Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1886-11-19
W.AsHIsGroS LETTER.

WAsHINGTON LETTER.
/ WAsHIxcros, Oct 80 1856.
Its remarkable but the government offices of
the United States, here and elsewhere, with their
10000 employees are going on m their work with
industry and regularity This state of things is
unparalleled 1t has had no existence except in
| the dreams of enthusiasts. But to make the sur
prise more surprising this reform has been brought
about by the unredeemed and irredeemable, too ut
terly unspeakably bad democrats Has the tongue
OF Radical haranger lost its lubrcityq Have the
fictions with which he won't to rally the rural
| republican become threadbarel Why is this tbus2
What mean these moss grown stumps no longer
pressed by the number of flontier Baineties?
Where is our once untamed and rampant for bread
and butter republican oratorical mendacityq Come
with me reader, and you shall see him. Here he
sits in the Patent Office examining an application
FOR patent on churn or hustle or an improved
baby walker. There he is III the Pension Office
hard at legitimate work under democratic commits
sioner Black, who with smaller force passed many
more pension cases than republican commissioner,
and paid $S, 600 more in pensions than 1epub-
iIcan Dudley, his predecessor. You see him in
the Treasury department, in the Land Office. the
Indian Office, the Post Office department
whore hard at work How tame he looks. He
will not hurt you. His mallgn energy is scotched.
There Is restless pent up-ness about him. It seems
abnormal to him to be confined to honest work du-
ring political campaign, but he will get used to
1T; 1t will not kill him. By and by the novel idea
that he is paid to work for the United States and
not for the republican party will take root in the
worn soil OF his moral sense. His inocuous political
desuetude will be blessing to the country.
What wonderful changes have taken place in
twenty msnths! They have overcome us ike a
summer cloud not dark and portentious, but bio
with salubrious showers
Twenty months ago, the property owners in
"asnlngton were despondent. It was predicted
that Demoaratic President would dismiss all the
once holders that FIVE thousand owners of homes
IN washington would have to sell at loss. and
tnat tall IN real estate would follow. The resuH
has been the reverse of that predicted Instead Of
wholesale dismissals, only the idle, the incompetent
ana the disslpated were cast out. The health the
moral tone and efficiency Of the public service was
greatly improved. An Improvement in real estate
and In general business followed as natural 70.
suit. The Government employe and his denon
dants who compose fully one half the population
OF Washington, no longer feel that living denends
upon political service, upon the ms and outs If
Poh1lcai parties He has become changed man.
more respected by Others, having more respect for
himself His credit is better, and now instead :,
seillng his home, be holds it at higher nr;ce
Hundreds who have heretofore rented n,onart,.
or lived in boarding houses, are buying and build.
ing. One more term of honest Democratic Al
ministration will place the National Capi.ol !,
'ne sohd ground OF assured prosperity 1t viii re.
quire another term to enable the tree of polt;cal
life which Cleveland has planted and w,tered -
take root and bear fruit Should Blaine or LOGAN
or Sherman come III two years hence. il won,d
surely be uprooted.
believe that a large majority of office holders
mere are no longer republican. They enov a~sacu.
risy under civil service reform that thew have nav.
er known before, and they are compelled to see
every DAY the improvements which tho Cabinet
omcers and the heads of divisions under Cleveland
nave introduced. They are made to do more worl
Tor the government, but they are no LONGER "a.
CURED to do dirty and dishonest work for the 70.
publican party. They are not harrassed dav
and night with the reflection that unless tbev asss.
IN the reelection of this member of C,onoress ~
that Senator they will lose their bread and bntta