The Penn's Grove record., 1891-08-07

| Hill and Cleveland VINO are DOtn, ac-
| cording to the German figures, already
| ont of the race. The programme rs
stated here is to straddle everything ex-
cept the tariff and even on that issue
| there are many people who remember
| the time when German was classcd as
a "protectionist" democrat, but since
the death of e~x.Speaker Randall there
seems to be no recognized protection"
| democrats, although during the last
| session Of Congress Representative
Flower, of New York, was several
times charged with voting with his re-
publican colleagues on the House COM
mittee on Ways ond Means upon tariff
matters.
The silver people are to be referred to
Mr.. Germans herculean efforts to pass
| the free coinage bill in the Senate last
winter, and the anti.silver people to
the mastery manner in which he mani
pulated things at the recent Maryland
democratic convention SO as to prevent
the placing of a free silver plank in its
platform. In short to borrow the ex-
pressive phraseology Of ZONES, be pays
the freight" Germans boom is to be
worked on the ''get there" principle.
There has been some quiet talk among
the visitors to the Farmers Alliance
Headquarters here about the part Mr..
German took in keeping the free coin
age plank out of the Maryland platform,
and unless they are mistaken somea wk-
ward questions are to be asked when
the attempt is made to start the boom
ADJOINING in the South, where the
sentiment for free coinage is practically
unanimous.
If all the designations from the cab
met billed by thespecial correspondents
OF Washington during the last four days
had really been handed in, Mr.. Har-
rison would find it difficult to get q
quorum of his cabinet. Among the
gentlemen retired from public life with.
out their consent are Secretaries Noble
and Tracy, Postmaster General Wanna.
maker and Attorney General Miller.
Denials direc. from all the gentlemen
named except Secretary Noble who is
out of reach of the telegraph, were OBJ
tanned, and in his case the denial of his
assistant secretary and of private sec
rotary Halford, but the designations are
still on; the able correspondents who
are trying to earn their salaries main
tanning that they know more about it
than the officials themselves do, and
one of them goes so far as to state that
no matter what anyone may say to the
contrary he has positive knowledge
that Secretary Mobiles resignation has
been In Mr.. Harrison's hands for four
months.
The reciprocity record may fairly be
said to have been broken when official
proclamations of two treaties, that
with Spain for Cuba and Porto Rico
and that with San Domingo are issued
within forty-eight hours Of each other,
and it is limited in State department
circles that there are more to come be-
fore long. September |, is the date the
two mentioned will go into effect.
There is one amusing feature of the
unmistakable Blaine boom which the
meeting of the republican national
executive committee here last week
precipitated on the country. 1t is
known to those familiar with the under
currents of politics that the men who
first started the Blaine ball to rolling
did not do so because they wished to
see that gentleman nominated, but be-
cause they thought they saw in it an
opportunity TO sidetrack or wreck the
Harrison train for '92, and now they
are considerably chagrined to discover
that the matter has been taken out Of
their hands, and that while they have
for the time being blocked the Harrison
train they have aroused a sentiment in
the great mass of their party that is
loudly demanding the nomination of
Blaine. Changes in political feeling
are so many and so sudden in this coun-
try that it would be a reckless man who
would attempt at this time to say who
would be nominated, but very truthful
chronicler is compelled to record the
present Blaineish aspect of things re.