The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-04-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, April :. i,>J

Poor Presiien, Harrison. The New York
gang have ii.urai!yely jumped on him aIid,wip
Ell M Tie floor with him. They have pu.iei
him his way. tina; way and the other way all
ut The same time. All the factions have been
strongly represented here. The bone of cor
;ertion has been important Federal Offices OF
New York city, with the enormous Patronage
that goes Herewith.
Ii was ole of these same Offices that Drove
Conklng and pla:, ont al Tie United States
Senate and eventually resulted i'm The ..>siaa-
lion Of Garfield. With all his To lIiuk sboil.
| imagine that Mr.. Harrison. with his pale.
careworn face. has wished the whole crowd in
Halifax more :Eau once. As vel he has de-
cidei upon snly two ui these officials, Erilarjt.
who allowed himself To be put up last Novem-
bef as the republican for MayoF uf New York
city, when he knew ii;t il was the intention
of his party 10 trade him OH for votes for Har-
rison. He is rewarded hy being appointed
Collector of Customs for the p,rt nf New \ pra
The other Is Nantp't, who IS made Pnsim
ter in place OF he Muewump Pearson. whose
reappointmc,t by SIR Cleveland four Years
ago DOUBTLESS cost tie democrats many votes
in New York. The fight IS still on over the
appointments AMI is likely 10 contiuu. until
they are made, unless Harrison runs away for
a few DAYS as lie has threatened To This week
the White House on Saturday aud read the
riot act TO Mr. Harrison. and told him that The
Buckeye State was bound In go democratic at
tie coming State election Il lie did not give.
her more recognition in:aa distribution of the
offices. They evidently did no, get rnuch sat
isfaction for they ct.u. away in very bad
hu,nor and proplIesird al so;ts Of had things
for their party IN OHIO.
Mr.. Cleveland pa al through here on Sat
I y
Four of his party. Messrs. Bayard. Villas.
Fairchid and Dickinson. remained liz ibis city
where their families still are.
When the Senate adj burned las, week Mr.
Harrison thought he would get rid of some Of
he most persistent Of the oiii,e seekers. bu.
ne was sadly mistaken. Si:.cc then a large
number of republican Senator, hare almost
lived i'm the White House.
During the recent campaign We heard A
grea' deal Of talk ablus the republican party
being the people, patty Now let's see how
the people are treated. Orders have iust been
issued by Secretaries Blaine. Proctor and Ira
cy defining The hours during which they NAV
be seen. I'll" people are given one hour. from
II 10 o'clock, four days III The week dmrin.
which they may call on these high and mighty
officers. During the Cleveland admiuistra-
ton any member OF the Cabinet could be seen
at any hour during office hours hv any one
who choose 10 call on him. unless h. hapDau-
ed TO be specially engaged.
There is a rumor whispered around IN r.
publican circles that Harrison does not mn
pose to till the two vancancies on the Civil
Service Commission. That would .tr almost
equivalent 10 abolis!in- the whole thing. Is
the one Commissioner now in Office can do
little else except draw his salary.
Tie negroes of the South who have come
No IN lr..fE Il off
couraced. | overhead a conversation between
two of them from Louisiana in hotel lobby.
One q! them said Il am going back home.
you may lei Pit Kellogg fool you into bcliry-
ing ne can get You something. but after what
Harrison said {" Us today, | consider the liz
IS up The negroes are not taking tins ri-,-
l"ct easily by any means. They are kicl.iu,
aud swearing vengeance on the republican
party 1t does seem a little queer tha, out of
nearly iub Presidential appointments thus ~
made, no; one is 4 negro.
Mr.. Higgins, the new republican S.n,,.- I
from Delaware, seems to be aimos, - much /
Of political hustler rs his eminent democratic
from Maryland.
The new pension officials are h"uiu,.iug car I
". Already one decision of ex-Commi,>jnuer
Blacks has been overruled that will reopen
thousands Of eases heretofore decided adverse
EX-SrcFe'ary Whitney made a prof If
10000 Oh the house lac sold 10 Postmaster
General Nauanakcr' Mr.. Whitney ais,
made something like 5000 on a country
lace which he bought in l>~j and sold IA,
ear.
The lady CLERKS in the Po,,ofiice Depart
nent are much exercised over a rrIm1r that
he Postmaster General intends To make
hem all dress alike. - he lnos the hundreds
i lady clerks in his Philadelphia store
Most SouthernrIs are ~. ,crd To- see that
N-Sena.or Mahone IN, "a, nothing. and 1x
AZ rs can b >""u. has no clanr" Of getting
ny'hln.