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H'ASHINGTON LETTER.
FiOm our Regular Correspondent
For the Democrat:
Representative Saniuol J.
Randall is not making as
rapid progrss towards
good health as his admirers
would wish, and ma 113 of
them fear that he will never
again be able to stand the
wear and tear of active work
in the House. Mr. Randall
lirmly believes that he will
resume his work as soon as
the ouse meets, and tells
everybody who goes to see
him that he is only resting
now in deference to his physi
cian's Jwish.
President Harrison took
unceremonious leave of ev
erything official Inst week
and went to Maryland to
shoot wild ducks. He left
"Wednesday night and retur
ned Saturday night.
The Republicans who have
failed to get themselves ap
pointed to office by Presi
dent. Harrison are rapidly
announcing themselves as
candidates for the three or
four desirable offices under
the House of Representa
tives. Among the latest in
this category are ex-representative
Guenther, of Iowa,"
and Gen. Geore A. Sheri
dan, once of Louisiana, but
now of almost anywhere, or
everywhere. Both of these
gentlemen want to be elected
Clerk of the House, and so
do several others, including
" Hon. Ed. McPherson ad
Mr. Carson, both of Penn
sylvania. There is more of
a contest so far over these
minor places than over the
speakership. From the pres
ent outlook there is but one
real Republican candidate
for speaker Ueed-the rest
are only mentioned to com
pliment them. They will of
course, be voted for on one
and possibly two ballots in
the Republican caucus, but
on the third ballot at the
farthest Reed will get two
thirds of the votes.
Mr. Rhine and Secretary
Tracy carried the delegates
to the All American Congress
and the International ma
rine conference to the Naval
Academy' at Annapolis Sat
urday. The Congress began
it's regular sittings to-day.
The marine conference is
making satisfactory prog
ress in its efforts to lessen
the danger of travel by water.
j Who afraid of "ing a
soldier now? A committee
of Army cdficor niet here
this wo. k to test our inven
tion claimed to nffo.-d tin1
body 'i!r-t protection from
a . l II.
pistol mnl t Mil PtillHs. ilioniMy ri iw th. patient an.l
Mr. Wanainaker virtually ! .hstinv the mating of the stum-
admitted theehnrgebrought' ' '" ,r- ( M-eanV n.ill and
, w, , f.-x r cure. mini vet cmi'live
against luin by N-natoi , a wi ,;1IV Sul( lt mtv
j Hampton when In no ihe.I
the Senator that the oom
j mission of the new post mas
i tor at Columbia, South Com
j lina, would bo with held t'i
give the ".Senator an oppoi-
Itunitv to be heard if he !e
sired to oppose the appoint -
inent. Whether Senator
Hampton will take any fur-
ther noti e of t' e mat er i
not known here, but the
chances are that he will not.
Mr. Procter, who has
doubtless heard some of the
criticisms expressed by
thoughtless people to the
effect that he was devoting
more time to his private bu
siness than to the H'ar de
partment, has resigned the
presidency of the Vermont
Marble Company, of which
he is the virtual owner. His
son was elected to succeed
him, and there are people
here who belie re it only a
Mttle trick to blind public
opinion. We shall be able
to see whether they are
right or wrong later on.
Some surprise has been ere
ated here by the ani.ounc
ment that -.fudge McCVary,
of Iowa, stood a fair chance
of receiving an appoint
ment to the vacancy in the
Supreme Court. He served
several terms in the House
but is best remembered here
as Haye's Secretary of War.
At present he is a railroad
lawyer at Kansas City. The
Judge had been regarded as
a political "back-number"
.McKinley's friends are talk
ng of withdrawing his namei
as a candidate for Speaker
on the rather absu ied ground
that as a candidate for the
Presidential nomination of
his party in 2802 he cannot
afford to be defeated for
Speaker.
The Civil Service Commis
sioners deny that they are
making preparation for a
l 'ongressional investigation
If they are not, they ought
to be, for such an investiga
tion is one of the certainties
of the future.
The Pension committee of
the G. A. R. has Agreed to
ask Congress to pass a ser
vice pension bill that will
give every man that served
in the Union Army during
the late war at least $8 ber
month. To make its work
complete this committee
should. tell Congress, where
the money is to come from
to pay all those pensions.
J Representative Grosvenor
jof Ohio, defends himself to
: the extent of a column and
ja half newspaper interview
ifroui the charge of having
helped to "down" Foraker
Ths only thing about this . son has made himself noto
to interest Democrats is the prions not merely for the ac
fact that Foraker is down ; tivity.with which he has tuin
No matter how lie got .there." !H' out Derhocnrts but for
Ex Representative- Vance j the fact that he has posed bo
of Connecticut, is to br one! fore the country as glorying
of the New York Suns repre-ii"'l': parilisan work.
sen tn fives here this winter.
The Agricultural conven-
thai adjourned Inst Frid i.v.
rh' mei-dieis were giv.'ii
,-t its-opt itm by Sin-rotary and
Rusk. .Yor. 7S. 18-v).
I 'ar Utter
f l i'ilt IIH'Ilt f
than
iiHNiiciiicH
w hi.h
j . i.t a ottle.
W X AM A K E R'S 1 1 Y 1'OC
RISF Mr. Wnnntnakeris report,
ed bv the New York 'Herald"'
j as saying the Senator Hanip
1 1 in h so far mistaken that
j not a single com incision has
!b;on issui'd to any of the
postmasters or to the post
offices referred to in this let
ter. Percotra,the Washing
ton correspondent of the
News and Courier telegraphs
that the Postmaster Gener
al declines to commit himself
further than to say that he
had no intention of violating
any pledge he may have
made to Senator Hampton
and that, the commission ot
Postmaster Clyton will be
h ?ld up pending an investi
gation, lied 'dares most
emphatically that while he
has no knowledge of a
positive promise being made
to Senator Hampton regard
ing th; Columbia post office
still it was possible that
such might have been the
hitter's impression. Howev
er, in the hurry and confu
sion of official business the
matter might have been
overlooked and an appoint
ment made without any
question of Senator Hamp
ton's request in the matter
being raised . This particu
lar case had not been ivfei
red to him for action, at
least that is his impression,
and it was just p ssible that
the appointment might have
been carried along in the or
dinary routine manner with
outattractinghis attention"
In his New York 4 Herald"
interview he says, "I intend
to conduct the office of the
Postmaster f.ieneral upon
strictly business principles.
My idea of the administra
tion of a public office is that
it should be so managed
that equal treatment should
be given to Republicans and
Democrats alike. This de
partment belongs to the peo
pie and so long as I remain
at the head it shall be ad
ministered in their behalf."
Nov whethei there is any
discrepancy between the
statements as reported by
the "Herald" and by the
Charleston paper the public
can judge.
But with regard to thelast
paragraph, we have a word
to say. If Mr. Wana maker
has the idea he expresses, he
has not enforced it in his de
partment. It is notorious
that the Post Office Depart
ment has been conducted on
a partisan basis. Mr. Clark-
work of the Post
office nepnrtmeut in turning
I
nut Deiin crats proceed here1 thing that will pay ten jwr
so inf niM-iate as to h a Cent to borrower and lender
shame and scandal. Ap- both. Do not tell me that,
p lint men t s wer sent to in- you have got to be rich! We
:romN'toiit meii' to i;i.proKi t have a faNestandai d of great j
men. to nifii who were nsit nss in th V.S. We think
.vanted by their respective 'hero that a man must lie great
communities, to men who ; that he must be wise, that he
were in jail, to men who were1 must bo notorious; that h"
charged as criminals. It ': must be extremely wealthy,;
I was a scandal shameful, Jor that his name must boon
: digra- of ill nl degrading the putrid lips of rumor. It!
to the government.
Another instance of part-!
isanship. When the date
fixiil for the route agents tojpy. The happy man is tl.e
pass under the ohil service
rules approached, the order
was revoked and a further
date fixed, so as to give ad
ditional time to .substitute
Republicans for Democrats.
A great r.o-se was made
abot the untrained men ap
pointed by Cleveland, andon
the pretence of bettering the
service, white men who had
then become tr-iincd and
were entirelv efficient, were
displaced so as to appoint 'the career of the greatest
negro men without qualitiea-j soldier of the modern world.
Hon and who will never ar! I s:iw him walking along the
nve
at proficiency. .Some
of these appointments were
miserable farces.
We will mention a single
case that exemplifies how Mr
Waiiamaker carries into ef
fect his "Idea."
At Selma there wis a good
woni.'.n who had been ap
pointed postmaster when the
office pni.f nothing. As the
place grew the pay become
of conseqUvi.ce to her, and
the people so desiring, she
was retained by all adminis
trations. A fire broke out
and suffered heavy loss, and
the office in her distress be
came still more useful to her,
and the people were stiil
more desirous of her retain
ing the place.
Rut Wanunaker turned
her out and sent off toanoth
or p;nt of the countj' and
got a worthless fellow mere
ly because of his mean poli
ties, and put him in her
place. Wanamaker's pet
had hardly got warm in hi:,
office before ht got to steal
ing. He stole t h.' registered
letters and now he is in jail
That is the way Mr. V ana
maker enforces his "idea."
We abominate pretences and
hypocrisy .AVirs nnd Obsev
er.
If you sutler pricking pains on
moving tin1 eyes, or ctainot hear
bright light, a -id find onr sight
weak nnd tailing, you should
promptly use ur .1 11 McLean's
Strengthening eye salvo twenty
tiive cents a box.
The Rich And Great Not Al
ways Happy.
Col. Ingcrsoll in one of his
letcures says: "Some people
tell me that your doctrine a
bont lov'ng, and wives and
! all that, is splendid for the
rich but wont do for the poor.'
I tell you tonight there is
more love in the homes of the
poor than in the palaces of
the rich. The meanest hut
with love in it is a palace tit
for gods, and a palace with-
i out love, is a den fit only for
i win beasts. That is mv doe ,
! trine! You can not be so poor
that von can not help some' , Tl Sr.' " -mK xvi
Vw.it. 1 . t 1 i'1-.i. 11. .McLean s lnr Wine
jbolj. Good nature is the:ijlulff p,nlm, it wiI, s(1,n:.e vo:i
ch'iipest commodity m the sonn t s(,upi a,, (,ffwt n .,.:... .t
w aid, and love is the only au l ra-H-.-al crao.
;is alia mistake. It is not!
necessary to bo rich or prat. ;
j or to bo powerful, to po hap- i
successful man Happiness
is the legal tenderof thesoul.
'Joy is wealth.
A little while ago 1 stood
by the grave of the old Na
poleon a magnificent tomb
of gilt and gold, fit almost
for a dead deity, and gazed up
0:1 the sorcophagus of black
Egyptian marble, where rest
at last the ashes of that rest
less man. I leaned over the lm
lustrade and thoughtabout
banks of the Seine, contem
plating suicide. I saw him at
Toulon. I saw him putting
down the mob in the streets
of Paris. I saw him at the
head of the army in Italy. 1
saw him -rossing the bridge
of Lodi with the tricolor in
his hand. I saw him in E
gypt in the shadow of the
pyramids. 1 saw him con
quer the Alps and mingle the
eagles of France with the ea
gles of the crags. I saw him
at Merengo at Ulni ,-mdAus
terlitz. I saw him in Russia
where tin infantry ol thesnow
and the cavah-y of the wild
blasts scattered his legions
like winter's withered leaves.
I saw him ot Leipsie in defeat
and disaster driven by a mill
ion bayonets back upon Uar
is, clutched like a wild beast,
banished to Elba. I saw him
escape and take an empire by
force of hisgenius. I saw him
upon thefrightful liield of IJ'a
terloo, where chance and fate
combined to wreck the for
tune of their former king,
anj I saw him at St. Helena,
with hishandscrossed behind
him, gazing out uponthesnd
solemn sea.
1 thought of the orphans
and widows he had made, of
the tears that had been shed
for his glorv, and of the only
woman who ever loved him,
pushed from his heart by the
( oh.! hand of ambition, and 1
said I would rather have
been a French peasont and
worn wooden shoes. I would
rather have lived in a hut
with a vinegrowing over the
door, and the grapes grow
ing purple in the kisses of t he
autumn sun. 1 would rath
er have been that poor peas
ent with myr wife by my side,
knitting as the day died out
of the sky-w ith niy children
on my knees and their arms
about me I would rather
have been that man
and gone down i.i tongu
less silence of the dreamless
dust than to have the imperi
al personation of force and
I iimmrr..
, ie you relws at night, an
1
Th" Story of Aitni n s-l rp"a:!
Commanded to WantmiLs bj '1
lUmpton.
''olutnbia. S. (. Nov. 1:
o. F. Clayton, of the -it v.
was two weoks ago appoin
ted post master for Coiuin
bin, vice -Wade HnJuptot
Gihbs. a geiitl"innn of nig 1
standing: in th? State. Mr.
Onyfon is an 'independent'.
Post Master General Wuna
maker bad promUed not to
remove Mr. Gibbon until his
term expired. The following
letter relating to Mr. Gibbet
removal, from Senator Wade
Hamilton, no.v hunting on
his plantation in Misssissip
pi, will bo published in the
Xcws.-uh Covrior tomorrt w.
Senator Hampton writes Mr.
Wanamaker as probably no
Postmaster General of the
United S!ates wnsever writ
ten to before :
Glenn Allen .diss. Nov 8, '80.
Hon. John W.in.uwikrr :
Si n T hoi no! oseM e x t ra c t
from a South Carolina paper
has caused me great surprise-
Perhaps you will re
member, if your memory is
not treacherous, your r.ssur
mice tome a few days ago
that Mr. Gibbcs should not
be removed until the expira
tion of his term in February
next. Not omy did you do
this, but you voluntarily as
sured me that in as much as
Columbia was my postoffice
you would, when a successor
to Mr. Gibbes was to be ap
pointed, consult me.
It is a matter of small im
portance to me who takes
the place of Mr. Gibbes, but
as I informed him in passing
through Columbia of the
promise you had made, you
may perhaps understand how
your action has placed nie
in a fnlseposition. Rut it is
fortunate for nie that Mr.
Gibbes will know that I, at
least, told him the truth,
though 1 was grievously de
ceived in believing what was
said to me. I shall know bet
ter in the future what reli
ance to placed on statesmen
emenating from the same
source.
The newspapers statethat
besides managing the great
Department over which you
preside, you are running a
Sunday School in Philadel
phia, and it occurs to me
that you might with profit
to yourself select as the
most appropriate subject of
a lecture to your pupils the
instructive story of Annani
asand Sapphira. This would
give you a fine field for your
eloquence in explaining to
your young charges the im
portance of confining them
selves to the truth except
when some fancied advatapo
might be obtained over a po
litical opponent. I ainyour
obedient servant,
Wade Hampton.
NOTICE!
I wiil offer sale to the. liijrhcst
I hidtlerfor cash in haud 011 the
j 15th. day of Deeombtr 1889, ot
Norris in Watauga county N. C
(One tract of land, lying nnd t
! ing in Watauga and State nfoi 0
'sai 1: known as the J. L. Wood
ring land and the place where Y
now lives. Said trncl contai:1
i hig 80 acres, more o lass to se.t
; :stV a tax due the United Stats
! J. (i. Hardin, D. O.
(Frjia Nov. 11th. Till l)ec. r.th,