The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-02-05
Washington Letter.

w ASHINGTON, Jan 81, 1000
Only four weeks moro and a most
interesting epoch in the administra-
tive history ..of the capital and the
country will be introduced. AS the
time draws on apace expectation on
tip-toe is growing painfully nervous.
Who will be the cabinet; what will
be the policy of the new admins
tration; how stiff, cruel and search
ing will the new broom be; what
revolutions, political and social, To-
cal and general, will follow. U.s.
ually the interest in the national
capital wanes with the adjournment
of congress. This year it will wax
all summer. Newspaper corr, spon-
dents will have to forego their usu-
al summer picnic, and spend the
dog days in Washington. Fortu-
nately there will be a plentiful sup
ply of ice water and such things,
and the city has grown to be not
unpleasant summer resort.
During the last few months there
has been powerful undercurrent
of political coat turning going on
in the government offices here, and
l am told that in some offices many
supposed republicans have made
the surprising discovery that they
have always been consistent demo
Gratis, awaiting in darkness but
in Ihope for the sun-burst of the
4th of III arch, 1885. The unselfish
fortitude with which these
, poor prisoners. have endured
q quarter of a century of republi-
can despotism, and repression, toll
: ing through the administrator oil
4 Grant, blushing at the usnrpation
of Hayes, and sorrowing over the
= election of Garfield, paying money
and making speeches for their
cruel captors, is really pathetic
, There has been q remarkable sudsi
dence of republican brag, falsehoo!
and abuse of democrats in the de
partments. fit were not a seri
GUS and universal contagion, the
I republican clerks who look at eacl
= other, across their desks would ex
: plode with laughter at the silent
saint-lI like disuse of the ISLANDERS ant
lies about "disloyal democrats an,
0 their obscene candidate, which
only four months ago was the sta
pie of the work of the civil serviej
q of the party of "moral ideas"
! Washington society which Ii
9 mainly official and therefore repub
E iican has made desperate effort tc
= smile at grief, but the smile wa
brief and "sickled o'er with the
a pale cast Of thought" The ga,
jewellers have seen the fourth o
n March at the bottom of every oys
ter stew, and the democratic broom
has been the DamOcles sword at eV
:, cry feast. The chicken salad serv
ed only to remind them of the dem
ocratic rooster. The social season
II has not been brilliant or cheerful
\ and it is closing much earlier thar
= usual. There will be brief revi
: val of social festivities about tn,
f fourth of March and then score o
society queens will abdicate for
= ever.
- The preparation for the iuaugu
. gural procession, illumination ant
ball is going on. 1t is on a gener
6 Gus plan and will be expensive, bu
there is no doubt of its success
;, The vast enclosure of the pension
building now surrounded by naket
E walls without floor or roof will
= soon be in readiness for the festival
and will be the largest and most i'm
, posing hall ever before used for al
= inaugural ball.
The citizens of the capital ar
n contributing to the Inauguration
fund literally and there is assur
> ances that ample provision will b
made for all expenditures. Tn
cost of fitting up and decorating
: the pension buildings will be nue.
greater than attended the arrange
ments for the Garfield ball fou
. years ago, in fact greater thai
ever before. An immense mum be
of visitors will be in the city, AM
many of them will see the capital O
their couAtry for the first time.
. 1t begins to look as if the las
. republican president intends, to dc
= vote the few remaining days of re
:. publican misrule to fixing hi
;, friends in comfortable positions t
which he has little more RICH
than to the furniture of the whit
: house, the country having declared
n in favor of a new man, and, as a So
e quence, new men. Mr.. Arthur's ap
g pointment of Carpenter to be gov
: ernor of Montana territory and o
: Davis to be judge of the court O
d claims is now followed by that Q
/. Andrew Draper as judge of tn
e court of commissioners OF Alabam
!, claims. Mr.. Draper has no qualifi
i ton for the office He is simply
warm personal friend of the presi
r dent, and the appointment is of tn
= class and from the motive tina
o disgraced the Grant era.