Nevada County picayune., 1891-10-29
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our special correspondent, l


 WAsuuNGroS, D. C., Oct. 23, '91. Senator Faulkner, who was one of the Democratic missionary party which recently travelled through the Northwest, is now in Washington. He is not a man who allows his en- thusiam to run away with his judg- ment, therefore his impressions of the political situation in that section are worthy of the most careful con- sideration. He says: "One of the most encouraging things for the Democracy in the West is that the young, active, go-ahead men, many of whom have been raised as Repub- licans, and whose family associations have all been with that party, are becoming Democrats on the tariff is- sue. Heretofore they have been too busy developing new regions and at tending to their business enterprises to devote much time to politics. Now they are taking hold of politics and it is the principal of the tariff reform that they believe in and will work for. The Mckinley law was constructed against the interests of the great Northwest, and the active men, with little regard to what their former political affiliations may have been, want relief from the burdens imposed by the Republican tariff policy. On the silver question the people of the West are decided in opinion, as are we of the East, but they all agree on the tariff question. The Democrats all over the country are of one mind on this; therefore it is the national issue. The Demo- crats in that section have not had good working organization long enough to warrant Us in expecting that we can carry in 1892 all those States which are naturally coming into the Democratic column. We shall probably carry two of the new States in 1892, and will gradually be- come the dominant party of the Northwest. One disadvantage we labor under in that section is that the Republicans have most of the leading morning papers. That will be overcome in time, but in spite of it the tariff question is rapidly re- cruiting the Democratic party
 Senator Eustis, who has just re- turned from Massachusetts, thinks the Democrats are certain to re-elect Gov. Russell, and tha: there is a bright prospect of Senator Dawes being succeeded by Democrat when his term expires in 1893.
 The bit of "jingoism" displayed by the administration on alleged pri- vate information that England was about to gobble up the Hawaiin Is- lands with the consent of the pres cnt rulers of the islands, was unex- pectedly but effectually settled by q gentleman who visited Washington this week. This gentleman was Mir. A. $. Cleghorn, the Collector of General Customs of the Hawaiian Islands. and father of the heir ap- parent to the Hawaiian throne, who said: II have assured the President and the State department that no government is so close to Hawaii as the United States, in spite of our trade with you being somewhat dam aged by your new tariff law, and that there is no thought among our peo- pie, who are perfectly satisfied with our present status, of anything even looking toward British supremacy on the islands
 1t is learned that the reason Secre- tary Foster delayed going to Ohio until the first of the week, was that he was waiting for big corruption fund which Mir. WanamakeI, Chair man Clarkson and others have been quietly raising for him to put where it would do the most good to the 2. O. D. This money is all to be dis bursed by Mir, Foster, and will not go through tha State committee.