Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-11-11
w asllington Letter.

(From our regular eorrespondent.1
WASHINGTON, November 5th, 1886.
Those features of Tuesdays contest
which were unexpected and seem in
expIicable are still the chief subject of
discussion here. Indeed the elections
were full of small sized miracles. |
When President Cleveland first form
ulated his policy Of civil service reform
you heard good deal said about the
opposition it would meet with in the
North and the disposition of the South
ern people to approve of it. Yet North
Carolina lets Representative Cox be de-
feated in convention, and develops a
sudden fancy for Anti-Democratic
proclivities in her delegation. Ken
tucky cuts Speaker Carlisle's vote
down TO a mere shadow of its former
self, and Virginia throws away her
Democratic seats in Congress with
reckl, ssness. On the other hand,
Minnesota, the old Republican strong
hold, polls SO close vote as to leave
the issue in doubt for time. Mas
sachusetts pushes Andrew almost to
the front, and New Hampshire almost
breaks her straight Republican record
in the House.
The news of Speaker Carllsle's pos
sible defeat caused profound surprise
here. That of Mr.. Morrison did not.
as it had been regarded among the
possibilities. He has always had n
more or less close contest, and his dis
trict is really Republic an, although he
has repeatedly carried it by lis person.
al popularity.
The question of who is likely to sGc-
ceed Mr.. Morrison as Chairman of the
Committee on Ways and Means is one
about which little definite idea can be
formed at present. Mr.. s. s. Cox will
require to be placed. and there is an
impression that somehow he may be
Mr.. MorrIson's successor. He has
longer Congressional record than any
other Democrat in the House, and he
has been very prominent in the party.
Hardly anybody alludes to Mr.. Nor
rison but speaks of his conspicuous
honesty. When Morrison previous to
1850 was spoken of as possl bic cnndi-
date for the Presidency, Gen. Eppa
Hunton, of Virginia, then member
of the House, was said to have struck
the mark when be expressed the op:n-
1 ;o,, that - NTcrr;so,, yxrora ,1ada prpCi-
dent there woul be more honesty and
less manners in the White House than
ut any time since General Jackson liv-
ed there.
The President did not go home to
vote last Tuesday out he sat in the
room adjoining the little telegraph of
flee of the White House that evening,
and read the news direct from all parts
OF the country as fast as it came. Of
all the fiimsy reasons given why the
President did not go to Buffalo, prob
ably the silIiest explanation was that
| he did not wish to vote for a certain
Democratic candidate for Congress in
| the Buffalo district, that gentlemen
having made speech some time ago,
IN which it is alleged be expressed lack
of sympathy with the Administration.
The whole thing about which SO
much ado was made amounts to moth
ing, but will state one good reason
| why he was not there. He removed
from the district some time ago, and
altnough he is entitled to registra ton
in Buffalo, is at present disfranchised
like many other residents of Washing
ton.
I have it from good authority that
Mr.. Blaine believes that President
tCleveIand will be re-nominated in 1883,
and that he will be reelected. That
lis why he says he does not expect to
be nominated himself at that time, and
why he says he does not want to be.
He said recently with great emphasis
that he would never accept a nomina-
ton for the Presidency unless he fell
icertaion of election. He will work fol
lsome good Blaine man, though, in the
Republican convention of 1888. and
bide his time. He will keep himself
before the country as NO one knows
better how to do than he, for the nom
nomination in 1882. Mr.. Blaine will
not be as old man, even then, as was
Samuel Tilden when he was elected Ii
re.
| Mr.. Blaine's recent attack in one o