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Correspondence of the Cincinnati Times.I
THE PRESIDENT ELECT.
An Hour in tho Executive offce-Who Want
Offices. and Want Them Bad-Gov. Hayes
and His New-Found Friends-Tho Opening
of the Great Contest for Official Prefer
ment.
COLUMBUS, Feb. 90.
There have been times when the execu-
tive chamber fOhio, during business hours,
was as quiet as the front room Of bank,
and when the private secretary and execu-
tive clerk had all the rooms to themselves.
In fact, in ordinary times, the governors
office is little visited except by strangers
who call to look upon the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of Ohlo's former chief magistrates
so tastefully grouped in the handsome por-
trait room.
The carpets are generally bright, the
floors well kept, and the cuepidors unorna-
mented with second hand wads of tobacco
or the flag ends of cigars, but all this was
previous to the past eight months.
Ever since the meeting OF the Cincinnati
convention which selected Hayes and
Wheeler as their acknowledgements, these
rooms have, from day to day, been thronged
with eager crowds, comprising political
friends and foes, all intent upon hearing
something they did not know.
Immediately succeeding the convention,
hundreds of delegates returning from the
gathering called to extend congratulations
and give promises for the future. Later
came the speakers, who had committed
themselves to the windwork of the cam
paign- Later, when the coseness of the
election caused men to live for weeks be-
tween hope and fear, the executive office
was thropged with friends, who, in their
anxiety for news, at times became almost
mob. During all this Gov. Hayes, quite
naturally, was the centre of attraction. Men
from this city, and men from distant cities,
called merely "to see how the governor
was standing it." Some came from mere
curiosity. and some from motives of real
friendship, hoping by their presence to add
a crumb of comfort to the man they had so
earnestly supported by an expenditure of
time, money and lung force. And now that
the clouds of doubt and distrust are NOV
ing 30 rapidly away, and the sun OF vic
tory is seen, there comes still another kind
of visitors to the city, and still the execu-
tive office is their objective point. 1t is
AS GOOD AS A CIRCUS
to take a seat in the main rooms of the ex
ecutive chambers, and spend an hour occa-
sionally in studying the faces, and imagin-
ing the wants of visitors, who have called
upon the governor for the past few days
The Office is opened to the public at 8
o'clock a, M, and remains open till p.
m, and during all the time the visitors are
coming and going.
These visitors are met by Capt. Lee, the
courteous private secretary, and inquiries
made as to whether he can serve them, but
somehow he usually has his trouble for his
pains, Tor the visitors as one man demand
an audience with the governor, and their
business is always, Of late, of an intensely
personal nature.
The sanctum sanctorum of Gov. Hayes
is small neatly furnished room, Just to the
east OF the main room and opening into it,
and here at a table filled with letters, books
and newspapers Gov. Hayes receives most
of his visitors.
There is little or no red tape about the Of
flee, and unless the governor is engaged, al
most every visitor who claims to have bu-
siness with him is admitted. In case his
excellency is closeted with one visitor, tho
caller IS told to be seated until the first par
ty has unfolded bis tale, and when this has
been done the second caller is allowed to
take his place.
In case tine first caller by his lengthy stay
in the inner court gives evidence of superi-
or boring qualities, his tale is summarily
cut off by the introduction of another visi-
tor to the presence Of the governor. Some
times, when there is e temporary lull, Gov.
Hayes walks into the portrait room and
there shakes hands with miscellaneous
crowd, hearing dozen stories in as many
minutes. His recent experience 10 healthy
schooling for what he must experience dur
ing the coming four years, and as such he
regards it.
When asked, recently, if this perpetual
handshaking and reception business was not
fast becoming grind, the governor re-
piled "Oh, no; it's part of the business,
and man must stand it,"
PEN PICTURE OF THE VISITORS
who have called on Gov. Hayes during the
past four days, accompanied by an abstract
OF their wants, would surely make q vol
ume both unique and interesting.
The days grist includes statesmen, war
rlors, petty politicians, and curiosity seek
ers, the last giving less trouble than any of
the others. These men embrace those who
have places and who want to hold them.
and man who are without places and want
to get them. They embrace soldiers who
want promotion postmasters who want to
retain their places, and men who want to
take their places from them for them
Selves; consuls who want to be ministers,
and men who want to be consuls clerks
who want to be heads of departments, and
men who want to be clerks men who haye
knowledge of just the kind OF timber for
making cabinet, and men who seek to
keep other men from being appointed to a
position 10 the cabinet.
Most of the visitors of the past three
days have been of the smooth-haired and
well-dressed variety. But there has been
just sufficient sprinkhng of the roupher
class to give the mass pleasant variety
Among the visitors to-day were a few slick
and well-ted barnacles from Washington.
men who heve had their share of nan. and
like it so well they want more of II. and
these with their tastefully fitting light
gloves and fashionably cut garments, stood
out to bold relief to the shabby genteel
clothes of some Of the suppliants.
WHAT DID HE wANT2
Among the visitors for the past day or
two was little quiet old man, dressed in
a modest suit of dark cloth, over which an
old-tashioned frock overcoat of snuff color
ed cloth was worn. He had modest, def