The Washington critic., 1885-09-25


this month. The correspondent of the
st. Louis RopuJiicdR Is informed on
very excellent authority, however, that
Mr.. Blaine really means TO return to the
Senate. He Is fully determined that
the country shall understand that he
is not out of politics, and he believes
nifty for him TO display his theatrical
to attack. With this object in view he
is said to contemplate possessing him
self of the scat now occupied by Eu
gene Hale. whose term expires March
4, 1887. Blaine and Hale were at one
time the closest of friends, and Hale at
once the ardent admirer and faithful
scrvitor Of Blaine. Such were the re.
lations existing between the two
that Sam Cox in 1716 evoked
storm on the Republican side
of the House by referring to Hale as
"Blaine's little pup" He was called
TO order and escaped censure by oX-
planning that he said "Baine's little
bub," but the incident is fair ilustra-
ton of the extreme intimacy between
these two favored sons of Maine. Sub
sequently, in the struggle between
Fry and Hale for the Senate. Blaine
did not give Hale the help he expected,
and a GOODNESS grew up which has
never thawcd out AS q consequence
Hale was very apathetic in the Prcsi-
dental campaign last year, and Blaine
will take malicious delight in pulling
him down peg or two. IL may be
that he will seek election as Governor
merely as a stepping g-stonc TO the other
place, for his real aim is to get back
into the Senate before the next Prcsi-
dental campaign comes on.
s##
There is no reason, so far as we can
see here, why the people of the coun-
try should not experience period of
unusual prosperity, beginning with the
first of the new year" said an old
flnancicr of the Treasury Department
to the Minneapolis THbuae's CORE
spondent. II have just been talking"
continued he, with friend over at
the Agricultural Department, and we
reviewed the condition of the crops
throughout the country and compared
them with the financial outlook, and
we were both of the decided opinion
that there will be plenty Of food and
money as soon as the crops begin to
move. There has been large harvest
of wheat and other cereals, while the
corn and stock will be productive Of
splendid results. The farmers who
are in debt should easily relieve them
selves by the results of their summers
work. Railroad traffic will be splen-
did. The shops are starting
up everywhere, and mechanics and
laborers will receive good wages. Now,
if Congress commits no foolish act in
dealing with finance, tariff, etc, this
season of prosperity we are about en-
tering into should continue for Il long
time, ut least until there is q succession
of failures in crops. If were a farmer
! would not be in hurry to sell my
product unless | were in debt. 1t Is
my opinion that the prices will continue
to steadily advance, so that very good
interest will be secured on the money
in the produce. You will see no more
wheat sold at 20 cents, as was the case
last year, and hogs in the Central
States will not come down TO those low
| figures of last season. People will
consume more stuff than they have
been consuming, because the manu-
factories will be running at high We
locity. The factories, you see, have
been closed, practically, for eighteen
months on account of an ovcrsupply,
but they will run now at the highest
speed.
s#a
Says the Rochester Uni0R: En- Con
gresham Benjamin Wood has been for
Il quarter Of a century, the principal
owner of the New York Duty Neos,
an afternoon paper having the third
largest circulation of any newspaper in
the world. The largest is that of the
Petite Journal, Paris, 100000; second,
the London 1elegraph, 225,OOO; and
third, the New York Duty Ne,os, no..
600. Mr. Wood asserts, with a conf
dencc born of thorough investigation
and long experience, that the evening
journal is rapidly becoming, par ercel
teHce, tie newspaper of the time. Is
sued at or o'clock in the afternoon
il contains fresh and prompt resume
of to-day - hot yesterday 's-events
including the closing Of the stock
markets and other important business
departments, as well as complete
European news service--owing to the
difference in longitude-down as lat,
as S'oclock in the evening, In fact, II
has come to be n generally recognized
truth that evening papers, publishing
the events of to-day, serve up ReCs,
while morning papers, retailing th'
affairs of yesterday, are mere chroni
clers of history. The greatest force il
human progress is that exercised by
men who work either with hand o.
brain in stores, factories, machin,
shops, and every department of busi
ness OF industry. These men have NJ
time to give to morning papers. The,
glance them over, to be sure, but il
the evening, the days work done, the,
have leisure and take genuine pleasure
in carefully reading the wcll.iillet
columns of n first.class Afternoon
paper, such as is now published IL
every considerable city in the world
1t is hardly necessary to say that Mr.
Woods views are those of every sensi
bic man who has given the subject an,
attention.
| A"%
1t was whispered around several day
ago says the Washington corresponden
of the Louisville Commercial, that il
view of the withdrawal of Genera
Field from the contest for the Door
keepership of the next House of Rep
rcsentativc, Mr.. Warder of Jefferson
vile, Ind, would probably become
candidate. Mr., Warder was the lat
Mr.. Wintersmith' s assistant, and is nov
the acting Doorkeeper. He left her
few days ago for his home at Jcifer
sonyille, and it is not definitely know
whether he favorably regards the sug