Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1889-03-21
WARRINGTON LITT41.
IFrom Our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1889

Washington is slowly recovering
from the delirium OF inauguration
week. The last OF the great throng OF
non-oflicc seeking visitors are prepar-
ing to go home. As the excursion
tickets expire tonight, the Office
seekers WHO intend to remain and
fight the good fight to the more or less
bitter end have flooded the ticket
scalpers with so much pastsboard
that you can to-day buy a ticket to
st. Louis or Chicago for dollar.
The pressure for Office is pitiable.
The hotel lobbies are crowded; con-
gressmen are besieged, and many
members have even been driven home
since Monday by the solicitations OF
the anxious patriots. For every pay
ing so 900 or even 81, 800 there are a
score of applicants, and the number
OF those who do not know exactly
what they do want is simply astOund-
ing. Ii any one state may proudly
boast OF its supreme energy IN ofilce-
seeking at present, the palm may be
| awarded to Indiana. That state now
affords active candidates for every
bureau head i'm the departments.
In conversation with this hungry
army, one is surprised to learn that
they expect their claims are to be con-
| siderel within a week or ten days,
cert ainly in two weeks. Congressman
This, or well-known friend OF Harrison
That, has promised his assistance.
"Besides," you are told, "if don't
get the office am after, this influence
vii, get me something about as good.
Here commences the fine work OF the
worm i the bud which preys upon the
cieek OF the man after an office. Very
soon the big offices will be filled and
nineteen out of twenty will be left out
in the cold. The positions wont 60
round. viii our sOlicitous friends &c
home and plant and reap and be con-
tent as before? One-third OF them
may. The Others will remain. Sum.
mer will come and find them denizens
} cs .lreary second class boardirF
ihu-.4Ss. The hctel ics 80 will still IL
filed with them, sad ghosts OF the last
campaign. Those who have been in
the chase before will reconcile them
selves TO old associations, and those
who have not been in Washington be-
fore will accommodate themselves to
the temporizing life as best they may
hoping against hope that something
may turn up.
| When congress comes back agair
next winter, the office seekers, depress
ed but not discouraged, will be or
hand. They will waylay unwary
statesmen in dark hooks OF the capi
tol corridors and force large promises
from their pallid lips. And after q
while, when his money gives out ant
he friends of his better days begin tG
avoid him, the seeker for place will b'
content to get 5000 position in thu
census office, or some similar bureau
for the disposal OF political garbage
Then you may see the mysteriousll
:. ..e.4t le.saaa- MAe- to-day de
sires to be, say, Indian Commissioner
carving his little lunch basket to 1
messengers desk.
There are among all these hungr,
ones n large number Of really GOO
men-mcn OF honor and usefulness a
their own homes. Like death. thi
craze is no respector of persons.
met yesterday as sterling fellow a
ever lived, a rising young lawyer, no
to he sure "a man who would ever be
, great lawyer, but a man who might b,
remaining in Illinois, in a few year
| reach a practice of 81, cooper annum
lie concluded by saying, ''you kno'
that have never asked for office bC
fore" That is the only excuse he ha
never asked for office before" H
states it as if it were a merit, and s.
it is, but he does not tell us why h
did not retain the merit.
That S what | told Ben Harriso
! during the campaign" ! heard a
Indiana congressman saying yesterda
= '.and believe persuaded him OF il
1 though he didn't seem to feel SO a
! first. There is nothing so honorabl
as the pursuit OF position. Let
great man die; what is his biOgraph
7 but a histor OF the offices he has held.
, What shall it profit a man to agre
4 with such a spoilsman-what fallac
could not he more easily eradicated
The new cabinet went in on Wedne,
day, General Tracy, for secretary {
c the navy, being the first to take tn
| necessary oath. The only interest fe
-, by the out utside public was in the insta
= lation OF Mr.. Blaine. Quite a crow
>, gathered about the state department
!, and waited patiently until the hou
/ arrived when he appeared and too
:. possession. With the exception {
I. Secretary Window OF the treasur,
i Mr.. Blaine is the only member oil III
!. new cabinet known to the publl'
/, Whether or not any OF them sha
i succeed IN winning laurels, ,ornotoriet!
: / oNer.hadowed by Mr.. Blaine, remain