Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1886-11-04

Patent Office examining an application
for patent on chGrn or hustle or an
improved baby walker. There he is IN
the Pension office, hard at legitimate
work under Democratic Commissioner
Black. who with smaller force passed
many more pension cases than any Re-
publican commissioner, and paid IS 900,
600 more in pensions than Republican
Dudley, his predecessor. You see him
in the Treasury Department, in the
Land Office, the Indian Office, the Post
Office OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES hard at
work. How tame he looks. He will
not hurt you. His malign energy is
Scotched. There IS restless pent-up-
ness about him. 1t seems abnormal 20
him TO be confined to honest work dur
ing a political campaign, but he will get
used to it; it will not kill him. BY and
by the noyel 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 Il
blessing to the country.
What wonderful changes haye taken
place IN twenty months ! They haye
overcome us like summer cloud, not
dark and portentious, but big with sal
ubriouS showers.
Twenty months ago, the property
owners inWashington were respondent.
1t was predicted that Democratic
President would dismiss all the OIL Ce
holders, that five thousand owners of
homes in Washington would have to
sell ut a loss, and that fall in rea al es-
tate would follow. The result has been
the reverse of that predicted. Instead
of wholesale dismissals, only the idle,
the incompetent and the diSsipated
were cast out. The health, the moral
tone and efficiency OF the public service
was greatly improved. An improve
ment in real estate and in general busi-
ness followed rs natural result. The
Government employ and his depend
ants, who compose fully one half the
population of Washington. no longer
feel that their living depends upon po-
litical service, or upon the inS and outs
of political parties. He has become a
changed man-mure. respected Dy 9TH
erS, having more respect for himself.
His credit is better. and now, instead
of selling his home, he holds it at a
higher price. Hundreds who have here
tofore rented property or lived in board
ing houses. are buying and building.
One more term of honest Democratic
Administration will place the National
Capital on the solid ground of assured
prosperity. 1t will require another
term to enable the tree of political life
which Cleveland has planted and wa
tered, to take root and bear fruit.
Should Blaine or Logan or Sherman
come ia two years hence, it would sure
ly be uprooted.
l believe that large majority of Of
lice holders here are no longer Republi.
cans. They enjoy a security under civil
service reform that they have never
known before, and they are compelled
to see every day the improvements
which the Cabinet officers and the
heads of divisions under Mr. Cleveland
have introduced. They are made to do
more work for the government, but
they are no longer required TO do dirty
and dishonest work for the Republican
party. They are not harrassed day and
! night with the reflection that unless
they assist in the reelection Of this
member of Congress or that Senator,
they will lose his influence, and lose
their bread and butter.