National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1884-11-11
The Future OF Washington.

Some Of our business mon aro fearful
that tho material interests Of the city
will suffer in tho cvont Of tho election Of
Cleveland and Hendricks. Men who
arc Of that way ofthinking might rs we'll
relieve their minds of all spprehonsions
on tho subject at once Washington is
too largo city TO seriously feel the effects
of change in the administration of tho
general government. Tho money that is
earned BY employees Of tho government,
in and about the departments, aud spent
on the ground, enters very largely into
tho calculations OF our merchants and
business men generally, but If they
stop TO consider the matter they will
find comfort in the knowledge that this
money will continue to bo earned and
spent here until the end Of timo, or, ct
least, until the end Of the republic, and
none of us have any need to lay plans
beyond its dissolution.
We have no desire to raise false hopes
in the hearts of department clerks that
they will be permitted 10 remain in un-
disturbed possession of their desks should
the next administration be democratic.
We have no faith whatever in the honesty
of democratic professions of admiration
for civil service reform, aud frmly be-
lieve that thoy will override tho existing
law and make n clean sweep of ropubli-
can clerks at the earliest possible moment.
For every place in the gift of the admin
istration there will be thousand clam
orous democratic applicants. The pres
sure from tho ravenous horde will bc
overwhelming and irresistible. Neither
| Cleveland nor any other man, however
honest might bo his desire to protect
faithful public servants in their posi-
tions, can withstand it.
1t is not our purpose to excite unneces-
sary alarm in the minds of any of our
readers who may be in tho service of the
| government, but to all such we have
only to say that common prudence
founded on an acquaintance with demo
cratic instincts, will warn them to put
thoir houses in order for moving should
the democratic party come out ahead in
the contest that is now about at an end.
They might as well prepare to face the
music and accept what we think will DO the
inevitable consequence Of the election of
Cleveland and Hendricks, viz, revolu-
tiOn in the,departments within a twelve
month of the Inauguration of demo-
cratic president.
That there will be great many cases
of individual suffering and hardship con
seguent upon d restoration of the party
of spoils to power wo have no doubt, bu {
we do not believe that the interests of the
city as city will be injured thereby.
! Considerable property that has been
partially paid for by government en-
| ployes may be thrown on the market, hui
the demand will be stimulated, and it i.
not probable that much of it will be
sacrificed. For every person who moves
away or i5 forced out, another will be
ready to move in. For long time the
city will be full of hungry strangers
who must be fed and cared
! for, and tho presence of this
throng will moro than make up for the
loss to our merchants that will naturally
result from closer economy on the part Of
those who will feel that they must curtail
expenses and provide against an impend-
ing rainy day.
Washington, as the most beautiful city
in America, and rs the capital of the great
est nation in tho world, must expand ant
increase in wealth, population, and bust
ness year by year.
In this connection it will be we'll t.
remember that Cleveland and Herdrick
are not yet in.