Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-08-14
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Written and compiled for the HERALD. !
WASHINGTON, d. c., August iO.-Thai
is very pretty political game which will
be decided when the executive committee
of the National Association of Democratic
clubs meets in New York city, tomorrow
and the stakes are big, being nothing less
than the Democratic Presidential nomina-
ton. Much of the preliminary shutting
for this game has been going on here and
shufiler has been trusted friend of Sena-
tor German, who absented himself pur-
posely because he did not wish to be
known in the matter but have 1t from
one who knows, that it is the purpose OF
Gorman's friends, who believe they can
control the committee, to use the ma
chinery of the association of Democratic
clubs to elect German delegates to the
Democratic national convention, but
it is not yet certain that they will
succeed, as the Cleveland men on the
committee have got an linking of what
is being played for. 1t will be only
through. leak that the result of the
committee meeting will be known,
and 1t has been gwen cut that it
is called merely to allow the Secretary to
present the reports which he has received
from local clubs.
The platform and nominations of the
Ohio third party has created very little
interest here, and those in position to
know, say that the third party has thrown
away the chance to cut any considerable
figure in the campaign.
Washington may now be considered as
in the field as the best place for holding
the next Republican convention. The
success in getting the G. A. R. encamp-
ment for '92 has whetted the appetite of
the town, and mass meeting of its promi-
nent business men is to be held for the
purpose of preparing to make an organ
lied effort to convince the National Com
mittee that this is the place.
The enthusiastic reception given the
committee that presented WashiDgton's
claims for the next annual encampment
of the G. A. r. when it returned from its
victorious Grand, Saturday night, auguIs
well for the reception that will be given
the veterans a year hence. Canons BOOM
ed, fireworks illumed the sky and cheer
after cheer arose from the Threats of the
thousands who crowded the streets TO
welcome home the men who had obtained
for Washington the proud privilege of
the old soldiers to whose
protection in the time of dire need it
owes its very existence. During resi-
dence of many years at the National
capital your correspondent has never seen
the interest and actual enthus iasm so
general over anything as it is over the
encampment of the G. A. r.
The people generally seem to be hurt
by the reference to their disloyalty made
by Washington's opponents at Detroit
They are not in any sense disloyal, al
though, of course, there are few resi-
dents of Washington, who, while living at
the expense of the Government have no
love for the old flag or blue uniform, but
they are not numerous enough to Justify
the city with disloyalty. The
charge that the Corcoran Art Gallery
contains the portraits of Lee and Jackson
in full uniform and no portrait OF Union
general is true, bat the people of Wash
ington are il no serse responsible for it
the Corcoran Art Gallery was erected by
the late w. W. Corcoran who was noto-
rious as a Southern sympathizer during
the late war, and is maintained by funds
donated by him and controlled by board
of managers selected by him during his
life, each member of which was presum-
ably in sympathy with his ideas Although
open to the public free three days in each
week, the Corcoran Art Gallery is in no
seuse public institution, and can in no
way be controlled by the citizens of
Washington so that it IS manifestly I'M
fair to hold Washington responsible for
the pictures exhibited or not exhibited in
this gallery.
More repairs are being put on the
White House this summer than in any
one season for long time. These re-
pairs have been needed for years, but
each year it would be thought that the
next session of Congress would provide
for a new residence for the President and
they would be put off. About $4,000 is
to be spent upon the residence portion of
the house and it is expected that every
thing will be completed by October l.
Gen. Raum has written a letter in reply
to one received by Acting Secretary OF the
Treasury Nettieton, and referred to him.
of delays in the Pension Of
fee. Gen. Raum says there is no ground
for such complaint, and cites the fact that
for the fiscal year just closed there was
issued 156 ,492 original certificates, which
exceeded by 1886 the largest number
ever issued in single fiscal year and he
quotes Gen. Yeazey, ex-Commander in
Chief of the G.. A. r. as saying that in his
travels among the old soldiers he has
found them we'll pleased with the conduct
of the Pension Office.
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