Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-11-22
A GOOD COW.
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
lRrom our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18th, 1876.


Exposition has closed the result of
tho election is known. In two weeks
Congress will assemble and Washing
ton will be alive with busy legislative
and political life alive with statesmen,
politicians, fashion, and the demimonde
alive with social gayeiy though there
will DO less Of this in official circles
than there has been for the last eight
years. The present administration
with its loud charactcrlcss cabinet, and
retinuc of shoddy worshippers, is ain
the sere and yellow leafp They are
one and all desperately sick. The ides
of March The political and social
life of Washington are intimately in.
terwovcn, and, while the cabinet ladies
and those Of the Bureaucracy will
make desperate effort to go off with n
flourish of colors, music, and the gilt
ter ttat characterized the halcyon
days of Williams and Belknap, it will
be dismally laborious to appear gay at
their own funeral On the 4th Of
March they must turn their faces from
the marble halls and asphalt streets of
Washington, and read their doom in
the face of the bronze goddess on the
dome of the Capitol. The great Mich.
igander, renowned Zach Chandler,
Cabinet Campaign leader, and match
organizer; Attorney-General, father
Taft, distinguished for short but
sweet career, and p. NJ. Gen. Tyner,
distinguished for nothing, will make
up an interesting little procession to.
wards the setting sun. Don Cameron
who carves with the sword of his
father: Morrill, of Maine. demagogieal
Minister of Finance in the interests of
politics Robeson of the Navy and
Fish of Foreign Affairs will deploy to-
wards the north and east, or, as Ceasar
would say, sad septriones ct orientem."
Gen. Grant it is said will perigrinate
the world alter the 4th of March.
As for the lesser lights and parasites
they are like the etc, etc, in an auc-
tion list, too numerous to mention.
Among the Democratic orifammes of
the recent campaign new brooms
figured eonspicuously; they symbol
lied desire for more thorough re-
form than could be hoped for within
the Republican party, change, a
clean sweep; nothing short of this and
fumigation will purify our civilservice
The whole thing is infected, it must
bo reformed altogether. This will
cause much local distress, but the sur
gerry, though painful TO individuals, is
kind and necessary for the health of
the nation. If q nations right eye
ever offends it, pluck it ont. This dis.
tress will be infnitismal compared
with that which the whole country
has suffered from the ruinous wasteful
misgovcrnment that these people have
helped to create and uphold. After
the 4th Of March there will be gen
eral emigration from Washington.
Many clerks have proprietary interests
here, other have bought property for
which they have only partly paid. 1t
is safe to say that they cannot now sell
for much more than half the money
they gave. Some will be able to rent
or sell to those who come in with the
new administration, but the latter will
not pay high prices; they have not
been educated in the flush and shoddy
school of the present regime. They
have been accustomed to pay for their
own furniture, stationary, and postage
stamps in short they are not used TO
travelling in the Government laundalet,
and they will not and cannot give for
rents and board as much as the dainty
clerk and clerkess Of this administra-
tion are paying. Then it is believed
that the clerical force will be still fur
! thcr reduced Mr.. Randall and the
Democrats were thwartcd last winter
in their efforts to lop off superhuous
members, but the Republicans will no
longer oppose, since their personal and
political friends are no longer involved.
The path for Democratic economy will
be smooth, and this great cumbrous,
corrupt, civil force will be reduced
until the clerks will have elbow room
to work in, and each one of them some.
thing to do. Indeed the reduction is
q political as well as an economical
necessity. The probable ousting every
four years 10000 Office holders with
half million souls directly Or indi-
rectly dependent upon them is a strain
and shock to which the country can
no longer be safely subjected. At any
rate the present clerical force will 60
II it will take my advice IL will 90
south and grow up with the country
In Georgia they would have the priv
ilcge of voting for Alex. Stephens and
Ben. Hill, or in Louisiana they might
sec how the Mississippi river and the
gulf Of Mexico are not tingcd with the
blood of murdered negroes, nor the
cross roads adorned with genuine
bloody shirts and deaths heads.
The closing of the 44th Congress
promises to be one Of unusual interest
il is notimprobablc that II may have to
decide the result of the election, and n
bill will doubtless be introduced TO de-
eide the result OF the elections in the
future by the popular vote and thus
relieve the country from such anxiety
and confusion as that TO which il is at
present subjected. q
Mr.. Blaine has bid adicu to the House
over which he so long presided as
chairman, and which, when no dcccnd.
cd to the floor, bc almost succeeded in
converting into bcar-pit "Thcrc will
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