The Arizona champion., 1889-04-27
NEWSY LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondents at
 the National Capitol

the National Capitol
 WASHINGTON, Apr. 23.
 The Capitol during the Interim is the lonliest place in town. It is given over to watchmen, guides and stray tourists. In the rotunda there are perhaps half d dozen tourists, listening With twisted necks to the narratives of theS guides, who, now that Congress has adjourned and they cannot point notable peoble 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 sad tc have had a romance with Henry Clay, and has for years sold more or less inoffensive pies and cakes from a stand near the rotunda, Is stll | there. "I must verra soon go to de poor house if teese tull days keep on," she complains. and the oldest guide in the building, who has seen her weekly coming out Of certain bank, for twenty years, utters a sort of deaans challenge to her plant.
 At the door of the House Of Representatives the penmap sits az his table, ready to write you cards at the rate of 5 cents per pack, but jpbs are few and the writer has read twenty-twO of ZDia's nov els since the Senate adjourned. Here and there a solitary clerk goes fast asleep in the library or wakes up disgusted with living at any price. The watchmen sol emnlY oppressed wish the silence over this three acres of marble, sotemnly gather by twos and "re fresh themselves. !" as Charles Dickens says, at 4he immense spit toons.
 The President has been regularly installed in his office little over six weeks, and with the exception of a days ride down the Potomac. has had no respite from official du- ties. It is expegted that he will take. long vacation as early as possible this year. The New York Times has just published bittes attack upon General Harrison, based cn lhe fact that he took his run down the river on a govern ment vessel. One would think that the Times had discovered proof of the corruption ot the ad- ministration. The vessels of the navy stationed lere have always been at the disposal of the Presi- dent Tor such trips. MT. Cleve- land very properly availed himself to their use on several occasions, once for four days, and yet to the 1 jaundiced mind Of the Times what was all right then IS all wrong now.
 Joe Hickey. of Missouri, who lost S35,ooo on last November $ elecuon, was in town last week. In an interview he said Out side the State of New York, Dem ocrats would like to see Grover Cleveland nominated in 'o2. Bat he is handicapped in his own sta te. The party machine Is against hlni and will never permit his caudi dacy. That removes him forever. Yet New York will again name the man. The West has no ca.ndl dates; no man available who Is sufficiently prominent. Carlisle and Morrison cannot be con sldered, as free trade wou,sa be the dangerous cry against either. We dare not, while the the echoes O. war still finger, go South for Q standard bearer. Sam Randall IS out of the race on account of his tariff deas. c vernon I1ili'S term of office will expire before the convention meets. and his success or will be in the chair, So far as can be predicted he will leave the position a poor man. As he Is poor, his hold wlll give out when he looses the position winch gives him the distribution of vast pat ronage. In5other words the liveli est present supports of Hill are a a class of patriots who are not in politics for their health. The po- ! litical prince of to day is the pau Der of tomorrow, and. once out of the Gove-nor'S chair, Hill be- comes unavaiIable.'
 "All this," continues the sage Hickey, points to the selection of William (. Whitney as the next Presidential Democratic can dldate. Who was the most en- 4.ergetic, intelligent and logical member of Cleveland's Cabinet i? Not Bayard, ur Fl1child, or En- dlc, t., or Garland, or Dickenson, or VlIas '; oh, no Whitrey's ad- ministratlom was pure, and hlS popularity with everyone with whom he came lu Contact was lasting"
 "Of course the question of wealth IS ao. all noPortant one,