Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-02-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, FEB. II. 1s

WAOHlNutUu Lei In.
WASHINGTON, FEB. IL. 1854.
Democratic Congressman have q
verv convenient habit of laying
aside temporarily their pet hobby,
!" retrencbment and economy when
ever their own comfort is in any mat
ter at stake. Twoentirely new CON-
mittees have been made by the Dem
ocratic House, one ON Indian Drpre
dations, aud the other on the
Eleventh Census, of which those two
shining lights Of Democracy. Mr..
Weittherse, of Tennessee, and i" Sum
sptn Cox, of New York, are resppc-
lively the cbairmen. As it was emf
nehtly necessary-in the eyes OF
these gentlemen-tO have separate
rooms for these committees to meet
in, they have persuaded a majority
of the HOUSE. Committee on Ac.
counts to recommend that two
rooms be routed for them, in the
large stone building opposite the
Capitol known as the Butler
mansion, at a rental OF 800 per
mouth, and that the Clerk OF the
House shall furnish the same. This
is sheer waste of money. 1t is not
at all likely that either one of these
committees will he in actual session
for ten hours during the entire ses-
sion. The rooms will simply be
elegantly furnished private Offices
for the chairmen of the committees
and their friends. In order to save
that 800 a month, one or two postal
employees will have to be discharg
ed.
For making the best ont of had
situation, the average democratic Of
fetal heats the world. Speaker Car
Isle allowed the corridors of the
House to be occupied by the private
offices of several New York stock
brokers during the entire session,
until an enterprising correspondent
showed the thing up, then at first
denied their existence, then made
them get out, and now he and parti
cularly his friends for him want to
claim credit tor bringing about a
great reform by abolishing these
places that never existed before he
was speaker. How's that for Demo
cratic cheek
A leather medal should he at once
awarded Mr.. Dockery, of Missouri,
democrat of course) for the able
manner in which he stood up in the
House for the inefficient mail service
the administration is giving the
country just now. Postmaster Gen.
eral Dickinson should see to 1t that
he has a post Office named after him
at once.
The Cleveland and anti Cleveland
Democrats will probably have their
first real fight right here in Wash
ington. Although the citizens of
the District of Columbia are not al
lowed to vote for President and vice
President after they are nominated.
both OF the great political parties al
low them two delegates in the na.
tioual nominating conventions. II
is over the election ofthese two dele
gates that the fight is going to take
place. In fact it has already begun.
OF course Cleveland expects bis
friends of his Federal appointees
to see that Cleveland men are selpc-
ted but it will not be by any means
an easy task, as Cleveland is proba-
bly, more disliked by democrats in
this District than any place IN the
country.
The we're-heretO stay expression
which was worn by democratic Off
Gals in the early days OF the admin
istration, has been superseded by a
frightened can.we-carry.New York
look. They are losing confidence
every day, while republicans are
gaining it. This is the direct result
OF the unbusiness like policy Of the
administration, which has made the
democratic party thousands of enc
mics whose votes will for the first
time he cast for the republican party
this fall.
1t is daily becoming palmer that
as long as the House is controlled by
the Solid South, no new states, nc
matter how large they may be, are
to be admitted to the Union for feaI
they may be republican. These same
Southern democrats tried for years
to break up the Union and ignomin
iously failed, but the thoughts of tn.
vast power they WELD under the
present administration, serves az a
mitigation to great extent, OF that
failure. They are now accomplish
ing, by means of suppressed votes,
what they lost by fighting.
Senator Sherman's motto is good
one,-" A free ballot aud a fair count.
unless secured to the whole country.
the constitution is set at nanght, the
suffrage impaired, and the republic
imperiled "-and might with profit
be adopted by the entire republican
party, and if there be any member
OF the party who objects, let him e.
where he belon gs-to the Demo
Gratis.
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