Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1884-11-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular Correspondent,

est, anxiety, hope or fear than they
do to-day. The great event of the
winter, the opening of the Congress
ionai session will take place in two
weeks; but this is scarcely remem-
bered, for every body is looking
three months beyond to the event
of quarter OF a century, the return
of the Old Democratic party to
power. Did l say sold Democratic
party ?" 1t is old only in name,
and in its indentification with prin-
ciples for which the world is a sym
onym. 1t is new in its personnel,
new in its relations to new questions
new its its triumph over the defeat
ed party which it has deposed.
What will be the policy of the
new administration ? Who will the
new president call to his cabinet?
How will he treat Republican Office
holders ? These and a thousand
cognate questions are discussed in
political circles, and they give ex-
preston to great diversity of
opinion and speculation. The ques-
tons are interesting to all, and vital
to everybody. There are few in
Washington who live, move, and
have their being, Independent of
politics and a change, after twenty
four years of uninterrupted Repub-
lican rule, to Democratic admins
tration, will affect society, industry,
trade, and life, at the National Capt.
tai.
In less than a year from now a
habitue of the streets, churches, or
theatres of the city, will observe
great change in the personnel.
Thousands of familiar faces will
have departed and new faces will
be seen in their stead. During the
last twenty-five years Washington
has grown to be the strongest of
Republican strongholds. Yankee
Republicans from the New England
states, and their political progeny
from the West, have fraternized
with Carpet Baggers and Black Re-
publicans from the South-a hetero-
geneous mass, but solid on the prin-
ciple OF drawing their pay, and vot-
ing for the party that paid them.
You would think that there were
no democrats here, but this is mis-
take. A few of the genuine brand
have survived the quarter of a CEN
fury, and though mellowed by age
are not to be be terrified.
1t was indeed spectacle to be re-
membered, the Democratic process
ion in honor of the election of
Cleveland last Thursday evening.
1t was composed in great part OF
Democrats from Virginia and Mary
land, but the city of Washington
furnished a respectable contingent.
They marched over the Concrete
streets and avanues of the Capital
City with torches, banners, trans
parences and ROSTERS, real and arti-
fetal. The procession was fully a
mile and half in length, and the
tens of thousands of Republicans
who thronged the pavements on
their line of march, realized for the
first time, perhaps, that the election
had been decided, and that a new
chapter in the history of the coun-
try had been begun.
The Republicans have been very
kind in preparing lists of Cabinet
Officers for the President elect
Cleveland. Jefferson Davis, Robert
Toombs, Reagan of Texas, and
others identified with the Southern
Confederacy twenty years ago.. are
general favorites with these terribly
volunteer Cabinet make rs.
They know, of course, that it
would be too awfully awful for Mr..
Cleveland to select any of his con-
advisers from lists of able
Democrats like Lamar, Gordon,
Beck, Garland, Barbour and host
of others. They have entirely for
gotten that the man for whom they
stole the presidency, made Con-
Tolerate Brigadier, d. NJ. Key, his
Postmaster General. They do not
the conspiracy between
their piOus Garfield and the Con-
federate general Malone by which
the representation of a sovereign
State was bartered, and the United
States Senate was bought.
Republican presidents have never
lesitated 10 take to their bosoms |
he Longstreets, the MahOnes, and
The Chalmers who would vote with
them, and this Republican night
mare grooming over the composition
Of President Cleveland's cabinet is,
at least, premature. The new Pres
dent will have abundant material
from which to select Cabinet. The
talent, the craftsmanship, the elo-
luence the erudition, to say moth
ing OF the honesty of the present
generation of politicians, is decided
" on the Democratic side.
There has been talk Of offering
Mr.. Carl Schurz a cabinet portfolio,
put surely those who favor him
nave forgotten that he was men,
Der of Hayes Cabinet. Mr.. Schurz
has perhaps repented and brought
orth fruit meet for repentance, but
10 one identified with the terrible
rhine of '76, should ever again have
/ seat at the council board of the
nation. If Mr.. Schurz must be re-
yarded let him be sent Minister
o Vienna or elsewhere out of the
country.
DIR. DANIEL F. WRIG HI visited
Jackson this week in the capacity
# an official lnspectOr of the Sani-