Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1921-04-14
A GLORIOUS Time
AT PIE COUNTER
Hungry Republicans Are Crowd
ing Capital and Making Life
Merry For President
(By Franklin)

| 1lOrfnalCy. III TACT, hundreds and
hundreds of them are already in
Washington and more are arriv-
ing with each train that pulls into
the union station. They are jam
ming and croWding and elbowing
each other in their efforts to get
Into Uncle Sans governmental
cafeteria and up to the political
pie counter. 1t has been eight
years since the doors were open
to them, and they are hungry for
pap"
But turning out the wicked
Democrats and installing in their
places true, tried and trusted Re-
.publicans isn't such an easy un-
,dertaking as it would appear
,When campaign promises and
pledges are made. The routine
affair Of government must go on
and even = big Republican chiefs
Unjust for a time, at least, continue
TO have the services of their Dem
.ocratic Subordinates until they &C
quaint themselves with their du-
ties and responsibilities. These
Democratic subordinates just now
have the know how" and their
superiors are obliged for the pres
cnt to depend upon them One
swing Of the political axe. one
stroke OF the partisan pen will
not remove all the Democratic in
cumbelts and fill their places with
Republicans. The anxious ones
must wait a while. The adrf1i s.
lration is already finding this out,
but it is all very discouraging
and disheartening and embarrass-
ing after waiting SO long to be
delayed further. The horde of Of
tlceseekers which now sWarms
Washington i'll person and is bonn
harding it by mail for jobs wants
the transformation instanter.
The Washington hotels, cafes
and chauffeurs are profting i'm
mensely by the influx Of job hunt
crs. The White House grounds,
closed and guarded during the
war, and SO continued because of
President Wilson's illness, have
now been thrown open, and the
IS almost that of
country fair, with the toy balloon
men and the fakirs hanging about
the gates and the crowds inside
actually peering in the windows
as though they expected the new
president to come to the door
with a bundle of appointments
and pass them out as they do
samples Of tooth paste from the
exhibition booths.
The executive offices are throng-
ed from early until late with sup
plicants for office. Delegations,
not infrequently accompanied by
q senator or two or three mem
bers OF the house from their home
states, sit in the ante rooms for
hours waiting for an opportunity
to get to Mr.. Harding to present
their claims or demands on en-
treaties. The surroundings of theI
generals office remind
one Of nothing so much as a state
political convention, with the big
leaders and the little leaders and
their followers lowering about
to see the presidents for
mer campaign manager, now the
chief law officer of the govern
mcnt, Tor the department of JUS
tice has coolies of desirable places
to be filled. And as for the post |
office department, where the
chairman of the Republican ma
tional committee, who is likewise |
postmaster general, presides, oh, !
my! Think of the $4,000 postoffice
Jobs now under the civil service |
regulations, and it only requires |
one little decree to wipe out civil !
service requirements and open up |
all of these thousands of jobs to
10 the Republican faithful. Then
wonder what Mr.. Hays, P. M. G., |
means by his phrase about "hu- /
the postoffice depart
nent. So it is with all the other
executive departments.
Young Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt
Turing last summers campaign
Down in Maine in grand elo-
1uent outburst of Rooseveltian
0ratory declared that there were
$4,000 Democrats holding Offices
n Washington, sitting around and
loing nothing, but" he contin-
led, after the fourth of March |
here will be 10000 Republics in
heir places" There was natural
y an outburst of applause at the
of 10000 Republicans
getting soft berths said to be held
BY Democrats. Then the thought
seemed to percolate through the
minds of his audience that per-
maps the country would not be