The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-04-08
Warrington Letter.
WASHINGTON MARCH 2S; 1,

WASHINGTON MARCH 2S; 1885
With the exception ofthose who have
failed to get Office, Democrats here are
well pleased with the appointments OF
the new administration, and favorable
comment Is heard on all sides. Where
there is more than one applicant for al
Office, all, Of course, cannot be maS
happy and II IL considered wise and
polite in the President to appoint, as
he has often done, some one who is net
identified with the contending factions.
Ii WAS curious to note the comments OF
the old school Republican politicians
here, who estimate every appointment
and every action of the new President
BY the low standard which experience
has taught them to apply to depraved
Republican politics. They appear to
have no faith in reform, In the civil ser
vice, or in the improvement of the
military and naval establishments.
They consider every thing that Is done
or talked about i'm this connection Is
hypocritlcal or sentimental. When
Secretary Lamar orders tine sale of half
. dozen horses and carriages that have
been used mainly for pleasure by his
predecessors. but maintained at an ex-
peDse of SIC, 900 a year from the public
purse, the despissble pessimists who
faint the political atmosphere of the
capital shake their heads and say: the
economy dodge will not pay, the United
States is wealthy, and does not wish to
see its Cabinet Officers live in plain
mean stvle, inconsistent with the dig
nifty Of If a great nation. II you tell
them that the disposal of the carriages
has deeper significance than the
mere matter Of luxurious locomotion,
that IL Is hint and an admonition to
the hundreds Of employees in the Patent
Office, the Indian Office, the Land
Office, the Geological aud Public Land
survey Bureaus over which Mr.. Lamar
presides, you talk to them in an un-
known language, and they will reply
that the city is going To ruin, that the
money spent OF wasted helps trade, and
and has made the city prosperous.
The prosperity of local shop keepers
and real estate owners is, Of course,
petty matter, but as the signs o! the
times | may meDtiOn that the saloons,
cigar stores, billiard rooms. and places of
amusement have not been for years as
dull as they are now.
Drunken, tippling, gambling, and
sporting government employees have,
wonderful to tell, learned that they are
not in favor with what they were wont
to call the great unwashed Democratic
party. They have learned with un.
pleasant suddenness that this new Dem
ocratic administration, has a penchant
for several varieties of cleanliness.
This revelation has sobered them, and
they are keeping better hours at home
and in Office. and their health and
breath are sensibly improved.
The crowd Of professional Office seek
ers has very sensibly diminished.
They have gone home very much dis
gruntled. of course, and deeply con-
WINGED that the experiment of popular
government is failure. The great
body OF the Democracy, however, who
do not want the offices, but wish to see
them well filled, and honestly admins
tered, do not share the despair Of
the professional Office seeker. The new
administration has great work before
1t and it has four years for its accom-
plishment. II has not yet been i'm Office
four weeks. A number of important
offices have been filled with men against
whom even their enemies can say
nothing. Some superflulties have been
removed and more extensive removals
are being planned. The morale of the
the service in all government offices is
remarkably improved. For the first
time In his long official life the Govern.
ment clerk realizes that his success and
his future depends not upon Blaine, a
Malone, or other powerful dispenser
ofpatronage, but upon his own work and
conduct.
do not think there will be any osten-
tation Of simplicity and plainness In the
social environment OF the new admins.
tration, but 1t is evident that there will
lie less of mere display, and parade
Of wealth thanhas existed in Washington
since the war. The gossips had talked
and written 90 much about the pew
taken In a some what aristocrat church =
on New York Avenue, that large mum
Der Of snohs have been betrayed into
renting pews at this church. The Presi,
dent, not wishing to make side show
Of his religion. has rented a pew in g
less fashionable part Of the city and
nearly a mile from the White House
He has not yet attended church but hi
sisters occupied their pew last Sunday