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Show Washington Letter. Washington's celebration of "Columbus "Colum-bus Day," or "Diecaveiy Day," whichever yon are pleased to call it, was very interesting, in-teresting, notwithstanding the sbseueo of all the big officials except the President, Presi-dent, who are In attendance, as thty should be, at the dedication of the World's Fair building at Chicago-Washington Chicago-Washington had two street parades, oi.e this morning, and the other, a torchlight torch-light possession of the Catholic societies to-night; a sham battle by the Nations 1 Guard, and some beautiful exercises in our public schools, consisting of emgir g of patriotic songs, recitations, addressed by citizens, and the saluting of the National flag by the children, which was, to my mind, the most impressive of al', 40,000 children assembled at their respective school h. uses took part m these exercises. It was a sight calculated cal-culated to. arouse patriotic feelings in the breast of the most sluggish indivi- dual to see the children arrangtd standing stand-ing in a hollow sqnare about ihe flag and bear them, with right hands uplifted, up-lifted, repaat in concert; "I pledge allegiance alle-giance to my flagjand.tbe.'republlo for which it stands; km e nation indivisible with liberty and; justice.for all." Did yon ever notice that when a fellow fel-low makes one correct gue?s he is almost al-most always impelled to try his hand agaiu? Well, I am no exception to th rule, and having correctly guessed that the U. S. Supreme Court would uphold the constitutionality of the Michigan electoral law, must now record a guess upon the result of the Presidential contest, con-test, which, although but a guess, is based upon the most authentic Information Informa-tion obtainable from all sources, carefully care-fully sifted and studied without prejudice. preju-dice. Here it is. If there is an election by the people on the 8, of November President Harrison will be re-elected; if the election be thrown Into the House and many of the shrewdest observers in all parties are of the opinion that it will be, Mr. Cleveland will, of course, be elected President. A cablegram from England stating that a bullock shipped from New York bad arrived theie with a genuine case of pleuro-pneumonla created a stir in the department of agriculture, and Dr. Salmon, who, as chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of that department, has been familiar with the long and, he etontly claims, successful fight against that disease in this country, pronounces the statement to the false, and produces a cablegram from the 0. S. meat inspector inspec-tor at London stating that the bullock bad ordinary catarral pnenmonia, contracted during the voyage, as proof. The doctor further says: "I desire to state once more and most positively that there is no contageous plenro-pneu-monia in any portion of the United States. There bad not been even a single case for more than six months before Secretory Rusk made his procla. matfon and there has been none since.'' Washington has at last become interested inter-ested in the campaign. There has been mere political activity nere wis weea then since the last Presidential campaign; cam-paign; committees are actively scouring tlie town, department clerks included although care is taken to see them outside out-side of government buildings, in search of campaign contributions, and urging upon those having the right to vote the necessity for going home and depositing their ballots. Arrangements have been made for a one fare ronad-trip ticket fcr the voters in all the States, and those who say they are not able to pay their own fare will be given transportation. It is estimated that more than 10.000 legal voters reside in this city. The republicans state associations are fl guring upon sending at least 5,000 vcters to the several states; the number of democrats will be much smaller, as those in the government service have not faith enough in the protective power of the civil service law to venture home in large numbers to vote against those who have the power to dismiss them; bat they1 are making up for their absence at the polls by liberally contributing contri-buting in cash to their party's campaign fund. A contribution can be kept a secret; not so with going home t: vote. Two members of the local board of trade mads a f 500 wager on the result of the election this week, and a mutual friend says they would both have been glad to have found an excuse to back out uetore ine uuuey was put up. -11 there Is no election by the people the wager is to be a '"draw." There Is a question of varacity between be-tween Judge Anderson late of the supreme court of Utah, who was compelled com-pelled (o resign by the Attorney-General this week, and acting Attorney-General Aldrlch. Judge Anderson says it was becaase he was ft democrat; Mr. Aldrich says it was because of his personal unfitness. |