Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-02-01
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.l
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 1888.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 81, 1883.
The anti Cleveland element in the
Democratic party is rapidly growing
and secretly organizing in quite a
number of states, if politicians from
those states, who visit this city from
time to time, may be believed. That
the feeling is encouraged by quite
number of prominent Democrats in
Congress is a fact we'll known. tits
said here that an organized open op-
position to the denomination Of
Cleveland Is shortly TO be started in
the States of Pennsylvania, New
York, Massachusetts,, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama,
and possibly others.
1t is also said that Samuel J. Ran
dali will head the fight against Cleve-
land. All Of this may or may not be
true, but there is strong Democratic
feeling for Governor Hill more or less
openly expressed among prominent
members of that party, is fact that
cannot be gainsaid.
The ball season in swell society is
now in full blast. Last Wednesday
evening the Charity ball, so called
because they never have anything
left for charity after paying the ridi-
culously large expenses that are an
nually incurred to make this ball the
event of the season each year, was
given. 1t is hoped that the patrons
will not have to put their hands in
their pockets to make up a large de-
ficiency as they did on one Of the
former occasions. On next Wednes-
day evening the Chinese Minister
will give grand ball to celebrate
the Chinese New Year. The upper
ten are. engaged in a wild scramble
to secure invitations to this ball, (which
rumor says is to be very select.
Senator Frye says, the exemption
Of imported liquors from the opera
ton of State laws relating to the
sale of distilled and fermented liquors
is interfering with the temperance
movement in Maine.
Cleveland is making quite record
as a pardoner Of criminals.
The delegation here from Dakota
have been making strenuous efforts
this week to convince the House
Committee on Territories that Da-
kota has every right to be admitted
to the sisterhood of states.
Hon. Frank Lawler, the hoodlum
member from Chicago, has intro
duced bill to remove the tax from
oleomargarine, which, he says, he in
tends TO see passed this season.
The Senate Committee on Pen
sions has unanimously approved
Senator Manderson's "Grand Army"
Pension bill. This is pl actically the
same as the Dependent Pension bill
which was vetoed by Cleveland last
year, and there is but little doubt
that it will be passed again by this
Congress. Some Grand Army men
believe that Cleveland will sign it
this time.
Democratic representatives from
half dozen tobacco growing states
have made a combine for the purpose
Of taking the official scalp Of Statis-
tician Dodge of the Department of
Agriculture, on account of alleged
defects in his estimate of the tobacco
crops of last summer. They have
petitioned the President for Dodge's
removal, which it is thought they will
get. He has occupied his present
position for the past twenty-five
years.
Cleveland, in his haste to get solid
with the Catholic voters, through his
present to the Pope, seems to have
forgotten the fact that there was a
losing as we'll as winning side to the
game. He knows now, however, and
he will know still more when he
hears from the rest of the protestant
brethren in the back counties.
Cleveland's luck, which has hereto
fore taken the place of brains, seems
to be deserting him.
That "Republics are ungrateful'
was never more strikingly shown
than in the case of the survivors of
Lieut.. Greeley's Expedition to Lady
Franklin Bay. They have not to
this day, received from the Govern.
ment their regular allowance for fuel
and quarters. Congress has not yet
found time to render justice to these
men, although fourteen of the nine
teen persons named in the bill before
it are now dead.
| FIRE AT OWATONNA.
| s Creamery Burned.
The creamery at OWatonna was burn