Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-03
washington Letter.
8 regular CorresDondent


tourists. In the retunda there are
perhaps half a dozen tourists listen
ing with twisted necks to the nara
tiyes Of the guides who, now that
congress has adjourned cannot point
notable people at the rate of so cents
an hour, have greatly heightened
their descriptions of the frescoes and
paintings in the dome.
Aunt Clara, who is said to have
had a romance with Henry Clay. and
who has for years sold more or less
inoffensive pies and cakes from a
stand near the rotunda, is still there.
II must vera soon go to de poor
house if tese dull days keep on" she
complains, and the oldest guide in
the building, who has seen her week
ly coming out of a certain bank, fOf
twenty years, utters a sort of defiant
challenge to her plant
At the door Of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes the penman sits at his
table, ready to write you cards at the
rate Of seventy-fve cents per pack,
but jobs are few and the writer has
read twenty-five of Zola's novels
since the Senate adjourned. Here
and there a solitary clerk goes fast
asleep in the library, or wakes up
Disguised with living at any price
The Waterman, oppressed with the
silence of this three acres of msrbl
sOlemnly gather by twos and .'reS
fresh themselves as Charles Dickens
says, at the immense spittOOns.
The President has been regularly
installed in his Office a little over SIX
weeks, and with the exception of a
ride down the Potomac, has had no
respite from official duties It is ex-
pected that he viii take a long vaca-
ton as early as possible this year
The New York Times has just pub
Iished bitter attack on General EIar
rison, based upon the fact that he
took his run down the river on a gov
eminent vessel. One would think
the Times had discovered proof of
the corruption of the administration.
The vessels of the Navy stationed
here have always been at the dispo-
sal of the President for such trips
Mr.. Cleveland very properly availed
/ himself of their use on several Occas-
ions, once for four days, and yet to
the jaundiced mind Of the Times what
was alright then is all wrong now.
Joe hickey, of Missouri, who lost
$35, 600 on last November's elections,
was in town last week. In an inter
view he said: Outside of the state
of New York Democrats would like
to see Grover Cleveland nominated
in 80, But he is handicapped in his
own state. The party machine is
against him and will never permit
his candidacy. That removes him
forever. Yet New York will again
name the man. The West has Nc
candidates; no man available who is
sufficiently prominent Carlisle and
Morrison cannot be considered, as
free trade would be the dangerous
cry against either We dare not,
while the echoes of war still Iinger
go south for a standard bearer. Sam
| Randall is out of the race on account
of his tariff ideas. Governor HIPS
term of Office expires before the con.
vention meets, and his successor vii
be in the chair. So far as can be pre-
dicted he will leave the position {
poor man. As he is poor, his hold
Will give out when he Iooses his pc
sition which gives him the distribu
ton of vast patronage, In othei
words the iveliest supports Of Hi
are q class of patriots who are not II
politics for their health. The politi
cal prince of to-day is the pauper o
tomorrow, and once out Of the Gov
errors chair, Hill becomes unavail
able. "All this, continues the sag
Hickey, points to the selection o
! William c. Whitney, as the mex
Presidential Democratic candidate
Who was the most energetic, ..intelli
gent and logical member of Cleve
lands cabinet2 Not Bayard OF Fair
child, or Endicott, or Garland, o
5 Dickinson, or Villas; oh no! Whit
, ney's administration was pure AM
his popularity with every one wit
: whom he came In contact was lasting