San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular cOu..pOaa.a,l
WASHINGTON, Nov. Is. 1884.

10 the future with moro interest
anxiety, hope or fear than they do TO-
day. The great event OF the winter,
the opening OF tho Congressional SEES
sion will take place in two weeks
but this is scarcely remembered, for
every body is looking three months
beyond TO the event Of quarter OF q
century, the return Of the Old Demo
cratic party TO power Did l say
"Old Democratic party 7" 1t is old
only in name, and in It's Identification
with principles for which the word is
a synonym. It is rim its personel,
new in its relations TO new questions,
new in its triumph over the effete
party which it has deposed.
What will be the policy OF the new
administration 7 Who will the new
president call to his cabinet How
will he treat Republican office hold
ers q? These and q thousand cognate
questions are discussed in political
circles, and they give expression to
great diversity Of opinion and specu-
lation. The questions are interest
ing to all, and vital to many. There
are few in Washington who live,
move, and have being, independent
of politics and change, after
twenty four years Of uninterrupted
Republican rule, to Democratic
administration, will affect society,
industry, trade, life, at the National
Capital.
In less than a year from now a
habitue of the streets, churches or
theatres of the city, will observe a
great change in its personel. Thous-
ands of familiar faces will have depart
ed and new faces will be soon in
their stead. During the last twenty
five years Washington has grown to
be the strongest of Republican strong
holds. Yankee Republicans from
the New England states, and their
political progeny from the West,
have fraternized with Carpet Baggers
and Black Republicans from the
South-a heterogeneous mass, but
solid on the principle of drawing
their pay, and voting for the party
that paid Thorn. You would think
that there were no Democrats here,
but this is a mistake. A few of the
genuine brand have survived the
quarter of q century, and though
mellowed by age are not to be terri.
fed.
1t was indeed a spectacle to be
remembered, the Democratic process
sion in honor OF the election at Cleve,
land last Thursday evening. 1t was
composed in great part of Demo-
Gratis from Virginia and Maryland,
but the city of Washington furnished
a respectable contingent. They
marched over the Concrete streets
and avenues of the Capital City with
torches, banners, transparencies and
ROSTERS, real and artificial. The
procession was fully mile and half
in length, and the tens of thousa nds
of Republicans who thronged the
pavements on their line of march,
realized for the first time, perhaps,
that the election had been decided,
and that new chapter in..the history
of the country had been begun.
The Republicans have been very
kind in preparing lists of Cabinet
Officers for the President elect Cleve-
land. Jefferson Davis, Robert
Toombs, Regain Of Texas, and others
identified with the Southern Con-
federacy twenty years ago, are
general favorites with these terribly
sarcastic volunteer Cabinet makers
They know, of course, that it would
be too awfully awful for Mr.. Cleve-
land to select any of his constitutional
advisers from lists of able Democrats
like Lamar, Gordon, Beck, Garland,
Barbour and host of others. They
have entirely forgotten that the man
for whom they stole the presidency,
made Confederate Brgadier, D. NJ
Key, his Post Master General.
They do not remember the conspiracy
between their pious Garfield and the
Confederate general Malone by which
the representation of a sovereign
state was bartered, and the United
States Senate was bought.
Republican presidents have never
hesitated to take to their bosoms the
Longstreets, the Mahones, and the
Chalmers who would vote with them,
and this Republican nightmare groan-
ing over the composition of President
Cleveland's cabinet is, at least, prema-
ture.