Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-09-07
WASHINGTON.

salu prominent p0lluclan, lana
some of the leading Ohio republicans
will help the democrats to doit."
"What do you mean General%'
asked your correspondent. "Exac-
thy what l said," returned the Cen
eral. After much persuasion, and
the promise that his name should
not be used, the gentleman agreed
to tell me his reasons for making the
assertion. He said: "You are prob
ably aware that the Ohio crop of
would-be-great men has for some
years been largely in excess of the
demand, and consequently the State
is full of that class of men and the
most of them are republicans. Fora
ker has been in the way of these fell
lows for some time, and they recog
nize the fact that if he is again elect
ed governor there will be no keeping
him down; he will either demand
to be sent to the Senate or supported
for President. They have decided
that the easiest way to get rid of
him is to help the democrats defeat
him, and to that end the wires are
now being laid
Murat Halstead and Richard Smith
of the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
are in the plot,as is slso Senator Sher-
man. do not assert that President
Harrison is helping these men to
down Foraker, but l know that he is
cognizant of their plans and has made
no objection thereto. He probably
would shed few tears to see Foraker
put in a position that would make
him an impossibility in the race for
the republican Presidential Mons
ination in 1892"
President Green of the Western
Union Telegraph company has been
in consultation with the Postmaster
General, and it is understood that
1 a compromise will be made as to the
: price of Government messages. At
= the department they refuse to talk on
the subject.
The Navy department has several
Z. very interesting and complicated
: questions to worry over just at this
e time. First, there is the big battle
t ship "Texas," being built at the Nor
e fork Navy Yard, which many ex-
i perts contend will not float if COM
n pleted by the present plans: and as il
: that was not enough, there are three
: new vessels the "Petrel," "Vesu.
vius" and Charleston"-which al
e though completed, have for various
< defects not yet been accepted by the
e Government. The lot of the Secre
: tary of the Navy is not happy one
e 1t is now thought here that the ar
@ guments of Representative Mckinley
II have persuaded President Harrison
IS that no extra session of Congress
q should be called.
8. The National republican commit
d tee has shipped all of the document
a it had left over from the last Presi
1t dental election to the four new State
Le for use in the coming campaign. TIL
e. citizens Of the new States have m.
sympathy.
IS Congress will never appropriate
re money to buy ground in New Yorl
G. or Chicago for the great Exposition
lie Of 1892, when it owns right here il
so Washington the best site in the cour
TO try, and it's not five minutes wal
n from Pennsylvania avenue. 1t is t
he bea National and international affai
is and must be held at the Nations
at capital.
x The Postoffice department offers
to reward of $1,000 for the arrest an
er conviction of any mail robber.
le The movement to make Reed tn
next Speaker of the House.is regarC
ed by the most knowing republican
as just as good as accomplished. Th
n other candidates will be given com
y plimentary votes, but the bosses hav
g, ordered that Reed be elected.
80 Five members of the cabinet al
~. now at their desks, but it is hardl
~ probable that they will stick yer
=, close to business during this montl
~ Secretary Window, who prObabl
~ has not forgotten how dearly he We
~ made to pay for owning fine res
~ dence in this city few years ago, hi
rented house for four years. TT
=. house that caused him all the troubl
-. was sold several years ago.
Sunset Cox is still in WashingtC
delighting his friends with stories
the wonderful things he saw in Il
NOrtb vout AooOr5iDU tO C'Ov or