The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1889-02-21
The Retiring Administration.

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The Washington correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette gives the
following pen and ink sketch of the retir-
ing administration and it's chief managers.
1t is lifa.like in It's presentation and will
be recognized by al who are acquainted
it'll the history of the first and and last
Democratic administration for half cen
fury
Thoroughbred lawyers, whose authority in
the profession is not disputed. are very much
aroused at some OF the opinions of Mr.. Justice
Lamar in the Supreme Court. But 1t can not
be said they are at all surprised. He never had
any standing at the bar az practitioner, and
never tried 3 case OF any Importance either in
Georgia. Mississippi Washington. Mr..
Cleveland was not ignorant OF these facts when
he nominated hi-n for 3 seat on the bench,
which he now occupies but can never fifty fill.
The main object ofthe appointment was TO pro-
vide Mr.. Lamar with a life Office and 3d. 900 a
year. He is the one man who has come out Of
the dying Administration large gamer by the
connection. Ali his former associates in the
Cabinet will in three weeks go into unlamen ed
exile.
Bayard entered the DepaT tment of state with
fictitious reputation wholly founded on fam
lily traditions. and without basis of command
Ing ability to sustain it. His position in the
Senate was that of q successful pretender, who
never did q wise and who said many foolish
things. He had been sixty days in Office when
assuming to play the role of a British Premier
in the foreign office. He has alienated most of
his former friends. in and out of the Senate,
and stands publicly charged with base ingrati-
fuda pniipy ED-c9lIaE
branded with stupid laundering from the start,
ana has made the country spectacle of i'm
beciIity over the civilized world. Like Cleve-
land in assumed infalIibility, he stood high
above any form of advice, and became by
ignorance the laughin Ing stock OF diplomacy.
Turning from the foreign to the domestic
phase Of his niismanagement, the Last perform
ance in Delaware against the return of Mr..
Salisbury to the Senate was marked by ieal-
GUS intolerance that lost the State to the De-
mocracy and returned Republican to the
Senate,
Mfr. EndIcott conventionalIy known as THU
lar Secretary of War, but vino has never been
charged with knowledge of the duties OF that
Office. Will go back to Salem and his pedigree
without leaving ripple on the surface of life
at the Capital, Outside of a little coterie, 1t is
doubtful ifffty people in Washington have the
entity.
MIR. Whitney, as the Standard OIL Secretary
ofthe Navy. has gained certain notoriety for
lavish expenditure and vulgar parade of wealth
His subSidiz I'd reiainers have gloI fled the re-
cept!ons, dinners and pompous shows at the
whitney house as something sublime to con-
template. after the fashion that Baruum used
TO advertise the wooily horse. Whitney now
an ne unees himself as a candidate for Governor
of New York, with high ambition in reserve,
backed by the Standard Oil millions.
Mr.. Villas viii leave friends to lament his
enforced departure. In the Post office Depart
ment, as we'll as in the Interior he succe eded
In making enc nies by an assumption of super
iority and coarse exercise of authority that
completely isolated him from sym atby or re-
spect He was. however. Hike the order of no ell
| TO which he belongs, mere Incense burner Ii
Cleveland's presence. and the loudeat advocate
of second term.
| Mr.. Dickinson ca me to Washington Demo
crat of Democrats claiming to represent The
] young element of that party, and outspoken II
contempt of the civil service sham. But b,
soon snccumbed to the exactons OF The Whit.
House, got his proportions shaped on the bee
| of the political Procrustes who nccupies Il fo
some remaining days, ard Will return to De