The Delta independent., 1886-11-16
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
From our regular correspondent.

are satisfied in AS much as Speaker Car
Isle has been returned and they hold
the power in the House of Representa-
tives. At the White House little is
said except that they are content with
results. and that they do not construc
Democratic reverses in any quarter us
rebuke to the Administration. Such
significance is discounted through the
many cases many candidates in the
field.
Protectionists claim that they have
gathered great strength in the House by
the fight, that Col. MorrIsson's s defeat is
an immense victory for them. and that
they have secured their pet policy. The
Republicans feel that they have done
something to brerk up the solid South
and. in short, all sides are well pleased
with what they claim to possess in the
Fift:eth Congress. 4 man would
have 70 be made up in il curious way
politically who could not get some CONF
fort from the election returns.
Various explanations are given of
the results and surprises of last weeks
vote. Senator Vest. who is just here
from Missouri. was asked what he
thought of the Republican gains. "Oh
they amount to very little, said he;
"they gained a few seats in the House
where the Democrats did not vote"
and he added that Civil Service Reform
cut no more figure in it than these loss.
es will effect the national election,
which meant, not at all.
Ex-senator Mcdonald. who is here
from Indiana on legal business, attrib-
uted Democratic severses in his State
to the fact that Democratic voters did
not go to the polls. and he thinks their
dissatisfaction is principally due to the
appointments. He says the Civil Ser
vice Law is very unpopular in Indiana
and that it is us unpopular to day AS it
ever Was.
A Randall Democrat. of the old
school from Pennsylvania. when asked
what he thought WAS the cause of the
trouble. promptly replied: First. COLI
tempt for the Presidents Civil Service
Reform policy Secondly. the deter.
minatioi of the laboring element in the
country To let the free trade element in
the Democratic party know that the
former Will not support any party
whose every movement is toward
bringing the labor Ut this country in
contact with the pauper labor of
Europe"
y striking example af the earnestress
OF the labor moveiueai. was the fact
that 1t nearly swept 0rer such states
man us Mr.. Carlisle. ile popular Speak
er of the House. lie is admired and
respected by both the great parties, be-
loved 10y his neighbaIs. and the envy Of
his fellow aspirants for public honurs.
Although he comes 10 the Fiftieth
Congress. he and his friends had ter
rible scare, aud it goes without saying
that the Democrats Of the GoyiugtuIi
district will work harder for him dur
ing the next Congressional campaign.
To-day the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land are in Boston, where every possi-
BILE honor is being paid them. As the
whole country knows. the 25oth ami.
yersity of Harvard College is the orc,s-
ion OF their short visit. They were To
be escorted from the station To the ho-
tel 10y the military entertained ut
breakfast by the State, escorted to
Cambridge by the troops. take dinner
with th. Dons. return to Boston al
tended by the students Ell mass. shake
hands with the Boston public at Fam
euil Hall, attend u card reception after
wards arranged by the city authorities.
and finally be escorted back 10 the rail-
road station. all in one day.
1t was report ed that the President
WIS preparing an elaborate address for
the occasion. but this WAS untrue, rs he
had neither the time nor the iuclina-
tioa to do so. His speech will be moth
ing more than an inipromtu reply to u
toast. lie usually thinks over what he
is going To say, and afterwards writes
il of for preservation. The card re-
ception was said to be the only feature
of the days programme not liked by
the President, but as the guest of the
Boston municipality. he could not es-
cape this piece Of snobbery.
1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland declin.
ed toiucept lIarvarl's preferred honor.
AIRY degree of Doctor of Laws. His ac-
ton is probably attributed to lis de-
sire not to take to himself honors that
he feels he has not earned. Harvard
has been very liberal in the bestowal
of this honor. Grant. johnson. Hayes.
Garfield and Arthur were all dubbed
l.. J.. ID. during their term of office.
and President Lincoln was the only
President wha was never honored by