The Washington critic., 1889-03-02
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scriptsn column in the Post has won al
ready general recognition Of his ability as
brilliant and feeling writer, would probably
be with Governor Foraker in that officials
affair with "Dick' Smith Of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette were he to take part in
the encounter at all. Just before he came
to Washington, Mr. Hawkins went TO
Toledo to assume editorial charge Of the
Toledo Commercial, which paper Mr.. Smith
had recently bought The deacon had
promised that Toledo should at least have
a morning newspaper worthy the name, and
that there should he practically no limit to
enterprise. Hawkins arrived upon the
scene to find that Smiths idea Of center
prise'-for Toledo, ut lcast-was to use
prodigally what is known us "platc matter;'
that is, matter necessarily stale from
news point OF view and sold IN solid form
by concern supplying the columns Of
country newspapers. The parting inter
view between the two men, Hawkins and
Smith, is said to have been one Of the most
striking ever taking place on this continent.
What Foraker has said is not to he counted
"a patching to what Hawkins said to
Smith just before he repackcd his gripsack
and shook the dust of Toledo from his feet.
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Judge Robert S. Taylor of Fort Wayne.
Ind, man whose Ropubliconism caunot
he shaken even by White River chills, Is in
town with the visiting delegations from all
over. Judge Taylor succeeded General
Harrison on the Mississippi River Commits
sion. There is the very best kind of judicial
material In him, and some Of these days
when there is U. s. Circuit Judgeship
vacant, Judge Taylor will very probably be
called upon to fill It,.
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One member of the law firm with which
President Cleveland is to be connected ap-
pears to be an excellent fellow, as are, no
doubt, the other partners. Says the New
York Star: Charles Edward Tracy, of the
law firm OF Bangs, Stetson, Tracy 4 Nc
Neagh, with which President Cleveland is
to be associated after his retirement from
Office, met me last night. Charley is one Of
the best known and most popular men
about town. He loves the good things Of
life and enjoys them, but he is one of the
this city. He has most charming aud
gracious wife, who is the daughter of John
Bigelow Mr.. Tracy himself is tall,
manipulating fellow, full beard, and with
sandy and bronzed complexion. He
talked quite freely Of Mr.. Cleveland's
future In the law business here, and said
that he considered the course which that
gentleman had mapped out for himself n
fitting elimination TO his great official
career There are many Others who think
as Charley Tracy does about the man whose
exalted position for four years past has
not untitled him for the duties of an ordi-
nary American citizen.
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Mr. w. X. Sullivan, managing editor
OF the Chicago Journal, is one of the guests
at Willards, and should have been captured
by the Bar Association for their recent sup
per- Mr.. Sullivan is Chicagos Chauncoy
Dcpcw, an after-dinncr speaker who is
always ready always genial, and always
witty. He ought to come to Congress from
Chicago; but instead Of that he contents
himself with merely helping TO send some
one else, usually man who can't talk.
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Everybody who rides on the Fourteenth
street cars knows the good gray, poet
driver whose lines-poetic lines, and not
lines he drives with-have made him
famous. Well, he is In sackcloth and ashes
to-day, and he is using his muse to sit on.
| This morning bright and early passenger,
| loaded and primed got on and took q posi-
| tion on the platform beside the poet. lie
made casual remark as a starter, and the
| poet let him have an answer in a rhyming
couplet The passenger quietly gave the
driver four lines in reply, and eyinced no
surprise. But the poet did, and then came
back with two-line reionder.
The passenger saw his two and went him
six. The poet staggered, but lie came back
with the fatal two, and the passenger met
! him with eight. BY this time the crowd
was on to the combination in great shape
and they waited to hear the poet respond
again, but the poet couldn't do ii. lie
looked at the passenger in a dazed kind OF
| way for minute, and slowly sank down
on his stool as speechlcss as an oyster shell
aud as helpless as car Off the track, while
the passenger looked off into the gray sky
and smiled an Excelsior smile, with the
shadow of u fallen star cast athwart 1t.
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Here is some ST. Louis gossip under dat,
of yesterday about two men, each of whou
has been talked of as Cabinet possibility
One of them, General Noble, has started fol
Washington:
General John II. Noble, the man who Il
put down as certain for place in Harri
sons Cabinet, left for Washington to-
night.
swell, General, what are you going tC
do in Washington ~ asked one Of his
friends as a small party was bidding hin
good-by.
"The Administration will find something
for me to do" he said; "but I'll tell yol
now that the papers are all wrong"
SIS IL true, General, that you are to b
Secretary of War;"
"You are good guesscrn was til
response.
This is the first connection of GenerG
Mobiles name with the War Department
and numbers Of his friends believe that
the Office he will fill. II has come out thl
Chauncey |. Filley will be the next Pos
master here, and that he is backed by a
the 81, Louis Congressman.
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Ex-Governor Proctor of Vermont, VIII
may he General Harrisons Secretary {
War, is a Green Mountain Republican,
yard wide and all wool, with tariff on Il