Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-03-22
(From our regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, D. G., Mar II, 1890.
The death of William Preston Taul-
bee the ex-Representative shot by
Charles E. Kincaid, correspondent Of
the Louisville Times, makes one of the
most distressing murders that Wash
ington has known in many years. The
murderer is Frustrated by the result
of his act and in his frail health and
excitable temperament his physicians
fear q t>As-WilI die before the case
can be tried, The feeling Of Kentuck-
ians here is much divided. One would
suppose at first from the newspaper
accounts that sympathy was all with
Kincaid, but now that it is established
that he pursued his man and shot him
before he could turn, sympathy is 60
ing the other way.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge
introduced his long talked of Federal
election bill in the House Saturday.
The bill has the essential features of the
Australian ballot system and provides
for the Federal supervision Of elections.
The system now in force in Massachu-
sets is made applicable to the entire
country in congressional and presiden-
tial elections. Each polling place is
put in charge of six judges or super
visors, three representing each politi-
cal party. Voters who cannot read or
write may have tickets marked by one
supervision in the presence Of another
of the opposite party. Primarily the
elections are in control of the States,
but upon the petition of five hundred
voters in any district the Federal gov
eminent will take absolute control.
On this clause the fight will be long
and hot.
From the day the last excursion
on the Potomac ties up late in the fall
until the spring morning when the
whistles sound again the average Wash
ingtonian, he of limited recourses and
boundless desires on Sunday stays late
in bed. The Sabbath sun has looked
scornfully down the deserted streets
for good three hours catching only
glimpses of an occasional policeman or
a belated rounder, an early milkman
or an enterprising news boy, before the
town gets up. And whether he look
out through cracked window panes or
through lace curtained French plate,
the citizen votes that it will be, like
all Sundays at the Capital dull day,
that is, he so votes if he be a worldly
citizen
1t has come to be locally proverb
that Washington is dull town on Sun
day. The stray visitor from New
Orleans tells you so with many signs
for the matinee and the Lake, and the
shell road. The St. Louis man bitter
from loss of the fire, endorses him. The
Cincinnati tourists for this native hill
tops. The New Yorker is lost in as
constituent. Washington is voted a
dull town on the Sabbath.
To him who is not lost to the beau
ties of a May morning graciously Civ
en- to windy March, the suburbs
and the road houses beyond offer some
compensation. The wheelmen know
this and while the majority of mankind
stop at home and grumble they are
away over the hills, over roads full of
historic "reminiscences, to Tenaltyown,
Bladensburg, or ancient Alexandria,
fast asleep between the sluggish Poto-
mac and the Virginia hills. 1t is
nightfall before these silent wheels
again strike the magnificent city
streets, bringing thousand glimmering
rows of lanterns, like meteors, flashing
through the shadows.
The citizen who goes abroad on
horseback, and he is generally accom-
panied by the citizeness, enjoys the
day and has the additional advantage
of knowing that this is in full fashion.
There are few cities in this country
that contain more good riders, perhaps
no city Of the same population. The
members of the foreign legations set
the style, and the riding talent that
slumbered undeveloped in society.
What of the rest of mankind and
womankind who are not devoted to an
orthodox observance of the day and
who remain in town?
They walk hard and long. Up
Connecticut Ave, out in Georgetown,
about the hotels, down Pennsylvania
avenue, over on..Capital hill, they wan
der like uneasy spirits. There chief
summer joys, going down the river
on excursions and going up the river
rowing, are not yet open to them. So
they must needs walk.
And the character of the crowds vary.
Between lower Pennsylvania avenue
and Connecticut avenue on sunshiny
winter afternoon, there is the difference
between wealth and poverty, the diff
ference between content and misery,
the difference between the ms and outs.
About the downtown hotels is a large
sprinkling and shutting shabby gen.
tilitv confident or ahashed as the case