The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-03-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES.
Plenty Of Candidates but no Particular
Favorite. Trouble in the Democratic
Camp over the Tariff Question.
The New Patent Once, &C., &C,

Favorite. Trouble in the Democratic
Camp over the Tariff Question.
The New Patent Once, &C., &c,
Special Correspondence Of the REGISTER
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March "a, 1884.
The activity in the Democratic camp
in the work of preparing for the skirm-
ish that is to take place at Chicago, is
not so. noticeable as that in the Repub-
lican. The leaders, however, are not
idle, and very efficient work is being
done in those States whose voices will
he potential in the convention, and
whose votes are regarded as necessary
to the success of the Democratic candi-
date. Mr.. Payne, of Ohio, by his elect
ion to the United States Senate, has
obtained additional prominence as a
Presidential candidate, and has there
by materially increased his ,prospects
for the nomination. All the indica-
tons point to a solid delegation for
Payne from Ohio. A prominent South
ern Congressman said recently that
the delegates from his section would
mostly come uninstructed, and would
be inclined to allow New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and Ohio to name
the candidate, as the. vote of one or
more of these States appeared necessa-
ry to success. But the disagreement
on the tariff question now seems likely
to give different turn to Democratic
politics. Mr.. Randall by his course in
Congress since his defeat for the speak
ership has made his wing of the party
a pretty good tail to the Republican
kite, and it now looks as though the
tariff reformers would make a stand
which must upset all previous calcula-
tions.
A large majority of the party in Con-
gress favor the Morrison bill and eau
Gus to be held, perhaps before this
reaches you, will most assuredly en-
dorse that measure, whereupon the
fight will begin. The result nobody
can at present foretell. but it is not I'M
likely that the West and South will
stand together on the question, in Con-
gress and in the National Convention,
and that this will mean ex-senator Nc
Donald or Judge Thurman or Mr.. Nor
rison as the candidate for President.
Mr.. Mcdonald has been here for some
days past, and has been in consultation
with Carlisle, Morrison and other lead
ers with whom he is i'm full accord. 1t
is limited in some quarters that the an
ti-monopoly labor convention at Indi-
annapolis will nominate Judge Thur
man, on his record in the contest with
the Pacific railways, and that if the
Democratic convention endorse the
nomination it will sweep the country
as the anti-land grant sentiment has
swept through Congress. Undoubted-
ly the time is coming when monopo-
lies and money-bags will not run the
elections of this country, but whether
the time has yet arrived the events of
the next few months may possibly de-
termine.
Ever since the disastrous fire of Sep
TENDER, 1877, by which the Patent Of
flee building was partially burned and
so many models destroyed, the work of
restoring the roof and reconstructing
the interior has been going on. 1t is now
nearly complete and in a short time
the unsightly debris and appliances
that have so long appeared around
the structure will be removed. The
building is not strictly the Patent Of
flee but belongs to the Interior Depart
ment generally. 1t houses besides the
Patent Bureau, the General Land Of
flee, the Indian Bureau and the Secre-
tary of the Interior, though the first
bureau occupies the greater
part, which is probably the reason it
has come to be called the Patent Office.
The time occupied in repairing this
structure-seven years-is a fair illus
tration of the way Government work |
drags along. 1t has, however, in this
case been well done, and has been car
ried on so as not to interrupt the bust
ness of the Office. The new roof is wa
ter tight, overlaid with Portland con-
crete, and this is covered with timed
copper. The Patent Office will now
have an abundance of office rooms of
good size, twelve feet high, well light
ID and ventilated, and there are four
model halls, each 1852 feet in length
and So feet wide. The profits from fees
or patents have more than paid for
Ibis building.
The talk of erecting a palace hotel
here, occupying whole square of
ground, is revived again lately, proba-
bly, because of the profitable business
lone by our hotels this winter. Early
n the season it was stated by some
writer that the hotel business in Wash
ngtOn was on the decline and that
his, owing to the large number of Con-
,ressmen going to housekeeping, would
,e an unusually dull winter in the ho-
els. But the reverse has been the
act. Williards, for instance, where
Tour correspondent picks his teeth, has
lot done so good business in years.
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