San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1886-11-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Frcm Our Regular Correspondent

WASHINGTON, j, G., Oct 80, SO.
1t ia remarkable but true that the
government offices OF the United
States, here and elsewhere, with their
100, 900 employees, arc going on in
their work with industry and regu'
larity. This state OF things is unpar'
alloled. 1t has had no existence OK
cept in tho dreams OF enthusiasts,
But TO mako tho surprise more sur
prising, this reform has been brought
about by tho unredoemed and ire
deemable, too utterly, unspeakably
bad Democrats. Has tho tongue OF the
Radical harranguer lost its lubricity 7
Have the fictions with which he was
wont to rally the rural republican be-
come threadbare? Why is this thusi
What mean these moss grown stumps,
no longer pressed by thenumber mines
of frontier Baineites? Where is our
once untamed and rampant for bread
and butter republican oratorical men
dacity. Come with me, reader, and
you shall see him. Here he sits in
the Patent Office examing an applica-
ton for q patent on churn or hustle
or an improved baby walker. There
he is in the Pension Office, hard at
legitimate work under Democratic
Commissioner Black, who, with a
smaller force, passed many more pen
sion cases than any Republican COM
missioner, and paid $S,00O,OOO more
in pensions than Republican Dudley,
his predecessor. You see him in the
Treasury Department, in the Land
Office, the Indian Office, the Post
Onice,-everywhere 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 abnor
NAL to him to be confined to honest
work during o political campaign,
but he will get used to it; it will not
kill him. BY and by tho novel idea
that he is paid to work for the United
States and not for the Republican
party will take root in the worn out
soil of his moral sense. His innocuous
political desuetude will be blessing
to the country.
What wonderful changes have taken
place in twenty months They have
overcome lis ike u summer cloud,
not dark and portentious, but big
with salubrious showers.
Twenty months ago the property
owners in Washington were despon-
dent. 1t was predicted that u Demo
cratic President would dismiss all the
office holders, that five thousand own
ers of homes in Washington would
have to sell Mt loss, and that a fall
IN real estate would follow. The re-
suit has been the reverse of that de-
oicted. Instead of wholesale dismls-
sails, only the idle, the incompetent
and the dissipated were cast out.
The health, the moral tone and eff-
cheney of the public service was great
y improved. An improvement in
'eal estate and in general business
ollowed as o natural result. The
government employee and his depend
,nts, who compose fully one-half the
population of Washington, no longer
eel that their living depends upon
service, or upon the ins and
,uts of political parties. He has be-
,ome changed man-more respect
I'd by others, having more respect for
himself. His credit is better, and
low instead of selling his home, he
lolds it at q higher price. Hundreds
Who have heretofore rented property
" lived in boarding houses, are buy
ne and building. One more term OF
honest Democratic administration will
,lace the National Capital on the solid
;round of assured prosperity. 1t will
equre another term to enable the !
rec of political life which Cleveland s
las planted and watered, to take root .
nd bear fruit. Should Blaine or Lo-
IAN or Sherman come in two years !
fence, it would surely be uprooted.
/ believe that large majority Of
here are no longer re-
publican. They enjoy a security I'M
Ter civil service reform that they have !
lever known before, end they are d
compelled to see every day the i'm t
which the Cabinet Off
ers and tho heads of divisions under !
iIr. Cleveland have introduced. They
re mado to do more work for the 4
government, but they are no longer J
equired to do dirty and dishonest
york for the republican party. They !
re not harrassed day and night with /
he reflection that unless they assist {
n the reelection of this member of
f Congress or that Senator,
hey will lose his influence, and i
Ose their bread and butter. !
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