Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-16
BARNUM HIS BITTER ENEMY.
Cleveland Can't Count on the
Wooden Nutmeg Politician.
HAS A FIRM FRIEND IN SCOTT.
A Democratic Organ Declares Itself
Displeased With the Presidents
Free Trade Policy-Sympathy
For Senator Hawlcy.
The Chairman Will Fight Him.
WASHINGTON BUREAU THE OMAHA BEE,
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W~ASnlNb1ON, II. Is fpii /" ' |
There is n report in circulation in Wash
ington TO the effect that Chairman Barnum,
of Connecticut, is very bitterly opposed to a
denomination of Cleveland, and that If the
present plans are carried out at st. Louis,
the "seven more mules politician will find it
convenient to be too busy during the cam
paign TO be of any assistance. President
Cleveland has overlooked Mr.. Barnum, as he
has about all the other active democrats, in
the matter Of giving out the spoils, and the
Connecticut boss has not been consulted
much about anything. But this is not his
reason for opposing q continuance of the
present administration. Barnum is a pro-
tectionist. He is interested in manufacture
ing and wants the tariff maintained on i'm
ports. He does not subscribe TO .any feature
Of the Presidents last message, and says it
will lose all New England and
probably New York to the democratic
party. He, as chairman of the national com
mittee in 1880 and 1884, studiously suppressed
tariff publications and ondeavored to make
the fight on purely personal grounds. Con
necticut is rampant in opposition to the Mills
bill, and democrats in Washington are won
dering If they can do anything to lead MIR.
Barnum TO support Mr.. Cleveland after the
st. Louis convention.
1t is conceded that Representative William
l.. Scott, of Pennsylvania, will be chairman
of the democratic national committee. Scott
is a millionaire and can raise more money for
campaign purposes than any man in the
party. He is a member of the house commit
tee on ways and means, is enthusiastically in
favor of the Mills bill, which it is understood
he largely composed, and is held responsible
for many of the extreme tariff reform utter
ances of the president in his last message to
congress-. Scott has had an experience of
three campaigns. He was one of Tilden's
most trusted advisors, and one of the few
who, in 1876, was ready to inaugurate a dem
ocratic president at all hazards. In 1880 he
gave literally of his time and means to the
Hancock campaign, and in 1854 he did the
same for Cleveland.
He is the head and front of the Pennsyl-
vania revenue reform wing of the party, and
is making the fight there for Cleveland that
he made in 1880 for Tilden. In 1850 Barnum
and Randall were his allies; now Randall is
his opponent. He seems to have gathered an
experience which equips HIM better for n
state fight. Scott is levying a determined
warfare on all democrats i'll his state who do
not support the Mills bill. and declares
that all the democratic members from Penn
sylvania, except Randall and Sowden, will
vote for it. He is preparing to make n des-
peratc effort to defeat SOwden, who was the
only democrat who last week refused to be
bound by the caucus action and vote to adj
iourn the house and defeat the direct tax
bill. SCOTS men say Sowden has an Interior
purpose in acting independent in this in
stance. BY the terms of the recent bill re-
distrlcting the state of Pennsylvania,
Sowdcn's county Is thrown into
Representative Ermentrout's district.
The latter will be nominated, and
Sowden, 1t is said, will run as an independ-
emf democrat and have the rpDnDlipnDG mnEp
no nomination. Errncntrout voted against
consideration of the Morrison bill in the last
congress and is now for the Mills bill, being
driven into line by Scott, and it remains 90
be seen whether his action will be endorsed
by his constituents.
REPUBLICAN FLUCTUATIONS.
Among the oldest and most reliable demo-
cratic organs in Washington is the Sunday
Herald. 1t has swallowed everything PrcSi-
dent Cleveland has given out and declared it
was good, till the tariff MESA &c went to CON
gress. This it held TO be destructive. Here
is one Of its observations to-day: ''There is
no blinking the fact that the republicans are
much more hopeful than they were prior to
the presidents tariff message. Before that
they were in the dumps; now they are hope
full and some of them even sanguinc of sue.
cess. These hopes are based mainly upon the
fact that the so-called leaders of the demo
cratic phalanX IN New Jersey and Connecticut
arc not i'll sympathy with the administra-
TONS tariff policy and upon alleged disaf-
y ia ~ WIN ~ hbIC
to utilize the protective tariff feeling among
the laboring element of these states, while
they expect luke-warm work from the demo-
cratic leaders in New Jersey and Connecticut
and II democratic contingent from the disap-
pointed in New York. OF the men who
helped to carry New York, Manning, the
recognized state leader, is dead; Hubert o..
Thompson, who welded one wing of the
New York democrats, and John Kelly, who
brought the Tammany contingent to the
polls, arc all gone. Who are competent to
take their places and who can be relied
upon in Connecticut and New Jersey to do
the work with zeal and hcartt Already the
republicans are making their calculations
upon clccting their president with the and of
Now Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, with
out the vote of New York, although they
hope to carry that state also.n
HAwLEY AND THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE.
Senator Hawlcy's friends very much la
ment his connection with the American EX-
change in Europe. The democrats generally
are b~Oasting that il takes him out of the line
of presidential possibilities and viii r~olcgate
him 10 private life. His personal friends in
both parties, however, declare that it will
not iniurc him and n telegram has been re
ccivod from an influential citizen of Hart
ford, Conn, saying that although nearly
Sl0O,OO of the stock is held there and was
bought because Senator Hawloy was the
president of the American Exchange, no one
holds him responsible, even for neglect. He
did not solicit any business for the concern
and sold none of the stock, although as pres
idont he drew n salary Of 81, 900 a year. He
gave it as careful supervision and good nd
vice as his time and position would admit
ana although his enemies will try TO make il
his downfall, there is no likelihood that it
will SO result.
THE ARM CHANGES.
General Sheridan gave the army q great
shaking up by changing the stations Of eight
regiments. The news, of course, caused a
great sensation throughout the army. An
officer of the Fifth infantry, TO whom the
news was telegraphcd that his command was
ordered TO Texas, telegraphod back; ~ pre-
fer hell" referring to General Sherman's
we'll known story Of the relative desirability
Of the locality as a place of permanent resi-
dCnce.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
The two horses, harness, carriage and ac-
companyinE requirements of the late Chief
Justice Waite were sold yesterday at auction.
They brought $500.
The tariff reformers argue that there will
be hut nine democratic votes against the Mills
bill, and five republican for il. This would
Elvo the bill u majority Of about ten on
twelve.
The legislature OF Louisiana is 10 elect this
week two senators TO congress, in place OF
Senator Gibson, whose term expires in 1883,
and Senator Eust.s, whose term expires in
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