Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-05-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Nav IL, lS9

WAoHlNUIONi w May III 1o0I'
Mr.. Harrison will return this week if
no accident happens to the royal
special upon which his very much en-
larged lin the head) majesty is travel
ling, to anything else but q united
Official family. Secretaries Blaine and
Foster have been unable to agree upon
Behring sea matters and Mr.. Blaine
has also been at loggerheads with both
Attorney General Miller and Secreta-
ry Tracy on the authority of this Gov
ernment to seize upon the open sea the
ship Itata, which was recently seized at
San Diego, California, and went off
with the U. S. Marshal on board, but
allowed him to go ashore after getting
out side the harbor, and which IS sup
posed to belong to the Chilian insur-
gents. Blaine contending that we have
no right to interfere with the vessel un-
less she is inside the three mile limit,
and Messrs. Tracy and Miller that we
have a right to seize her wherever
found.
Mr.. Blaine has not added much to
his attachment for Mr.. Harrison since
that gentleman has been away for sew
eral reasons. He has used language,
so am informed by one of Mr.. Blaine's
friends, in telegraphing to Mr.. Blaine,
that meant precisely what the young
Emperor of Germany so undiplomati-
cally expressed recently by saying: II
alone am master in this country" and
as he has never dared to take such
position in his personal contact with
the Secretary of State it very naturally
offended him that he should do so by
wire. Then, as If to add insult to in
jury, came Russell Harrison's fool edi-
torials in his newspaper about Mr..
Blaine having bound himself before en-
tering the Cabinet to remain loyal to
Mr.. Harrison. Mr.. Blaine finally be-
came so disguised that he went to New
York and left orders that everything
that came to the State department
was to be kept until Mr.. Harrison re-
turned.
"And when he does return" said my
informant" there will be a mighty in
teresting conversation between Blaine
and Harrison that will either result in
bringing Mr.. Harrison down from his
high horse, or in taking Mr.. Blaine out
of the Cabinet and making him the
republican nominee for the Presidency,
in fact it may result in both. Mr.
Blaine is not the man to allow his dig
nifty to be trifled with by anybody"
and he certainly does not propose to
stand it from man Harrison's of
calibre."
The cry of "British gold" has been
used by the Republican party in the
past with such good results that ex-
Senator Warner Miller proposes using
it to boom his Nicaragua Canal scheme,
which is at present languishing for lack
of gold of any kind. He came to Wash
ingtOn direct from an inspection of the
canal, which as yet consists of little
more than surveyors stakes. in order to
fix up things with the administration
to push the scheme next winter for
having this government guarantee the
payment of 500, 900, 900 Of bonds to be
issued by the company, and to drop
hint that If 1t was not done England
would furnish the money. Secretary
Tracy strongly endorses the scheme and
says that we have either got to build
the canal or build and maintain a sepa-
rate navy for the Pacific. Nobody
doubts the desirability of having the
canal, but it is not at all probable that
the Democratic House will be willing
to pledge the credit Of this country in
order 10 raise $100, 100000, to be spent
under the direction of Republican
machine. When Mr.. Miller and his
associates came to Congress to get the
charter for this company the statement
was made over and over that all the
money needed to build the canal had
been pledged by private parties; now,
after having spent about One-twentieth
of its estimated cost, the company isl
practically at stand-still for lack of
funds. a
The Republican leaders here are
growing uneasy over the news they are
getting of the rapid growth of the
farmers Alliance in Ohio. They know
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