The Osceola times., 1884-11-29

for Blaine. They have stumped for
him; they have mailed and distrib-
uted obscene circulars about the
President elect; they have written
political letters for Republican news
papers all over the country; they
| have allowed the work at their desks
TO fall months behind, all the while
drawing a salary from the public
treasury, and contributing literally
towards the election of Blaine, thus
converting the substance of the gov
ernment into blood poison for its
ruin. Could there be greater
traves;y Of civil service reform, than
to make the Pcndlcton law a shield
for such assassins as these?
The work in many government
Offices is shamefully IN arrears, and
although Democratic congresses have
tried by increased appropriations to
bring the work up to date they have
been impotent to do SO, because an in
crease Of clerks meant, under repub-
lican rule, only an increase of official
politicians and campaign workers.
TO attempt to make efficient clerks
out of the material now in the gov
ernment departments would be mad
ness OF folly. "Men do not put new
wine in old bottles," and if the in
coming Democratic administration
shall attempt to carry out the prom
Used and expected reforms through
the demoralized and demoralizmg
forces that they have been striving
for years TO displace, they will mis-
erably fail. 1t were as If Christ had
made Priests, Deacons, aud Elders
of the money changers whom he
found gambling, and whom he
scourged from the holy temple.
There are, Of course, few ex-
ceptions, and a wholesale and i'm
mediate clearing out of the depart
mcuts will lie unwisc, but it will
be fatal to reform, and fatal to the
party that has triumphed on that
issue, to harbor and nourish the class
| have described,
The city is now filing up quite
rapidly with its winter population.
Hotels and boarding houses are do
ing a thriving business, aud efforts
are being made to increase the ac-
commodations in anticipation Of the
greatest crowd that has been seen
in Washington since the combined
armies Of Grant and Sherman were
here twenty years ago. The Capt.
tai city will have no lack of bed aud
board for all who may come. 1t is
marvelously elastic and expansive
in these particulars, aud the prices
will be equally accommodating.
You can pay your money and take
your choice from hash to ierrapin
and from chikory to champagne.
1t is not true as has been reported
that the president elect has engaged
rooms at hotel in this city to be
occupied late in the coming Februa-
rv; he will not need hotel acconmo-
dations: the White House will be
at his service ON and after the 4th
/ Of March, and if it shall be his wish
to be in the city few hours before
/ that date, there are numbers Of
democrats here with comfortable
homes who would delight to enter
tain him.
The social charges that will fol-
low the election of Cleveland will
be important in Washngton-all
} the more SO since this city has be-
come the fashionable winter resort
of the United States.
1t has been suggested that the
social work Of the coming admins
tration be delegated as far as pos
sible to experts. 1t is said the
/ Prcsideut-clect has no taste for the
science OF social etiquette having
/ given his life to the study and prac-
tice of different class of questions.
/ Those who regard the national capi
tai as primarily court after the
| European models, where state din
ners, diplomatic and cabinet recep-
tions occupy SO much of the day,
and all the night in court and off
/ cial life, will probably be disappoint-
/ ed with the incoming administration.
/ Mr.. Cleveland will doubtless have
sterner duties to perform than to
spend his time hand shaking, or in
Entertaining the bedizened repre-
sentativcs of foreign courts, and the
equally bcdizened military and
naval loafers whom it has so far
been impossible to get away from
Washington. There will no doubt
s,,.r--, ,,s web as political rev
olution following the plcbiscitum of
November the fourth, but, out of
the dust and confusion incident TO
change, it is reasonable to hope
that we will have simpler manners
as well as purer laws, and a more
honest administration of them.
Communicated
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