Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-04-19
Washington Correspondence.

WASHINGTON, April 10, 1S90-There
are two men in Washington City
who are paying particular attention
to the returns from the late elections.
Of course there are great many
people paying attention to them, as
Washington is city of politicians;
but the two in particular who are watch
ing with expert gaze the returns from
every rural precinct from every ward
and from every county where elections
have been held, are Corporal Tanner
and Blocks-of-Flve Dudley. They
look upon the result of the elections
as square reputation Of Harrison
because of his treatment of then.
The Corporal says in his own way:
1.-The boys in Indiana are being
heard from and the brigadiers are
not happy"
BY the brigadiers Tanner means
Harrison, Noble and Bussey, who at
the present time are its prediversion.
Tanner says that his friends through
out the country are watching patiently
for every opportunity to strike Har-
rison and his administration under
the fifth rib because of Harrison's
treatment of the only Pension Com
mission who ever had real sympathy
with the enlisted men of the civil war.
Dudley has been making a careful
estimate of the returns from Indiana
and it is his opinion that if State
election were held now the Democrats
would have at least $4,000 majority.
He bases this on the returns of the
late local elections held in the State.
Tanner says that the Republican
party is going to pieces under Harri-
sons leadership and that it will re-
quire some great big man who is pop
ular with the soldiers, like Gen. Rus
sell A. Alger, to secure Republican
victory in 1892. The Corporal is an
ioutaaRd-out Alger man for President
Ia 1892, and so is Dudley. Quay does
not say much, but he will not be for
Harrison for reelection, or for any
other man in Harrison's Cabinet.
Clarkson withdraws from the Post
Office Department on the LIST of June
and will probably take control of the
New York Press, the paper founded
by Robert P. Porter and Frank Hatton.
1t is understood that Alger is to pro-
vide the money for this enterprise
and Claskson is to look out for his
interests in New York.
Tanner says that no humbug bill
like MorrilPs will satisfy the soldiers.
Dudley seconds this statement, and
so does Lemon, but it is safe to say
that all three will accept the Morrill,
bill cherfully if they cannot do better.
They are now trying to buIldoze Con-
gress into passing an unqualified ser
vice pension bill When this is done
they will demand the arrears bill, and
if they succeed in that they will have
other schemes ready for the looting
of the Treasury.
There is some reason to believe
that Reed is opposed to the passage
of any general pension bill by the
present Congress. He thinks that the
giving of pensions has gone far
enough, and that the time has arrived
when the word halt should be pro
nounced with an emphatic accent
Reed, however, will not come out
openly and say what he believes, but
ne is quietly exertlng his influence to
prevent pension legislation. He thinks
the money will make better return
by giving it to the tariff barons, the
steamship companies and other cor
morants who could pay good dividends
when the party needed fat for cam
paign purposes. There is no doubt
that the Republicans are very badly
demoralized in the Senate as well as
in the House, and that they are find,
ing both the tariff barons and the pre-
torians somewhat in the nature of
white elephants on their hands.-St.
Louis Republic.