Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-17
BoNIFACEs RATHER BLUE.
Cleveland's Policy Not Tending to Fill
Washington's HOsteIr1es.


Washington's HOsteITIes.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-The hotel
keepers of Washington think that the
Presidents ideas about officeseekers are
unsound. They are certainly eminently
unsatisfactory to the hotel keepers. Here
tofore a change in the administration of
the government meant long golden har-
vest to the hotel keepers OF the capital.
You do not need to be told, although the
Republican organs seem to have entire v
forgotten it, that the incoming of a new
Republican President in the recent past
meant just so many changes in the offices
as though tue outgoing Republican had
been a Democrat. Changes in all the
higher offices were expected as a matter
of course. This brought TO Washington
Mt the opening of every administration a
vast thrOng of Otliceseekers, many Of
whom, in the confident hope OF speedy
preferment, stayed at the hotels from
month to mOnth-sOme Of them, who were
doomed to disappointment throughout
every month of the first year Of the adj
minlstration. Before they dropped out of
sight, disappointed and perhaps disheart-
eDed, the hotel keepers had gathered ali
their money and 'valuables' INTO the
hotel saies-for permanent safe-keeping.
The hotel keepers of Washington are now
sighing for the dear old past. They are a
shrewd lot, like their kind everywhere,
and they saw the present dullness OF DESC
laliOn from afar. They saw
WHEN CLEVELAND WAS ELECTED
YEAR AGO
they would have few fat purses to feed
upon this fall l violate no confidence
when l say that trey would all have been
happy had Blaine been elected. They
knew Blaine as all well Informed Wash
ingtOnians knew MIN, to be an incOrrigi-
bic and INSCRIPTIONS spokesman whose
love for civil service reform is like his
love for the South, indistingu shable from
hate. They know that he mad promised
all she Offices in Washington ten times
over to his hungry followers and that if
he should be elected there would be the
widest carnival of office seeking and
contract seeking and every other sort of
Beit-seeking ever seen in Washing
ION. All of which would bring
fat fish TO their nets. Their experience
under Cleveland has verified their gloom
lest predictions. Except during few
weeks in March and April, there have
been fewer othceseeRers in town than at
amy time within the last fifteen years
~ THOSE WEEKS IN MARCH AND APRIL
there were fewer than during the first two
months Of Gartield's administration. The
''bungry hOrdes'' which were said to be
about 20 come up out Of the South to POS
sess the land like the Israelltes out of
Egypt have never arrived at ALL And as
] have said the Northern ofticeseekers
were not so numerous as they had been
four years before. BY the mid
ale of June in this year there
was little more than a trace, lust a
tncture, OF "oficeseekers' in Washing
TON. Now there Is almost none az all.
The hotels have simply the ordinary
routine patronage--the arrival of a politi-
clan, either 0fiiceseeker or advocate of
oiiiceseekcr," is an event at one OF the
hotels. Indeed, owing 10 the fact that
there Will be no contest over the Speaker
ship the city is even duller and emptier
than 1t usually is Just before the opening
Of new Congress. Everything seems to
he against the hotel keepers this year.
Ordinarily
WHEN NEW CONGRESS Is COMING IN
the Speakership contest is at white heat
by Nov. 10, and every hotel is headquar-
tiers for the candidates and their follow
ers. Some Of the hotels nave two or even
three headquarters" But this year all
Is different. No wonder the average hotel
keeper is in a state of mind. swear
says the "rinted Verses" solemnly (in
the farce now performing here, 20 the
trembling cockney hair-dresser, kneeling
in fear before her. "Oh, damn it, obe-
dlently responds the poor scared mortal
so say the hotel Keepers.