Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-09-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our regular Correspondent

Washington, D. G. Sept %, 1889.
The wanderers are nearly all home
and the great houses of the northwest
are again CHEEKY with hustle and life
Along the avenue the equipages Of the
fashionable roll, and in the parks the
nurse girls are once more on hand with
| their pretty infantry, children brown
with the tan of sea and mountains
There is however one notable wanderer
who does not come back, and he is
President Harrison. That he makes
mistake in junketing around the coun-
try and carrying the capital in his coat
pocket, his enemies insist The talk of
his cumming at Deer Park with Steve
Elkins, Davis and Camden, and of
WINDOWS influence will not soon die
out President Harrison might have
selected better summering point than
Deer Park, the summer home of the
most notorious political brigade in the
country, triumvirate that represents
Wall street in it's most vicious aspect.
This intimacy has been of the closest
character. Even the children are
tangled up in it. The daily papers
informs us that young Blaine Elkins
gives a swell party at which Baby
Mckee is the honored guest, and these
august infants pledge each other eternal
friendship. And this precious scion of
of the Elkins tribe undoubtedly adj
roitly swelIs the head of the young Nc
Kee while a more experienced Elkin
swells the skull of the Baby's grand
father on the front porch. The Presi-
dent might do worse than come home
and take up the burden of state again.
1t is not too warm to sleep in the
White House now and the cold nights
have killed the mosquitoes.
If the President were here he might
have better opportunity to consult
with the leaders as to a successor to
Corporal Tanner as Commissioner of
Pensions he did feel it necessary to
come here to secure the Corporal's
resignation, but allowed his haste to
get the better of him in supposing that
ex-Representative Warner would jump
at the appointment. 1t is most likely
that General Miller will not accept the
Office at all, although the President
sticks to the idea of his acceptance
with all the tenacity of a man who has
once solved problem to his own salts
faction and cannot get the result veri-
fed.
George S. Merrill, Of Massachusetts,
would doubtless be willing to accept
the position, but in stating an inter-
view for publication that man must
be selected for the position who is mot
committed to service PENSIONS" he
killed his chances, unless he can ex-
plain the language satisfactory. Any
one who wants to be a Commissioner
of Pensions should avoid a newspaper
reporter as he would the plague, for
the administration has not yet deter
mined upon its pension policy and
may not until well along in the next
Congressional session. In the mean
time, silence is insisted upon.
We have the notable example of
Mr.. Hiram Smith, deputy commission
er of pensions. No sooner was Cor
poral Tanner bounced and the charge
of the Bureau given him, pending the
appointment of successor, than Mr..
Smith swelled up with Importance. He
at once, under a mistaken notion that
the administration would be pleased
with the general reversal of all of Mr..
Tanners plans, rescinded several or
ders that had been promulgated by the
Corporal. On last Wednesday, Secre-
tary Noble sat upon Smith with dull,
siekening thud and he has not been
heard to utter a sound since. His
indiscretion, together with the fact that
he had his own pension re-rated during
the wholesale grab by the Pension
Office clique of clerks, will doubtless
cause his removal. In the tender and
expressive language of the street, Mr..
Smith has been "too fresh"
The sheep who wait until their
leader goes through the gap in the
fence are not such fools as they look.
If Corporal Tanner had waited to see
what his leader intended to do he
would be in the pension office yet, and
if Mr.. Smith had not blindly started
in for himself, he would not be so
chop-fallen this evening.
Frank G. Carpenter, the well-known
newspaper correspondent, has returned
from his trip around the world and
settled down to the seasons grind.
Mr.. Carpenter left in September last