Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
IFrom our regular cors.pODdsD,.l 1

lFrom our regular CorrespoDdeDt.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 10. 1890.
Senator Quay has by unanimous con
sent been selected as the Republican
T, Jonah, and there exists the best Of rea.
sons for believing that he will be asked
TO retire, not only from the chairman.
ship Of the Republican National Com.
mittee, but to resign his membership
It would have been done before now
but that the question Of what TO dc
with ]. s. Clarkson has not been de.
cided. Clarkson Is vice-chalrman oi
the committee and has always been an
humble tool Of Quay's, and there Is q
feeling among influential Republicans
against his being made chairman Of the
committee, as be would naturally ex.
pect, when Quay retires. As soon as Q
satisfactory solution of that difficulty
is reached Mr.. Quay will receive what
the boys call the "grand bounce" Quay
Is now In Florida, and Clarkson is also
down south somewhere. They both
thought It a good time for disappear.
Ing for awhile.
Mr.. Harrison Is having q terrible
time over the Force bills, Mr.. Blaine,
whose predictions about the tariff bill
have maierialized so soon, and few
other prominent Republicans are try
ing to persuade him to let the Force
bill alone in his message to Congress,
which he is now preparing, and the
radical element in his party which en-
braces nine-tenths of its recognized
leaders, are urging him to insist upon
the immediate passage by the Senate OF
the bill. Mr.. Harrison Is very badly
frightened at the tornado of popular
disapprobation that struck his admin
istration and party on election day, and
would most willingly take Mr.. Blaine's
advice, but for the fact that he had
committed himself iu favor of the
Force bill. last summer.
Senator Blackburn has made public
scene which took place in Senate
committee room last summer where
he was the only Democrat present, and
Mr.. Blaine stated in the plaiuest
language that If the Mckinley bill,
which was then before the Senate COM
mittee, was passed 1t would ruin the
Republican party and prevent its elect
Ing the President in 1892. He became
so excited during his denunciation of
JnC LhCdSulO GAloU IO DLuholCu q uCW
silk hat which was lying before him on
table. Mr.. Blaine has not changed
his mind.
It will be many day before the
Democrats get through enthusing over
the recent election. Every train brings
in prominent Democrats, and every
arrival means fresh jubilee. The local
Democrats fired salute of SO guns Fri
day night, although Col. Ernst In
charge of public buildings and grounds,
did bis best to prevent it by refusing to
give them permit to fire them in the
same place that the Republicans were
granted q similar permit two years ago,
but that didn't prevent it-nothing
could. The guns were fired, and close
enough to the White House for Mr..
Harrison to enjoy the music.
Under this administration Federal
employees are slaves. An estimable lady
clerk in the Washington City postoffice
is now under suspension, because she
repeated jovial remark of fellow
clerk to Dick Quay, son of the Sena-
tor. Dick presented an order for the
Senators mail at the general delivery
window and the lady went back in the
office and inquired where the Senators
mail was. "Oh he's dead, and his
malls gone to the dead letter office, /"
said one of the clerks laughingly. The
lady walked back to the window and
thoughtlessly repeated the remarks to
Dick, who, by the way, she did not
know. He went to the Postoffice de-
partment and reported the lady as hav-
ing insulted him and his father, and an
order was issued to the City Postmaster
Mr.. Wanamaker has not made a
popular official, but now that reports
of the pending failure of his big Phila.
delphia firm are circulated, great deal
of sympathy is expressed here for him,
and it is hoped that the claims of his
friends-he is not here-that the rumor
was originated by Jay Gould for the
purpose of injuring Mr.. Wanmakers
credit, because of his persistency in be-
half of a postal telegraph system, to
which Mr.. Gould is opposed, may
prove to be true.
1t is not often that the leaders of a
political party have to complain be-
cause they are given too much by the
voters of the country, but that's about
the condition of the democratic lead
ers. They fully appreciate the en-
phatic endorsement of the principles Of
the party given by the people, but
they would have anticipated far less
trouble had their majority been about
a hundred less in the next House-it is
now SO large that it actually causes
anxiety.
The feeling that the short session of
Congress will, in its anxiety to pass
political legislation neglect to pass all
of the regular appropriation bills, and
thus make an extra session of the Fifty
second Congress, in the Spring, neces-
sary, to provide for the needs of the
Government, has precipitated the cam
paign for the speakership and the 9TH
er officers of the next House.