The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-10-15
WASHINGTON LETTER.

ARLINGTON, u. u. Oc5. lU lo5U.
Ex-Gov. William H. English. of Indiana. who |
ran ON the National Democratic ticket with the |
late Gen. Hancock in 1880, is in Washington |
searching among the archives of the govern |
ment for materials to be used in a history of |
Indiana. upon which he is engaged, at the re-
quest of the surviving members of the Conven-
tion which was held in 1850 to revise the State
Constitution. Mr.. English looks little. if any,
older than he did ten years ago. and it is GER
tain that his history of Indiana will prove a
valuable addition to political literature. Mr..
English is no stranger in Washington. having
been a department clerk here during the Polk
administration.
Mr.. Blaine has again got himself into hot
water. 1t has been all along expected by his
party workers that he would go to Representa-
tive McKinley's district and make several
speeches in that gentleman's behalf, but day
or two ago Mr.. Blaine stated that ne regretted
that pressing business would prevent his leav-
ing w ashing ton. as much as he would like to
help Mr.. Mckinley, &C. This heated the bleod
of the Mckinley Republicans. and they have
ever since been standing on end and hurting
ugly epithets at Mr.. Blaine's head. They ask
how could Mr.. Blaine leave Washington for
three months with Congress in session. as he
did this summer. without endangering the well
away for a single week. They charge that Mr.
Blaine wishes to see Mr.. Mckinley defeated,
fearing that if he is elected he will be his rival
for the Presidential nomination in 1892. In fact
they are charging so many things against Mr..
Blaine that he will probably be glad to recon
slider his determination about going to Ohio in
order to stop it; but that isn't going 10 stop it,
The Reed and Mckinley Republicans have
entered into an offensive and defensive alliance
against Mr.. Blaine, which makes the latter
gentleman's chances of being nominated for
President exceedingly slim.
Democrats and honest people genel ally are
mad. as they have a right to be. because the
Republican U. S. District Attorney for this
district has taken no steps to arrest Wheat. the
Republican ex Postmaster of the House of Rep
resentatives, notwithstanding his acknowledg
ment when his attention was called to the mat
ter that the crimes committed by Wheat were
punishable under the United States Statutes by
both fine and Imprisonment. No one was greatly
surprised when the facts leaked out about
Speaker Reed having advised Wheat to return
the money which he had crookedly obtained, TO
the U. ). Treasury, and having helped him to
keep the matter quiet, but now that the crime
has been fastened upon Wheat and he has been
dismissed in disgrace by the House of Repre-
sentatives. it does excite surprise that the Dis
trict Attorney should be derelict in performing
the duties which his oath of office entailed upon
him. Shall mans politics prevent his being
tried and punished for having wilfully violated
the laws of the land? 1t locks most decidedly
that way in this case.
The new tariff law has not been in effect a
week yet, but the rapidly rising prices of SO
many of the necessities of life has raised howl
of discomfort that has frightened even this hide
bound protection" administration. and unless
all Indications fail. it will be frightened good
deal worse when the returns from the Congress
sional elections are all in.
According to the annual report of the Gem
missioner oil pensions there are537 944 pensioners
on the rolls of the government now, and more
than half-million additional applications are
on file in his office. and they are still pouring
in. Great Scottl Think Of more than million
pensioners
The Count of Paris. who fondly imagines that
he will one day be King of France, and who was
for time attached to Gen. McClenan's staff
during the late Civil War, OF which he has
written an interesting and voluminous history,
favored Washington with a visit this week.
Gen. Schofeld gave him q dinner and some of
his old comrades took him down to Mt Vernon
He is now doing'' the Virginia battle fields +;
later he will return here, and Washington's
snob society will ".do" him and the titled
Frenchmen who compose his party.
1t is feared that the Democratic Congression-
al Campaign Committee is trusting too much to
Providence and good cause.
The Ohio Republican office holders here have
been assessed per cent of their salaries for
campaign purposes.