St. Landry democrat., 1884-11-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent

ton here has completed it's work and is
awaiting the great and decisive event
OF the Fourth of November. 1t is too
near the deciding hour to indulge in
predictions, for, by the time this is in
the hands of your Pacific slope readers
the retrospect of fool will be worth
more than the prospect of all the wise
men of the East. ga calm survey of the
field justifies us in the most hopeful an
ticipatiOns as to the result" is what the
Democratic Committee says, and it is
certain that the outlook in New York is
now very favorable to Cleveland, but
those who remember that the last cleo
tion was bought and that the previous
one was stolen, regard with alarm bat
tie that promises to be very close, and
that may not be decisive.
The probability of Cleveland's cleo
tion has caused a great many here to
think of the political, social, and inan-
cial effect in this city. The change in
Washington to a Democratic regime
would be almost as heavily felt as was
the reinstatement of the Republic in
France, after twenty years of Napo-
leon Ill.
The majority of men in business here
predict that the election Of Cleveland
will be fatal, or at least hurtful, to bus
mess. The reason that they think so is
because they are doing well now, and
dread any change that will temporarily,
unsettle things. They say that Gov
ernment employees will cease to spend
money and begin to horde it in order to
have enough to begin life elsewhere );
that those who own houses will try i'm
mediately to sell them, and that the
market will be glutted. The result will
be great depreciation of real estate.
But there are few who insist that
CIeveland's election will improve busi-
ness, that it will bring greater number
of strangers to the inauguration than
were ever seen before in Washington,
that many will remain seeking office
and spending money.
A large real estate owner says he be-
lieves Cleveland will be the next presi-
dent, but is not at all uneasy about his
property, and has refused good offers
for it in the last week. Much of this
gentleman's real estate is on Dupont
circle, contiguous to the immense and
splendid house that Blaine has built.
He argues that althougf government
clerks may be discharged and have to
sell their homes, their successors will
be quite as ready to buy.
After all it seems to me that the fear
OF a Democratic invasion is like the
alarm of the cricket when the plow
turned over his miserable abode in the
field. The poor insect thought the end
of the world had come. If he bad been
a patriot and a philosopher, he would
have reioiced in the husbaDdry and the
prospect Of harvest. There is benefi-
cence even in the fire that lays waste to
. squalid and dilapidated quarter of |
town, and if the cOnf1agration is wide
and destructive, it is because there is
much trash that should be burned. In |
plain English Washington is full of the
drift and rubbish accumulated during /
the last twenty-five years of uninter-
rupted Republican rule. 1t is high time
that it should be burned out washed
ont, and fumigated. "This was order
cd eight years ago, but the thieves, liars
snd robbers that are now trying to place
Blaine in the presidential chair, cheated
popular suffrage of its greatest victory.
Never before did people fight so fair
md fail so foul"
After the Democratic party shall have
been in Office twenty-five years it will
probably be time to bid them vacate, in
urn, for another general cleaning,
health inspection. and fumigatiOn. But
{ is national, and human shame to
lllow the Republican party to hold on
o the government in this way, and by
he means it employed in the two last
elections, and is now employing.
The Democratic Congressional com
hittee has nearly finished poll of the
districts and has reached
he conclusion that the party majority
d the House Of Representatives will
emain about as it is at present. The
Onclusion is surprise to Democrats,
be- most enthusiastic Of whom have
cen accustomed to concede that the
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