The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1885-01-09
The Egis & Intelligencer
Bel Air, Md, January 8, 1885.
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER.
Reassembling of COngress-Clevelan
Letter-The Blaine Family i'm wash
tnktOn-The Inauguration.

Letter-The Blaine Family In wash
tnktOn-The inauguration.
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.-The holidays are over;
Congress has reassembled. Society is on its final
racket, and the Republican administration
of twenty-five variegated years is about to 20
months a new President will be in the White
House., new cabinet will SIT at the National
Council table, new chiefs of bureaus will take the
place of the Republican trained political bum
mers, and, unless the government is to continue
ITS old course, new, faithful and honest clerks
will be appointed in the places of the irredeema-
BILE drones and sinecurists who have infested and
infected the government offices until the civil
trigue favoritism, political and social debauch-
cry. 1T Mr.. Cleveland for one moment imagines
that he can carry on an honest working govern
ment with such timber as Grant and Hayes
stocked the offices with he will mud himself mis-
taken when it will be too late to mend:
Many Republicans here think that Mr.. Cleve-
lands late letter means that he will dismiss only
those who have been making Republican speech
es; PVT II is difficult to see how the clerk who wrote
other campaign work is less guilty of Eeglecting
his legitimate duties than the more conspicuous
and worked in one iIegitmate way or another
for the defeat of Mr. Cleveland shall be dismissed,
then the marble halls of the departments will be
MIR. Blaine and his wife are in the city with
their family and though never popular in the
social world, are making themselves daily more
and more odious. They were few weeks since
so certain of occupying the White House, that
they had not only portoned the chambers out
among themselves, but 1t seems had decided
upon certain people whom they would not re-
eeive. The present President OF the United
states was doubtless one of them, and his recent
invitation to Mrs. Blaine 10 assist him at his New
Years reception was resented by her in dis
courteous note, giving as her reason that the
President had not assisted MIR. Blaine in the late
campaign.
Preparations are making for an immense con-
course of people on the 4th of March, when the
first non-sectional Inauguration for at least u
century will be celebrated. The South will
doubtless send more people to the Capital than
she sent on the occasions of Buchanans, Pierces,
or Folks inauguration. The population of the
South has grown somewhat since then, and there
are better ways of reaching Washington than
when the last Democratic President was installed.
The grandest ball room ever seen in the world
Will be that prepared for the inaugural ball of
President Cleveland, at the new Pension build
ing The executive committee has carefully
find that two hundred and fifty sets can be COM
fortably formed. leaving ample space between
them for the movements of the floor manag"rs.-
Thus. two thousand dancers can be on the floor
at time In addition there will be room enough
for two thousand promenaders on the Sides
Then there will be the galleries. which are to be
erected to hold three thousand or four thousand
spectators. Many of the rooms of the building
VIII be available for space for any possible over
Efforts are being made to secure quarters for
VISITING military organizations in the public
buildings, as on the occasion of Garf1eld's inaug
uration. The number of these organizations is so
large and the representation is so numerous that
II is imperatively necessary that the heads of the
various departments should assist the committee
OF public comfort as much as possible In this di-
rection. The chairman of the committee has
made formal application TO Secretary Chandler.
OF the Navy Department, for the use of the cor
ridors and halls of that building. and the propo-
sition was favoraby entertained.
If it Is possible to keep the avenue clear of
people during the progress of the inaugural pro
cession it ought to be done. The parade at the
last Inauguration was simply farce, so far az
appearance went, for the people crowded up So
close TO the military that those looking from up
per windows could see nothing but a moving
mass of heads. There has scarcely been a pro-
cession in Washington the effect of which has
not been marred by this defect, and it ought to
be stopped