National Republican., 1882-11-14
Washington and the Elections.

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troubadour coming home from the war,
has love of its home. 1t has not been
able TO wholly stay the enemy in his
march upon the citadel, but it has words
of cheer for the people Of the Capital.
The inhabitants of this District are not
all citizens. We have here some thou
sands of those who, though dwellers in
the place, are what the law terms go
Journers.' These have entered the
pleasant service of their Uncle Samuel,
but, by the grace Of their States, they do
not thereby lose their citizenship
in the homes they have left The
bona fide citizens of the District
hold them none the less in such esteem
MS their behavior here may entitle them
to. We have the President and his
Cabinet, the bureau officers, the heads of
divisions, and clerks of all grades, the
Supreme Court and its belongings, the
Senators and Representatives, and Off
GERS of the Army and Navy, with the
families of all such as are not selfish
bachelors or sorrowing widows, to say
nothing of the Marine Corps. Then
we have the lobby and the people of
elegant leisure who come here in
winter because they have wealth
with which to crafty taste and enjoy
life in the finest capital in the world.
The citizens of the District have inter-
ests so interviewer with all these So
journers that they share with them their
joys and sorrows, hopes and fears. The
direst enemy of Washington is political
change. The prospect of n revolution in
party denomination would not be re-
garded by our people generally as thing
to be desired. The Civil Service may be
held up to the people during political cam
paigns as most unstable and subject to
capricious changes. But in point of fact
we in Washington know very well that
changes in the personnel of the Depart
ments are not frequent. The vine
and fig-tree shelters in comparative Sc
curity the faithful government employee
Our city is dotted all over with the per-
manent homes of those who have been
found faithful in the public duties as
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cratic President would make q good deal
of business disturbance in Washington
The sudden notice to quit that would
surely come to the average government
clerk, and to his superiors in official rank,
upon the advent of Democratic
President could not fail to dis
turb values greatly by the enforced
change of ownership in real estate that
would follow. The NATIONAL REPUBLI-
CAN feels called upon, there fore, to ex-
press its opinion that there is no reason
to believe that the result of the recent
elections is forerunner of any such
catastrophe as that to which we have al
luded. The Democratic party is ofcourse
greatly elated over the political freshet
of 1882. But, like all freshets, it will
shortly subside. Let none imagine be-
cause the people have brushed out the
flies and swept down the cobwebs
in the Republican house that they
have any intention of tearing it down,
and least of all that they haze
any intention of moving into the old
tumble-down hostelry which they occu-
pied twenty odd years ago under mine
host James Buchanan. They are re-
duced to no such strait. They will make
such repairs and alterations in their
present abode as pleases them, and will
adopt all the modern improvements
which meet their approval. The Presi-
dent is good tenant, and can be relied
ON to respect the wishes of the landlord.
We advise the people of Washington to
rest TRANQUILITY in the belief that
there is to be no wrench or up
heaval in the life of the Capital. If
the country wants any change it will not
be to recall to its service the party which
was dishonorably discharged in 1861.
The ext President will be man who
will receive the votes of all who are op-
posed to the restoration of the Bourbon
Democratic party to power, and he will
come in under the peoples orders to go
slow on removals.
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