The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-10-24

From our Regular Correspondent.

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the department clerks, aud at the several
lunch rooms where government employees
congregste for their midday meal, one
hears scarcely anything but election talk.
On the day Of the election it was specially
evident that the government clerks were In
state of very unpleasant suspense. They
were constantly running out in search OF
news, hoping to get hold of something that
would tend to make them feel secure in
their positions, for all of them believe that
Democratic victory means clean sweep
Of the departments This feeling was IL
Iustrated by one clerk who has held his po'
stion for years, and whom heard talking
with others of forming & hunting and fish
ing club for next years sport. He said,
"Well, if Ohio goes right, and Blaine
comes In, I'll Join the club; but If Cleve-
land wins, don't know what will become
Of me-"
Much disappointment is evinced in Re-
publican circles at their fallen majority.
In fact the Republican plurality claimed on
Wednesday diminished so rapidly that the
much boosted victory in Ohio turns out to
be in reality defeat. Any falling below
their plurality Of the last Presidential year
must he accounted as sign Of waning
strength in the Republicans. AS Garfield
had $4,000 plurality, and there was nearly
10000 Republican plurality in October,
1880, if we allow for the natural increase
of population and for the extraordinary full
vote brought out by the struggle for life
the "grand Old party" has put forth in that
to them indispensable state, we must see
that the small October plurality means de-
feat 10 Move n Der, unless by the policy Of
buster they have adopted, they can deceive
the people as TO the true significance of
last Tuesdays voting. The returns show q
loss from the normal Republican strength
of 10000. Now that the smoke of the con-
fict has cleared away, the hard facts are
that Republican state has only been held
in line by plurality diminished by nearly
half from that of four years ago. Consid-
ering the desperate means resortsd to in Sc
curing this meagre result, the thousands of
deputy marshals paid from the Federal
treasury TO do partisan work, the enormous
corruption fund Gould and the other mo-
nopolist friends of Blaine have sent into
Ohio, Democrats may well take heart for
the vital contest of November.
Pension Commissioner Dudley, by the
way, found some difficulty in getting the
expense accounts of the pension Office
agents whom he had ordered to Ohio, APP
proved on his return to Washington. am
told that Deputy Commissioner Clark re
fused when requested by the commissioner
to approve expense accounts of which he
knew nothing. He was willing enough to
certify that the agents were ordered to
Ohio by Dudley, and they acted while
there under Dudley's orders, but that was
as far as he cared to go. fancy Dudley
will have to approve them himself He
would be equal to the occasion. saw him
on the street the other day, and his express
sion struck me as one Of pleasure at the
way he and his agents carried things with
high hand In Ohio. But their perform
ance on election day would furnish an in
teresting chapter Of political history which
will probably never be written, and some
of the things which they did openly would
undoubtedly be classed as fagrantly I'M
lawful. There, for instance, Estes G. Rsth-
bone, who is chief of the special examins.
ton division of the pension Office, and no
longer an agent Of the treasury secret SER
vice, was out in full armor of the knight of
the white feather, acting as secret service
detective, with view to keeping the wick
ed Democrats from voting.
| Ahe Pyiauiuai Chpstouc vi lne W asHiuS-
ton monument is completed and is an OF
ject of great curiosity to multitudes of peo-
pie. The pinnacle of the marble is cut
away to allow copper apex to set into the
stone, which will be connected with the
lightning rod on the interior of the monu-
ment. The workmen say that many poo
pie, especially young ladies, insist on
perching themselves upon this stone to say
that they have stood upon the apex of the
Washington monument
The Clapp committee issues another sap
peal" to the backward clerks. Ohio has
exhausted the fund, and there are New
York, Indiana, New jersey and Connect
cut waiting to be supplied with deputy
marshals and bulldog pistols. LENox.
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