Clarksville evening chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn) 1886-1890, 1888-12-27

Legislation in the hopeless effort of
trying to prevent the passage of the
tariff bill, agreed to take the final
vote on the measure January Dist.
Then the Republicans voted for re-
cess from last Friday to Wednesday,
January End. Had the Democrats
refused, the Senate would have been
only nominally in session during the
holidays, as no power on earth could
have held a quorum of the Senate
here during the holidays. However,
the action of the Democratic SEN
ators is generally commended here,
because everybody is heartily sick
and tired of tariff talk, and the Re-
publicans Of the Senate were fully
determined to pass the bill before
taking up anything else, therefore the
sooner it is over the better.
That large portion of the Republi-
can party known as the workers
and the "boys" are terribly alarmed
at the indications which now point to
another reign of the "goody-goody"
element in the White House. Ruther-
fcrd B. Hayes has been dragged out of
the obscurity into which he had
naturally gone, and will it is said, be
power with Harrison. Hayes, it is
well known, hates Blaine with an in
tensity as great as it is possible for
his small brain to hold, and has never
forgiven him for abiding to him dur
ing his occupancy of the White House
as "that man Hayes" therefore, it is
not at all surprising that Hayes
should be working actively against
Blaine. Plat, of New York, is also
obnoxious to Hayes. In fact about
nine-tenths Of the Republican party
are in fair way to get left out in the
cold, and scare of the biggest sort
has been developed among them by
the news from indianapolis.
Whether there is any real cause for
this scare among the working Re-
publicans | am not in position to
say, but / will say that if Harrison
attempts to make up his cabinet
leaving such men as Blaine and Plat
out, he will deliberately walk into
the worst hornets nest he ever saw,
and will make himself more unpopu-
lar with his party, if such a thing be
possible, than Hayes was when he
was President. This idea of can
didate being better than the rank and
file OF his party is all "poppycock,'
and has resulted in nothing but
failure for every President that has
ever attempted to follow it. Let
Harrison take warning.
Ex-senator Malone still fits
through the corridors of the Capitol,
almost daily, but he is generally
looked upon as ''dead cock in the
pitt"
John Sherman made a speech to
negro club the other night, advising
them to acquire education and prop
erty in order to obtain the respect Of
the world. John got his education
while young, and the most Of his
property while Secretary of the
Treasury, so that now he is both ed
ucated and rich, and yet there are
many people who cannot respect
John Sherman.
| understand that negotiations have
already been closed for the purchase
OF the Washington Post by James G.
Blaine, with a proviso that they are
off if he goes into the cabinet. In
other words, if Harrison leaves him
out Blaine proposes to make the
White House a very warm place tor
somebody.
Little Billy Chandler has been
presenting more petitions to the Sen
ate from alleged citizens OF South |
Carolina, setting forth the fact that
the petitioners were ut the last cleo
ton denied the right to vote. A
curious thing about three Of these
petitions was that all of the sigma
lures were in the same handright-
ing. Perhaps Little Billy has es-
tablished a petition factory of his
own.
What will he done with the Senate
tariff bill when it reaches the House?
is a question that is exciting consid-
cradle discussion just now, but owing
tC the absence of all the leaders that
talk is only conjecture. The Repub-
Leans will, it is said, attempt to get
an immediate vote upon it by NOV
ing that the House concur. The
Democrats, il is generally thought,
will antagoniZe this with motion to
non-concur, and send to conference.
If the bill gets into the hands of a