The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-07

land is Elected.-Interesting News
From Washington.
| Special Correspondence of The Sentinel.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., July l2-Presi-
| dent Harrison is making a strong
bid for his own State in the coming
election notwithstanding the fact
that the Democrats ignored Indiana,
in measure, by refusing to nomi-
nate Gray for the Vice e-Presidency.
The appointment of John w. Foster
to be Secretary of the State increases
what was already a lions share OF
the important officers held by Indi-
| ana men.
The President, the Secretary OF
State and the Presidents law part
ner and the Attorney General, with
with the hordes of smaller Hoosiers
that swarm about the Capital, are
calculated to give Hoosier-dom the
swellhead. General New, who man.
aged the Presidents campaign at
Indianapolis and whose reliable re-
| ports of the situation brought him
| the offer of a job on the reportorial
staff of the New York World, will
almost certainly succeed Chas. Emo
ry Smith as Minister to Russia. Thus
another very juicy plum will be
thrown to Indiana, in the hope that
State pride will force a Republican
majority.
DEMOCRATIC APPROPRIATIONS.
Congress is wrestling with the ap-
preparation bills, and the depart
| ments clerks are trem bling with
fear. Republicans have opposed
Democratic economy with determi-
nation that promises success and it
begins to look as if Democrats will
as campaign material, in the way of
reducing expenses. Mr.. Holman has
obtained leave to have printed in the
Record a comparative statement of
the appropriations of the last and
the present Congress. Mr.. Thomas
B. Reed says that this will be book
keeping instead of virtue. Mr.. Hen
| derson, of Indiana, stated the other
day that the bills already passed by
the present Congress appropriate
ferty-two million dollars more than
was appropriated for the purpose by
| the first session of tie Fifty-frst
Congress.
But a little fight is brewing which
| is likely to take some of the wind of
| economy out of Republican sails.
The Republican Senate has increas-
ed the appropriation bills for gener-
| al expenses of the government, and
the conferees of the two branches of
Congress have not yet agreed as to
the amendments. The House con-
| ferees refuse to concur in amend
ments made by the Senate and GER
tain Senators say that the Senate
should sit till election day insisting
| upon the increase in appropriations
which they are now demanding. 1t
| is fairly certain that the House will
| not concur and there may be q con-
test between, the branches of Con-
gress unique and interesting.
"THE OLD FLAG AND NDAPPRoPRIATIoNs.' -
To retrace a few steps, I started
out to say more about the trembling
government clerk. Washington ex-
lists by the government teat and
manages to get the cream without
waiting for it to rise. Those who
don't get a pull live by those who
do, so that If there were elections in
the District of Columbia, "For the
old flag and appropriations would
be the strongest possible platform
4 and the man who stood on it would
win every time. After man has
been in the public service for few
months he learns that the govern.
ment owes him living, and any ap
/ lpropriation or economy that threat
ems his position is a crime against
humanity.
/ A '.sUNDowN' CITY.
\ It may be interesting to the people
of Winston-Salem who earn theil
salaries with from tweve to fourteen
1 hours of bard work to know thai
the thousands who toll for Uncl.
Sam kick on five hours during tb.
summer months. A large number O
thr government clerks find time tt
acquire medical education-fron
i medical colleges being thus sustained
here, and practice this profession al
ter office hours.
/ Others practice law, some ar
ministers, and not few are newspa
per men. There is a fight on now il
the medical organizations betweel
the regular physicians and th
"sundown doctors" l talked abou
this fight with appointments physical
who came through the Interio
department and after building up
good practice, resigned He said tn
colleges were stsundown" colleges an
the professors sundown professors
who knew they were making sun
down doctors, and he might hav
added that this was sundown city
though ostensibly work hours en-
largely at four and entirely at fiv
p. m.
"A. CASE IN HAND.
An incident occurred this. wee
illustrating the tenacity with whic
government employees hang or
once they get a hold. a young ma
from South Carolina, w. B.. Smith
entered the service to work his wa
to medical education. He gradus
ted and found that the time left o
his hands by the Office hours. Wa
sufficient to attend all the praetie
he was likely to have for some tim,
OF course he held to that which Wa