The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1888-11-23
Warrington LETTER.
CFrom our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. ID. c.. Nov. 20, 1898.

named Lincoln. Washington Territory
will not receive the same name as a State
that it now has. 1t is proposed to christen
it Tacoma. The additional electoral votes
gained for the Republicans wonld almost
seal the question of supremacy for many
years. If. as Chairman Quay says, the
next House is Republican by a working
majority. the Democrats have badly
managed their congressional campaign
| and will regret it. Complete control may
at times embarrass the Republicans by
making them responsible for all legislation
but that is a minor consideration.
Representative Perry Belmont has ac-
cepted the long vacant mission to Spain,
the ehairms nship of the committee on
foreign affairs at once. Mr.. Belmont is
the son of August Belmont, the New
York banker. He graduated at Harvard,
and studied law under William M. Evarts.
The natural result is that Perry is not a
fool. Before lie was twentv-six years old
Young Belmont came TO Congress. He
began by running up against all big de-
baters, and regularly getting knocked ont.
August Belmont wanted him made chair
man Of the committee on foreign affairs,
and somehow induced Speaker Carlisle to
make the appointment. Sunset Cox had
expected the appointment and had just
helped Carlisle defeat Randall. Cox. to
my personal knowledge, has never for
given Carlisle for the affront. n man
twenty years in Congress turned aside to
please a vain boy. But young Belmont
has been successful on the committee and
has done important work there. He is a
quiet, slight man, Of medium height, and
would attract attention Gil the floor of the
House only by his strongly marked Jewish
features.
The P~ostoffice Department has prepared
a list of ~seventy-five postmasters of the
grade appointed by the President, whose
commissions expire prior to March 4th.
Mr.. Cleveland is expected to appoint such
as suit him. Mr.. Harrison's course in
these cases will be regarded with interest.
He may, or he may not allow them to re-
main until the new commission expires.
Probably the cry that opened this admin
istration, offensive craftsmanship" will
commence the next administration. The
sause of the goose will be the sauce of the
gander.
The local Republican statesmen of the
small fry description are already on the
still hunt for the District offices. From
Commissioner to Health officer the fight
does not abate. An inhabitant of the
District of Columbia is born an Office
seeker and without regard to sex, color or
previous condition of starvation. is simply
always in the race for something. The
election returns were hardly cold before
William Dickson, tie local Democratic
leader, was out for appointment as the
Democratic District Commissioner, whom
Mr.. Harrison will be called upon to anne.
And he has exactly 1856 competitors.
The contributions to the fund for the in
auguration expenses swells apace. Over
SIS, 900 have thus far been guaranteed,
and the books have only been open a few
days. The Postmaster General has been
Office Hall, and will probably consent and
not remove the city postofice into it be-
fore March, as was expected.
Slate making is an amusing and harm
less occupation. The less you know about
it, the more brilliant the results. All
Washington hotel Hobbies are filed with
astute politicians. each with his W pri-
vate Cabinet slate. A large number be-
lieye that two positions are fixed; that
Senator Allison will go to the Treasury,
and Warner Miller to the Interior. Mr..
Blaine is expected to ask for nothing, and
all guess ing is made without reference to
him. He will probably not be in the next
Cabinet, but he will have a very large die
tatorship in the making of the Cabinet,
A drunken young man was attacked in
front of Wizards Hotel on Friday night
with the idea that it would be great fun
to impersonate James G.. Blaine, Jr. He
walked in and registered the fictitious
name. For several hours nobody hap
pened in who knew the real James and the
imposter was i'll clover. He gave away
Offices by the dozen, drank with every
body, promised an enterprising photo
graper to give him a sitting the next
morning, and then had a dozen bottles of
wine charged.
The marriage on Thursday of Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain, the eminent English
co nmoner, to Miss Endicott, daughter of
Secretary Endicott, was in excellent taste.
The guests were few in number, the pres
ents magnificent, and the bride beautiful
in a Priscilla travelling gown of gray.
WESTON.
The vote for the Prohibitions candidate
for President has been unexpectedly large
in some of the States, and the little party
is in a mild state of intoxication over it's
growth. Gen. Fisk's staid demeanor dur
ing his canvass must be put to his credit.
His course has been becoming throughout.
The Prohibitionists had many candidates
for Office this year, and all of them were
men of marked respectability.-N. Y. Sun.