The Coconino weekly sun., 1891-11-12
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 1891

you go nothing else is talked about
 and to hear some of the talk one would
 imagine that the Presidential campaign
 had already opened. One most re,
 markedly thing about the results are, that, as . whole, everybody looks upon them as encouraging to 'our side President Harrison regards the election of Mckinley as a great administration
 victory, and says if Fassett had made
 his fight upon national instead of local
 issues that he believes he would have been elected; the democrats regard the
 election of democratic governors in
 New York, Massachusetts and Iowa
 as great triumph and the certain precursor of a greater triumph next year, while President Polk and Secre- retary Macune, of the National Far mer's Alliance, regard the whole bus
 mess as an Alliance triumph. Says
 Mir. Macune: "The outcome in Ohio is victory for us, and it will teach the democrats that they cannot get
 along without us. They have been so
 accustomed to carry everything before
 them in some of these States that they
 have ignored us, and now they see the | FA1 D,1ly gnil. .,fhn
 result has no bearing whatever upon
 the Alliance movement and will not
 effect it in the least. One thing alone
 is absolutely certain-the Alliance will stand for its demands, and will keep up an aggressive fight until they are com
 piled with:n So much for the opinions of the big guns in all the parties. Now, between us, your correspondent, after careful survey of the field, tails to see where anybody has any right to do any extraordinary amount of hur- raining over the results, as applied to national politics. It amounts simply to what the boys used to call 'stand- off, ," and the fight next year is just as uncertain as it was before the elections.
 Secretary Proctor has gone east, and it is said at the war department that he has practically retired, having turned everything over to Assistant Secretary Grant, and that he will prob ably not return to the department until he comes to turn it over to his sue cessor, whose appointment isnot looked for for several weeks, although it is | certain that the man has been selected and that he has accepted, but his name is still Il well-kcpt secret. Elkins con tinues a favorite with the guessers.
 Representative Mills is the first one of the Speakership candidates to "shy his castor into the ring" by formally opening headquarters for the short and sharp campaign which is now opening and which will end when the demo- cratic caucus of the House of Repre- | sentatives shall decide who shall be Speaker for the next two years. The | friends of MT. Mills recognize that the | result of the elections, particularly in | Ohio, has been to weaken the prestige | of their man, although they body | argue to the contrary. The new mem- bers will begin dropping in soon to take their share in the excitement of | nominating the man who will practi- cally control the legislation of the next House of Representative, thereby be- coming powerful factor in the Presi- dential campaign of next year, and as the most of them are as yet unpledged their arrival is nest anXiously awaited by the several candidates and their friends. The feeling between the sup pOrters of Mills and those of Crisp is becoming more bitter every day, and if something is not done by somebody to put a stop to their wrangling neither of them will be Speaker. The less prominent candidates do not object to this throat-cutting, as it adds mater ially to their chances of securing the prize.
 There are no new developments in the Chilian difficulty, but it is notice able as an indication of peaceable outlook in the mind of the Chilan Minister to this country that he has gone to New Orleans to meet his wife and family and bring them to this city, and it is also noticeable as an indica- tion of the pleasant relations existing between the Minister and Secretary Blaine that MT. Blaine requested the Treasury department officials to tele- graph the Collector of Customs at New Orleans to extend the usual courtesies to the Ministers wife and family and to pass their personal effects free. The fact that brother of the Minister will probably be elected President of Chili in a few days makes the friend