Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — CLEVELAND’S CABINET. [ARTICLE]

CLEVELAND’S CABINET.

Probable Effects of the Change on OfficeHolders—Views of an Old-Timer. 1 [Correspondence Rochester Sunday Herald,] ‘•Yes.toe principal topic of conversation here at present is tho probable action of the incoming administration.” Tho speaker was Mr. William M. Ashley, of 506 Maine avenue, a man whose large and intimate acquaintance with prominent publie men here in Washington renders his opinion of unusual weight. “The all-important question among the clerks of the various departments IS, Who is to go? In my opinion there will be very few changes among the old time employes who have been hero year in and year out through several administrations. The removals will occur among the heads ot departments.” “The sense of mistrust which must necessarily pervade the departments is. I suppose, detrimental to the proper transaction of business'/” “Well, rather, 1 reckon. It unfits the clerks for business. Some get very blue, for they hare purchased little homes which they must sacrifice." ‘ Last summer It was reported that many were ill of malaria. How is it/” “More llke'.y ill of a fear of change. I don’t think Washington is so very malarious. At tho same time 1 admit that since residing here I have not always felt first-rate. At times 1 have been greatly troubled with sharp-shooting pains. One day my right arm and leg would torture me with pain, there would be great redness, heat and swelling of the p irta, and perhaps the next day the left arm and log would be similarly affected. Then again it would locate in some particular part of my body and produce a tenderness which would well-nigh drive me frantic. There would bo weeks at a time that I would be afflicted with an intermitting kind of pain, that would corno on every afternoon and leave me comparatively free from suffering during the balance of the twenty-four hours.” “Of course you consulted the doctors regarding your difficulty?" - ; “Consulted them/ Well, I should say I did. Some told me I had neuralgia; others that I had inflammatory rheumatism, for which there was no oure.” “But didn't they try to relieve your miseries'/” “Yes, they vomited and physicked me, blistered and bled me, plastered and oiled me, sweat, steamed and everything but froze me, but without avail.” “But how did you finally recover?” “I had a friend living in Michigan who had been afflicted iu a similar way and had been cured. He wrote mo regarding his recovery and advised me to try the remedy which cured him. I procured a bottle and commenced its use, taking a tablespoonful after each meal and at bed time. I had used it about a week when I noticed a decrease of the soreness of the joints and a general feeling of relief. I persevered in its use and finally got so I could move around without limping, when I told my friends that it was Warner’& Safe Rheumatic Cure that had put me on my feet.” “And do you regard your cure as permanent?” “ This was more than a year ago, the trouble has not returned, and I haven’t been so well in years as I am now.” “Speaking of President-elect Cleveland, yho, in your opinion, will comprise his Cabinet/” “That Is as difficult to determine as it is to say what office-holders will go. Many good men have been named for the positions— Bayard, Thurman, Bragg, McClellan, not to mention a lot of lesser lights. Every prominent politician has a slate made up which ho Is backing to win; but, then, as is always the case, some one will get left.”