The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-03-13
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE POLITI AL HOROSCOPE Fur THE
MEX wO YE RS sHREWDLY
CAST.
The Lenten Season is the Time the Dear
Ladies Prepare for Easter
Sunday.

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WASHINGTON, March Sit is con
coded by some of the best men on the
Republican side of the house that
there will be landslide in favor oil
tariff reform which will sweep this
country like whirlwind next Novem.
Der and elect a house which will be
Democratic by large majority. They
say the principal detection from theil
ranks will be in Iowa and Minnesota
The fact is the Republican party has
been so long under domination of the
corporate robbers of the East and
West; so long under the control o.
manufacturers and wholesale dealers
that they have become completely
welded to the principles of high tariff
under the guise OF protecting the
American laborers from the paupers
of Europe. They have gone farther
in Ohis matter than their leaders orig
inally intended that they should go
and now that they are committed tC
that principle it is almost impossible
for them to creep around on the side
of the people in time to save them,
selves.
Sugar will either be placed on the
free list or made practically free. The
good people of this country will not
tolerate the abolition of the tobacco
tax while high tariff is maintained
on sugar. Tobacco is luxury and
sugar is necessity. Tobacco is used
by large number of men; sugar is
used by everybody, men, women and
children, in this entire Republic. The
Republicans can no longer maintain
the protection of this alleged infant
industry. Sugar will be free. Cara
mels will then be cheap. This argu-
nent can even penetrate the mind OF
a school girl. 1t is important to
every toiler who has to buy sugar for
the voracious families.
1t is probable that the Republican
ways and means committee will sec
the necessity of giving the people free
wool, too. They ale beginning to get
the fact through their benighted in
tellects that the people are entitled
to cheap clothing. and that if the Re-
publican party refuses them that
right they will elect Dem ocrats in
their places.
But, while it is we'll known here
that the Republicans are making siren
uous efforts to 'hedge" on the tariff
question, it has not been generally
known that they concede the next
House to the Democrats. This is an
ascertained fact. Your correspondent
has talked from time to time with
leading Republicans, and they have
Individually expressed the belief that
the Democrats will have majority of
not less than thirty in the next House.
They hope, however, to so reduce the
revenues by an almost free trade bill,
that the Democrats will be unable to
make any further reductions; and, as
result, they expect to 60 before the
people in 1892 and elect Republican
president. There is political horo-
scope for YOU, and you will find that
it will come about in the line indicated
so far as the Republicans are con-
cerned. But, in 1892, upon the issue
of tariff reform, the embodiment OF
that idea, Grover Cleveland, will be
elected to another term at the White
House, sure.
The Republicans will most likely
nominate Gen. Alger in '92, and the
sentiment in his favor is constantly
growing, rs has been ascertained by
conversations with the Republican
representatives The Michigan man
is boomer, and can pay his way, too.
Not man in the Republican ranks
nor in the Republican camp of any
rank has kind word to say Of Presi-
dent Harrison. There never was a
president more berated than he. OF
course, it is all about the offices. There
are not plums enough to go around /;
and, worse than that, they say that
Benjamin shows no disposition to help
fellows pluck the fruit that is in sight.
On the contrary they say that he pur-
posely keeps them waiting, in order
to use these Offices to aid in securing
his denomination in '92. If this is
eally his object, the little man is
making a mistake, for his scheme will
not work. AS the average darby in
this town says. for emphasis, mo,
indeedy."
The sombre Lenten season is upon
us. Daily the devout women in great
numbers attend the divine services in
the churches, and hourly the robed
priests iutonate their prisons, their
mathis and their benisons. Com
memorative of the forty days fasting,
the Christian fasts according to rll-
brio and individual conditions, and
the entire world daily bows before the
cross. But, with all their devotion,
women will be women, and they are
busily preparing for the gala time
when on Easter morning, they may
don their new toggery and see and he
seen of men. With all their fault S,
we love them still; not very still.
Bob.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The SUI
prcme court of the United States is to