The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-02
Pie-Huntars Have Run Gamut
Of Washington Life.
NOW AT DAIRY LUNCHES
WHY GENERAL tOWLES WILL
NOT GO 10 GREECE.
"DuRN THE TARIFF" is The CRY
4sTariff Talk Amt Givin' the Men That
Pulled the Piow Any Relief
Protection Confined to
the North.

fce-seekers everywhere; they fill the
boarding houses, cumber the departments
and crowd the Hobbies. They are here
from averv strip and corner of the coun-
trv. They are hungry, they are clamor-
Gus. They look upon this town as Il
vast pie-counter and think Mckinley
is the sandwich-clerk, and curse him be-
cause he is slow handing out the feed.
OF all this numerous caravan of Of
fice-seekers few reach the oasis OF ap-
pointment. and many of their bones Will
lie bleaching on this desert of hopes
Washington.
The administrator is so decidedly new
that the number and price tags have
hardly been taken off the coats OF Of
tice that Mckinley officials wear.
And yet the hungry mob howls be-
cause the pie isn't handed out faster.
.sWhv don't this blamed Congress go
home and attend to its own business"
said one of them in the lobby of the
House yesterday Nobody cares a pinch
of snuff about your burned old tariff;
that amt givin the men that pulled
the plow relief What we want is fod-
der And here you blamed fools are,
talkin' yourself TO death on tariff. Damn
your tariff.
There are hundreds of people from
Ohio here all wanting something" and
rone wonders if Mckinley doesn't regret
carrying his own State.
This early in the game, many of the
chasers after Office are weary and heart
sick. Already they have run the
gamut of living here; first at swell hotel,
then a cheaper place. and in few weeks
all the way down to a lodging house and
dairy lunch life. And they go around
and touch acquaintance for small
soan''
/ have talked with dozens of them.
and the chances of nine-tenths of them
are very bright, thank YOU"
They tell me there are Jos here from
North Carolina, camped down; and they
watch Pritchard, and chase Pritchard
and write to Pritchard, and sometimes
they say Pritchard's committee room
looks like the North Carolina Legisla-
Vure is in session here
How will North Carolina fare in the
final distrbutionY' ! asked a gentleman
who keeps right close figures.
Outside of the State offices. she will
get about six places worth the taking.
a bont six he answered
There will likely be a large crop of
disappointment gathered in the Tar Heel
State this year.
Down in North Carolina some Re |
rpublicans seem TO think Mckinley sends |
for Pritchard to ask him what the White |
House family shall have for breakfast; |
and consults him from breakfast to en- |
hassies.
When one looks around here. it is |
hard TO find the ice that Senator Pritch- |
ard cuts on this pond. He cuts some |
ice, but not by any means enough to |
supply the market.
And the news may as well be gently |
broken to the Republicans from Hang |
ing Dog to Hunting Quarters.
The election OF Mr.. Pritchard cost the |
all it was worth, and more. |
And they don't really owe him any |
thing.
Adjutant General A. j. Cowles is |
here, as affable and pleasing as ever. He |
wants TO be minister TO Greece. he |
doubtless settled upon this after having |
looked carefully over the list. His prin |
cipal claim to recognition is that the posi- |
ton is now held by North Carolinian,
and it should be kept in the family. As |
a ma tier of fact. DR. Eben Alexander |
was appointe". not on account of his resi-
dence ID the State, but because of his |
prornj. lence as a Greek scholar, / get 1t
On The best of authority that President
r,,fcKinley will follow DIR. Alexander
with another Greek scholar and author.
This gentleman is neither from North
Carolina nor the South
The States that went for Bryan can
expect little favor from this administra-
ton. It's attitude was pretty we'll illus
trated few days ago when several mem
bers and Sena tors We're discussing the
new tariff bill 1T is not in any sense
sectional" said a prominent Senator.
What do You call this and this and this
Northern industry protected, and these
Southern industries left out in the cold
cited Southern member. We'll, dam
nit" he replied, ''if the South expects
to get anything out Of the tariff why the
devil don't they vote the Republican
ticket.
: JOHN WILDER JENKINS.
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