Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-10-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.
| Written and compiled for the HERALD

pdI ticSs Luz AOhoOu 10 NV 49,
seek. Toe Washington end OF the
campagn-making plans and SEN
ding out documents--is practically
over and the politicians are in the
field trying to clinch their printed
arguments with talk. The officials
at the several headquarters keep
up their assertions of confidence,
but none of them care to back up
their claims with details showing
the districts they expect to carry
and the vote they expect to get,
all giving the same reason, that to
do so would aid their opponents.
The opinion OF the most dislnteres-
ted men in Washington is that the
democrats will not elect majority
of the House, and many OF them
are also of the opinion that the
republicans will do no better.
Which means that they believe
the popnlists have better chance
to elect a sufficient number OF
members to hold the balance OF
power than either the democrats
or republicans have to elect a
majority. Your correspondent De-
lieves that the South is the doubt
full factor in the problem. If the
democrats can hold their own in
the South they will stand an ex'
cellent chance of retaining the
House by a very small majority,
but if the populists make the
gains they expectto make In that
section the democrats will have a
slim chance.
The new Museum Of the Post
Office Department was opened to
the public to-day, and it Is we'll
worth a visit. 1t embraces the
exhibit the department had at the
| Worlds Fair, which has been
largely added to, and shows prac'
tically the manner In which the
mails have been handled from the
days Of the pony express to the
present, the exhibits Including a
pony post mounted and equipped,
q $1,000 model of the steamship
City of Paris, a model of the side
wheel steamer which carried the
first mails across the Atlantic,
and up to date postal car, and
lots of other things connected With
the mall service at various periods
in its history.
Secretary Carlisle is somew hat
worried about that decision OF
Solicitor Reeve, that counties had
right to Issue bonds of small
denomination to be used as money
without paying the federal tax
imposed on State Bank currency.
He has learned that the commlss'
toner's OF Floyd County, GA, from
whom came the question that
brought out the opinion, are pre-
pairing to submit bond issued TO
the voters of the county at the
coming election and are so certain
that it will be authorized that they
are getting everything ready to
issue the bpuds In denominations
of fye, ten and twenty dollars
with the intention to circulate
them as money. taking 1t for gran
ted that Solicitor Reeves decision
was final. Secretary Carlisle doesn't
take that view of the matter, and
he has referred the decision Ito the
attorney general for review, and
those Georgia fDanciers may ma
out before long that they will not
be allowed to run opposition, even
in a local way, to Uncle Sim IN
the issue of money. At least that
is the impression of those who
, have heard Secretrry Carlisle speak
about the matter.
Justice Brewer, OF the I. s
Supreme Court, IN advocating q
national holiday to commemorate
the Joint anniversaries of the battle
OF Saratoga and the surrender al
q Yorktown. at the last meeting o.
. the Sons If the American revolu
ton, used soma language thai
should be read by every American,
and pondered over. eve are. 10,
busy,D he said, "with every day
cares and engrosscd in the bust
ness and subltlon of our daily lie
As result we forget patriotism
Therefore we should have NOR
national holidays. Some say tina
patriotism is more sentiment bu
a man With no sentiment is wors
I than q man without music IN hi
e soul; he is nt for treason, strata
J. gcm, and spois. In every bear
| should it be the purpose to take
: the great oath of Andre " Jackson
ID, tha akarnal oar all This land