The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-01-10
Washington Letter.
Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Jan. S, 1854

Regular Correspondence
WASHINGTON, Jan. s, 1854
The holidays are over Congress has re
assembled Society is on its final racket
and the Republican NAL administration Of
twenty five yariegated years is about TO Of
into liquidation and evaporation In tive
short months a new president will be in
the White House, new cabinet will sit al
. the national council table, new chiefs OF
bureau will take the place of the republi
can trained political bummers, and, unless
the government is to continue its old course
u Ia mfr, new, faithful and honest clerks
will be appointed in the places of the ire
deemable drOnes and siueCurists who have
infested and infected the government Off
ces until the civil service is an Augean
stable of labarynthine intrigue, favori,ism
political and social debauchery If 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 find him.
self mistaken when it will be too late to
mend
Many Republicans here think that Mr.
Clevelands late letter means that he will
dismiss only those who have been making
Republican speeches, but it is difficult TO
see how the clerk who wrote political arti-
Giles, collected money and did various other
campaign work is less guilty OF neglecting
his legitimate duties than the more con.
spicuous haranguer. II all clerks who
contributed money and worked in one lille
climate way or another for the defeat OF
Mr., Cleveland 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 in
teresting family, and though never popular
in the social world, are making themselves
daily more and more odious Mr. Blaine
and his wife and family were few weeks
since so certain of occupying the White
House that they had not only portioned
the chambers out among themselves, but it
seems had decided upon certain people
whom they would not receive The pres
ent president of the United States was
doubtless one of them, and his recent inyi-
tation to Mrs. Blaine to assist him at his
New Years reception was resented by that
woman in discourteous note giving her
reason that the President had not assisted
Mr., Blaine in the late campaign.
Preparations are making for an immense
concourse of people on the 4th of March,
when the first non-sectional Inauguration
for at least quarter of century will be
celebrated The South will doubtless send
more people to the capital than she sent on
the occasions of Buchsnans, 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 Democrat
iC President was installed
The grandest ball room ever seen in the
world will I've that prepared for the inaugu.
raj ball of President Cleveland, at the new
pension building The executive commit
tee has carefully measured the space which |
will be available and find that two hundred |
and fifty sets can be comfortably formed, |
leaving ample space between them for the
movements of the floor managers 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 or |
four thousand spectators. Many of the
rooms of the building will be available for
space for any possible overflow.
Efforts are being made to secure quar-
tiers for visiting military organizations in
the public buildings, as on the occasion of
Garfield's Inauguration. The number of |
these organizations is so large and the rep
resentation is so numerous that il is imper-
atively necessary that the heads of the va
rious departments should assist the com
mittee of public comfort as much as posi-
bic in this direction. The chairman of
the committee has made formal application
to Secretary Chandler of the Navy Depart
ment. for the use of the corridors and nails
of that building, and the proposition was
favorably entertained
II il is possible to keep the avenue clear
of people during the progress of the inau-
gural procession it ought TO be done. The
parade at the last Inauguration was simply
a farce, so far as appearance went; for the