The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-31

ment to public Office, Tor instance! Ii L
could settle who should be our next min
lister to SpalnF II L were president or
secretary Of state:
That evening, as l chatted with half a
dozen women, all OF the bright, clever,
wide awake sort that are to be met moro
surely n washington than anywhere
else tnat am famlilar with, suddenly
propounded the query, III any one or
you had tie power, Wnom would you
make collector OF the port OF New York
an case OF vacancy
Jones, OF course.
''Oh no! Brown by all meanS!
"Booinson IS my mani.
''onnttl!,
Black!
Lake"
"GreenT
white
Gray" clamored nine posltiVe~olces,
whlieln my turn cried enthusiastically,
"Why not LIE Blanc'7 adding:
and now fet rs all give our real rea-
sons for our nominations, and see whose
are the WelghtiesC.
Wen, hlr. Jones Is a friend OF mine,
and L know he would ike the noml-
nat1on, and why shooldn I ne haVe'atE
and Brown mas just fused, poor
man, and needs the income.
"hoolnSon met US abroad last year
and was so niee ana gentlema1ly; ned
let AL my thlngs through the custom
mouse Tree o. duty
Mr.. Smith dld better than that, for
ne was on the Caledonia when L came
Tome alone hast autumn, and he put lot
Of things for Ned and Charlie ln'hls own
trunk as If they we've hls own"
Like Mr.. Black, VINO told me how to
hloe my laces so they never were-sus-
pected.
"Mr. Lake married my cousin, and
they mean to 1--we IN New York.
But Tom Green Is such an awfully
nice fellow, and always hard up, poor
fellow! He's run through all his prop
erty."
''Yes, but you know White is a great
yachtsnan, and just fancy the moon
light parties, and breakfasts on board
government steamers and all that sort
OF thing"
eve are under great obligation to
Mr.. Gray, and | believe the salary of the
collector of New York is something
fabulous, is it not?
And lie Blanc is Suoh a feature at
my receptions with his nautical songs
that a maritime appointment seems to
heighten his values. as the artists say"
concluded l; and then as we chatted of
one thing and another some malicious
eprite Uttered in my ear, "If women
held the reins!'
But after all. while men hold the
Teins, are political appointments made
from so much higher motives than these?
Does not one man vote and labor for mis-
friend to be nominated clerk of the pan
try because he expects to get bread and
cheese for less titan its value, or for
nothing at all, and doesn't the man who
wants the postofice at Cranberry Center
vote for the postmaster general who will
give it him?
Personal likes and dislikes do not gov
ern men IS much as they do women, and
very few mel do much from gratitude.
unless 1t is of the species defined as "a
lively sonse of favors TO Gomez" and they
very seldom toll as women do. from
pure good nature and the liking to give
other people pleasure. and yet / am
afraid their motives are.often no higher,
no more patriotic than those of the Ia
dies | have quoted.
Tradition and Bishop Potter at the
late inaugural centennial tell of an Ar
cadian, if not Paradisiacsl. condition of
politics IN which everybody acted from
Che noblest and purest motives: when
public men demanded no salaries. but
flung their private fortunes into the NIB
Ire Golfers with more than Roman patri-
otiem; when each man looked fer an
others benefit and forget his own. when
statesmen expired in saying. DaIee ct de-
corum est 1osaD putria mort. and rhe wo-
men flung their teG into the water. and
their Jewels into the melting not.