The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-11-14
washington Letter.
(srom u regular correspondent.)

tuC ~ thS
Mr.. Harrison is reported 10 have casually
| remarked to a friend that lie hopedto keep
his cabinet intact to the end of his admin
| istration. Mr.. Harrison may or may not
have made the remark, but l would sooner
have Attorney.G General Miller's chance Tor
| the appointment than that of any one yet
mentioned-he has the ear of the appoint
ing power, which gives him the bulge
ON all the rest of the would be justices.
Explanations that do not satisfactorily
explain are still being whispered into the
ears of Mr.. Harrison as TO why his party
was so nearly wiped out of Congressional
existence at the election. Some say that
it was Democratic Misrepresentation OF
the new tariff law, others that it was OPP
position to the Federal election bill, and
vet others that it was the influence of dis
appointed office seekers. There is only
one thing that all of the returning Repub-
liean leaders agree in, and that is that the
Republicans did not east enough votes to
win.
AT the National headquarters Of the
Farmers Alliance in this city il is claimed
that the Alliance is responsible for the
political revolution. Hear President Polk
of that organization: WHEN You GENE
to carefully sift the returns you will find
that the Alliance had a hand in the cleo
ton of a large proportion of the good men.
1t is now known that the Fifty-seeond
Congress will contain thirty-eight straight
out Farmers Alliance men and from
twelve to fifteen others who are pledged
to us. These men are from the South ard
Nortbw st-th two sections in which
most of our work was done. The farmers
organization in Iowa, Nebraska and Min
nesota is not our organization, hut It made
identically the same fight, and we expect
it to Join US this winter The Farmers
Alliance is here to stay; it represents a
great reform movement that will not stop
until it has indelibly impressed itself upon
the nations history. The Alliance had no
campaign fund and it wanted none. We
appealed to the virtue and patriotism Of
the people If Mr.. Polk he correct in
his estimate of the number of Alliance
men elected to tile next House the ends
and aims of that organization may be ex-
pected 10 occupy considerable space in the
Congressional Record during the Fifty
second Congress, even if it does not get
any legislation.
As if the administration did not already
have all the trouble it could possibly
stand up under, a report came in the last
of the week alleging that the great mer-
camille firm of which Postmaster-General
Wanamaker is the head was on the eve of
a failure. Mr.. Wanamaker is in Phila-
delphia and there is no one here to speak
authoritatively for him, but his friends
here say there is 10 foundation fer the
story and that it originated with employees
of Jay Gould. who has sworn to ruin Mr..
Wanamaker because of his advocacy of a
postal telegraph system.
Mr.. Harrison is preparing his annual
message to Congress. There is much
u lOoitf ~ hbo' ~
he will make, and whether he will come
out squarely for or against the election
bill, which it will be remembered has al
ready passed the Honse. 1t is believed
Mr.. Harrison around to his way Of think
ing as far as the election bill is concerned,
and that failing in that he will try TO per-
suade Mr.. Harrison to say nothing about
it in his message. 1t is known that Mr..
Harrison is very much afraid that all of
the regular appropriation bills will not get
through at the short session and that he
will be compelled, much against his will,
TO call an extra session of the Fifty-st cond
Congress early in the spring to pass those
that fail, and it is said that for this reason
the Recommendations made in his message
are apt to be very conservative. with the
idea of not irritating the opposition. But
there is a radical wing of tie Republican
party and it is much the largest in both
House and Senate, that will go in for rail-
reading all the political legislation pos
sible through this Congress while they
have a chance. elything really depends
upon the Senate. If the Iulez can be
changed to something similar to those
adopted by the House at the last session
there will be political legislation galore;
but If they remain as now there will be no
political legislation, because it will be in
the power of the Democratic minority
to prevent it.
The contest for the Speakership of the
next House has already developed into a
very interesting fight. and unless the Dem
ocratic managers can wipe out the Sec
tional tinge it is rapidly assuming it will
prove a dear fight to that party. For the
first time in many years there will DE as
many Northern Democrats in the House
as there are Democrats from the South,
and the troublesome question to be de.
cided will be which section shall have the
Speakership. OF the candidates already
announced by themselves or their friends,
Bynum, of Indiana, Cultivate, of Ohio.
and Springer, of Illinois, represent the
North, and Mills, Crisp, Blount, Hatch,
Breckenridge, of Kentucky, and Wilson,
| of West Virpinia renresept tho South