The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-11-13

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been felt by everybody, although it
is only a month since it became a
law.
The democrats expected, as they
had every reason to do, to carry the
House of Representatives by a good
working majority, cut they were
hardly prepared to see the party win
such an Unprecedented victory in
every section of the country electing
more than two thirds of the House
and carrying republican strongholds
like Massachusetts, New Hampshire.
Pennsylvania, Kansas, Michigan,
Nebraska, and Wisconsin. II ever
there was good reason for holding a
democratic jubilee it certainly exists
| now, aud it is not strange that the
democrats here are in the widest
state of enthusiasm.
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The returns proved to be too much
for Mr.. J. 5. Clarkson, the gentleman
who took hold of the Republican
Congressional Committee. with the
announcement that he would win the
| fight, and he has gone South to
recuperate his shattered nerves. He
also wished to escape the impertinent
questions of those he persuaded to
contribute considerable sums of
money, which was to purchase
certain victory. Mr.. Clarkson was
also anxious to avoid an interview
with Mr.. Benjamin Harrison until
that gentleman has time to smooth
his ve"y much ruffled feathers.
Clarkson is responsible for much of
the suffering Mr.. Harrison is under
going now. Last Summer Mr..
Harrison, like man of sense, had
nade up his mind that the democrats
would control the next House, and
although deeply regreIting the out
! look, he had ceased to worry to any
extent over it. Then ClarksOn came
along and with rainbow stories Con-
WINGED the old gentleman that the
republicans were bound to win in the
Congressional elections and that it
would be great scheme to have the
idea passed along The republican lines
ttIt his election WAS to be ra-
TF6ru, and a vindication of ar.
Fl trrison and the administration.
1t was done, and that's why the heart
of Mr.. Harrison is heavy.
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He realizes that Clarkson got him
into Fl ght that he might just as well
have kept out of, and that the people
have jumped on him and his party
with their heaviest shod feet. and he
would like TO talk to Clarkson about
1t. He has a suspicion that Clarkson
knowingly got him into this scrape
for the purpose of having him
knocked out, so as to help the
Presidential aspirations of Gen.
Alger, to whom Clarkson is pledged.
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Mr. Wanamaker was asked what
he thought of the result, but he
declined to talk further than to say
that he knew nothing about politics.
No news in that. ..-
Millionaire Carnegie, who is here
looking after some of his fat con-
tracts with the Navy department,
says in an interview that he regards
the results of the election as the
salvation of the republican party,
and that he is glad of 1t. Mr..
Carnegie is probably the largest
individual beneficiary under the
: Mckinley tariff law IN the country,
l and necessarily a republican, and it
is the passage of that law and the
results of the election that have
become mixed in his mind, when he
says he is glad of it. AS to salvation
g il the sc. o. P.' gets a few more
| doses of the same kind as that
t administered last Tuesday, it will
: need the services of an undertaken.
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Secretary Noble and Attorney
General Miller want to be provided
for before the general break up,
which they see ahead, and are both
: bringing all the pressure they can
command to bear on the man in the
! White House, for the purpose Of
securing the vacant place on the
bench of the Supreme Court.
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The democrats are fortunate in
! having SO much good material al
: hand to select the next Speaker oil
the House from. Among the name;
: already mentioned are Messrs Mills
: Crisp. Mcmillan, Breckenridge, Ky
!, Bynum aud Springer. Very few
members of Congress are now in thii
city, but somehow the Idea seem,
!, general that the speakership will q
to the South. In that event it il
: almost certain that it will be one o
: the first four gentleman abov,
= mentioned.
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u Chairmen Brice and Flower ar
. meeting with praise on every hani
ia for the able manner in which the,
% managed the campaign, and left til
so republicans under the impression
Is that they were doing little or nothing
Is
Thasrepublicans who went HON
to vote returncd mostly at night, t
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