Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-01-10
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
tFrom Our Regular corresponaantA

UaOAA oii0 OfdpOAdbAOh. LII TWO SuOTC |
months, a new president will be in the
White House, new Cabinet will sit
at the National Council table, new
chiefs of bureau will take the place of
the republican trained political BUM
mers, and, unless the government is
to continue its old course q la infer.
new, faithful, and honest clerks will be
appointed in the places of these ire
deemable drones and sinecurists who
have infested and infected the govern
ment offices until the civil service is
an Augean stable of tlabarynthine in
trigue, favoritism, and political and
social deb lchery. 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 himself mistaken when it will be
too late to mend.
Many Republicans here think that
Mr. Cleyelands 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 articles, collected
money! and did various other cam
palgn work is less guilty of neglecting
his legitimate duties than the more
conspicuous haranguer. If all clerks
who contributed money and worked
in one Legitimate way or another for
the defeat of Mr.. Cleveland shall be
dismissed, then the marble halls of
the Departments Will be indeed emp
ty. n 4 a
Aagent,eman 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 and family we're 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 present
president of the United States, was
doubtless one of them, and his recent
invitation to Mrs. Blaine to assist him
at his New Years reception was re-
scented by that woman In a discourte-
Gus note giving as her reason that the
President had not assisted Mr.. Blaine
in the late campaign.
Preparations are making for an I'M
mense concourse of people on the 4th
of March, when the first non-sectional
Inauguration for at least quarter of a
century WILDE celebrated. The
| South will doubtless send more pee
pie to the Capital than she sent on the
occasions of Buchanan's, Pierce's, 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 Democratic President was in
stalled. s5
The grandest ball room ever seen in
the world viii be that prepared for
the inaugural bah of President Cleve-
land, at the new Pension building.
The executive committee has careful
ly measured the. space which will be
available, and find that two hundred
and fifty sets can be comfortably form
ed, leaving ample space between them
for the movements of the floor man
ayers. Thus, two thousand dancers
can be on the floor at time. In ad-
dition there will be room enough for
two thousand promenaders on the
sides. Then there will be the galleries,
which are to be erected tohold three
thousand or four thousand spectators.
Many of the rooms of the building
will be available for space for any pos
sible overflow.
Efforts are being made to secure
quarters for visiting military organ
izations in the public buildings, as on
the occasion OF Garfield's Inaugural
ton. The number of these organiza-
tons is so large and the representa-
ton is so numerous thatit is impera-
lively necessary that the heads of the
various departments should assist the
Committee of Public Comfort as
much as possible in this direction.
The chairman of the committee has
made formal application to Secretary
Chandler, of the Navy Department,
for the use of the corridors and halls
of that building, and the proposition
was favorably entertained "
If IT is possible to keep the avenue
clear of people during the progress of
the inaugural procession it ought to
be done. The parade at the last inau-
guration was simply farce, SO far as
appearance went; for the people
crowded up so close to the military
that those looking from upper win
dows could see nothing but moving
mass of heads. There has scarcely |
been procession in Washington the
effect of which has not been mared |
by this defect, and it ough tot be stop
ped.
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