San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1884-12-04
wAsHIserOs LETTERS.
wAaamoros, Nov. rs, 1884
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Everybody and her husband il
Washington realize that q revolution
Ia at hrnd II 10 in the heart and ID
minds eye. Soon II will DO felt and
seen in every avenue and channel o.
official, social, and political life
Washington and the country will
know that tho election offs Democratic
President means something.
Until the last week tho Republican
Office holders here hoped even in des
pair that by some miracle Cleveland
would be counted out. Now that
they realize march forth on March the
fourth.
During the last week there has
been an astonishing conversion OF
Office holders TO the doctrine Of Civil
service reform, which they interpret
10 mean that TO the victims belong
the spoils. According to their srgu-
ment Mr.. Cleveland is the great
apostle Of this doctrine, and has been
elected by the independent republi.
cans to carry il ont. By this inter
probation OF Civil service reform,
many OF the rascals who left their
work during the campaign and
stumped their states for Blaine, or
worked for him, circulating scandalous
lies about Cleveland, and many more
who spent the time that belonged to
the public service in writing msndaci.
GUS political letters for malignant
republican journals, hope to be con.
tinued in Office. They are men who
have been appointed by unscrupulous
republican leaders Of the Blaine
Chandler Dorsey and Dudley type
for their efficiescy in this class Of
work, and to continue them in Office
would be a negation Of November the
fourth, and q grotesque subversion Of
the principles Of true civil service re-
form. These men have stolen their
salaries from the public treasury,
because they have given their time
and energy not to the public service
Of the United States, their legitimate
employer, but to the private service
Of the republican organization, or, to
draw it finer, they have been drawing
the peoples money but working for
themselves. Stripped Of all para
phrase, these men are thieves. To
continue to harbor them would be as
monstrous as if Christ had made dea-
cons, elders, and vestrymen Of the
gamblers and money changers whom
he scomged from the Holy Temple.
Some utterances Of Mr.. Cleveland
have a strange md terrible sound to
the clerks in the Government Offices.
He has. said that clerks should be
retained only during good behavior,
and that his desire was to manage
the affairs Of the country on business
like principles. He believes they
should be retained only for compe.
tency and honesty, like the clerks in
private business houses, and also that
they should work just as long and
faithfully as those clerks do. To
carry out these ideas will produce q
greater revolution in the Government
Offices here than the partizans Of
either party hope or fear. 1t will
result in the Wholesale discharge of
ornamental drones and idle sinecur
lists, male and female, who come to
Office at nine o'clock in the morning
and leave at four in the afternoon,
but who actually and truly do not
average three hours OF legitimate
work per day. 1t seems 80 incredi-
BILE that clerks should be paid at the
rate of from $1,000 to $500 per year
for this playing at work that I am
half afraid the reader will not believe
me. But speak as an e1-clerk about
that which I know, and any candid
Government clerk here will tell you
that / have been more than careful
not to exaggerate.
The president elect has secured
rooms at Williard's hotel, and will
occupy them about the first of March.
A large number of Democratic
clubs have secured room at the differ
ent hotels and there is prospect Of
the largest crowd that has been seen
in Washington at an inaugural cere-
mony.
It is customary for the President
elect and the retiring President to
drive in the same carriage from the
White House via Pennsylvania avenue
TO the Capitol, thea TO walk arm in
arm to the Senate Chamber, where in
the presence Of Senators and Repre-
sentatives, the oath Of Office is sd-
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