The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-05-06
Washington Letter.
WASHINGTON, April %, 1855.

WAShiNtloN, Apiii ID, 1000.
Ettor Herald:
The President has at last given a
public reception. II not a "swell''
thing ii was at least swelteriDg, for the
Thermometer had taken sudden leap
toward the nineties and ladies caught
In their winter wraps found little rivu-
lets Of perspiration coursing along their
exquisitely kslsomined cheeks. The
reception was thoroughly Democratic
one, and was attended by many old
residents who had not set their foot i'm
the White House since the last bache-
lor President left it twenty-five years
ago. IfQueen Victoria or Sheba had
been the expected guest, the White
House could not have been more beau-
tifully prepared and decorated than it
WAS for the reception. The Govern
ment conservatories had been stripped
of their floral wealth TO decorate and
perfume the grand East Room. The
President worked his arm like veter-
an. He has now been President long
enough to have gotten his hand In.
Once In the midst Of the performance,
after he had shaken 2,792 hands, he
called for glass of water, or at least II
looked like water, and thus refreshed
he resumed his labOrs and finished with
round six thousand.
The belief is very general that We are
on the eve of very important changes
in large number Of Government Of
ficers. The new cabinet has now
been in office long enough to become
acquainted with some of the more fla
grant abuses of power long prscticed by
the party of moral ideas. President
Cleveland desires reform, and the in
PRODUCTION Of honest business methods
In the transaction of the Government
business. Does he expect his cabinet
and heads of bureaus to bring about re-
forms through the same agencies by
which frauds and cOrruptiOns have
teen created?
Why did Mr.. Cleveland select new
Cabinet officers, and Democrats, too?
Simply because he desired and the
country expected that the true and
tried friends Of the principles and poll
cies upon which majority rallied to
bis support aud secured his election
should be selected 10 assist him i'm exc
cutting that trust according to the de.
cree.
Do not the same reasons exist why
the agencies through which these poll.
cies are to be carried out should be
equally positive, equally above suspi-
cion?
The departments are filed with spies
and enemies. The heads OF bureaus are
fettered by subordinates doggedly OPP
posed to them. There 10 but one renee
dy, and that was announced i'm the
campaign and accepted by the people
Turn the rascals out"
Frauds have been perpetrated, syndi-
Gates for the purposes Of plumber ami
robbery have been formed, have grown
strong. and still exist under the same
subordinate officers who gave them
birth, nourishment, and strength.
Take the Western States and the Terri,
tories. Millions of acres of lands have
been fraudulently entered, stolen from
the Government, actual settlers de-
frauded and rings formed for plumber,
controlled by the Republican officials
now in power, aided and allotted by
some Democrats, many of whom are
now trying to control and direct the
appointments,with the express purpose
Of perpetuating the same ways under
another name. Many of this class of
Democrats are "civil service reform
ers"--that is they desire their thieving
Republican confederates to stay in.
The many navy yards have been
nothing better than Republican pollt.
zeal fortresses. 1t is fact not
generally known that we, with our
sham navy, maintain more navy yards
than first clsss naval power. These
navy yards are now receiving the espe-
cisl attention Of Secretary Whitney,
and in future elections the Republican
party will be shorn of tins powerful ele-
ment Of political strength.