The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-01-08
Our Washingto ton Letter.

The hOlldays are over. Congress
has re- assembled. Society is on its
fna, racket, and the. republican NAL
administration of twenty five varie-
gated years is about to go into Ii
quotation and evaporation. In two
short months, new president will
be in the white house, a new cabinet
will sit at the national council ia
BILE, new chiefs of bureau will take
the place Of the republican trained
political bummers, and, unless the
government is to continue its old
course a la infer, new, faithful and
honest clerks will be appointed in
the places of the irredeemable
drones and sinecurists who have in
tested and infected the government
offices until the civil service is an
Augean stable of labsrynthine in
trigue, favoritism, political and So
clal debauchery. If Mr.. Cleveland
for one moment imagines that he
can carry on an honest working
government with such timber as
Grant and Hayes stocked the offices
with he will find himself mistaken
when it will he too late to mend.
Many republicans here think
that Mr.. Cleveland's late letter
means that he will dismiss only
officials those who have been max
ing republican speeches; but 1t is
difficult to see how the clerk who
wrote political articles, collected
money and did various other cam
paign work is less guilty of neglect
ing his legitimate duties than the
more conspicuous haranguer. If all
clerks who contributed money and
worked in one illegitimate way or
another for the defeat of Mr.. CleVe-
land shall be dismissed, then the
marble halls of the departments
will be indeed empty.
A gentleman by the name of Mr..
Blaine and his wife are in the city
with their interesting family, and
though never popular in the social
world, are making themselves daily
more and more odious. Mr.. Blaine
and his wife add family were few
weeks since so certain of occupying
the white house, that they had not
only portioned the chambers out
themselves, but it seems had decid-
ed upon certain people whom they
would not receive. The present
president of the United States was
doubtless one of them, and his re-
cent invitation to Mrs. Blaine to
assist him at his new years recep.
ton was resented by that woman in
a discourteous note giving her res-
son that the president had not as
sisted Mr.. Blaine in the late cam
paign.
Preparations are making for an
immense concourse of people on the
4th of March, when the first non
sectional Inauguration for at least a
quarter of a century will be celebra-
ted. The south will doubtless
send more people to the capital
than she has sent on the occasions |
of Buchanan's, Pierce's,or Folks in
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
ia the world will be that prepared
for the inaugural ball of President
at the new Pension build
ing. The executive committee has
carefully measured the space which
will be available, and find that two
hundred and fifty sets can be form
ed, leaving ample space between
hem for the floor managers. thus,
,wo thousand dancers can be on the
loor at time. In addition there
will be room enough for two thous
md promenaders on the sides. Then
here will be the galleries, which
ire to be erected to hold three
thousand or four thousand specta- :
ors. Many of the rooms of the
building will be available for space
or any possible overflow. S. B.