Mohave County miner., 1889-08-31
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Correspondence OF the MINER.

Correspondence OF the MINER.
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. 1889.
| What becomes Of all the defeated poll.
ticians Of high rank Where so all the
men who march out Of the political arena
to the gay music Of triumph that instails
their SUCCESSORS? Right here In Wash.
ington scores Of them remain. SONS oi
them fall in love with the wide avenues.
the cleanliness and the elegance oa The
city. Others find that they have been sn
long away from the places they cnce
called "home," that old associates and
interests are severed. You can hardly
60 block on the avenue on any san
shiny day in the season without seeing a
half dozen people intimately associated
with the official life Of yesterday. They
are for the most part prosperous, hap
py set, fond Of good dinners, inclined to
doze over the wine, aud worried no more
by their constituents. The gout has now
more terrors for them than the "deestriet
committee" ever had. ,..:,,> ........>
There is General Belknap, wi,oss wife
has recently returned from Paris. to in.
troduce her daughter into society here.
His erect. slow moving figure and long
white beard, seem always On the street
in the evening. He smokes slowly and
solemniy. after the manner vi his Old
chief, then President Grant, The shadow
Of the big scandals that distinguished bis
administration as cabinet officer seep,
to have died out Of his mind, even as tho
recollection Of the insane exsraYaganee Of
his wife that forced the good -aatufed
weak man into the tolls, has been SOFT
ened. Gen. Belknap is now a lobbyist.
The iron gray hair and brown eyes es
Grants Secretary Of the Treasury, now
Lawyer" Boutwell,. are familiar y all
club men. He looks upon the time wben
he did not call Washington "hoHae" al
being lost, and the thought makes hin
somber. ,~ E"''
His successor in the cabinet, william
A.. Richardson, h now Chief Justice oi
the Court Of Claims, and lives In mag
nifccnt house in tine northwest. Hls tes.
idence is near that OF ex-pestfhasset
General Cressgei, still another al Graut's
advisers, and now the busy presfdspt ui
the Citizens National Rank. =.
Hon. George Bancroft. waiting, old and
full oi honofs, Tor the coming Of the given
messenger, il 6gufs d the long Issst.
lie was. secretary of the Navy anIer
Prcsideat Polk, and had a brilliant career
in the diplomatic service. although his po- |
litieal reputation was long sinee swallowed |
up in his faue a. d historian. He atan- |
doned horseback riding iast seasou and |
even sold his saddle harsss, and IL ns@
seldom Seen beyoud tine flower beds OF |
his own home. 49,
Ex-seeresary Meculloch has a cotassi, |
tuition OF iron and H. Oh haie aud hearty |
as when hs was Secretary af the Treasury !
under President Lincoln, an tftice that |
he has twice had the hasiAr Of holding.
Ex-sscretary Robert G. schenek has
been for several years an invalid, and the |
famous orator Of Gen. Earrissa's hard |
cider campaign oi 1870 speaks no inore In |
public. He simply sits. and waits Sos
death. - !
Ex-Attorney General Garland will
probably never return " AskaasaE~ tie
has been appointed the legal repsessaita-
tive at Washington Of the Northern ra.
cific Railway Company, at a saiary ID
$50, 900 and is glad to remain hare.
Frank Hatton, who was the youngest
member OF President Arthsr's eatisss, ssS
now making money as one ot the Ifopsi.
etors Of the Washington Post.
Mr.. Hatton's partner Is Berial wilkins.
formerly a representative from Ohio, He
is only ons Of thousand ex.men.hess u
the House in Washington. You NEE,
them everywhere and in all classes Of so-
ciety. Many are well TO do or eges
wealthy and some, alas. are financial and
moral bankrupts. A few ase ooiataon
bar-room ioafers, with dirty alleged law
offices Of dim back stairs which they nev.
er visit, save when some former constitu-
ent, who has given one Of them case, In
The mistaken notion that he il still uan
Of importance, turns up 10 look after his
own affairs.
The families Of public men who have
passed to judgment do not prosper 50
easily. Men in political life srp no. paid
according to their merit, 4 laundering
incompetent may get 81 800 per annum,
and an sddle-headed coxcomb OF second
lieutenant the same, but the big brsinsd
men, who really amount to something.
are paid salaries altogether inadequate tol
support themselves in tho siylE their 20,
sitions demand. There is the family u
Chief Justice Waite, the daughter ard
the aged widow, reduced 70 keeping!
boarders. There are dozens Of such in.
.tanoes, iarnsntsbis bat snheedsd wan,-s
ngs against taking no thought Of the
Mrs. John A. Logan is back in WASH
ngton. preparing for hard work, wbtcn
assumes for her the shape Of editorial
Of the Home Magazine,
which some time ago began to show some
ouches OF her direction In the pub}ica'
ion of the contributions OF few of her