Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-28
ARK BUILDING
The Principal Occupation of Saga
cions Republicans.
A Good Deal Of Quiet Looking Up Of Life
Preseryes and Other Safety Appli-
anees Being Done by Far-Seeing
Politicians, as
YESTERDAYS NEWS AT THE CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON, October 27.-In the presence
Of company the Republican offieeholders
here profess the utmost confidence in the
party success, but in private many of them
admit that all the signs indicate that the
day OF judgment is not remote. Some OF
/ them-think, or think they think, that
there is not going to be much of a shower,
and that anGmbrella will afford them all
the protection they need, but after all
there is gOOi deal of quiet ark-building
by Republican, officials who are satisfied
thas the end is near. Some of the most
conhdenttalkirg offieeholders have good
supply of life-peservers in their sleeping
rooms, or are sp,nding their odd hours in
the conStructionN VI Hfe-boatsin the privacy
Of their back y,rds, Many who cling
tenaeiously to The idea that the Republicans
Mu~s PfesfuehtIafE Eco
don,
base their hopes on he ex pectation that the
Democrats will get control of the next
House OF Representatives, and will 'cut up
rouSh to such an extent as to annihilate
Their chances OF success in any northern
State two years hence. An Illinois treasu-
~ official said to-day that he believed the
party was doomed. For years the ground
had been gradually cut out from under il.
Coed luck or bad Democratic management
hac rescued it once or twice from imminent
| perl, but that sort of thing could not go on
Indefinitely, and be was inclined to think
| II hd gone on about as long as it could.
lie expected the Democrats to get the
/ Ho0e this fall, and
The Presidency I'm 1854.
He nd Just received letter from an Hi
noiSongreSsman and a candidate for re-
/ 'eiecon, who said: my prospects look
httlblue. To tell the plain truth, they
lOoRery blue. The Prohibitionists are
mahg an active canvass, and the Prohibi
tiorandidate will get good many Repub-
hcayOtes," and very much the same tale
cons from all parts of the country, some
giyk one cause and some another, but all
prOtcing the same effect. One OF the most
prolnent Indiana Republican officials
heridmits in private that there is no hope
whaHer in his State. 1t is evident
to ! that the chances are decidedly
agait the New York Republicans, and
Administration Recognizes it.
II Malone is not so sure of Virginia
as " supposed is shown by the sending
Of aIxrra 900 into his State last week.
A gtleman who has been in politics a
a gOtdeal, and who is pretty intimate with
weSn politicians, said regarding an office
he seeking, that he didn't expect il he
got that he could keep it much more
: tban5o years-that is not after the expi-
; rati0f Gen. Arthur's presidency. There
! is ev indication that the ''old guard is
| leadi the Republican party to Just such
, | a def as il experienced in 1874, and from
whicunder hslf-breed President, it had
barel recovered when a strange fate
throd the reins Of power into the hands
Of tbtalwarts again last year. -
Inle various departments OF the Gov
, ernmt are q great many intelligent men
:. and iewd politicians. An experience OF
ten twelve years or longer has enabled
them
: read the Signs OF the Times
4 withcuracy. Whether it is on account
J, of Injections which have been held, or
I the ppeCt in those States where they are
V to taplace. or from independent rettec-
ton ,ident thereto, and variety of other
), consratiOus relating to the political situ-
atiOrhe opinion extensively prevails and
: is e1sssed in variety of ways that with
Y the sent administration most Of them
will out Of Office.
J. Orsn hear men who have lived on the
b cour for half a score or more OF years
saw vt they intend to do when the change
! srriy and il is q most noticeable thing
y hownost universal is the admission that
2 in wd have been better with them had
y theyen
v P1ed from Their Seats Years Ago.
. Few the thousands of mere department
> clerhave saved anything. They will yir-
u tualbegin the world again and late IN
life.,ir years in one sense having been
n lost lie thew have drawn and spent their
q sals at the seat of Government. =
!. humber OF ways IL is manifest how
!, | ahstely the idea has worked into the
= mirof the department clerks and sub
= ordtes of. every grade that change IS
y cong: that their term in less than three
, yesTill be up, and that they had better
be pairing TO
Decide What They Will Do
N fight of wild geese does not more
,f acotely denote the season than do the
A inssions prevailiDg in the departments
noindicate the political future The
ey, when it comes, will be Ike tearing
nre foundations. The ruts have been
l. ~ deem. and nothing but radical treat
n | nv and by an memorable hand will suf-
!. flo lift the wheels of the public service
, | o1of them. 1t is not necessary to say
~ 1 ,ImPn are dishonest, to reach the con
Il Zion that millions Of dollars will be
I'd by the change. Even we're 1t not 10
Abe result of a political revolution, II
5 aid be
r Productive ofa vast Saving.
e nothing is more true than that II takes
= stly more power TO propel machinery
] mbered with the accumulations OF time,
sense of security in office, and the care
, Issness incident thereto, than new ma
; binery. or even the old in new hands. The
ioyernment is run at a cost not less than
I bO per cent greater than the private busi-
: less Of men. The cost has continually IN,
, Eessed, and, as q general thing, out OF all
proportion to the increase OF public ousi-
iess. This is the tendency
The Natural One, Perhaps,
when thousands of officials have come to
regard themselves rs secure in their places,
with their sense of responsibility growing
What now engages the minds OF an i'm
nsnse number Of officials il how TO obtain
sppropriations and how to spend them
Tens Of thousands ofdollars are squandered
annually in useless inspections, by lnrosds
in q variety of ways on the econtlngentiuna,
and by appropriations where no necessity
exists, by officials secure In their places
who throw money wherever they WISH
without Thought of the Taxpayers.
| with the sagscity that detects the import
AZ the coming change in the Govern meut,
& the conviction in the minds OF most per-
sops at present exercised by the prospect
that it will be tor the good OF the puohc
service. No one knows so We'll how tnls
is as he who has had half a score et years
(0f service ina responsible position IN one
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