The morning times., 1896-09-27

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bu. they don't . aov onf loot from ln.b bou,.
to house IN OctOi,er. '''' S''','-
AS IT WAS sTHEN.
The rest OF the moving world is pretty
much the same as 1T used to be when
the family moved from oAe cabin to the
other from, the pIatns of East Washington
to the bills Of West Washington The
special artist Of those days might have
picked up a genre bit of migratory hui
n.auity TBs' good old graz 4imotber of the
present nobility. nasht hive been seen
as No. in the procession of herself and
the family COW going west to the new
spot In tire northwest which her grandson
OF today keeps green with bis crop OF
wild oats and other social pyrotecbnics.
The ancient boys pla yed old sledge around
the pine table. The modern boys get into
the game about 1 IN the morning, but the
number OF cards has been reduced from
bChGu ~ tsC. Ac1C was
or silent force in the idyllic game az
what is'nOw know as the kitty This,
however, is u little discursive aud scat
tcring. 10, .,g.sa
Tc get back, therefore, to the October
moving. This year is not an Off wear, and
hence 1t liz to have more or less permanent
d.
men and women on the chess board IS q
conImonplace ce affair, due to the rcstlessness
Of the race. The change is not perma ncnt.
People go from one end. of town to the
other as Gimme swallows retire from one
country to the Other, or as the cotton tail
changes his flats.
But what is this we have heard about the
opening OF the nIints and the closing Of
the Civil Service Commission? We have q
faint recollection that we heard in the
chaos OF the wind and rain last Saturday at
North Capitol Park that there We're to be
some permanent changes in houscholding in
Washington. Or was 1t q fiction, or a
parable from Holy Scripture? We do GER
tainly renien that the trade went forth
right under the banner Of the Interstate
Democratic Association that the present
tenant II the White House would he check
mated in his recent Sa me Of giving a life
tenure to certain ladies in the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing and others in the
Government Printing Offioe, the War De
partment. the Interior Department and
especially In the Treasury.
-.s WAS 1T A PROPHECY.
We were conscious at the time that there
was a well l-nIarked emeMc in that part
Of the ten thousand where the fine old face
of Andy jackson seemed to get instinct
with his old-time fire when he used to
say. ITO the victors belong the spoils.''
which were stolen bodily from the words of
the greatGauI when he said to the Romans:
''vae victis''
Why did not the press associations quote
Mr.. Bryan correctly. Why did not the Of
fetal stenoeraplric report of his speech on
WV ~ 1lONluS
versal shiver which ran through the crowd
when he said that he was going to get
even with the conjuror at Bmzard's Bay,
who imagined that he had made tenure Of
office eternal: Why did not the reports
speak OF the heroic style 10 which men,
whose heads are already 10 the basket
nudpr r..rta in i'm
hats, waved their flags. and shouted them
selves out OF office? 1t was not a Iaif bad
repetition Of the celebrated announcement
OF tue. gfadiators: o Caesar, te morituri
salutamus.
Office-holders who are now participating
10 the October movement might just as
weiltakecouDselandr reason together. Away
out on the plains of Nebraska and in the
canyons of Colorado. where the ice is accu-
and the snow is taking. there is
already the shout of "On to Washington
Not, indeed. as the fiery Coxey came. or
WallcDs'cin Marshal Browne. and the peace
full Goddess Of Liberty on her white palfrey
shrieking the shrek Of Kosciusko that
liberty was dead, aud Col. Dick Bright was
a tyrant. do these warriors from the West
come. They are after the scalps OF Inter
stdtc. DeHlOCfutS duu JACKSON Democrats
From Nebraska alone we kear Of n regi-
meDt OF Indians with tomahawks and Ssan-
ish dirks in their belts, and distress war
rants in their pockets to evict the Civil
Service Commission, and all their fatted
protoges, who. as W e iDtimated. have been
branded 'stet'' by Mr.. Cleveland
Is'tl.ts why we should be glad with an
exceeding gladness, notwithstanding the
fact that public office is a public trust"
and Attorney General Harmon drew up the
enactment whereby this particular trust
was made to order?
BATTLE CRY OF THE HOSTS.
Ithas been very cold weather in the Silver
camps and in the Popuiist camps for some
years. There the song and dauce are now
in progress fora, raid by the people, who
believe in revolution In office, and the
battle cry 'is-'One term is long term for
people who are already in office.- What
else do you suppose they are in the business
for? Merely for sixteen to one and guess
Ing at the doubtful States? Not much.
There is to be no fusion when 1T comes to
that moving of next March, which was pro-
claimed Just few days before the Kalends