The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1889-08-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Discord in Virginia-The West Vir-
ginia Governorship-TheP Pres
idents Outing. 5,-
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 4
Mr.. Harrison will probably wish the
Virginia Republicans ina much
warmer climate than Washington, If
they don't stop worrying him lie
had scarcely shaken the dust accum-
ulated in his trip from Deer Park to
Washington yesterday out Of his
clothes before he was pounced upon by
three different crowds of Virginia Re-
publicans, each demanding the APP
pointment of a different man to be
postmaster at Richmond. Malone,
of course, has a man, then Gov. Brady
and John S. Wise, the whilom anti
Malone crowd have a candidate, and
third would-be-postmaster is backed
State Senator Waddell, who hopes to
get his name in as compromise.
Doubtless the President wishes some
of the harmony which is claimed to
exist among the "Old Dominion" Re-
publicans could be brou, ht to bear on
this postofice.
The Commission investigating the
rerating of pensions have determined
to make preliminary report to Sec
retary Noble next week. This Is
taken to mean that the in, ,estigation
has not, in the opinion of the investi
gator, SO far sustained any of the
charges made, and that the prelimi
nary report is made to give the Secrc-
tary of the Interior good excuse for
ordering the investigations stopped.
If it should turn out that way there is
certain to be Congressional investi-
CATION of the whole business.
Gov. Wilson, of West Virginia, was
here this week. He says the contest
now going on before the Legislative
committee for the Governorship is
bound to result in Flemming's favor,
and that as soon as the committee is
ready to report he will call special
session of the legislature to receive it.
Representative Campbell of Ohio,
who will, it is thought here, be the
Democratic candidate for Governor OF
that State is here. He thinks that il
nominated he will have a good fight
ing chance to carry the State.
Mr.. Harrison will leave here Tues
day morning for Bar Harbor. where
he goes to visit Secretary Blaine
He will go to New York by rail, and
from there to Boston, where he will
remain all day Wednesday, by steam
er. He will be met at Boston by
Walker Blaine, who left here yester-
day to arrange the programme in that
city. He expects to remain at Bar
Harbor about ten days.
Civil Service Commissioner Roose-
welt and ex-Postmaster General
Frank Hatton, now editor of the
Washington Post, seem about ready
to indulge in quarrel on account o1
the hard knocks Hatton is giving the
Civil Service law Roosevelt speaks
of Frank Hatton as a spokesman" in
a newspaper interview. and Hatton
comes back at him by charging, in an
editorial in his paper, that Roosevelt
has received, aside from his salary,
more money from the Government
during the past three months than he
(Hatton) did during his entire connec.
tion with the public service. And
now everybody is asking everybody
else what Hatton meant.
Quite rumpus has been raised
among the members. Of the labor
union by the removal of E. w. Oyster,
one of the foremen of the Government
printing offic. He was once a Repub-
lican, but worked hard for Cleveland.
Postmaster Paul, of Milwaukee,
who was so severely criticised in the
recent report Of the Civil Service
Commission, has forwarded his resig-
nation