The Globe-republican., 1890-07-30
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.


Special Correspondence to the GLOBE-R RE
PUBLICAN.
WASHINGTON. D. c., July 18th.
Many of the democratic papers are
making frantic efforts to show that Pres
ident Harrison and his brilliant secretary
of state are not in accord in their ideas
of governmental and political policy.
First it is the reciprocity theories of Mr..
Blaine which the president cannot sane
ton; then the Behring sea trouble is not
going right. and so on with every prom
inent matter that comes up for discus
sion. 1t has never occurred to these un-
thinking critics that if the opinions of
the two officials were so radically OPP
posed on such vital subjects that Mr..
Blaine would not remain in the cabinet
for twenty-fOur hours, nor would the
president be long in intimating, as the
diplomats say, that his withdrawal pa
pers would receive his distinguished con-
sideratiOn. Again. unless backed up by
his superior in office Mr.. Blaine would
not have antagOnized his own party as
he has done in the matter of South
American trade. nor put the administra-
ton in antagonism to the tariff views
of the party. The truth is that not only
the president but leading senators and
representatives of the party are in firm
accord with Mr.. Blaine in the principles
he has advocated, the only difference
arising from the details of the plan.
Men like Mckinley say that the only
trouble with MIR. Blaine's views is that
they should have been given publicity
before and not after the completion of
the tariff bill, but that it is now inOppOr-
tune to retrace the steps already taken.
Another thing, the elimination of the
sugar provision would necessitate COM
plete remOdeling of the tariff structure
which has been erected with so much
care. thing not to be thought of at this
late day in the session. In short. all the
differences in the republican party, about
which the democrats so fondly pirate, are
no differences at all where principles are
involved the only conflicts of thought
arising over the details or plans for put
ting those principles in operation.
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The publication of the Behring sea
correspondence has been a complete dis
conjecture of the democratic politicians
who have builded large hopes on refu-
sal of President Harrison to "tell all he
knows" about this delicate international
subject. With such refusal the charge
was to be made that the action of the
president had not been creditable to the
country and that he was afraid of pub
licity on that account. The mere pre-
sentatiOn of the documents. therefore,
has spoiled all this democratic campaign
thunder. Hence the disappointment and
chagrin of the democratic managers.
AS Secretary Blaine said before leaving
Washington there is nothing in the cor
respondence which Is not creditable to
the American government, and it shows
that American rights are not suffered to
60 down before British buster but will
be officially maintained so long as the
republican party has the direction of
public affairs.
President Harrison has spiked the DEM
ocratic SANDER about the Cape May cot
tage by producing the title deeds thereto.
in his own name and paid for with his
own money. The president could have
run these ISLANDERS down long ago had he
been so disposed, but he naturally shrank
from putting his private business before
the country as if it was of public mo-
ment. The constant attack upon Mrs.
Harrison, however, led him to 'sspeak
right out in meeting" and tell how his
Cape May cottage cost him ten thousand
dollars and was not gift from anybody
to either himself OF Mrs. Harrison.
The Farmers Alliance is playing the
dickins with the hopes and fears of con-
gressmen in both parties. 1t is an abso-
lutte fact that many of the best politicians
in the house are at sea in all their specu-
latiOns and calculations for the future.
This is the case with both political par
ties. First, the representative is both
cred about his nomination, and then if
it is accomplished at the expense of or
after contest with the alliance, he is
more bothered about the figure this new
power will cut on or about election day.
The southern democrats are even more
troubled than the northern congressman,
as, after long personal rule they now
find themselves confronted by power
which refuses to be bossed, but aspires
itself to be boss. Havoc has been made
with the Georgia delegation, confessedly
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