The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-06
WASHINGTON DESERTED.
DEPARTMENT Employees GO HOME
TO CAST THEIR VOTES.

Hardly Resident of Doubtful State
Left in Town-Women and Men from
States Solid for One Party or the
Other the Only Ones Left in Town.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 5.-The eve of the
great political battle finds Washington
almost deserted. The city has emptied it
solf of politicians of high and low degree.
Everybody who has vote to cast, whethec
it be for the champions of tariff reform or
for the fair advocates of womans rights,
for free whisky or for no whisky at all, has
gone to exercise the greatest privilege of
their citizenship. Asa consequence, Wash
ington is dull and quiet. A Sabbath calm
prevails in the departments. In the hotel
lobbies and on the street corners there is
none of that bustling activity which marked
those rendezvous week ago.
LIKE A CITY OF THE DEAD.
Small knots of three or four men are
gathered there now quietly discussing the
probable results of to-morrow's battle, but
AS compared with the unemasculated towns
in which their citizens have a voice in the
election of their president, Washington is
as city of the dead. So many of the gov
ernment clerks have gone home to vote,
the visitor catches himself wondering at so
many empty rooms the preponderance Of
female faces, and the general air of sleopi-
ness which prevades the great buildings.
just enough clerks are left to keep the
routine business of the offices in good shape.
he rest are scattered over the length and
breadth of the land.
A STAMPEDE TO THE DOUBTFUL STATES.
Those remaining here are almost without
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two or three votes viii make no difference
in the result, but it is hard indeed, to find
a clerk hailing from one of the doubtful
states still at his desk. The passenger agents
of all the railroads to this city agree that
the exodus of voters from Washington this
year is greater than it has ever been before
Since Saturday every outgoing train has
conveyed crowds of voters 20 their homes
THREE THOUSAND GONE.
1t is estimated that fully 5000 people
have left here for their voting places in
Maryland aud Virginia, and large numbers
have gone TO Ohio, Indiana and Illinois,
and it is thought that this year this kind Of
travel is double what it was at the last
presidential election.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the reception of the returns in this city
Steropticons will be employed to show
the dispatches at the newspaper offices and
at the rooms of one or more of the political
clubs.
All the prominent social clubs have made
arrangement, to receive the news over
special wires, and at all the theaters, the
returns will be read between the acts
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
The special wire running into the white
house will be kept hot tomorrow night
The operators will receive not only the com
munications from .the Presidents political
friends from all over the country, but also
the full press dispatches. The President
and Mrs. Cleveland will come in from Oak
view tomorrow, and will spend the night
at the white house. They will have com
pany the greater part Of the evening and
Mr. Cleveland will be kept in direct COM
munication with the democratic national
headquarters all night,