The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1884-11-01

The probability of Cleveland's election
has caused great many here to think OF
the political, social and financial effect in
this city, The change In Westinghouse
Democratic regime would be almost AS
heavily felt as was the reinstatement OF
the Republic in France, after twenty
years of Napoleon III.
The majority of men in business here
predict that the election of Cleveland will
be fatal, or at least hurtful, 10 business
The reason that they think 50 is because
they are doing well now and dread any
change that will even temporarily unsettle
things, They say that government EN-
plOyes will cease 10 spend money and be
gin To hoard il in order TO have enough TO
| begin life elsewhere; that those who own
houses will try Immediately to sell them,
and the market will be glutted The re-
suit will be a great depreciation of real
estate. Bnt there are few who insist that
Cleyelands election will improve business,
that il will bring II greater number of stran-
gers to the Inauguration than were ever
seen before in Washington, and that many
will remain seeking office and spending
money.
A large real estate owner here says he
believes Cleveland will be the next presi-
dent but is not at all uneasy about his
property, and has refused several good
offers for it in the last week Much of this
gentemans real estate is on Dupont circle,
contiguous TO the immense and splendid
house that Blaine has built. He argues
that although government clerks may be
discharged and have to sell their homes,
their successors will be quite as ready to
buy
After all il seems to me that the fear Of
a Democratic invasion is good deal like
the alarm of the cricket when the pillow
turned over his miserable abode in the
field, The poor insect thought the end of
the world bad come. If he had been a
patriot and philosopher he would have
rejoiced in the husbandry and the prospect
of good harvest. There is beneficence
even in the fire that lays waste to squalid
and dilapidated quarter of town, and if
the conhagration is wide and destructive,
it is because there Is much trash that
should be burned. In plain English Wash
ngton is full of the drift and rubbish ac-
cumulated during the last twenty-five
years of uninterrupted Republican rule.
II is high time that 1t should be burned
ont, washed out and fumigated. This was
ordered eight years ago, but the thieves,
liars and robbers that are now trying to
place Blaine in the presidential chair,
heated popular suffrage of its create st vic
tory. Never before did a people fight so
fair and fail so foul.
After the Democratic party shall have
been in office twenty five years it will prob.
ably be time to bid them vacate in turn, for
another general cleaning, health inspection
and fumigation. But it is national and
a human shame to allow the Republican
party to hold on to the government in this
way, and by the means it employed in the
two last two elections and is now employ
ing
The Democratic congressional commit
tee has nearly finished poll Of the con
prpsSiOnal districts and has reached the
conclusion that the party majority in the
House of Representatives will remain about
as it is at present. The conclusion is sur
prise to Democrats, the most enthusiastic
Of whom have been accustomed to concede
down from thirty to thirty-tive. Secretary
Post insists however, that his estimate Is
borne out by the probabilities.