The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1885-08-29
THAT HIATT BUSINESS.
A Red Hot Democratic Organ
Speaks Out Hts Wants.
st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.

st. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette.
When a halt is called the genera
impression is that somebody or some
thing is going too fast therefore
when the bogus story went all ovel
the country that President Cleveland
had called halt in the publication Of
the Civil Service, il was taken fol
granted instantly that a great many
Republicans had been turned out OF
office, and a great many Democrats
turned in.
Look over the field little. In the
four months ending on July 4th there
had been but 5108 appointments made
in all branches of the Federal service.
This is less than five per cent of the
entire number, and of these more than
one-half were appointments of post
masters, the larger portion Of them to
fill vacancies.
Any speed about this? Any need
for halt here +? At a gait like this
a man, though only half rider, might
ride from st. Joseph to Council Bluffs
with glass in his hand level full of
water and never spill a drop. It is a
gait like the gait of Bill Arp's pony.
One of his boys trotted it all day, and
it never once got ont from the shade
of certain apple tree.
The Democratic party, however, has
an abiding faith, that sooner or later,
Cleveland will set the woods afre. 1t
has lived long, seen much and suffered
much. 1t is an equable old thing,
placid, forgiving and full of patience.
Above everything else it has faith in
its leaders, and will go with them,
everything else being equal, to the end
of the earth. It is also an old fash
ioned thing. When it builds a house
it wants to live in it. When the
frosts fall, and the cold pinches little,
if there is smokehouse handy, it
wants some hog meat. When there
is a quilting or a dancing party, it
likes to "be thar with the gals" and
take turn or two down the middle
with Old Follingsbee's daughter, as
Old Follingsbee's daughter did
with the man who shot Sandy McGee."
Up to date, however, this old-timer
this blue jeans, checkered shirt,
homespun old fellow, has scarcely
show with the spider-legged dudes, as
Rev. Sam Jones calls them, of the
Civil Service Commission, and all the
other aristocratic heads of departments
who are daily stretching their gouty
legs under the mahogony of the Civil
Service Commissioners, covered with
French cut glass, saleratus gingerbread
and Jersey cider.
The old thing wants the rations of
the old days of Jackson, and Polk, and
Pierce, and Buchanan. 1t wants tin
'ups, hog and hominy, corn bread,
peach and honey for gala days, and
itraigbt old Bourbon for constancy.
To make long story short, it wants
Democracy. Either the Democratic
,arty won last November or it didn't.
Either this is Democratic admins
ration or it isn't, No posing, then.
No superciliousness then about the
departments. No oligarchisl airs about
he Senators, especially about Missouri
Republican Cancellation is
II poppycoek. There was war in the
and, and the Democrats conquered.
AXE every Republican gun, pistol,
abre, piece Of artillery and round of
ammunition, and then let all the pris-
ners go. But if after the hostile
rmy has been captured the successful I
rmy surrenders to it, somebody has q
lrned traitor, and that somebody will I
e crushed like an eggshell.