The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1889-05-03
OUR wAsMINGTON LETTER.

From Our Regular Correspondent.
The President and the rest of the adminstra-
tiOn with its wives daughters, sons, cousins
aud aunts, to say nothing of grandchildren, left
here on a special train Furnished them free
shortly after l O'Clock this morning en- route to
New York to take part in the Centennial cele-
bratiOn of George Washiugton's Inauguration.
The office seekers and Congressman disappeared
with the appointing powers, but most of them
will probably be back by the last of the week
The most thoroughly disappointed man in the
United States-Blly Malone, of Nirguia-had
quite long interview with the President on
Saturday, and it is said that he made most
piteous appeal for recognition of some sort. lie
Is no longer choice about what he gets. lie
started out demanding Cabinet position, bu;
now he humbly asks to be allowed to name
few of the smaller Federal officials in Virginia,
and II Is by no means certain, that even that
privilege is to be allowed him
President Harrison as q lawyer must be tamil-
lar with the old English legal maxim which
says "the receiver of stolen goods is as bad rs
the thief but his action in cutting the ac-
quaintance of his old friend W. w. Dudley, who
organized the doubtful voters of Indiana into
"bocks of five" and stole the State, proves
that he does not believe IN the aforesaid maxim.
1t has been limited around Washington for some
time that President Harrison had refused 10
speak to Col. Dudley since the latter was un-
fortunate enough TO get shown up In the
"blocks of five" business. Could it be because
Why, Dudley has been one of his crookedest
and ablest lieutenants for 10 these many years,
and 1t was for just such work that he, by special
request, had Dudley made Treasurer OF the Re-
publican National Committee. Cen Harrison
did not seem to object to the crookedness then :;
on tue contrary he accepted all the benefit
theretrom. But when Col. Dudley was stupid
enough to be caught, General Harrison's viz
tue developed and he resolved to have nothing
to do with such a very wicked man as Dudley.
1t is strange that every body should know all
about Col. Dudley's dark ways all these years
aud that the President should have been en-
tirey ignorant
II President Harrison believed his friend Dud-
ley 10 have been such rascal that he could not
afford TO recognize him as an acquaintance,
would he not have been more consistent to re-
fuse the fruits of that rascslity-the Presidency
No sane man doubts that New York was car
ried by the same methods as Indiana. If Col.
Dudley is thief, who is the receiver of the sto.
len goods?
Private Secretary Halford says that the Pres.
dents health has not been better in twenty
years than 1t is now. This story is gotten up
for out of town consumption; II will not pass
here where people can see the Presidents chalky
face and the watery looking puts under his
eyes.
Senators Sherman and Quay, who have been
saying uncomplimeutary things about each
other, have shaken hands and outwardly made
up, but they have both doubtless made up their
minds to get even with the other at the first OPP
portunity.
The General Land Office will investigate the
charges that Government officials took advan-
tage of their official positions for taking pos.
session fraudulently of choice town lots and
homesteads in Oklahoma before the bona tide
settlers arrived. G. A. s.