Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1893-03-31
WASHINGTON NEWS LETTER
4 Con6reSSmaR'S Life Made Miserable
by 011Ce-SeekerS.
SENATOR BRICE'S FRIEND FROM OHIO
Home Rule In the Matters Of Taxation
Maryland Not Yet Done With the
Slnsle.tay Experiment.

mind himself that presidents and sena-
tors are only servants Of the people. He
has to keep reminding himself of it
pretty often, for the circumstances are
not such as to impress it naturally upon
his consciousness. A young man stood
the other day in the east room of the
White House, his new store boots sink
ing above their soles in the soft velvet
carpet. He had on brand new suit Of
ready made clothes, with shelf creases
in the trousers az conspicuously in evil
dence rs Ward McAllister's, and his
necktie was the reddest that conld be dis
covered in the entire stock of the empor-
ium of general merchandise in his native
town.
II just come in" he remarked conf
dentally to the next man, ito see if
grover was plsyin' the Spartan simplicity
act like the rest of the democrats we've
got in Office around here. This room
wouldn't be no SLOUGH around Saliny,
Ohio, where l hang out when Pm at
home but don't begrudgo little style
to the president of the United States.
There amt only one of 'em, and if he
wants to eat out Of gold soup plates and
drink out of diamond finger bowls we
can afford to let him do it. reckon.
ITS the senators that gets me.
There's our man Brice for instance-why
when he was workin' for his election,
there wasn't a yellow dog in Colun, bus
he wouldn't cross the street to shake
hands with, and now you would think be
was a bigger man than Queen Victoria.
Why, he's got six carriages, by gosh, and
one of ems yeller, to match his hair.
His stable alone 10 as big as our county
court house, and if YOU published
picture of it in Ohio it would beat him.
Think of man ridin' to the store in
Limy in six carriages. Why they'd call
out the constable.
"'N then he's got lot of gosh DANCED
creased floors for an Ohio man to slip
up on as soon az he sets his boots on 'em.
When / went there the other day, u
foreigner came to the door in green an
yeller uni 'orm like the leader Of dago
band. He was dressed finer than the
Brice invincibles at Saliny at the last
campaign, and their outfits cost 81 30
!, apiece. | told him l wanted to see the
, senator, and he tried to give me steer
about taking in my card, | says:
, "'Look here young Teller, Pm from
Ohio, and that don't go. You just tell
the senator that Jake Robinson, that
help to buy his election for him, is here
and ready to take the Saliny postoffice
! home as soon as him and Grover gets
time to fix tup,
"The Teller looked flusteTed and took
me into back room where there was
/. two or three desks with typewriters and
4 clerks wr,tin' and q dozen men sittin
). round waitin' an lookin' ut the CLOCK
Il The hall We passed through was AZ high
v as the tower of London, and there was
e more curtains, an hangin's, an carpets
II an statues, an chromos, an velvet
!. chairs, an gold framed lookin' glasses
t. than Julius Caesar ever had. One of the
clerks told me the senator was at break
fast, but could see him when my turf
q came. 1t was eleven O'Clock in thu
!. morning. By hockey, what would the,
q say il a man was to eat breakfast al tina
= time in Ohio before election? waitet
4 for an hour and at last they said the sen
% ator WAS ready to see me in the reception
> room. went in there and had Just go
. through the weather an WAS startin' t
% mention the Saliny postoffice, when thu
clerk brought in another man, an thu
senator says:
"'That's all right, Mr.. Robinson, I'v'
. got an appointment now, but you jus
u leave your papers here, and I'll look owe
~ them and talk to you again in tw,
Il weeks
- "Dod CAST him, he knew these Wash
~ ington hotel keepers would clean me GU
= in two days, and my return ticket on tn
railroad was only good for week.
kicked myself all the way to the hotel
"a and tomorrow I'm going to start earl
q, an kick myself back to Ohio
y There will be many such tails OF wo
u 10 relate around rural cracker boxes.
20 United States senator in the first year G
20 new term 10 the Hottest embodiment c
human grandeur known on this side Q
the Atlantic. With each successive yea
his importance steadily diminishes, an
by the time another election approache
he is as accessible as the president is a
y the time.
- The Maryland court OF appeals has pit
a' an end to an interesting experiment.
70 has declared the law under which tn
town OF Hyattsville has been testing tn
single tax system to be demonstrations
1t is to the interest Of the VIII lie countr
~ that this system should have fair tris
o. somewhere, and although the condition
q" in Hyattsville have not been thorough
Nv Nv favorable, the results OF the experimer
iJ there would have been of great signif
Az canoe. Ifthe law had been sustained, tn
queotioH VI pollCy Woulu nave Deeu vote
upon by the people within two month";
~, The result Of that vote would have show
,;s how the practical workings Of the systel
,at were regarded by those immediatel
,,s affected. The single takers have mai,
az a tanned that Hya,tsville has prospere
o. under their rule beyond anything know
in its previous history. They hay
- asserted that this prosperity was only til
10 beginning Of the boom that would tur
NC the village into great city if their polio
" should be continued. Now that the tel
has come to an untimely end, it's poss
bilities remain only theory.
ed But Maryland is not done with sing
mt tax yet. The next trial will not (
fel bounded by the limits OF Hyattsville.
movement, with the governor of the sta,
at its head, is under way for the estal
lishment OF home rule in matters of Ia,
air tion-permitting each community to d
ed eide for itself what it will tax. The Idle
~ is popular, and il it is carried out. Bait
more itself is likely to become field Il
the single tax experiment.
Irk 1t il cold day when the preside,
is does not promulgate new edici restric
ing the opportunities for the activity