The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


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ties the bad example is quickly fol-
lowed by those of his subordinates
who have an opportunity to do so.
This governments the biggest bust
ness establishment Oh this continent
and the President is its general
manager-m ismanager he has been
since March 4, 1898. AS one gem
tleman put it in conversation TO-
day, ''thls administration ought to be
known in history as one Of vacation
and lncapacity." No reasonable
person objects to the President and
members Of the cabinent taking a
vacation, just as most men do oc-
casionally, but when there is more
time devoted to vacations than to
work it would seem to be time for
Congress to act, and to say precisely
the time the President and members
of the csbinet may take off and con-
tinue to draw their pay. Take this
year, for instance. Mr.. Cleveland
has been absent from Washington
more than half the time, and about
the only mem Der of the cabinet who
has not taken almost as much time
away from his duties is Secretary
Morton, and he has probably re-
manned IN Washington more because
he could better follow his greatest
pleasure-keeping himself before
the public through newspaper in
terviews upon finance and almost
every other conceivable subject
here than when junketing around
in some obscure part of the country.
The only reason that so little has
been said about continuous absen-
teeism is that most people have ar
rived at the conclusion that the
less time the President and members
of his cabinet put in at their desks
the less harm will be done to the
country's interest. While that is
largely true, they should not be
allowed to draw salaries for doing
nothing.
One of the odd phases of the Mary
land campaign is that while the
German Democrats continue to as
sert that Mr.. Cleveland wants the
German ticket to be elected Mr..
Cleveland and all the mem ers of
his cabinet maintain dead silence
on the subject, and the most prom
inent official that all of the coaxing
and begging of Senator German
and his friends has been able to get
upon the stump in Maryland was
Dominic Murphy, subordinate of
the Commissioner of Pensions.
Your correspondent makes no pre-
tense of being IN the confidence of
Mr.. Cleveland, or Of any member of
his cabinet, but he knows that in
the past neither Mr.. Cleveland nor
the members of his cabinet have
hesitated to speak out in favor of
the Democratic ticket ID any state
where it was thought such speech
would aid in bringing out the party
vote. If they really wish German
to win, why do they not speak out
for his ticket? Why didn't the
members of the cabinet who refused
to make speeches for German s
ticket temper that refusal with q
few words in favor of the election Of
the ticket? The answer to these
questions may not be that Mr.
Cleveland wishes the Gormanites tt
be defeated, but it certainly looks
that way at this writing.
Secretary Hoke Smith has gone tt
Georgia again. 1t is said that Elk
Speaker Crisp's announcement
when he was in Washington tn,
other day, Of his intention to max,
some free silver speeches in Georgi;
had something to do with the Sec
retary's present trip.
It's evident that the administra
'tion does not feel any more cordia
towards Mr.. Castle, the new
Hawaiian minister to the United
States, than it did towards his pre-
decessor whose recall it so unjustl,
demanded. Mr.. Castle arrived il
Washington few days ago. HI