Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1884-11-29

GOSSIP.
Preparing Tor the New DeaI-The
E Fear Of Hendricks.
Special Correspondence Of the IxrEl-OcrAn. !.
WAsHIxaToN, Nov. o. Since. the dust
;of the Presidential contest has settled
and . view Of the future has been taken
it is clear; that the Capital City is to have
9 period Of rare experience. There
must be changes, changes on every. side,
and the student Of political history will
be as much interested in watching the
bearing Of the party in adversely as in
following the course of the Democracy
under its new and unaccustomed bur.
dens. At any rate the city for awhile
will be more brilliant, more animated,
more agitated, and more prosperous
perhaps than it has ever been before.
If Mr.. Blaine had been elected. a
great many strangers would have come
to his Inauguration, and a goodly num-
Der Of Office hunters would have re-
NAMED here for. some time afterwards,
but many more people will come in con-
sequence Of MI. Cleveland's election:
The vast attendance that will mark the
Inauguration Of Democratic president,
and the size Of the army Of Office seek.
ers that will be here afterward can
scarcely be estimated. It will be the only
chance within the memory of the pres.
emit %genefation affording such a spec
tacle. Young Democracy and old
Democracy will alike be here to wit
ness it. 49,. 49, ,s:f..- - % !. p.
Rooms have already been engaged for
Gov. Cleveland and his party from the
latter part of February until the 4th at
the Arlington hotel. The suite Of rooms
consists of parlor and three bed rooms,
and have been occupied in turn by Duke
Alexis, Prince Of. Wales, Emperor Dom
Pedro, of Brazil, Gen. Grant and sena-
tor Conkling. .:
In what is known as the red parlos Of
the Ebbitt House a. distinguished mill
tary tribunal is now trying Gen. Swain .
One major general, six brigadiers and
six colonies occupy the long table. The
trial attracts a; good deal of attention,
the charges are numerous, and it is the
first time in the history Of the country
that a brigadier general has been court
martialed in. time of peace. :,
: President Arthur is discussing ap-
pointments with his advisers and getting
up his message to congress. Cabinet
officers and heads of Bureaus are busy
preparing their annual reports to be
submitted to congress, and the repre-
s~entatives Of the three great Isthmian
interoceanic transit projects are here
awaiting congress with their several
schemes. Signs at the capital indicate
the near approach Of the session, and
the returning statesmen will find the
appearance of the building much
changed inside and out. Various i'm.
provements have been made during the
vacation, but those which show most
handsomely are the new terraces and
grand marble stairway approaches to
the senate and house wings, These are
not quite completed yet, but will be by
the opening of congress on next Mon.
day week.
Department clerks feel that their
chances for retention in Office are
meagre under any Democratic Presi.
dent, but they are cleaning some onso.
lation from the fact that the President.
elect is Cleveland and not Hendricks.
The latter they think would strike the
departments like a cyclone if anything
should happen to Mr.. Cleveland. He
would not leave a Republican. man or
woman in Office, they. allege. They
credit Mr.. Hendricks with having said
once if he could have his way he would
throw all the women out of the depart
ments.
The gossips are active in explaining
position or civil service reform, in fix.
ing up Mr.. Cleveland's cabinet, and in
marrying Mr.. Cleveland. Since their
failure to marry first Tilden and then
Arthur, some doubts are expressed
about their succeeding any better with
the bachelor President-elect. The
Democracy went out of power with a
bachelor President, and after a'quarter
of a century it is about to come back
with another. But the Presidential
household must have q mistress, and it
is said that Mrs. Hoyt, a sister of Gov.
Cleveland, will assume the position.
The chief duty af the lady of the White
House is to be agreeable, amiable and
cordial. Society here is more demo.
cratic than at any other large national
capital. It is necessarily so, for nobody
stays here long enough to make a court
circle. The people like to 60 to the
White House, and the less formality
they meet there, the better they are
pleased. go
The gossip about Geveland's cabinet
has given several prominent gentlemen
q chance to decline portfolios that were
not rendered them, Mr.. Bayard and