The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-03-17
OFFICE SEEKERS v AIT.
But They Have Become Very
Impatient.
RESPECT FOR CIVIL SERVICE RULES
Advice to .he v'fs Of a Member of the
Cabinet Advantages OF Card Recep-
tions- Compliments For the First Lady
In the Land"


tions- Compliments For the First Lady
In the Land"
WASHINGTON. March -, Special =
President Mckinley Is going SO slowly in
the business of making appointments that
the faithful office seekers are beginning TO
grumble good deal a large number Of
these gentlemen are still sitting around
the hotels and haunting the White House,
intensely eager for action They have
little sympathy with the presidents policy
of deliberate and cautious action which
the country Endorses so fully The office
seeker is too much interested from per.
sonal standpoint to take dispassionate
view of things All he knows is that he
wants his job, and wants IL quickly. He
| cannot understand why there should be
any delay, why the good thing for which
the politicians fought in the recent cam
| paign should be withheld from the boys
who stood in the trenches While there is
considerable grumbling, it does not affect
the president at all. He is taking things
as easy as he can and seems in no more
hurry to parcel out the offices than he was
when he first came TO Washington. The
number of appointments made by him di-
rectly and by the administration generally
is still far below the number made by any
administration of the last 80 years in the
same length of time.
| Enjoyed the Joke.
President Mckinley preserves his good
nature through all the trials and pressure
incident to his official station His bear
ing is still fine and courtly He charms
all who come in contact with him. He
enjoys joke too One of his callers, an
old man and a veteran Republican, who
has hung about here for two weeks trying
to get an office and making no discernible
| progress, made so bold as TO say TO the
president:
You are not going very fast, Mr.. Pres
ident, nowadays. Last fall no one could
hustle around fast enough to suit you
That's so, replied President McKin-
ley laughingly. 81 was doing the running
then, and now you are doing it,
The reply pleased the veteran Office seek
er very much but it is not recorded that
he is any nearer his goal now than he was
before.
There has really been a great change in
the scene at the national capital. Instead
of Turn the rascals OUT we now hear
many stories TO the effect that prominent
Democrats are TO be kept in office, at least
for some months; that all changes are TO
be made only after plenty of dcliberation;
that the civil service rules are to be re-
spected in spirit az well as in form, and that
merit is To count before everything else.
A Note of Warning.
At little social reception / was much
interested in the advice which the wife of
an outgoing member of the cabinet gave to
the wife of an incoming member. what
ever else you do, 4" said this lady of expert
ence, do not serve anything TO eat or
drink at your Wednesday afternoon recep-
tions If you do, you will regret it. We
tried it, and we can tell you all about it.
IL you serve things to eat and drink you
will have mob bouncing down upon you.
People who never go out in society under
any other circumstances will flock into
your rarlors. They will eat you out of
house and home. They will crowd out
your regular guests and not give the peo-
pie you really want to sec a ghost of n
chance. Where these unexpected and I'M
desirable visitors come from is u mystery,
but they do come with their uncles, cous-
ins and aurts How they get wind of the
fact that you are serving luncheon is an
other mystery, but they do There seems
TO be some sort of freemasonry among
their ilk Decide upon a spread in your
drawing room, salads and punch and such
things and IL is all over town in a twin
king We have had the horrible suspicion
that the servants spread the news and that
some of the guests who come are their
friends and relatives. Awful, isn't itY
Take my advice and keep your tables bare"
Here another society woman Of expert
ence chimed i'm and contributed her quota
TO the general fund of information con-
corning the habits of some residents of the
national capital: Lady Pauncefote, wife
of the British ambassador, was telling me
the other day that when she first came to
Washington she caused it to he known
that she would receive her friends certain
afternoon each week She did not send
out cards, but extended general invita-
ton through the society columns of the
newspapers. What do you suppose hap.
peneds Why. her house was filed with
people whom no one had ever seen before
or heard Of The wives of saloon keepers,
the families of tradesmen, clerks in the
departments, those estimable women who
keep boarding houses, all sorts and condi-
tions of folk. poured in upon her until
member of the diplomatic corps or n per-
son in high official station was rs much
lost in the crush as the proverbial needle
i'm the haystack From that day TO this
Lady Pauncefote has never given an open
afternoon All the guests who come to
her house do so by card invitation.
Mrs. McKinley's Visitors.
Mrs. Mckinley, despite her invalid con-
| djtion, is getting on very well as the first
lady i'm the land. She charms all who see
her, for she is n sweet and simple woman
She receives many friends in the library,
which is directly over the blue room of the
| White House In this apartment Presi-
| dent Arthur used to receive his business
callers. President Harrison kept the room
| as an office for time too. and Mr.. Cleve-
| land used il for IA few months. But now
| IL is beautifully furnished and Is used by
| Mrs. Mckinley as IA sitting and reception
ROOM The lady Of the White House sits
nearly all the time in an easy chair near
the door which leads to her distinguished
husbands Office, so that he need not walk
far when he comes out to see her for mo-
ment. as he does many times day. She
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