The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-01-04
From our regular eerreuponasnt.l
OUR WARRINGTON LETTER

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHlxerox, ID. g., Dec. p. 1888.
Before leaving 10 spend Christmas -
bic Georgia home, Senator Colquitt said
that II Gen. Harrison Was looking for oil
respectable Southern Republican for his
Cabinet be could not do better than t0l
select Hon. A. Il. Buck, OF Atlanta.
The Republican Senator'S, true 10 the
traditions OF their party, played . con.
fldence game In order to get q date sei
for the final vote on the Senate tariff
bill. They held = caucus and decided
against taking q Christmas recess. Thes
then appointed . committee 10 confer
with the Democrats. and instructed thai
committee.to offer 10 vote for the recess
provided the Democrats would agree a.
set day for the final vote 81, the tariff
hill. The Democratic Senators. not DE-
string TO retard other necessary legisIa.
iion in the hopeless effort Of irving 10
prevent the passage OF the tariff bill.
agreed 10 take the final vote on thar
measure January 2l-t. Then the Re-.
Eublcans voted for recess from last
Friday :. Wednesday. January 2nd
Had The Democrats refused. the Senate
would have been only nominally III ses-
sion during the Holidays. as no power
on earth could have held a quorum OF
the Senate mere during the Holidays
However. the action OF the Democratic
Senators is generally commended here.
That large portion OF the Republican
party known rs the workers aud the
''boys' are terribly alarmed At the indi.
cations which now point to another reign
0f the "goody-goody" element in the
White House. Rutherford r. Hayes has
been dragged out Of the obscurity into
which he had naturally gone, aud will.
il is said, be power with Harrison
HAYES, II Is well known. hates Blaine
with an intensity as great as II is possible
for his small brain 10 hold. aud has never
forgiven him for siluding TO him during
his occupancy Of the White House a.
"that man Hayes therefore, Ii IL not ~
all surprising that Hayes should BE-
working actively against Blaine. Plat.
Of New York, u also obnoxious tol
Hayes. la fact about nine. tenths Of the
Republican party are In . fair way toI
get Iett out in the cold, and = scare oil
the biggest sort has been developed
among them by the news from Indians
polls. Whether there Is any real cause
for this scare among the working re
publicans ! am not in position 10 say,
will say that IL Harrison attempts to |
make up his cabinet leaving such men as
Blaine aud Platt out, he will deliberately
walk into the worst hornets nest he |
ever saw, and will make himself more
unpopular with his party, il such thing
be possible, than Hayes was when be
was President. This idea Of Q candidate
being better than the rank and file OF his
party is all 'poppycock, aud has result.
ed In nothing but failure for every Presi.
dent that has ever attempted TO follow
II. Let Harrison take warning.
John Sherman made . speech to me-
gro club the other night, advising them
10 acquire education and property Ia
order TO obtain the respect Of the world.
Ohm got bic education while young, and
The most cs bis property while Secretary
Vt the Treasury. so that now be il both
educated and rich, and yet there are
many people who cannot respect John
Sherman.
understand that negotiations have
already been closed for the purchase o
The Washington Post, by james G
Blaine, with . proviso that they are on
IL he goes into . cabinet. In other
words, IL Harrison leaves him out Blaine
proposes to make the White House
very warm place for somebody.
What will be done with the Senate
tariff bill when II reaches the House j.
> question that is exciting considerable
just now, but owing to the
absence Of ell the leaders the talk is only
conjecture. The republicans will, il l.
said. attempt to get Al immediate vote
upon II by moving that the House con-
cur. The democrats, 1t IL gene ali,
thought, will antagonize this with . mo
ton TO non-concur, and Sand TO con.
ference. II the bill gets into the hands
Of conference committee that will be
the last Of It.