Show FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON March 2985 EDITOR DEMOCRAT I have not been in Washington since 1860 save once topass through in the night It has improved there are more trees for which somebody paid well more pavement for which somebody paid well and more niggers niggers niggers everywhere every-where for which the nation paid There is still room for improvement The negro attendants in the main slow and stupid arc better suited to hoe de corn than serve de cake The papers are coun Tytownish and are dropped the moment the trains come thundering in bringing the great journals from the outside world AVe read papers certainly the equal of these Washington and quite as good way I out in Zion 1 There are few strangers here and judging I judg-ing from appearances the Democrats have been slandered in regard to the ruslr for office little talk is heard upon the subject save among men whom I take it are a kind of political huckster There are stopping at this hotel ex Senator Paddock and Judge Carlton of the Utah Commission Senator Paddocks Pad-docks party being out of power he is left in comparative quiet to enjoy his meals I and the company of personal friendswhile Judge Carlton because of his party being be-ing in power and because of his relations with prominent Indianians is kept on the jump Secretary Thomas and thebal ance of the Commission will be here in a few days when I suppose the past years business of the Commission will be settled up and a fresh start made under the new management It is lonely about the Capitol With one exception the Senators I meet here are anxious to getaway get-away I had two letters from gentlemen in I Salt Lake to Senator Fair The Senator evidently likes the gentlemen who gave them AVe had a very pleasant talk I fancy the eastern papers which have dealt harshly with the old gentleman because he honeycombed the hills about Virginia City and made it pay have seen little of him The Senator in his quiet way said Do you know Mr Fitch I have a lot of letters I said no and that was the sum total of our talk on politics Wade Hampton has been ill and though growing old is still handsome Senator Vest is a broad shouldered broad headed little fellow I found him in his library coat off and deep among his books In Utah the Senator would be ranked Jack Mormon He is opposed op-posed to all the Edmunds legislation 1 bitterly opposed to the Hoar amendment which I believe has passed the Senate but not the House because of its provision forcing forc-ing the first wife to testify The Senator talked at length and earnestly and in the main correctly perhaps ltirely so from his stand point and knowledge of the situation but I could not agree with him in all lIe is one of the brightest and foremost men in the Senate but I senators are not so vastly different from other men and can not be expected to master fully the delicate and difficult situations existing in a commu I nity two thousand miles away I have talked with those who may be called the representatives of the opposing parlies in Utah and you may set it down to egotism ego-tism if you please but they do not fully understand our situation and I doubt if they ever will from this distance dis-tance Would to God the men of Utah would show their sense and take the faroff meddling with local and domestic affairs forever out of the question I am inclined to join the Frenchman in his disgust for a country which has 200 kinds of religion and more no doubt coming and only one kind of salad In regard to additional legislation for Utah you may write this down unless something is done there will be more and that strong In regard to offices it is quite certain there will be 110 change until terms expire ex-pire except in one case You would like to know what that is doubtless but you can not know from me I am a possible candidate for office but no one here has found it out nor do I intend they shall Whatever is done shall be done from a distance I do not intend to spoil an agreeable visit among pleasant gentlemen and close all avenues to information by turning myself into a thing to be avoided All is at sea as to marshal A MrSmith whom I met in Omaha you may add to your list of candidates He lives in Nebraska Ne-braska but that dont matter I have met applicants who in claiming Utah as their place of residence is to say the least a little cool Mr Averill is here He seems to know all about Utah and when and where the offices are to be filled Mr Averill dont like some of our people he is a trifle bitter and they are not Mormons but of those some of you kicked and thought to keep in position Will have more to say about Utah matters in my next Now for the ladies Miss Cleveland had her last public reception yesterday She has been so frequently described that allI presume are familiar with her appearance Yesterday she wore satin pale blue no ornaments only a boquet roses which one paper remarks she carried in her land I wonder where he would have her carry it There was no lack of pretty and stylish women but every eye creates its own beauty and mine looked most kindly to Miss Folsom of Buffalo She is striking decidedly complexion fair hair neither black nor yet brown eyes of that peculiar blue which follows one home and we see as distinctly lathe dark of ones room when we have cut off the gas and groped into bed as when face to face we stammered and blushed and would say something nice to the young thing but cant That sounds like Lucille but it is not its inspiration A man who would not go farther to see Miss Folsom than her friends brother in the White House is one of the Horace Greely kind Miss Folsom wore a mixture of white surah silk and white albatros fitting close at the neck and short skirt only ornament orna-ment natural flowers It is the first time I ever took kindly to a short skirt trails having been my weakness for beauty in full dress C R B |