The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-18
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
BY THE M AILs.

WASHINGTON, Sept l6, 1886
Direct TdIdfion--d Direct Propos,tion-Mr
Walker and the Democratic association at Wash
ingfom IN Direct Issue
Mr.. Secretary Walker has been making pre-
liminary feeler to direct taxation. The policy
which has heretofore been regarded as an abstract
idea, South Carolina multiplying abstraction,
promises to become an element of controversy, if
not ofactual warfare, in the next Presidential con-
test.
The democratic association of this city, which
did such efficient service in the late campaign,
under the direction of Mr.. Walker, who remained
here all the of ~, controlling its opera
tons in the connecting and transmission of I" pub
doc" and eectioneerlng pamphlets holds at this
time position to the Secretary of the Treasury of
armed neutrality. And when we bear IN mind
that this association is the central democratic club
shaping in great measure the action of the de-
mocracy throughout the country, some recent
proceedings in this central junta will be found to
be possessed Of no inconsiderable moment
Messrs. Blair and Rives attached to this asso-
citation, the latter being principal executive Of
ficer and this fact taken in juxtaposition with
the other fact, that the friends of Mr.. Van Buren,
are opposed 10 the claims of Mr. Walker and his
movements for the succession, at once discloses
the moral of our story
At night meeting some days ago, (for all i'm
porant or effective political concaves are held in
thenght On the principle that "they love darkness
better than light" because their deeds are evil,)
Mr.. Walker submitted through a friend, a tariff
document with hy-leaf attached, which, if,
adopted, Gas our associate will have more fully
informed ysu) would have been tantamount to a
recommendation to the universal democracy OF
undiluted free-trade, and direct taxation for the
raising the twenty-sx millions required for the an
nual support of the Government, IN addition to
untold extra millions for war expenses, &c. The
proposition was voted down almost by acclama-
ton; those only voting for il, who in considera-
ton of their services during the late canvass have
been elevated to offices in the several departments
Resolutions were then proposed approving OF
the Administration and these too were rejected
one OF the officers stating to the writer, that it
was stated before the meeting, that the object OF
maintaining the organization OF the Association
was, not to uphold the existing Administration,
but to secure something more reliable and SUBJ
srantal. Officers were then elected for the Asso-
citation to the number of some twelve or fourteen
subordnaes, and OF all the number, not an Office
holder was honored with an appointment Thus
you will see that the Central Association of the
Democracy at Washington, without, whose most
active and efficient services under Mr.. Walker,
Roorback and Thurow Weed,) in the quiet prose-
cution of branding his niggers on Duck Creek
thus you will see that this central junta is now
out-and-out, Anti-Polk, Anti-W alker, Ant-Ad.
ministratiOn.
retnbution has yet to come for the super
seding of Mr.. Van Buren, at Baltimore by the two
third exacton, and it will go hard that the expell-
ed administration editors, Messrs. Blair ~ Rives,
do not turn the tables upon Col. Polk, either in
defeating his own aspirations, or his Wishes and
his man for the succession.
The proposition of Mr.. Walker for direct taxa
ton, presents the fairest apology for direct is
sue between the Wright Van Buren, men and the
Polk Walker men, and the subject in itself sug-
conclusions, that we shall have to recur to it
again.