The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1890-11-19
WARRINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. C.. Nov. r. Is!

WASHINGTON ID. G.. Nov. z 1s92
The great tidal wave of Democratic success
that swept over the country Tuesday, brought
more real rejoicing to Washington than any
thing which has occurred since the election of
Cleveland and Hendricks in 1884. Democratic
faces are overspread with smiles-and who has
a better right to smile ?-while the Republicans,
who are frightened clean out of their boots, go
around with wo- begcne faces, and make no at
tempt to explain the condemnation which the
voters of the country have placed upon the
Administration and upon the Republican ma
iority in Congress for its action in giving the
people a batch of the most unpopular laws ever
turned out a single session of Congress. topped
off with the worst of all, the Mckinley tariff
law the weight of which has been felt by every
body although it is only I month since it be-
came a law.
The Democrats expected. as they had every
reason to do, to carry the House of Represent
atives by a good working majority, but 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. Pennsyl-
vania Kansas, Michigan. Nebraska, and Wis
consin. If ever there was good reason for
holding Democratic jubilee, it certainly exists
now, and it is not strange that the Democrats
here are in the widest state of enthusiasm
The returns proved to be too much for Mr..
I. S. Llarkson, 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 shat
tered nerves. He also wished to escape the i'm
pertinent questions of those he persuaded to
contribute considerable sums of money, which
was to purchase certain victory. Mr.. Clarkson
was also anxious 10 avoid an interview with MIR.
Benjamin Harrison until that gentleman has
time to smooth his much ruffled feathers. Clark
son is responsible for much of the suffering Mr..
Harrison is undergoing now Last summer,
Mr.. Harrison, like a man of sense, had made
up his mind that the Democrats would control
the next House, and although deeply regretting
the outlook, he had ceased to worry to any eX-
tent over it. Then Clarkson came along and
with rainbow stories convinced the old gentle
man that the Republicans were bound to win in
the congressional elections, and that it would be
a great scheme to have the idea passed along
the Republican lines that this election was to be
national, and vindication of MIR. Harrison and
the Administration. 1t was done, and that is
why the heart of Mr.. Harrison is heavy
He realizes that Clarkson got him into fight
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 it. He has a
suspicion that Clarkson knowingly got him into
this scrape for the purpose of having him knock
ed out, SO as to help the Presidential aspirations
of Gen. Alger, to whom Clarkson is pledged
Mr.. Wannamaker was asked what he though
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 afte
some o his fat contracts with the Navy depart
ment, says in an interview that he regards tht
results of the election as the salvation of tht
Republican party, and that he is glad of it. Mr.
Carnegie is probably the largest individual ben
eficiary under the Mckinley tariff law in tht
country, and necessarily Republican, and ii i
the passage of that law and the results of th'
election that have become mixed in his mind
when he says he is glad of it. AS to salvation
if the G. o. P" gets few more doses of tn
same kind as that administered last Tuesday,
will need the services of an undertaken.
Secretary Noble and Attorney General Mile
want to be provided for before the general breal
up, which they see ahead, and are both bringing
all the pressure they can command to bear upo
| the man in the White House, for the purpose c
securing the vacant place on the bench of tn
Supreme Court.
The Democrats are fortunate in having S
| much good material at hand to select the mex
Speaker of the House from. Among the name
already mentioned are Messrs. Mills, Crisp, M
| MILAN, Breckenridge Ky, Bynum and Spring
| er. Very few members of Congress are now i
| this city, but somehow the idea seems geners
that the Speakership will go to the South. 1
that event, it is almost certain that it will be on
of the first four gentlemen above mentioned.
| Chairmen Brice and Flower are meeting wit
praise on every hand for the able manner |
which they managed the campaign, and left tn
Republicans under the impression that the
were doing little or nothing.
| The Republicans who went home to vote re
turned mostly at night, to escape the jeers
| their friends.