New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-27

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inc. remarked that he was looking worn and Urea.
aYess said Mr.. Cleveland, " I am tired, but WIN
| have time enough to rest after the 4th OF March
Gonly until the next election, am sure' saia inc
J Southern girl. ,.,,o.o,,v
This seemed to strike tho President very faVoraoiy'
and smile chased all evidence of fatigue rOi MS
| face as he said: 60, -,
mo one, my dear young lady, put ecoisin ~, =,
could have said anything graceful as tha.. "ons
you lunch with Mrs. Cleveland on TUESDAY
senator Matt Ransom Is back from North carolina
..rnv oyer his reelection and handsomer than ever
T nose for the galleries Is strengthened by some new
| oIouents brother Senator who congratulated Ran
| som on his reelection slipped back into the oioak
| room and told this story:
HI never see Matt Ransom without thinKing OF an
,ncldent they tell about down In his own neighoor-
hanS rbev have the biggest fair in the State there
| ono wear a lank. lean mountaineer brought horse
1ovr N the fair IL was blind, spawned, and had
| sho olanders A sorrier-Iooking beast couldn't be
tound in that country. Tho horse-deaer showed his
| PAGES all around the track.
take look he cried, at tho finest boss In North
| ampton County
ale had gone halfway around the track when q
man came up to him and said
| asIook beah, stranger, that boss Is blind
GsCant help t., it's the finest boss in Northampton
County, and the mountaneer passed on little further
| somebody else struck him and said
a'Hello there, that hoss is lame.'
astIIl tho mountaneer called out:
e'Tahe look at the finest boss In Northampton
| County,
@ue had got around the circle when Matt Ransom
| mot him Thinking he would have some fun, the
| Senator went up and said:
".That the finest horse in Northampton county
why. it's lame blind. and wheezes like thunder What
| are its good polntsp
GThe mountalneer sized the Senator up changed
hts cud Of tobacco, and said;
G'Cant help that, boss, its name Is Matt RANSOM
| and it's on style That makes It the finest boss
| in Northampton County,
Il Is pleasant to know that in the patriotic Dem
ocratc heart. ab least, republics not held to
be ungratoful for It is alleged by those claim
| ing TO have knowledge in tho promises. that
Civil Service Commissioner Edgerton recently issued
! species OF Civil Service rescrpt to the Democratic
employees exhorng them " In case 10 tender their
designations upon tho advent Of the new Administra'
ton but to hang long as they could as no HIM
self Intended to do, for they we're all OF them SO
curely lntrcnched behind the protecting bulwark Of
| the civil Service law
| some of these same buiwarls, however. appear 10
have weak spots in them, hero and there, and may
possibly be scaled by Republican cohorts I'm tho near
future. hear Of one Democratic clerk woman, 10
| the Interior Department, who upon being duly fur-
nlshod with list Of the questions 10 be asked by one
OF the officials OF tho Civil Service Commission, passed
competitive examination successfully and received
her appointment Although she had a husband able
and willing 10 support her, tho woman, being Of
somewhat ingenious and commercial turn OF mind'
after serving for awhile resigned in favor Of her
daughter who was be given the vacancy, provided
she was successful in passing the customary exanina-
ton. This was easy matter, for the young oler'
cal dehutante, who had been furnished With the same
questions In time 10 study them up thoroughly prior
20 her examination passed At creditaolo marking
and was Immediately appointed No sooner was the
daughter safely anchored IN the Governments HarDor
OF Refuge. than her mother again applied for an ap-
pointVnent in her former oflee. which was immedi-
aiey given 10 her. and which she holds to-day and
this IN spite OF the fact that her husband filed with the
Secretary Of tho Interior Indignant protest against
the appointment Of hs better half"
This would, indeed appear TO be one Of those typl-
cal families referred TO IN Holy Writ house d.
ylded against ITSELF" unhappy condition OF affairs
which am told prevails Just now even In the Official
bosom OF the Civil Service Commission ITSELF wherein
Commissioner Lyman and Chief Examiner webster.
seeking at this the eleventh hour. TO fec fom the
wrath 10 Gomez have declined 20 cooperate In some
Of Bror Edgcrton's more daring ard original schemes
for the advancement Of The Faithful
am told that the eminent siatlsticIan Colonel
switzlcr expects to romaln I'm office under General
Harrlson's Administration. / don't know why ne
should unless like the Commissioner Of Agriculture,
he thinks that when the country finds hlssouran
who is capable Of filing public office It should cherish
him as tho apple Of It's eye. friend tells me that
Colonel swltzlef pulling many wires most OF which
are connected with the grocery trade. He doesn't
deny that he Is a Democrat but expects to make out
that his Democracy Ia OF that mild sort which would
| thrive under Republican Administration. Said my
friend;
@Coonei switkler has given tho matter great deal
Of thought He isn't offensive partisan, and he has
lift upon reason why he should be kept In ofoo when
hts politics OH color lie is like feiiow-Mssourian
whom It was once proposed TO make superintendent
OF a sunday-school out In an Arizona mining camp
He wanted the place, but there were two grave OBJ
jectons-hls nativity and his politics. 10 wasn't long
after tho war and the boys In the camp had all worn
the blue. They had taken their politics with them
from the States and II hard, In their minds, to
distinguish between a Democrat and a Copperhead.
The candidate for the sunday supeHntendency
pleaded that he couldn't help being born In Missouri
and had got out Of II as possible This plea
rather cked the boys, and they were about to elect
| him when some one asked:
Aren't you DemocratP
q Yes the candidate replied. but not - fool
Democrat | know how to keep siill'
"Now, that's the case with Colonel swtEler. He
isn't fool Democrat. and II permitted 10 90 on
drawing pay from tho Government he knows enough
| 20 keep quiotn
within the past week delegates from tho various
States have arrived with tho electoral votes OF their
States President Pro emporo Ingalls, Of the Senate
receives the bearers Of these votes in the room OF the
president Of tho Senate, without ceremony Tie has
purchased small iron safe In which he keeps the
precious certificates, and on the second Wednesday In
February all these win be counted. and Harrison and
| Morton declared elected s. W. Roberts, OF Georgia.
arrived in Washington with the electoral votes Of his
| state On Monday last. He Immediately made known
his presence to tho Georgia delegation and other
| Georglans In Washington, and at noon, accompanied
| BY various friends, he accorded an audience by
President Pro tompore ingalls,, TO whom be was to de-
liver the votes When the party fled into the room
Of the vice-Preslient, Mr. ingalls, was sitting at his
| desk busy engaged In writing something which he
| seemed anxious 10 get of I'm a great hurry As the