Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-11-06
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Not in recent times las there been Sucn
general exodus of voters. All OF
sudden all the fellows walked up to the
fact that now is the time to make the
greatest efforts Of their lives and they
have gone home to do it. Both parties
have been so affected, but of course the
republicans have the most of the trav-
elers because there are more office hold
ers of that stripe and the managers
have more money to meet transpOrta-
tional charges. President Harrison led
the voting column and has gone to
Indianapolis to help keep down the
democratic majority. For the time
being, therefore, departmental and exc
cutive matters are quiet.
Before this letter appears in print
, the elections Will be over. 1t is idle, in
consequence, TO retail any of the polit-
ical speculation prevalent around party
headquarters. There is one significant
point, however, which will bear men
tion. The republicans have had a
mint ot money. This fact brings two
elections last under this continued sys-
tematic effort to corrupt and 1 nullify
them, and how long can the manufact-
urers, even with the riches bestowed by
the Mckinley bill stand this fat frying
process which in national affairs is
undergone biennially and in state mat
tiers of tener? Never have the Penn
sylvania barons been made to come
down more literally and the assess
ments have been equally persistent i'll
other localities where republicans have
the wAip in hand.
In this connection it may be said that
there is now pending before congress
measure making this use of money in
cOngres siOnal elections penitentiary
offense. How much chance of success,
though, does it stand with a republican
majority in both house and senate?
The party Of great moral ideas is too
far gone for redemption and in the
ways of Uiquity will it ever walk.
This measure will probably be grandly
debated, and metaphorically, patted on
the back and then forgotten.
One OF the revelations of the next
session will be the census scandal.
There is scandal, too, political, social
moral. Queer things have been done
in this bureau besides the manipula
.tion of figures in the interests of one
political party. Congress will undOubt-
edly get after it and some of the legis-
lative Miss Nancy's are just as eager to
witness the airing of soiled liner as
any old maid in tha0 land. AS to the
political, and of course more serious,
charges it twill be fully demonstrated
that injustice has Systematically been
done to democratic committees. New
York is not the only sufferer. In short
a thorough plan has been carried out to
make the country republican i'll politics
whether it will or not. There are, in
consequence, rough times ahead fol-
Mr.. Porter who started out to make
the official census coadjutor of the
protective system and has allied with
this herculean job the undertaking to
counteract the will of the American
people in the matter of elections.
Judge McMillin, OF Tennessee, stop
ped in the city day or two ago on his
way to the west where he was billed to
make several stump speeches. He is a
candidate for speaker on the democratic
side, and strong one, too, where there
are many strong men. In conversation
he says it will be the democratic policy
in the future as in the past, to prevent
as far rs possible pernicious class ant
= partisan legislation with which republi.
cans have cursed the country and when
the opportunity arrives to thoroughly
work its undoing. The judge takes ar
optimistic view of the future and pre-
diets that better times are ahead.
1t has leaked out that the republican
managers are incensed against Blaine
for his failure to take a more active
part in the campaign. Blaine's friends
however, say that the managers afOre
said started out to make this a Ton
Reed campaign and never called on tn,
Magnetic man from Maine until the,
were so deep in the mire they needet
pulling out. Again they say, he hat
no part in the making Of campaigl
issues or in the rearing of the standard
bearers, and ii he could have had tn
party would not be in such difficulty
The truth is they did try to get alon,
without Blaine as the next best thinl
to reading him out of the party which
they threatened last summer and thel
got happy hopping mad because ht
would not lift their toes off the ho
plate made scorching by fires of thei
own building.
The daughter of Congressman Bel
Butterworth welded only to be wild
owed. She married young Howe, O
New York. a dispatch agent of tn
state department On his death bed an
he lived less than twenty-four hour
after the ceremony. They would hav