The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-26
PAT DOMAIN ALL ALIVE.
He Beholds In the Capital
From the Nelo York sun,


WASHINGTON March III have seen the
whole jamboree Of dumping one administration
out and jumping another in, except the grand
scalp dance known as an inaugural ball, and the
spectacle has not increased my American pride
or self-respect.
Four years ago saw the vast hordes of drum.
ken mobocrats along Pennsylvania avenue
bowling themselves into grip and pneumonia
for Harrison, while nobody said Cleveland once.
This year have seen the same storm bedrab-
bled mob bawing itself TO hoarseness for Oleve-
land, while not one wretched yeller whispered
Harrisons name.
Four years ago the same gin mills, dives and
hasheries were fiamboyant with the same cheap
and tawdry water-streaked bunting: but II was
the same physiognomioal caricatuFes Of Ben
and Levi that leered and smirked from amid a
tangle of big hats and log cabins on every bal
cony and banner then, instead OF the pictorial
atrocities OF Grover and Adlai that grin in
ghoulish giee now.
Then the milllon-mouthed watchword of the
whole hurrahiug herd vas Baby Mckee" Now
it is Baby Ruth
What did the great mass of the leather hinged
yellers know or care about the principles in
volved in the struggle which led to the whole
sale swapping OF governmental hgureheadsg
Not one infinitesimal tota more than the street.
car mules whose ears waved dlsconsolatey at
half mast in the dismal tempest that always &C
companies inauguration day.
The change of administration has already
given fresh and mighty impetus 60 the he and
she slop-gushers and tany daubers who mas
querade as journalists and press correspond
ents at Washington and the papers ali over the
country are flooded with their indiscrminate
and nauseating puffsry Of all sorts and condi-
tions Of male and female official cattle at the
national capital. Their literary mongtrosities
are wrought QUE with titant!o whitewash brushes
dripping with commingled sorghum molasses
and gaudy-coored paint. Their style is a bad
cross between confectionery shop and q
scavenger cart with sick aurora borealis and
a n n
There are masculine grinders out of Journal p
istic toadylsm and funkeyism ia Washington
whose fulSome effusions are enough to give any
well-regulated citizen an attack OF green and
yellow seasiokness at sight. The scent Of free
lunch champagne anu vulgar humbuggery
elings to all their work The trail of the ser
pent Of servile fewning and bamboozlement is
over It all. But the worst of them il an Ad-
disonian model of newspaperial dignity and
propristy compared with most OF their feminine
colahorers in the bogus panegyric, fraudulent
greatness, aud counterfeit grace and beauty
trade.
In the scrlbbing hands Of these annihilators
OF truth, leeency, common sense, and all the
possibilities, every gold plated boor and rap
scallion who has bought himself a stye In the
Senate; every pothouss shyster, slun dive
keeper, ana crossroads blathersktte who has
been sentenced 10 two years 10 the house, and
every political dirty worker, ward heller and
scrap beggar who mas had an office OF any kind
or degree let down ia reach OF his unclean
clutches became at once giant OF statecraft
ana patriotism. Colossus OF hDlnLy, grace ana
virtue, and a thousand fiambeau-power calcium
light and S0.ton Kohinoor Of dazzling brilliancy
too majestic toe glorious, too repiendent for
mortal contemplation without step ladder and
smoked glass spectaces Any one OF them
would split the molds Ia which were cast Alex
ander, Caesar. Demosthenes, Cicero and Cato.
Washington Jefferson Webster, Clay and lg-
natius Donnelly all combined Ia one and leave
over enough Of mIghtiness snd illustriousness
to make score or two OF GladstoDes, Bis
mareks, Garbaldis, and Anauiases
Every frowsy and uncouth Mrs. Secretary
NeverheaFdof, Mrs. Senator Geeh0ggins, Mrs.
Representative Flapdoodle, Mrs Judge Mn