San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-11-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WARRINGTON. Nov. II. 1884
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WAsuNoToS. Nov. IL. 1884
Now that the election OF a Demo
cratic president has opened new
cru in public affairs, all eyes are
turned TO tho future and Washington
where the reforms demanded in his
election will be worked out. The
coming winter will be the most
interesting and exciting one ut the
National Capital that has been known
since the war. Preparation for the
inauguration il already afoot, and Il
large number of Democratic Clubs
have engaged quarters at the differ
emit hotels for tho occasion. 1t will
doubtless be the grandest civic and
military pageant that has been seen
on similar occasion A large num-
Der of volunteer military organiza-
tons from the southern states will
take part in INSTRUMENTATION and
tho scotched party that stole the
presidency in 1876 will no doubt
howl and tear its hair over what it
will call an invasion OF the Capital by
rebels.
The chief question Of local interest
is how will the new order of things
affect the city. There will no doubt
be a momentary stagnation and
depression in all classes of local bust
ness. The government will continue
to disburse its millions to its army OF
employees, but the employees will cease
to spend this money for anything but
the necessaries of life. They will
pratice rigid economy and lay up a
surplus for q rainy day. This will,
Of course, be ruinous to the retail
dealers whose shelves have just been
filed with winter goods, but whose
floors are barren of buyers. The
dependency Of defeat has penetra-
ted every grade of the government
service and will induce economy every
where. Clerks will wear old coats
hats and pantaloons, while lady clerks
will turn their ok dresses and make
over last years bonnets.
But the Democrats will have to
live in houses and have other necessa
ries of life, and they will visit the
Capital this winter and attend the
Inauguration ceremonies in such num-
bers as were never seen before. The
money that they will spend will in a
measure compensate for the enforced
economy of government employees,
and the principal industry of Wash
ington hotels and boarding house
keeping will not suffer.
The lot of Government clerk is
not a happy one. 1 actually saw
them turn pale and go home physi-
cally sick on the night of the election,
but this was not moro because they
feared they would lose Office, than
because they knew they would lose
the money they had bet upon the
result. You would be astonished to
know how many of them will be
ruined in this way. Many borrowed
money at s and even 10 per cent per
month and bet giving odds on Blaine.
Many who have been long in service
find that their lives have been
wasted, and that they have lost that
tide which take in its flood leads on
to fortune, while sitting at govern
ment desk neglecting Uncle Sans
work, or deiantly cheating him. u
la Dudley by doing Republican cam
paign work while living on his money.
This class must go. Civil service
laws made, in spirit at least, for the
punishment of these superserviceable
patriots, and they should be dismissed
promptly on the 5th. of March 1885.
The next class to be dismissed should
be all the Malone Postmasters in
Virginia. The places can be supplied
instantly by the postmasters they dis
placed when Malone made his des-
picable bargain with the sanity
Garfield, trading his vote in the Sen
ate for the federal patronage Of
Virginia. TAsre are $1,000 post
offices in the United States, but in
the most of them, much more care
and discrimination will be required
in making changes than should be
prscticed in Virginia.