The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-10
FEELING AT WASHINGTON.
Anxiety and Interest Among the Employees
of the Government.


of the Government.
Washington Special
Ever since the closing of the polls on Tuesday
evening the capital has experienced deeper feel
ing than that of excitement. The anxietes have
been intense. Nowhere else are there so many
reasons for it If there is to be change in the
governmental the Republicans are to go out
and the Democrats come in-not the Office
holders alone, but nearly every person here will
in some way be affected. There is no descrip
ton Of business, no shade of society, no walk in
life, that is not in some way related to the gov
eminent Reasons for interest in the question:
Who is PRESIDENT exist here that do not else
where and especially in the social network,
which is peculiar at the capital and peculiarly
SO in view of whether Blaine or Cleveland Is to
occupy the White House.
Under such circumstances the feeling, as the
prospect has changed, has been not merely eXcit-
ing but intense. The gaps in the waiting period
have been filed by discussions OF the canvass.
its management the candidates and the vote
thrown. The apparent insignifcance of the
Butler vote has been one of the first things for
remark Where is the strength of the peoples
partyl Where is Gen. Buffers vote to be found
in the returns" was the taunt of an independ-
ept sympathizer. The answer was: I'm the
gap which the independents made in the ranks
OF the opposition to Cleveland. You claimed
that 70, 600 Republicans in New York alone were
pledged to oppose Blaine, and that nearly the
whole would vote plump for Cleveland Now,
why don't they show in the COUNT Because an
equal number of workingmen and Others fol
lowing the Peoples party banner, have offset
them by voting plump against Cleveland. 9th
erwise, Cleveland would have had not less than
So 900 majority in the State. IF Cleveland
is elected, it will be by the boiling Republicans.
If he is beaten, it will be by the followers of
Butler The Peoples party strength is not hard
to find in the returns, either by the supporters
of Cleveland or Blaine What is true Of New
York is true also of other States"
Supporters Of Cleveland do not lose sight of
this view of the case, and are little disposed to
speak contemptuously of General Butler. Long
before election day they learned the mistake of
treating him and his advisers too lightly. If
beaten they will know where the blow came
from. If successful they will realize that they
were saved orly by the boiling Republicans
Elsewhere in the country the election may
have been attended by curious manifestations OF
human nature, but it is here in Wash ington,
where nearly everybody and everything depends
on getting something out of the government,
that the risngsun worshippers showed them
selves the most prominently Society people who
had said what they would wouldn't do in
certain event. as Clsvelands prospects i'm
proved. began to consider whether or not they
would Or wouldn't The Case might not be so
bad and life might be worth living after all
One leyel-headed individual, philosOphically in
Cilleu, S6bleu Out IndtIST ny SOuCluulhS W NdlS
and see what the Sun said, and follow its lead
as he had always done.
AS Cevelands banner seemed to rise, and a
change became probable, it was interesting to
observe how men long in the background came
to the front not all giving promise of becoming
the ornaments they seemed to expect to ha ="
the new administration. We've gotm" was
the exultation of many ar one who for years
had been in retiracy, waiting for the turn which
seemed to be taking place. 'Its our turn now"
EXPRESSED the rejoicing which fresh repOrtS from
some doubtful State for the moment repressed.
Men thawed out wonderfully, and if one could
believe half he heard he would not be at a loss
about what was going to happen in the next four
years new set of owners of the government
and the surplus seemed to have come into exist
ence all at once and some went so far as to Sc
lect for themselves the places they would get,
and what they would do with the pay