Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1904-06-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom our Regular Correspo ndel

tffclD our fhtRuihi Soil CopO
Washington, D. c., May 2S-Con
gress has dissolved, as previously re-
marked, but there is no such thing as
silence in Washington, as long as His
StrenOusity fingers. The sensations
of today swarm around the White
House, or rather, around the prepos-
ferrous little clubhouse attached, where
the President hides from the low pub
lie and receives the high privates. AS
your correspondent has fOreshadowed,
lively row has sprung up around the
innocent head of COrtelyOu. He does
not want to be the storm center. but
how can he help it, when the President
Obstinately pushes him into that posi-
ton and holds him up by main strength
while he kicks and half of the Repub-
lican Senators spend their time fling
ing imprecations at his head?
what does that boy know about
managing national campaign p"
Senator Hale is reported to have asked
the other day, and every body looked
grave and nobody answered. CortelyOu
himself has shown great good sense
since the President boosted him upon
the elephant by saying frankly that it
was a mistake, for he never rode an
elephant before, and there are no stir
rups and he Is sure TO fall off.
Conditions around the executive
lean-to ure infammatOry. Not day
passes that Republican leaders do not
give the President piece of their
mind, hot off the griddle. ''Cortelyou?
''CorteIyou? said one of his callers;
.'who is he? l have heard the name,
Mr.. President. but don't even know
him by sightl" After such speech
has been repeated times enough it
makes his Excellency very hot around
the collar and he has been know to ut
ter reportes that were almost prOfane
even less printable than his short
speech to the Tennessee delegation
about Carmack. This greatly fatigues
him and inclines him to sigh audibly
for the genealogical businesses of Oys-
ter Bay.
Senator Cullom shed few tears with
the President over the terrible cOndi-
tion of affairs in Illinois. The worst
seemed to be that the FIX Senator Billy
Mason holds the key to the deadlock,
and the President remembers bitterly
the hard whacks that Mason gave him
during his last year of service. Gull
lom told him that there had been no
change in the situation since the state
convention adjourned, but he thought
that when it reassembled on the 31st a
good deal of the bitterness would have
been absorbed and the fight would not
leave deep wounds. The optimistic
visitor assured the President that
whatever becomes of Yates, harmony
would be restored in time for the No
vember campaign.
Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin, is
here, the Fuzzy Wuzzy of the Senate,
and he keeps up his interminable clat-
ter. The President has intimated to
him that he had better go home and
stay there till some kind of terms have
been made with La Toilette, who seems
quite able to hold his own against the
two Senators and their friends. 1t is
rumored that the President talks about
Wisconsin in his sleep, expressing him
self to Spooner and Quarles in terms
of amiable imprecation.
Senators Aldrich and CullOm called
upon Postmaster Payne Yesterday af-
ternoOn at the Arlington. and it is I'M
derstood that the conversation did not
entirely exclude the name of Mr.. Cor.
teIyou, General Payne's curious substi-
tute and successor.
At the headquarters of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee, Chair
man Cowherd is sending out 1000 let
tiers to Democratic county committees,
asking for the names of men who are
going to take the stump.
Mt. Elliot Springs.