The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-11-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE USED A
WORLD OF MONEY AND NOTE
THE RESULT.
The Census Returns will Stir Up Nice
Sensation in the Next
Congress.
Correspondence to the Statesman.

are somewhat at standstill here.
For the past month everybody has
been talking election, and now every
body has gone home to vote it. Not
in recent times has there been such a
general exodus of voters. All of a
sudden all the fellows walked up to the
fact that now is the time to "make
the greatest effort 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 travellers because there are
more Office holders Of that stripe, and
the managers have more money to
meet transpor rational charges. Presi-
dent Harrison led the voting column,
and has gone to Indianapolis to help
keep down the Democratic majority.
For the time being, therefore, depart
mental and executive matters are
quiet.
Before this letter appears in type
the elections will be over. 1t is idle,
in consequence, to retail any of the
political speculation prevalent around
party headquarters. There is one sig
niticient point however, which will
bear mention. The Republicans have
had mint of money. This fact brings
two reflections. How long will popu-
lar elections last under this con tinued
systematic effort to corrupt and null
lily them, and how long can the man
ufacturers, even with the riches be-
slowed by the Mckinley bill, stand
this fat frying process which in ma.
tional affairs is undergone biennially
and in state matters oftener? Never
have the Pennsylvania barons been
made to come down more literally
and the assessments have been equally
persistent in other localities where
Republicans have the whip in hand
In this connection it may be said
that there is now pending before con-
gress measure making this use of
money in congressional elections
penitentiary offense. How much
chance of success. though, does it
stand with Republican majority in
both house and senate? The party of
great moral ideas is too far gone for
redemption and in the ways of
iniquity will it ever walk. This meas
ure 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, politi-
cal, socill, moral. Queer things
have been done in this
bureau besides the manipu-
lation of figures in the interest of one
political party. Congress will un--
doubtedly get after it and some of the
legislative Miss Nancies are just as
eager to witness the airing of soiled
linen as any old maid in the land. AS
to the political and of course more Sc
rious charges it will be fully demon
strated that I'M Justice has systamati-
cally been done to Democratic commu-
mites. New York is not the only sui,
ferer. In short thorough plan has
been carried out to make the country
Republican in politics whether it will
or not. There are, in consequence,
rough times ahead for Mr.. Porter, who
started out to make the official
census coadjutator of the protec-
tive 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,
stopped in the city day or two ago
on his way to the West, where he was
billed to make several stump speeches
He is 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 as
possible the pernicious class and par
tisan legislation with which Republi-
cans have cursed the country and
when the opportunity arrives to thor
oughly work its undoing. The Judge
takes an optimistic view of the future
and predicts that better times are
ahead.
1t has leaked out that the Repub
lican managers are incensed against
Blaine for his failure to take more
active part in the campaign. Blaine'
friends, however, say that the manag
ers aforesaid started out to make thi;
: Tom Reed campaign, and neve
called on the magnetic man from
Maine until they were so deep in thu