Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-08-30
our Washington Letter.

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age Office seeker, and as ne mops his
hot face he tells you that he has about
concluded to go home, and adds in a
confidential whisper, that he is only
for a remittance. He no
longer stops at the Ebbitt House
though he daily haunts its nearly de
serted corridors like an uneasy ghost
The fact is that the movements of the
President excites little interest here
as enough of him has been seen to
justify one in deciding that he will do
nothing surprising. And outside the
c'o~e profession of politics this is a
pleasant state of affairs Only the
self elected statesmen mourn and will /
not be comforted.
You can never tell when a politi-
clan is permanently done for. Take |
for example Hon. James w. Reed, /
formerly of North Corolina A num-
Der of years ago Mr.. Reed represent
ed the Fifth district of that state in
the House. He was an able, compan-
ionable, easy going man and he be-
came involved In financial difficulties,
resigned his seat in Congress and left
North Corolina under a cloud. Few
knew where he had gone. On the
frontier he commenced life over again
and now reports come from Idaho
that he has a fine chance Of being
chosen United States Senator, if the
Democrats have a majority in The
newly organized State legislature.
The latest development in the
Sharon-Hill-Terry drama created
profound impression in WashigntOn.
The shock to public feeling is to be
attributed more to the indignity Of
fered to the Supreme Court, and
through that to the entire country,
than to the killing Of the misguided
and unscrupulous Terry. While no
| one disputes that the deputy marshal
was not to be excused in killing Terry
unless he knew the Justices life to be
in danger, still public sentiment would
be largely with HIM even if he had
no reason to so believe, on the i'm
munity of judges from danger of per
sonal hurt on account of acts COM
mitted in the fearless discharge of
their duty, and Marshal Neagle, in
his wild western way, pretty well sup
ported it.
Lieut.. Dick Arnold was yesterday
made superintendent Of street and
alley cleaning for the District, an ap-
pointment that recalls a police de-
partment scandal in the first part oil
President Cleveland's administration
A ridiculous coxcomb named Walker
a real estate dealer, had just been APP
pointed Major and superintendent o.
police. Walker attended a fashion
able church, and after his appoint
ment always attended services in full
uniform, an object to behold and b.
blinded by, and he generally departed
hastily in the middle of the services
as if the public safety was at issue
In fact Walker succeeded in making
such a bowling ass Of himself tina
his official career rather abruptly
terminated, and shortly after his dis
coverY of an alleged plot to shadow
7 members of Congress who were in
clined to be indiscreet, and to there
by obtain their influence in favor 0
certain pending uneasiness favoung
the District police under pain of ex
! posure. It was this scandal tina
rightly or wrongly, occasiOned hi
: discharge.
Baltimore and Philadelphia hay
come nobly to the assistance Of Wash
: ington, in It's three cornered fgh
: with New York and Chicago for tn
!, location Of the Three America
- Exposition. The Baltimore adbeI
ents base their endorsement of th
= propriety of holding the exposition /
N Washington upon the national char
y acter Of the enterprise and the fax
that no municipality in the countr
is equal to the burden Of expense a
tached to such an enterprise.
ID should be under government supe
y vision and control, and nowhere woul
" such control be as unhampered
or other authority as In Washington.