Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-01-03
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrOm our regular cOrresr Ondsui.l

Before leaving to spend Christmas at
his Georgia home, Senator Colquitt
said that II Gen. Harrison was looking
for respectable Southern Republican
for his Cabinet he could not do better
than to select Hon. A. E. Buck, of At
lanta.
The Republican Senators, true tO the
traditions of their party, played a con-
fidence game In order to get date set
for the final vote of the Senate tariff
bill, They held caucus and decided
against taking Christmas recess. They
then appointed committee to confer
with the Democrats, and instructed
that committee to offer to vote for the
recess provided the Democrats would
agree to set day for the final vote on
the tariff bill. The Democratic Sena-
tors, not desiring to retard other neces-
sary legislation in the hopeless effort of
trying to prevent the passage of the
tariff bill, agreed to take the final vote
on that measure January 81. Then the
Republicans voted for recess 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 pow
er on earth could have held a quorum
of the Senate here during the Holidays.
However, the action of the Democratic
Senators is generally commended here,
because everybody is heartily sick and
tired of tariff talk, and the Republicans
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 Republican
party known as the "workers" and the
1boys" are terribly alarmed at the indi.
cations which now point to another
reign of the ''goody-goody" element in
the White House. Rutherford B. Hayes
has been dragged out of the obscurity
into which he had naturally gone. and
will, it Is said, be power with Harri.
son. Hayes, it is we'll known, hates
Blaine with an intensity as great as il
Is possible for his small brain to hold
and has never forgiven him for allud
ing to him during his occupancy of the
White House as "that man Hayes,
therefore, 1t Is not at all surprising thai
Hayes should be working actively
against Blaine. Platt, of New York, il
also obnoxious to Hayes. In fact about
uluC~tCIlLtlo vi UllC pal bH uLt
in fair way to get left out in the cold
and scare of the biggest sort has beer
developed among them by the new:
from Indianapolis. Whether there il
any real cause for this scare among the
working Republicans 1 am not in a
position to say, but will say that il
Harrison attempts to make up his cabi.
net leaving such men as Blaine and
Platt out, he will deliberately walk in.
to the worst hornets nest he ever saw
and will make himself more unpopular
with his party, if such thing be pos
sible, than Hayes was when he was
President. This idea of candidate
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 tC
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 pit.
John Sherman made speech to q
negro club the other night, advising
them to acquire education and property
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 Treasure, so tina
now he is both educated and rich, anC
yet there are many people who cannot
respect John Sherman.
I understood that negotiations have
already been closed for the purchase o
the Washington Post by James G
Blaine, with proviso that they are of
L. ...ko Tn Nkh
words, If Harrison leaves him Ou
Blaine proposes to make the White
House very warm place for somebody
Little Billy Chandler has been pre-
senting more petitions to the Senate
from alleged citizens ofSouth Carolina
setting forth the fact that the petition
ers were at the last election denied the
right to vote. A curious thing abou
three of these petitions was that all o
the signatures were in the same hand
writing. Perhaps Little Billy" ha
established petition factory of hi
own.
What will be done with the Senat
tariff bill when it reaches the House,
is question that is exciting consider
able discussion Just now, but owing t.
the absence of all the leaders the talk i
only conjecture. The republicans will
it is said, attempt to get an immediate
vote upon it by moving that the Hous
concur. The democrats, it is general,
thought, will antagonize this with {
motion to non-concur, and send to ;
conference. If the bill gets into tn
hands ofa conference committee tina
will be the last of it.