The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-15
MashInxI0n LeIIer.
ttron cur regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. D.. c., Nov. 4, 1888

washington Letter.
ttrom our regular correspondent.)
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 4, 1889.
Ex-President Cleveland's visit to Wash
ington last week to witness the Bayard.
Clymer wedding was at a time %singularly
significant. He came back to Washington
for the first time since the close OF his ad-
ministration with his party i'll the first flush
ident Harrison was the call of a victor up
on a ~vanquished foe, for of course Mr..
Cleveland insists upon taking a personal
view of the result in Iowa, Ohio and Vir-
ginia and attributes it all to the growth of
the tariff reform movement throughout the
country. President Cleveland has grown
much %stouter, in fact enormously and dis
tressingly fat, since last March. He must
weigh over three hundred and fifty pounds.
His wife, on the other hand. is more win
some than ever. The haggard, drawn look
of the society leader is gone. No care rests
on her.
Another man whotakes a purely person.
al view of the result is Corporal Tanner,
who was the head of the Pension Bureau
for a shorter time than any bureau or cab
met officer ever reigned before. He states
that the defeat of the Republican party is
due to the treatment he received from the
administration. He sees in the result the
hand of Divine Power operating for the
overthrow Of the enemies of the elect. No
more gigantic selfsufiiciency was ever seen.
Among the Department clerks and small
officials of Republican faith the belief that
President Harrison is largely to blame for
the defeat is manifest. He has succeeded
in making hundreds of distasteful appoint
ments throughout the country and he has
withheld from appointing good ones.
Postmaster General Wanainaker's disre-
gard for men who have done good party
service and appointments of men recon-
mended solely by religious socialties is al
so given as a potent cause for the evident
dissatisfaction among Republicans. Ma
homes defeat is secretly regarded with sat
isfaction. Malone has neither the respect
nor the confidence of the Republican lead
ers apart from Quay and Dudley.
Virginia is essentially a Democrat State
and the only way to carry it for the Repu-
blicans is to spend 4 mint of money and
give every man in the State who will not
work for his living a clerkship in the de-
/ ~ rtrnapt1 l,ora Thf. loo 49,. ol4o-XI
ly the plan and only the occasional restrain
ing Influence of the civil service law has
made victory for Malone impossible.
The news of the Goodloe-Swope tragedy
so affected the President that he dropped
the book he was reading to the floor. |
knew Col. Swope and Col. Goodloe. The
latter was much the ADLER man, an orator,
a man of wide travel and quick observa-
ton, of deep learning and a vast know
ledge of men, but Col. Swope was by no
means a mediocre man. Both were thor
oughly liked and the constant watching of
their friends to avoid any accidental meet
ing of these enemies during President Har.
rison's inauguration was matter of com
mon knowledge.
y cab drove to the main entrance to Will
lard's last night and a tall man alighted
and telling the waiting porters that the
baggage was all coming on the wagon
"doncher-know,' passed through the
swinging doors and up to the desk. The
gas light fell upon blonde whiskers, blonde
clothes, a great plaid cape top coat, a big
diamond emblem scarf pin and an enor-
nous diamond ring. The clerk, a grizzled
veteran in the business, was charmed. The
stranger wrote OF the register, s'Sir Will
liam Mackenzie and ''Sir Roger Mackenzie
and wife" He ordered a parlor and three
chambers with private bath rooms, and
added that Sir Roger and my lady would
arrive by the next train from New York and
that everything be prepared and ''of the
best" The clerk was overwhelmed. Moth
ingas gorgeous had been seen in that hotel
since the war. SO when a moment later Sir
William remembered that he must send a
cablegram and 'by jove, hadn't a pound
about him" the clerk ~joyfully handed him
a twenty dollar bill from the cash drawer.
Remember that this clerk has been in the
hotel business for twenty years, and then
think of that bogus lord-say rather king
of ch~eek-passing through the telegram
office and drifting out into the night to be
seen of that clerk no more. The same
individual played the same game at three
hotels in less than an liour and the police
have not found him yet.
fiCc-i iSsitthh aioltOf ldktS Win De-
coming good humor the seething criticisms
Of the Woman's Christian TEN
peranee Union at their Chicago convention.
He simply says that in giving permission
as a property holder for the sale Of liquor in
his new hotei, the Shoreham, he was merely
acting the part Of a good business man.
There is not a high class hotel in Washing
ton without a bar and wine served at the
table. There were formerly two small tenn
perance hotels conducted by ladies, but one
of these bankrupted two months ago and
the other is really only a coffee house with a
few rooms attached for the semi-occasiona
guests. The Importance of a hotel bar is
not alone in it's direct profit. 1t helps hold
custom for nine tenths of the richer hotel
guests will not stop at a caravansary that
is without a bar, WESTON.