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WASHINGTON.


favorite with democrats here and the
wish that he may be sent to the Sen
ate from Ohio is heard on all sides.
1t is argued that he has the good will
Of all classes Of Ohio democrats, and
that his elect ion would leave no jeal.
ousy to make trouble in the future.
President Harrison is still trying to
make people, including himself, be-
lieve that the recent elections did not
mean dissapproval by the people of
his administration. The word has
been passed to every prominent re-
publican official that he must argue
at all times that as no federal officials
were voted for the result of the
elections mean nothing as far as the
administration is concerned. That is
for public consumption. In private,
the shirt-sleeve brigade, that is all
ways relied upon to do election work,
and which has been snubbed almost
until now, is, to speak figuratively,
being warmly embraced by President
Harrison and promised any number
of nice fat appointments if they will
only agree to resume business at the
old stand. Brother Harrison has
walked up to the fact that it is the
members of the shirt-sleeve brigade
that carry elections, and that the
carrying of elections is the great end
and aim of political parties. 1t were
better for the democratic party that
he had not found out so much.
That Mrs. Cleveland has lost none
of the great popularity she enjoyed
here when mistress of the White
House was fully demonstrated last
week, when she and her illustrious
husband came to Washington to at
tend the marriage of eX-secretary
Bayard. After the marriage Mr..
and Mrs. Cleveland drove to the
White House and Mrs. Cleveland
left her card for Mrs. Harrison, who
is out of town, while her husband
went inside and paid his respects to
President Harrison. 1t was a grace>
full and courteous act on the part of
the Clevelands.
The cry that Foraker was knitted
by the Sherman men in Ohio was no
news to the regular reader Of this
correspondence, who will remember
that the organization of a plot to
"dOwn" Foraker by Sherman and
his friends was noted many weeks
ago. 1t was fixed up here in Wash
ington, and unless all signs fail the
gentlemen concerned in it have
bitten off more than they can chew.
Their only desire was to sidetrack
Foraker, but the result shows that
they have made Ohio a doubtful
State for the great contest in 1892,
with chances decidedly in favor Of
the democrats.
The republicans here had a big
scare lasting several days, over the
fate of Senator Allison, of Iowa,
whose successor will he elected by
the legislature chosen last Tuesday.
Allison would leave big gap on the
republican side of the Senate should
he, for any cause, have to 60.
1t is feared by some Southern
democrats that the republican defeat:
last week will have a tendency tC
encourage the more radical republic
can Congresmen to pass an ObnOX
iOus federal election law in the hope
of gaining enough members of thu
House in the South at the next Con
gressiOnal election to effect thosC
they are certain to loose elsewhere
, Such law will never be passed b,
the Next House. There are mum
Der of determined democrats in tn
House, that have pledged themselve
, totillibuster until the expiration O
the Fifty first Congress, if such actor
should become necessary to proven
J the passage of an obnoxious fedora
) election law.
The Superintendent of the Censu
= has made report of what has so ia
5 been done, and what is to be done il
= the future to make the mex
5 census reports given out b.
contract to private parties instead c
4 being done by the Government Print
) ing Office as heretofore. If this ca
be done without making the work
political "job", it would be very de
sirable, as it would take the Govern
ment printing Office years to do tn
work and keep up with the constant
= ly increasing current work. If tn
reports cannot be gotten out taste
thon tbax, vara aftnr tho last ppnSu