San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-10-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent
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| WASHINGTON, Oct. 81, 1884.
The capital is making ready for the
congressional and social opening
which will take place in about six
weeks, but, at the present time, the
political field eclipses everything.
Although the District of Columbia
has no vote, there is no other portion
of the United States 80 intensely
interested in the result of the election
as we are. It is edifying, or, at least,
suggestive to hear the bread and but
ter politicians who feed at the public
crib talk. A more soulless, heartless
set of political sharps do not live.
They are all pocket and stomach.
None know better than they that the
late elections augur no good for
Blaine in November, and, at the
thought of Democratic success, they
boil in their own venom. They
realize full we'll that the election of
Cleveland will mean real civil service
reform, reform that will not tolerate
in places of public trust, such dead
heads and mere political bummers as
they are. They know that when dis
charged from this Government Cod
ding Asylum they will not be able, in
open market, to sell their worthless
services for one third as much as
they are now paid. And then oh |!
horrors, they will have to do real
work for eight or twelve hours day,
while here they only play at work for
six hours. Is is remarkable that they
look upon the advent of a party
unfriendly to this disorder of things,
as upon the advent of ruin. Poor
wretches 1t will be ruin to them,
but the salvation of the country de-
mands it.
A Democratic Administration will
indeed make great change in Wash
ington, and, it must be admitted that
scarcely anybody, no matter what his
convictions and sentiments on politi-
cal questions are, wants a change.
The commercial, industrial, social,
and religious forces of the city have
become identified and interviewer
with the personel of the party in
Office. A disruption of these ties
will, of course, be painful to many.
1 will never forget the wan consterna-
ton expressed in thousands of faces
eight years ago, when it was known,
on the fifth of November, that Tilden
was elected. On the following day
lying dispatch came and was posted
at the corners of the streets. 1t
read, Hays has 1S5 votes and is
elected. (signed) Chandler" 1t was
supposed that old Zach. Chandler,
now gone to his account, had sent the
dispatch, but, later, it was known
that VIM. E. Chandler, not yet called
to account, was father of the most
stupendous lie of all time. Well,
people gathered around that lie,
wherever it was posted, md sucked
consolation from it, and gazed at it
With the alteration of savages for the
sun This dispatch was the rallynig
point Of the crime of crimes which
neariy every person in the party Of
moral ideas" abetted Some may
think that John Sherman was the
ring-leader in that villainy, others that
Grant who saw in it the opportunity
for another war did more than any
other to carry out the infamous plot.
1 think that tins dispatch Of Wan Z.
Clandier tthe present Secretary Of
the Navy and his Subsequent mani
pllatiOn Of the Returning Board IN
Florida bal more to do with cheat
ing popular Suffrage Of rs creates