Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1885-12-24
THE NORTHWEST
A WESTERN TORNADO,
fresh from Coiorado's Snowy Peaks,
Cavorting Around the Head of the
Old Ticket.
Chaffee Positively Refuses to Make a
Fool of Himself Again.
Especial Dispatch to the Enquirer !

NEW York, December 10.-EX-Sena-
tor Jerome B. Chaffae, of Colorado,
Charm. AN of the Republican National
Executive Committee, arrived here to-
day. He astonished the natives by his
talk on current politics. To begin with.
he is dead against Blaine for 1888. "Be-.
cause made a fool of myself once is no
sign 7 will again." he said to me To-
night. tBut it is pretty good evidence
of what Blaine would do. If he had lei
the writing of letters alone, and had
taken up stuffed club whenever that
dude from New Jersey came around
him, he might have pulled through.
But he wrote a new letter every day,
and the statements in them were proved
to he false within forty-eight hours as
rule, and then to cap the whole thing
he wrote his Dear Phelps letter. No
wonder he couldn't pull through. Why,
went over into New Jersey a few days
after The election and found it had been
generally understood in that State that
ifelected Blaine would make William
Walter Phelps his Secretary of State.
The worst of it was that it was true, ]
guess. The country had a narrow
escape. They may say what they like
about Cleveland, but he is doing better
than that"
"What do you think of Cleveland's
message, SENATOR"
"Weli, on the whole it is q pretty
good message. don't agree with his
Civil Service nonsense; neither do !
agree with his silver views. They talk
all the time about the coinage of silver
driving out gold from the country; yet
since we resumed its coinage there has
been an annual flow of seventy millions
of gold into the country. That does
not look as if silver was driving ont
gold. I want to see them retire the
greenhacks and replace them with silver
certificates. There is $346 100000 of
greenbacks outstanding. They were a
forced loan on the people without any
interest. They are payable Mt any time
in any coin. The howl of mOneved men
is that they are fiat money. The silver
certificates would be worth then at least
eighty cents on the dollar more than
these greenhack dollars, and the coun-
try would be that much better off
There will be nothing done in Congress
this winter on the silver question. The
silver men are too strong.o
"What about the future of your par
typ
"It hasn't got any the way things are
running now. 1t has no position on
which to stand. tt is wrong on this
Civil Service question, and yet the men
in position are afraid to declare so. The
reformers are the most venal men in
public life. They are all for sale or for
Office. They go stepping along as old
Eaton does, like n hull in corn field.
They are innocent-looking enough, but
not any more to be trusted than that
same bull. The party has got to get it.
self planted on this equal representation
question, and fight 1t out on that line.
But there comes in difficulty. Every
time any one gets up to demand that
there shall be full vote and fair
count in the South, or that If the votes
are not counted at the polls the repre-
sentation shall be taken away, some
long-haired reformer yells, Bloody
shirt, and our fellows are afraid to say
any more. We have got to get back
our old courage of conviction and got to
work as If we meant business, or else
give the whole thing over to the Demo-
Gratis, and let them run it to the dogs.
IT told Teller and Bowen that they
ought TO say to these New England
aranks in Congress: When the silver
and other questions come up. gentle
men, you must come into a caucus with
the Republicans. understanding that
we will abide the caucus decision, or
we will turn this into a Democratic
Senate at once That would bring
things to d crisis. Those fellows want
things their own way without letting
any one else have any consideration. j
would fetch them to time in short order
Edmunds and all Of them. j think
that Teller has the backbone to make
the fur fiy If the Eastern men refuse to
70 into caucus, but II three or four Re-
pubiicans stand together on that propo-
sition we will soon have some kind Of
party head"
Mr. Chaffee expecta spend the winter
in the East and in florida, where he
goes every winter TO fish.
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