The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-04
Hordes Of tho Faithful Swarm
tho Capital City.
TO SEE GROVER iNAucuRATEp,
The Shadow Of tho Mugwump the
Only Cloud on Their Joy.
the Incoming Executive-Baby Ruth
the Cause Of Great Ovstiou-John
Collins On Hand.

WAsHISeroN CITY, March 3.-rSpecial. T.
This has been . great day for tho thou.
sands of Democrats assembled in Wash.
ington City. Within q few hours they
realize full we'll shat they will introduce .
president Of the United States into office
and probably secure control of the United
States senate, which has been under Re-
publican rule for years; and, having . ma
jority of more than 100 in the lower house,
they will therefore have control Of every
branch of the government under ordinary
circumstances.
Voters in any party would have reason
to feel enthusiastic over the situation q it
existed today and there are hundreds of
Democratic politicians and otfice-seekers
here who feel happy and unhappy by
turns. They are extremely glad that
Democracy il triumphant and that its tri-
umph will be complete within 50 short a
period. but they are quite as unhappy over
the fact that the man they have elected
president shows but little disposition to
carry out the principles of jefferson and
Jackson. There are murmurings among
the politicians congregated here because
the man who will be president to-
morrow shows no disposition to
make q sweeping change in the off,
ces that it will be within his province to
distribute. There are further murmurings
OF discomfort heard on every side because
Cleveland has selected cabinet that can
not be classed as Jacksonian In stripe nor
Jeffersonian in principle. The statement
is frequently heard that that desplsed
political biped. the Mugwump, is likely to
have the call upon the best things in the
way Of patronage that Cleveland will have
to distribute. Notwithstanding this dis
content the Arlington hotel, where Cleve-
land made his headquarters today. was
full of squirming enthusiasts and discon.
tented politicians. ofiice-seekers and
would-be office-brokers.
Three squares further away Stevenson il
located in another hotel, and the crush at
the Arlington is here equaled and even ex-
celled. The Democratic politicians and
Office seekers-they must be close together
ARE dividing their time between Cieve-
land and Stevenson. Were their inmost
thoughts known, il would be found that
Stevenson is much nearer their idol than
is the man who will be his superior during
the incoming administration. At the Ar
iington it is almost impossible for anybody
to secure access to Cleveland, while at the
Ebbitt there is very little hindrance to
those who desire to reach the new vice
president. When the Simon-pure Demo-
crat is taken into consideration, Stevenson
is man nearer to the hearts of the throng
of Democrats here from every section of
the country to witness the Inauguration
and to make q determined effort to secure
some of the pap" that is considered nec-
essary to go with it.
As was anticipated in the Posr-INrEILr-
aENCER dispatch of two or three days ago,
there is by no means large attendance of
Washington state people to witness tho
inauguration ceremony. There are per.
haps twenty-five or thirty people from
that state, but they have been drifting in
for week or more, and for this reason
are not at all prominent. Owing to the
fact that the trains from the West are
unusually late. there may be additional ar
rivals from Washington state tomorrow.
John Collins, of Seattle. is on hand and
will appear in the procession tomorrow as
one of the aides to Chief Marshal Mac.
Mahon.