The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1885-02-25
Our Washington Special,
from Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON Fob. ID, 1885.

The city CONCEALED in arctic
weather is making preparation
for the coming event, the 4th Of
March. The Democrats are pre-
pairing for q great demonstration
and the Republics ns are prepar-
ing to grin and bearit. Hotel and
boarding house keepers are pre-
pairing to pack their guests like
sardincs in box, and various
military and civic organizations
arc preparing to entertain their
brethren from abroad. President
Arthur is preparing to vacate the
White House to the political suc-
ccssor Of James Buchanan and
Messrs Blame, Reed, Hoar, Sher-
man, Er AL may be preparing for
death, they are not preparing 70
admit that the war which their
malice and ambition has prolonged
for twenty years beyond it's heroic
term is now thing Of the past.
Society, also, is preparing to recon
struct itself on different lines and
difcrcnt women. The Frcling-
huysen,s, Blaine's, Brewster's.
Chand!cr's, with their satellites
md parasites will 60. The new
society, | imagine, will be com.
posed in part.of the ANCIENT REGIME
tho old residents who have lived
X in seclusion during the long
asccndancy of the light fingered
vapdals of the GranJ era and the
psalm singing bypocrites OF the
Hayes usurpatlon. The so
cial tone will depend much on the
Cabinet Of Mr.. Cleveland, for So
ciety here takes it's cue and hue,
to great extent, from those
high in office. 1t is the general
impression that the next will be
q working administration, it cer-
tainly has q task before it, and it
would not be suggestive Of work
to see the houses Of the Thurman's
Bayard's, and Garland's OF the
next administration given over
to mid nights revels, as has been
too much the case Of late years
in Washington.
An extra session of Congress
is thought tn he very probable,
but whether there is al extra scs.
sion or not there Will be some
thing going on here after the
fourth Of March. 1t is not expect.
ed that one hundred thousand
office holders Will be Immediately
turned out. But new Cabinet
with new Chiefs Of Bureau, new
chief clerks, and new foreign min
listers will be appointed with az
little delay as possible. There will
be some fifty thousand Postmas.
ters to appoint, and general and |
judicious cleaning cut Of the idle, |
incompetent, superanuated and
the merely political rats and
barnacles who have in, ustriously |
drawn their salaries from the pub. |
lie treasury for years, and years.
Many clerks in the depart.
mcnts have been trying to have |
their papers, which show that
they were recommended by |
prominent republicans, with
drawn from the files. Secretary |
McCulloch, however has denied
their requests and says that he
proposes to turn over tho files of
the Treasury Department intact.
This, Of course, is right, and
nothing more. IF u clerk has
been Recommended by Senator
Kellogg Of Louisiana, Mr. Blaine
or Senator IIoar, for no better
reason than that he is q republi.
can, and has done political work |
for his patron, it is Of interest to
the country and to the coming
administration to have it on rev.
cord. When an examination of
tho appointment files has been
made it will be found that u !
majority Of tho malc employees
have boon appointed for political
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