting there may not be extremely unan
imous, but as a token of appreciation
the work of his friends will be quite
acceptable.
Mr.. G. ID. GRAHAM, a Philadelphif
cooper, proposes to head himself up ir
barrel and go through the Niagara
rapids and whirlpool. If he succeed,
it will be great ad. for his cooperagl
business, and if he doesn't his heirs OF
assigns can use the barrel for his coillr
and save funeral expenses. In any
event the novelty of such rapid pro
gress TO Philadelphian will amply re
pay Mr.. Graham for the risk he MAJ
run.
DR.. ROBERTS, who wants to be Re
publican Congressman-atLa Large from
Pennsylvania, Is worth millions o
money, amassed through patent tor
pedo used in the development of OF