Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-11-14
Washington Letter
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON. Nov, 18th 1899.

FROM OUR REGULAR CoRREsPoNDENT.
WASHINGTON. Nov, 18th 1889.
Ex-President Cleveland's visit to
Washington last week to visit the
Bsyard-Clymer wedding was at time
slngularly significant. He came back
to Washington for the first time since
the close of his administration with his
party in the first flush Of splendid
victory. His call upon President Har.
rison was the cali of victor upon
yanquished foe, for of course Mr.Cleve-
land insists upon taking a personal
view of the result in Iowa, Ohio and
Virginia 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 distresslngly 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 ls gone. No
care rests on her.
Another man who takes purely
personal view of the result is Corporal
Tanner, who was the head of the Pen
sion Bureau for shorter time than any
bureau or cabinet officer ever reigned
before. He states that the defeat Of
the Republican parry Is due to the
treatment he received from the admin
lstration. He secs in the result the
hand Of Divine Power operating for the
overthrow Of the enemies OF the elect.
No more gigantic self suficiency was
ever seen.
Virginia is essentially Democratic
State and the only way to carry it for
the republicans is to spend unit of
money and give every man in the state
who will net work Tor his living clerk
ship in the departments here. TINS
has been substantially the plan and
only the occasional restraining influence
Of the civil service law has made victo'
ry for Malone impossible.
A cab drove to the main entrance 10
Wizards last night and tall man a
lighted and telling the waiting porte,s
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 whskers,
blonde clothes, "A great plaid cape top
coat, big diamond emblem scarf pin
and an enormous diamond ring. The
stranger wrote on the register. Sir Viii.
liam Mackenzie and "Sir Roger Mac.
kenzie and wife" He ordered parlor
and three chambers with private bath
rooms, and added that Sir Roger and
my lady would arrive by the next train
froln New York and that erything be
prepared and "of the best The clerk
was overwhelmed. Nothing as gorge
Gus had been seen in that hotel since
the war. So when a moment later Sir
William remembered that he must send
cablegram and "oy jove, hadn't a
pound about him., the clerk joyful y
handed him 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 check
passing through the telegraph Office and
drifting out into the night to be seen of
that clerk no more. The same indi.
vldual played the same game at three
hotels in less than an hour and the pc.
lice have not found him yet.
Vice President Norton takes with be.
coming good humor the seething cri'i.
cisms of the Women's Christian Tenn
perance Union at their Chicago conven.
ton. He simply Gays that in giving
permission as a property holder for the
sale of liquor in his new hotel, the
Shorehan. he was snerely acting the
part of good business man. There is
not high class hotel in Washington
without bar and vine served at table.
There were formerly two small temper.
ance hotels conducted by ladies. but
one Of these bankrupted two months
ago and the other is really only cof,
fee house With a few rooms attached
for the semi occasional guests. The
Importance Of hotel bar is not alone
in its direct profit 1t Helps hold cns-
tom for nine tenths Of the richer hotel
uua,fo will mt ctSp at a rur1yJprarV